A Georgia teen is recovering from reconstructive surgery after a senseless act of violence in the boy’s locker room.
According to the Daily Mail, 16-year-old David Egan was about to leave a weightlifting class at Parkview High School in Gwinnett County, when he was sucker punched by another student for allegedly stealing a pair of sneakers. Egan was hit twice, with one of the blows knocking his nose off his skull.
Egan’s injuries required hours of emergency facial surgery, WGCL reports.
‘[David] had fractures all over his cheekbone, fractures which require a metal plate to constructively hold the bones back together, and the whole base of his nose was broken to the side of his face,’ father Daniel Egan told the channel. ‘His eyes were completely swollen shut.’
David told reporters that his fellow students laughed at the clearly violent situation.
‘When he first hit me I actually said out loud, “Wow, you actually sucker-punched me?” because it was just crazy that he actually did that,’ Egan told WGCL.
He also told the channel that when he fell, others in the locker room jumped, cheered and laughed at him.
The suspect was charged with aggravated battery, but due to the damage he’s done to his son, David’s father Daniel wants the teen to be tried as an adult. He also says that his son didn’t know his attacker and wasn’t taken to the ambulance right after the scuffle.
‘When they treat it like a school yard shuffle, you are thinking these are just kids,’ Daniel Egan told WSBTV. ‘He didn’t throw sand in his eyes, he didn’t stab him in the arm with a pencil, he broke his skull.’
As the Egan family prepares to take legal action against the school, the school’s district spokesman Jorge Quintana says that the situation was handled correctly.
“Typically when there is a fight, 911 is not called as adults intervene. Injured students are typically taken to the clinic to receive immediate care from the clinic worker. Parents are then called. The school handled this case well, acting immediately to care for the injured student and to investigate so that appropriate disciplinary and criminal charges could be made.”
David is currently in Scottish Rite Hospital healing from reconstructive surgery.
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