(MOBILE, Ala.) November 17 – Still dressed in his Murphy High School uniform, Donta Stone posed Monday for his mug shot.
The 19-year-old junior is charged with assaulting a male history teacher.
“From what I understand,” says Mobile County Public Schools Spokeswoman Nancy Pierce, he (the teacher) was thrown on the ground and scraped up pretty badly on one arm.”
Pierce says a fight initially involving Stone and three other students started on campus, but after classes had ended for the day. The teacher was injured when he and other faculty members tried to break it up.
We certainly do not want any of this to ever happen,” says Pierce. “We don’t want our teachers to get hurt or our students to get hurt.”
Mobile Police say it began when Stone’s two younger sisters started a fight with a third girl. The sisters, who are both underage, are charged with disorderly conduct and were taken to the Strickland Youth Center.
“He was telling me he was breaking up a fight,” says Donta’s mother, Anna Stone. The mother claims her son didn’t hurt a teacher, but instead was himself hurt by a school faculty member.
“He just came over there and jumped on him and punched him in the mouth,” says the mother. “Then he said, ‘you must be a damn fool,’ twisting his arm and stuff.”
Spokespeople with the Mobile Police Department and the Mobile County Public School System say there is no evidence to support the mother’s claim.
The teacher suffered only minor injuries. Donta Stone has bonded out of Mobile Metro Jail on his felony assault charge. His two sisters have been released from the youth center.
