Student charged with felony following attack on Black student at Shawnee Mission East

By CNN Newsource

Published November 30, 2023 8:40 AM

By PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kansas

PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kansas (KCTV) — A Shawnee Mission East High School student caught on video using racial language and assaulting a Black female student on Nov. 15 has been charged with a felony.

The Johnson County District Attorney’s Office confirmed the 15-year-old male student was charged with unlawfully, feloniously and knowingly causing great bodily harm to another person or disfigurement of another person. The alleged crime is a level 4 felony.

A hearing has been scheduled for Dec. 6.

Several students held a walk-out in protest of the incident on Monday.

In the video, a white, male student yelled an expletive at the Black girl in a school hallway and then shouted the N-word, pushing her. They both began fighting each other before other students appeared to break up the fight.

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