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Fight at Haven Middle School prompts soft lockdown; teacher sent to hospital

Students outdoors Haven Middle College in slide 2021. (Submitted photo)

A struggle between learners at Haven Middle University on Thursday morning induced a tender lockdown at the setting up and sent a feminine instructor to the medical center for injuries sustained though making an attempt to break up the altercation, multiple sources informed the Evanston RoundTable.

In accordance to a Thursday afternoon e-mail to Haven households from Principal Chris Latting, the hurt trainer was addressed and transported to a community clinic by Evanston paramedics. Additionally, Evanston Police Department officers arrived to assess the problem and escorted “another individual” from the making, Latting wrote. His email did not specify if the individual escorted from Haven by EPD was a student or staff members member.

“I would like to pressure that no weapons had been involved in the altercation,” Latting wrote. “Assistant Superintendent of Schools Terrance Small joined the assistant principals and me to guide in the circumstance. Through our collaboration, we ended up ready to redirect the challenge and restore a feeling of normalcy by midday.”

All through a comfortable lockdown, lessons carry on as usual but no just one may well enter or exit the school developing. Latting stated in his e mail that the wounded trainer was launched from the medical center soon following midday on Thursday. Latting did not immediately reply to an email requesting even further information and facts.

Evanston Fire Office Deputy Main William Muno verified to the RoundTable that an “adult patient” was addressed at Haven and transported to the healthcare facility by EFD officers. EPD Commander Ryan Glew said the Law enforcement and Fire departments initially responded to the scene at Haven just after the feminine trainer “was knocked over by the participants of the altercation,” but students were being not intentionally targeting that instructor, according to Glew.

However, the Law enforcement and Fire departments ended up dispatched to Haven a 2nd time, at 11:50 a.m. Thursday, to go to to a male pupil with a probable professional medical concern, Glew said.

“Another male college student interfered with the attempts of EFD and EPD,” Glew told the RoundTable in an email Thursday afternoon. “The interfering student was transported from Haven to EPD. Rates in opposition to the transported scholar are pending further more investigation.”

District 65 College Board President Anya Tanyavutti and Superintendent Devon Horton did not respond to requests from the RoundTable for comment on the combat at Haven and any doable ongoing protection considerations.

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