Three people are behind bars in DeKalb County, Alabama, after separate assaults this week – one involving a 15-year-old student who was attacked outside a school and another involving a man who was attacked with a hammer.
On Wednesday, two teens allegedly assaulted a Sylvania High School student as he was trying board a bus, according to a statement from DeKalb County Sheriff Nick Welden.
“The two individuals walked to the school after allegedly smoking marijuana early that morning,” Welden said. “They confronted a 15-year-old male student while he was boarding the bus to the Tech School and assaulted him.”
Wesley BakerThe two aggressors fled on foot but were later found and taken into custody, he said.
Arrested was 19-year-old Wesley Ray Baker and a 16-year-old boy. Both were charged with criminal trespassing, third-degree assault and public intoxication. Welden said Baker was said to be home-schooled and the juvenile had recently withdrawn from Plainview High School in Rainsville.