The 11-year-old student climbed onto the roof of Azalea Middle School in St. Petersburg on Tuesday.
Updated, 5:05 p.m.: Officials say the student who was on the roof of Azalea Middle School on Tuesday has been safely taken into custody and students have been dismissed. The 11-year-old girl apparently gained access to the roof by climbing onto an awning, according to a St. Petersburg Police spokesperson. "It has been discovered that prior to leaving her classroom the student did leave a note with a classmate threatening to harm herself," spokesperson Mike Puetz wrote in a media release. "The student now claims she was not going to jump, but just wanted to be by herself." Dismissal was delayed by the incident but the school was not placed on lockdown, Pinellas County Schools spokesperson Melanie Marquez Parra told Patch. Officers will be …
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'There have been many fights but none this bad,' wrote a student on the Old Northeast Patch website.
Azalea Middle School principal Dr. Connie Kolosey and police are trying to learn today why several fistfights and brawls broke out at the St. Petersburg school Tuesday. The fights required 10 police officers to quell and led to the arrests of 11 students. Two girls were pepper sprayed, after they refused to stop fighting, police said. One student allegedly assaulted an officer, ran off and has yet to be located. Azalea has the worst record of any St. Petersburg middle school for student arrests by police, according to the Tampa Bay Times. Even with that record, school officials officials described Tuesday's incident as devastating for the entire student body. A commenter on the Old Northeast Patch who identified herself as a student at the…
Bonnie
11:16 am on Wednesday, February 20, 2013
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