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June 17, 2010 in City
Girl’s hair on fire leads to arrest
A student set another student’s hair on fire with a cigarette lighter at East Valley High School on Tuesday, police said Wednesday.
The 17-year-old suspect was arrested after staff called police. The boy was sitting behind a 16-year-old girl when she noticed a “weird smell” and discovered her hair on fire, according to the Spokane Valley Police Department.
The boy patted her head and said “it’s not that bad,” and she pulled clumps of burned hair away.
One student told police the boy used a cigarette lighter, “igniting her hair into flames that were several inches high,” according to the news release.
The girl did not need medical treatment.
The boy was arrested on one count of felony second-degree assault and booked into Spokane County Juvenile Detention Center.
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Milan67 on June 17 at 8:15 p.m.
What is this world coming too. When I was a kid we never would have an lighter at school and the kids were not allowed to smoke in school.
Wizard_of_ID on June 18 at 12:38 a.m.
People are jerks. And there are no shortage of them in schools, either. There will always be the kids who smoke, bring weapons, drugs, and alcohol into schools. Sadly, the school security will get tighter and tighter until our institutions of public learning resemble fascist states, with no rights at all for anyone there. I say let the injured little girl have a free punch in the face for the jerk. Delivered from a football player of her choice.