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UPDATE: Revere Teen Scuffles With Classmate on Bus, Later Caught with Knife

Information provided by the Bath Township Police Department and the Revere school district.

 

Editor's Note: This article was updated on Sept. 27 at 11:16 a.m. to include information from the Revere school district superintendent. The previous report did not include information from the district because no one could be reached.

A Revere High School sophomore was arrested on Sept. 19 after he was caught with a knife on a school bus, according to Bath Township police and Revere Superintendent Randy Boroff.

No one was harmed by the child's knife, but he did puncture at hole in the seat in front of him at some point during the ride, Randy Boroff said. The boy also got into a fight with the student in front of him.

Police Chief Michael McNeely said the boy was seen on video fighting with the student in front of him about a cell phone. The boy hit the victim in the head several times before the victim turned around and started defending himself by punching back.

The bus driver intervened, and the fight was finished, Boroff said.

At some point either before or after the scuffle, the sophomore then pulled out a knife and jammed it through the seat, McNeely said. The victim was not harmed.

Police arrested the student and charged him with delinquency by way of possession of a deadly weapon (a felony), and delinquency by way of criminal damaging (a misdemeanor), McNeely said.

The student was suspended from school.

"We don't know when the puncture happened," Boroff said. "We've handled it as a school incident. If the police thought he was threatening with the knife, they would have charged him with assault."

Boroff continued, "When we investigate, we take our time and we talk to the bus driver and other kids and no one can say when that puncture was put in."


Related Topics: Bath Township Police, Crime, Possession Of A Deadly Weapon, Revere High School, and criminal damaging

Susan Frerichs

6:27 am on Thursday, September 27, 2012

Wow! As a Revere parent with children who ride the busses I am not 100% happy to have to read about this on Patch. Perhaps an automated phone call or email from the district would have been more appropriate. We got an email when the Copley girl avoided abduction but not when a child from our own district tried to stab another kid on the bus????

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Michelle Mullaly

6:51 am on Thursday, September 27, 2012

Susan I agree with you 100%! That's ridiculous that no one informed us of this incident.

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Susan Frerichs

7:09 am on Thursday, September 27, 2012

When out kids leave the house at 6:45 am to get on the middle school/high school busses they are in the District's hands. If there is an incident like this involving a weapon of any kind I feel strongly that parents have a right to know. I had to ask my son (a 6th grader) this morning if the above referenced fight took place on his bus last week. I am feeling more and more outraged as the coffee kicks in.

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Megan Rozsa

11:44 am on Thursday, September 27, 2012

This article was updated at 11:16 a.m. on Sept. 27

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KrisM

1:49 pm on Thursday, September 27, 2012

I just looked on the school website and didn't see anything about this. If you haven't 'liked' them on fb or get Fairlawn-Bath Patch on-line, how would we have known about this? I think we should have received a call too.

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KrisM

2:08 pm on Thursday, September 27, 2012

I just looked at my email and at 1:36 pm today received an ALERTNOW message regarding this. It said we were receiving it because of 'concern due to incorrect information'. Where was everyone hearing this information at all and why did it take 8 days for me to hear about it?

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Sammi Mason

5:41 pm on Friday, September 28, 2012

i got to revere and they said it wasn't true but i am not sure.

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Sammi Mason

8:49 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012

oh wait i was wrong i found out that it was true by my principal like awhile ago. srry.

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