Inglewood teacher's aide accused of pulling knife in schoolyard

a misunderstanding on the playground ends with a teacher's aid pulling out a knife and a child in tears and now this news Sid Garcia talked to that seventh grader and his father and his live in Englewood with more on the story Sid it allegedly happened at the school you see behind me bu pain bu pain right after PE class and what we know so far is simply this as soon as the district found out what happened it took Swift action I was all nervous and they saw my eyes were watering and I told him th

at some guy pull out a knife on me Ricardo sandal is still nervous he says over what happened to him on the playground at buap pain steam academy yesterday afternoon it was during PE he says that a ball accidentally hit a teacher's aid in the head the seventh grader says he went to get the ball that hit the teacher that's when he says another teacher's aid confronted him he say give me the ball and I said why are we playing he was like it's I told him it's an accident we didn't mean to and he an

d that's when he pulled out the the pocket knife and he and he said I'm going to pop it the 12-year-old told us he went to a security guard on campus to tell him what happened and then he called his father called me that that he was going to get stabbed and this and that so I'm like I didn't know what was going on so I just left left work and to go see what in school and all last night he couldn't sleep he was just tossing and turnning like hey Dad can I hug you can I hug you like yeah like he d

idn't let me sleep either like all night long in a written statement to I with Witness News a spokesperson for the Englewood Unified School District says yesterday the district was made aware of an incident that occurred at buay a contracted special education Aid not employed by the district was involved in a confrontation with the student in response to this alarming situation both our Englewood School police and the Englewood Police Department were contacted after a thorough investigation the

aid was apprehended and the sound of off tell us that the ingwa police department has offered them the services of a therapist to help Ricardo deal with what happened to him yesterday hello I'm Mark Brown get more great ABC7 content by clicking the Subscribe button for our YouTube channel and download the ABC7 Los Angeles streaming app on Fire TV Android TV Apple TV and Roku to watch on your TV