5 NJ teens arrested after brutal assault ended by teacher using body as shield

Five New Jersey teens person been arrested aft brutally attacking a student extracurricular a schoolhouse successful Bayonne, stopping lone erstwhile a teacher stepped successful and utilized her assemblage to shield the victim.

Educarray McGhie, 18, and 4 minors ranging successful property from 15 to 17 — nary of whom were identified — are facing counts including aggravated assault, endangering an injured unfortunate and rioting, Bayonne Detective Sgt. William Dundas told NJ.com.

The charges stem from a convulsive incidental that unfolded Tuesday extracurricular William Shemin Midtown Community School, wherever teacher Cathy Hurley works arsenic a peculiar acquisition teacher.

Hurley was among the students and teachers making their mode retired of the gathering conscionable earlier 3 p.m. erstwhile she spotted a radical of teens beating a student, who is besides a minor. Video of the incidental shows the lad being stomped, punched and dragged, prompting Hurley to outpouring into action.

The pedagogue astatine archetypal tries putting her arms retired successful bid to artifact the attack, but the radical of teens persist. She tin past beryllium seen placing her assemblage connected apical of the pupil and covering his head, earlier the attackers fly the scene.

“A bystander came to the assistance of the unfortunate by shielding him with her body, thereby stopping the attack,” constabulary said.

By the clip unit stopped, the unfortunate was unconscious. He was treated and released from a section infirmary a abbreviated clip later.

It’s unclear what led up to the vicious attack.

Bayonne Superintendent John Niesz successful a connection to Patch praised Hurley’s bravery, saying she committed an “an enactment of selfless kindness and heroism successful protecting a Bayonne precocious schoolhouse student.”

Hurley’s daughter, Frances Sielski, said her parent returned to enactment the adjacent day.