Jennifer Gipson still faces possible criminal charges in the incident. The Police Department's Youth Services division was investigating the case, but Gipson had not been arrested as of late yesterday afternoon. A woman who answered the phone at Gipson's residence yesterday would not let a reporter speak with her.
Gipson is one of three Metro employees accused in the past week of
hitting
a student. David Heustess, a teacher of Kirkpatrick Elementary, has been
charged with assault after a 6-year-old student's mother claimed the
teacher
slapped her son. A criminal complaint was also filed against another
teacher,
Whites Creek High School coach Dorris Armstrong, by a 15-year-old
student who
said Armstrong hit him on the arm with a baseball bat during an
argument.
Armstrong had not been arrested as of yesterday afternoon. He declined
to
comment about the incident. -----Jennifer Barnett