RICHMOND COUNTY, N.C. — Tricia Wall says horseplay at last Friday’s Richmond Senior High School football game turned violent.
Pictures show bruising on her 14-year-old niece’s neck, after Wall says she was choked by a 16-year-old boy.
“She started losing consciousness, like eyes started changing, and one kid did say he tried to rescue her, and that’s when the student who was choking her, slammed her head into the pavement,” said Wall. “We’re hearing, kids telling us the sound of the crack that it made, is like, haunting them, that noise.”
Wall says her niece, Rahlyn Ingram, also suffered multiple seizures before EMS took her to the hospital. She says Ingram has a mouth fracture, and had oral surgery Tuesday to fix damaged teeth and braces that stuck to her gums.
Wall says she reported the incident to the sheriff’s office Saturday afternoon after her niece was released from the hospital.
Investigators have not said what prompted the attack, but tell Channel 9 they’ve been busy interviewing witnesses. They told us a security camera at the football stadium did capture the assault.
We requested the footage from the school district, but were told it’s not public record because it’s part of the school’s disciplinary investigation.
Ingram is a B-honor roll student at Rockingham Middle, and due to her injuries, Wall says it’s not clear when she’ll be back.
“I think the people involved in the injuries should be prosecuted to the fullest extent,” said Wall. “I am going to fight for that definitely. This wasn’t simple assault, this was felony assault. She could’ve lost her life.”
The sheriff’s office wants anyone who witnessed the assault to contact them. Investigators say any findings will go to the DA and NC Division of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. At last check, a petition or charges have not been filed.
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