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Friday, March 29, 2024

Middle schooler faces battery charge after rumpus on school bus

A Dunnellon Middle School student was arrested Thursday for his role in a school bus fight the day before.

After the school’s resource officer was made aware of the physical disturbance that took place on the bus Wednesday, he spoke with a student who told him that he was talking to his father on his cell phone when another student began cursing into the phone. The boy said he asked the other student to stop but he didn’t.

The boy also told the resource officer, who is a Marion County Sheriff’s deputy, that the other student grabbed ahold of an earbud in his left ear and pulled it out. The boy said he removed a pencil from his backpack and again told the other student to stop, the report says.

At that point, the student grabbed the boy’s arm and began twisting it. The boy then stood up and head-butted the student, who punched him with a closed fist on the left side of his face, the report says.

The deputy then spoke with the other student at the school, located at 21005 Chestnut St., while his guardian listened on a speakerphone. The student admitted to cursing into the boy’s phone and said he was “just joking,” even though the two aren’t friends. He admitted to pulling the earbud from the boy’s ear. He said he grabbed his arm after the boy pulled the pencil out of his backpack and raised it at him. And he admitted to punching the boy after he was head-butted.

The student was then taken into custody, transported to juvenile booking and charged with battery, the report says.

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