Students got into a fight on the campus of a Broward high school, and one father said his daughter was injured in the violent incident. The teen girl and her father claim she was punched, but police said they were never told that.
A bully at Coral Springs High School picked a fight with a student named Lucas, who backed away from the fist-cuffs.
Shown in cellphone video, the aggressor tried to slam him, Lucas tried to defend himself and moments later, he was slammed to the ground.
The thug was arrested and charged with battery. That's part one of the investigation, which is closed. The second part has to do with Stephanie Sheltra, an ROTC student who suffered a punishing beating.
Her father said it happened during the fight, but he's getting the runaround from the school.
"All the way from my daughter wasn't there, on the wrong floor. To then my daughter's not involved in it, to my daughter didn't get hurt," Marc Sheltra explained.
Clearly at some point, she did, and clearly she was there. Stephanie is seen in the video in a red shirt, trying to break up the fight before it began. She ended up being treated at the ER, went through brain scans, MRI and X-rays.
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"They sent her home, the next day the headaches came back. She can't eat, she's nauseous and the pain was increasing," Sheltra said.
She's now admitted to the hospital while her dad has few answers from the school and police.
"She never had any visible signs of injuries. She talked with well over a dozen people who had contact with her that day at the school. No visible injuries," said Capt. Bradley McKeone with Coral Springs Police.
In taking a report, police said Stephanie only revealed hitting her head on the wall. Nothing about being punched or kicked. Interestingly, security cameras saw her leave the ROTC class.
"Went out into the parking lot, we have this on video, going out of camera view in the parking lot, returns a short time later with visible cut to her lip," Capt. McKeone said.
During the original fight, there were dozens of kids, many who took video. Students who said the walls talk and would have heard about Stephanie's beating, say it doesn't add up.
"There's a video of the two boys fighting and if there's video of them fighting and there's no video of the two girls fighting, I don't see how she got beat up, if nobody saw it," said Myron Dewar, student.
Police are suggesting that maybe Stephanie did go out to the parking lot, where she sustained the injuries, and she's afraid to talk about it. Police said they'd still like to talk to Stephanie and her dad to find out who's responsible for the injuries.
As far as the student in the video who was charged, he now faces expulsion.
