A Forest High School student was cut by a knife Thursday during a scuffle at the Ocala Greenway Disc Golf Course.
Marion County sheriff’s deputies responded to the disc golf course, located at 2500 64th Avenue Rd., after receiving reports of a possible stabbing. When they arrived, they made contact with multiple parties, including a female Forest High School student who was bleeding. The student told deputies she had come to the disc golf course to fight another female student and had hit her. But she said the other girl produced a knife and struck her with it, thereby ending the physical confrontation.
The other girl involved in the fight had left the location and gone to an unknown destination by the time deputies arrived, the report says, adding that another deputy at a local hospital reported that injuries the student suffered were considered to be superficial.
The deputy made the school resource officers at Forest High School aware of the incident, as well as the sheriff’s office’s juvenile department.
Forest High School has been in the news several times in the past few months. On April 20, a student was injured during a school shooting at the facility. Three minutes after the shot was fired, school resource officer Dep. Jim Long took 19-year-old Sky Bouche, a former student at the school, into custody. In May, longtime agriculture teacher Dewie Brewton abruptly “retired” after national outrage erupted over the drownings of nuisance animals during his class. And in March, sheriff’s deputies were called in to investigate a threatening statement reportedly made at the school.