Two weeks after a North Carolina high school student allegedly slapped and threatened a teacher, which was captured on video and went viral, the student has been charged with kidnapping and assault on a government official, the Forsyth County Attorney says. The department announced Thursday.
Aquavis Hickman, 17, is also charged with assaulting another teacher at the same school, Parkland High School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in February.
Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O’Neill said, “Last week, last Monday, a grand jury of members of this community convened, and the grand jury filed an indictment against Aquavis Hickman, the defendant in this case. I have handed the case back,” he said. Press conference.
He said Hickman will be charged as an adult, and in the April 15 incident involving the female teacher, he will be charged with “second-degree kidnapping for unlawfully confining and restraining the female teacher without her consent with intent to terrorize her.” “We are aware of this,” he said. It’s the same bill that communicated assaults on government employees, which were teachers, and ultimately threats against those teachers. ”
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Police outside a school in North Carolina on April 15th after a teacher was attacked by a student. (WGHP)
He said Hickman told the teacher he was going to kill her and that “the threat was made in a manner and under circumstances that would lead a reasonable person to believe that the threat was likely to be carried out.” , the person being threatened believed that the threat would be carried out.” In fact, it is executed. ”
Viral video shared on social media seemed to indicate During a profanity-laced tirade against the teacher, Hickman slapped the teacher twice.
“Do you think it affected me in any way?” I hear the teacher ask. “Do you want me to hit you again?” Mr. Hickman says, stepping up and repeating the question. “I don’t like it,” the teacher says, but he gets hit again. The impact was so strong that his glasses flew off his face, while the teenager continued his profane rant.
“Nobody came,” Hickman said. “They got slapped in the face.” “B—-, please return to the teacher.”
Hickman was also indicted on the same charges for assaulting a second teacher in February, alleging that Hickman congregated with at least two others to “engage in a public disturbance and kidnap a second teacher in February.” He was also charged with a misdemeanor count of riot. In this incident, he attempted to fight him and this disorderly and violent conduct created a clear and present risk of injury to the victim. ”
Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O’Neill announced this week that Aquavis Hickman was indicted by a grand jury on charges of kidnapping and assaulting two teachers. (WGHP)
“Sheriff Kimbrough, Chief Penn, and I have promised this community, plain and simple, that we will not tolerate any assault on teachers,” O’Neill said. “No one should go to work expecting to be assaulted.”
He added: “We stand with our teachers and we will fight to protect them. If you reach out and assault a teacher, you can expect swift and severe punishment. Promises have been made. The promise was kept,” he added.
“Everyone sitting in this room is indebted to the women and men who educated us – our teachers. We are all who we are,” Kimbrough said at a press conference. We owe it to the men and women who educated us.”
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He added: “How can anyone in good conscience condone assaulting a teacher?” He added that “there are some things in society that have to be sacred” and that “we have to protect the people who educate us.”
The assault occurred last month at Parkland High School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and was captured on video. (WGHP)
Kimbrough said she sees teachers breaking up fights in the community, people getting hurt, and deputies threatening students every day.
He said incidents with students have steadily increased since 2020.
Winston-Salem Police Chief William Penn Jr. added, “Our schools are not battlefields or boxing rings…Our schools must be safer.”
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He said the viral video “has put us in a negative light, and I’m glad the rest of the country is listening today to say we will not tolerate the actions in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County.” he said.
