A suspended student poured gasoline from a soda container onto a school security guard on Monday when she was denied entrance to her western Pennsylvania high school, police and school officials said. The school – one of the poorest in the Pittsburgh suburbs – has an after-school food program and the suspect returned at the end of the day to eat before milling about when other students began fighting that afternoon, Murray told police.
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The girl said “this angered her and she could not wait to see Murray on Monday”, the criminal complaint said. “Had that been a policy in place she would have never been to get in to do this”.
Murray said Knight-Brantley tried to activate the lighter, but Pyle knocked it out of the girl’s hand. She came back for an after-school meal.
As he approached the bottom, he was confronted by the student who told him, “I’m going to throw this at your face”. However, regardless of her suspension, she attempted to gain entry into the school on Monday.
Police and Wilkinsburg School District officials did not release the girl’s name, age or grade, though school board President Ed Donovan told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that she was suspended on Friday after an unspecified incident. She claims he grabbed her by the neck, put her in a headlock and threatened to bite her. “That was enough to where as though, I really wanted to go hands on with her. Her intent was to burn us”. The spokesman says the student poured the fuel on the guard and the floor after 9 a.m. but didn’t light it. The student is in police custody. “Those were the words that she used”.
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Imani Lorrainne Knight-Brantley was arraigned on charges of aggravated assault, causing or risking a catastrophe, possession of weapon on school property and recklessly endangering another person.
