A student was charged with a felony for allegedly starting a classmate's hair on fire Tuesday 7 December 2011 in JI case High School.
Racine County District Attorney's Office charged Shyhein D Davidson, 17, of Racine, today with the second degree reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct.
According to the criminal complaint, a police officer with the Police Department of Mount Pleasant walks down the aisle at about 11 am when she smelled something burning and heard some of the students are talking about a girl whose hair was set on fire. Students do not know his name, or who did it. The girl never reported the incident. Officers watched video surveillance location to try to determine the identity of the victim, but he was able to determine the identity of the victim.
When officers went to the lunchroom, a teacher told the officer Davidson was almost fighting with other boys "Because Davidson had lit the other sister's son hair fire." When the police confronted Davidson, he denied the allegations. Because the police do not have victims, the police cannot do anything and he was handed over to the staff of the school until they were looking into the incident further.
School officials learned the girl's name on Wednesday. During the interview, he police he walked down the aisle when someone says, "Light hair on fire." The girl said she didn't know what others are talking about, and do not know the hair on fire until people started screaming. When someone puts her hair out, the girl had "a place in the quarter-sized bald his neck/hair line on the left side."