Crazed Student Slams A Chair Over Anothers Head Because He Wanted To Sit In That Spot, Gets Arrested

MARICOPA — A Maricopa High School student was charged with aggravated assault after allegedly striking a classmate with a chair in a classroom.

In a 25-second phone-recorded video obtained by PinalCentral, a male student standing with his backpack on in a computer lab raises a blue-backed chair with metal legs over his head, then brings the chair down over his head. He hit the other student in the head and the upper back with enough force to create a “whoosh” sound upon contact.

The victim was sitting and had a hood over his head, and did not move after being struck.

PinalCentral is not sharing the video due to the presence of many children.

At first, only a few students noticed the interaction before the hit and thought it amusing. After the loud hit, the students flinched and turned toward the incident.

One student can be heard swearing with many other students saying, “oh!” and gasping.

The perpetrator can be seen moments after the first hit raise the chair above his head again before what sounds like a teacher saying, “hey, put it down now.”

The perpetrator turns toward the teacher with the chair still raised above his head and responds, “tell him to move.”

The teacher again says, “put the chair down now.”

While chuckling, the perpetrator again says, “tell him to move.”

A female student sitting in front of the victim can be seen putting a protective hand over the victim’s head while the interaction continues.

The teacher says, “it’s not even funny,” to which the perpetrator responds while still chuckling, “oh, yeah it is.”

The students in the background can be seen getting more worried as the interaction carries on, especially the male student who is also wearing a hood sitting right in between the victim and the perpetrator.

Again, the teacher says this time with a stronger tone, “put the chair down now,” to which again the student responds, “tell him to move” while turning and gesturing with his head in the victim’s direction, the chair still raised above his head.

The same female student touching the victim’s head can be seen reaching her arm over to the male student sitting between the victim and perpetrator, trying to help him get up and move away from the perpetrator.

It isn’t clear in the video but it seems maybe another student takes the chair out of the perpetrator’s hand and sets it down off the phone camera’s view. It doesn’t look like the perpetrator set it down himself nor did he drop the chair since there isn’t a noise nor did his actions indicate he did.

Once the chair is set down off-camera, the perpetrator’s demeanor changes slightly and he looks directly at the camera for a moment.

Before the video ends, possibly a student or teacher’s aide goes over to check on the victim.