Nearly three weeks after La Follette High School students reportedly beat a special-needs classmate so badly at the Southeast Side school that he could require surgery, police made an arrest in the case Wednesday and anticipate making another one.
Tayshon J. Ross, 17, of Madison, is tentatively charged with felony substantial battery in the Jan. 13 incident, according to police spokesperson Stephanie Fryer.
Police said last month that the 15-year-old victim told them a group of students was making fun of him before the fight and that school surveillance video of the incident shows the victim and another teen preparing to fight one another and several teens punching or attempting to punch the victim.