JAMESTOWN – The Jamestown Police Department is continuing its investigation into an incident that involved two teachers being attacked and injured by Jamestown High School students Monday afternoon at the school’s Ray Fashano Tech Academy at 200 E. Fourth St.
According to city police, two 16-year-old students reportedly hit their teachers multiple times, with one teacher being struck in the head with a metal clock removed from a wall.
Police responded to the scene and took one of the teenagers into custody. The other allegedly fled the scene prior to police arrival. As of this morning, they are still trying to locate the teen.
The teenager in custody was charged with second-degree felony assault and sent to the Chautauqua County Jail. The teachers – who suffered injuries to the head and face – did go to the hospital for treatment of injuries and released.
Jamestown Superintendent Tim Mains said he couldn’t comment on the specific incident, but did say the district always takes violent incidents very seriously.
“we are trying to promote a very positive environment in all of our schools and whenever violence occurs we take it quite seriously and follow all of our procedures in the district and if we need to, pull outside resources in to deal with the problem so that it does not continue. We will not tolerate people hurting one another in our schools,” Mains said.
The Ray Fashano Tech Academy at 200 E. Fourth St.
Mains also said that the district has already taken steps to try and prevent a similar incident from happening again at the tech academy…
“I had a conversation today with [JHS Principal] Mike McElrath, who oversees the program, about the additional steps that we want to take short term for the remainder of the school year, and then also what we want to do over the summer in terms of training and preparing the staff for how we approach next year,” Mains said. “Anytime something like that happens we want to make sure that we take whatever action we can to make sure that it doesn’t happen again.”
The Ray Fashano Tech Academy offers a tutoring and personalized education program for students who have either been suspended or have shown behavioral, attendance or academic problems in the past
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