Gang Fight Reported At Jackson High School
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Some parents are outraged after investigators said two rival gangs clashed on the campus of North Side High School, Wednesday morning. Brandon Pevahouse said he has had enough of his daughter’s complaints about gangs at North Side. “She’s been telling me for two weeks that she wanted to change schools because all this has been accumulating and going on,” Pevahouse said. He does not think she is safe, and will start homeschooling her next week. “If these schools can’t do something about this, what are they going to do tomorrow when they come in there with a bunch of guns and have another fight and a shootout and somebody gets hurt or killed?” Pevahouse said. As students arrived for school early Wednesday morning, the school resource officer said multiple fights between two rival gangs broke out. One gang calls themselves DIP for Down in the Projects, and are associated with the Vice Lords. The other gang, FBD, for Forever Be Down, is a segment of the Gangster Disciples. “I think you’ll find some gangs in perhaps most of our middle schools and high schools,” Madison County Sheriff David Woolfork said. “That’s just the nature of the beast during this day in society, but I think if you try and deny that we have gangs in our schools, we’re merely burying our heads in the sand.” Sheriff Woolfork said several students were suspended and one 14-year-old was arrested. 7 Eyewitness News asked school superintendent Buddy White if teachers received any type of gang-related training, and he said he did not know. “It is a matter that the law enforcement and the principals work together on on a regular basis,” White said. North Side High Principal Jan Watson could not be reached for comment. Investigators said the 14-year-old who was arrested has been charged with disturbing a school assembly, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
