A North Carolina high school student was indicted on charges of kidnapping and assaulting two government officials after a video emerged online last month, showing the boy allegedly slapping and threatening one of the school’s teachers, authorities said.
Aquavis Hickman, 17, is also charged with assaulting another teacher at Parkland Magnet High School in Winston-Salem back in February, while Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O’Neill confirmed the teen will be tried as an adult for both alleged crimes.
A grand jury convened April 29 and brought two indictments against the defendant, O’Neill said at a press conference on May 2.
Hickman was charged with second-degree kidnapping following the second incident on April 15, when he allegedly slapped a female teacher, who was seated, and confined and restrained her with threats in front of a shocked classroom.
The teen also faces assault charges in connection with the same incident, along with communicating threats against the teacher after he allegedly said he would kill her, according to court papers.
The district attorney emphasized that the “threat was made in a manner and under circumstances which would cause a reasonable person to believe that threat was likely to be carried out, and the person threatened believed it would, in fact, be carried out.”
