Police investigating possible attack on teenager at Fredericton High School
CBC
Fredericton police say they're investigating a possible attack on a teenager outside Fredericton High School on the same day officers were sent there to patrol the property.
Police received no formal report about an incident on Thursday, but after multiple Facebook posts, the force has "started an investigative file to look into a possible incident of 'a swarm of teenagers' who allegedly attacked another teenager yesterday outside FHS," police spokesperson Heather Webb said in an email.
The incident Thursday would have happened the same day police were at the school in response to a warning of a "potential for violence" that day.
Parents had received a letter from the school on Wednesday night to say it received information about the potential for violence and was working with the Fredericton Police Force and Anglophone West School District to determine next steps.
The letter came just a day after a violent brawl among students outside Oromocto High School involving a knife prompted an investigation by the RCMP.
Juliane Nowe said she was at Fredericton High School on Thursday and witnessed a group of teenagers taunt another student before some of them approached and punched and kicked him.
Nowe, who taught yoga at the school, said she was leaving at about 12:30 p.m. when she heard yelling coming from a grassy area next to the eastern parking lot.
She looked and saw a teenager walking by himself, while other teenagers from a group of about 40 shouted taunts at him.
Nowe said she walked toward the teens hoping to prevent the situation from escalating, when one out of the group approached the lone teenager and punched him.
As other teens joined in punching him, Nowe said she turned and called the school with her cellphone to try to get help from staff and police inside.
"I was like … 'You need to send someone else, like police or staff. There's a swarm, like a ton of teenagers here, and only one guy'."
"And then I look back, and at this point, he was on the ground and someone had kicked him."
Nowe said a video shared with her on social media shows part of what she saw take place that afternoon.
The video, which hasn't been independently verified by CBC News, shows one teenager being approached by another teen before getting punched in the face. He reacts by trying to kick and punch the teenager but is grabbed and pushed to the ground.
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