In an investigation conducted by another police department, the Avondale Police Department told ABC15 that aggravated assault charges are being recommended for a West Point High student allegedly involved in a fight with an Avondale school resource officer. On Tuesday, the Tolleson Union High School District released surveillance footage of the moments leading up to the fight.
In mid-September, a fight broke out between the student and the school resource officer inside the West Point High School cafeteria. Right after that fight, Tolleson Union Superintendent Jeremy Calles asked Avondale Police to remove that officer from the school.
Calles told ABC15 that the officer had been with the school since it opened in 2019. Neither the police department nor the school district has released the officer’s identity. After the fight, the officer was not removed from that campus, and Avondale Police said he was put on administrative duties…