Body shots death

All: I know it isn’t hazing but figured parents and administrators and police might be interested in this potentially dangerous game.

Unit 5 Superintendent Gary Niehaus says Kingsley Junior High staff and Normal Police did all they could in response to an incident at the school which led to a student’s death last year.

Jasmine Brooks filed a lawsuit against Unit 5 and the Town of Normal last week on the one-year anniversary of son Donnie Hampton Jr.’s death.

The lawsuit claims Hampton and other students were playing a game called ‘body shots’ where students punch one another – before he collapsed and later died.

“I think Kingsley staff had done everything they could have done. I don’t know what more they could have done,” Niehaus said.

Niehaus says he reviewed a videotape of the incident and said a teacher responded to the bathroom in a ‘short time frame.’

Niehaus says the district has since added more security cameras to Kingsley and other schools throughout the district.

Click here to listen to Scott and Colleen’s interview with Niehaus.