A Taunton, Massachusetts, crossing guard was arrested twice in one day by police, accused of repeatedly hitting a woman and her child with a stop sign stick on Monday morning.Louis Chaves, 68, was taken into custody by Taunton police a second time late Monday night following an altercation with news photographers outside of the courthouse he was arraigned in, Taunton police said. Chaves was fired on Monday after he was accused of repeatedly hitting a woman and her child with a stop sign stick during an altercation outside the high school.According to the prosecutors, the incident involved a parent in a vehicle on Williams Street outside the Taunton High School. The woman said she stopped at the intersection when she sneezed and was trying to find a tissue. The crossing guard, later identified as Chaves, started yelling at her to keep driving."He was yelling at her while her child was in the vehicle. The crossing guard then put the stop sign stick through the passenger window and started swinging it all around the car, calling her names and told her that she needs to get out of there," the prosecutor said. "The defendant was swinging the stop sign stick in the vehicle, and it struck the daughter in her arm."Police say Chaves struck her child in the arm with the stick. When the woman got out of the car to confront him, police say he threw her on the ground."When the parent got out of the vehicle and confronted this defendant about the assault, that's when the defendant started to attack her with a stop sign stick, eventually throwing her to the ground," the prosecutor said. "(She) stated while she was on the ground, she was dragged and kicked repeatedly by the defendant. She did have multiple abrasions and lacerations on her arm."Chaves was charged with two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, the stop sign stick, and one count of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, a shod foot.He was released after the arraignment and will return to court on Aug. 8.As Chaves left court, he lunged at cameras while a woman pleaded with him and tried to hold him back. He is then seen on camera kicking at a photographer, hitting another photographer and throwing a stick.Late Monday night, Taunton police arrested Chaves for a second time, charging him with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and assault with a dangerous weapon.“Taunton Public Schools is aware of a physical altercation this morning (June 3) involving a crossing guard,” Taunton Public Schools said in a statement. As a result of the incident, “the crossing guard has been terminated, effective immediately, and is no longer an employee of Taunton Public Schools.”The woman was taken to Morton Hospital with cuts and abrasions.
TAUNTON, Mass. —
A Taunton, Massachusetts, crossing guard was arrested twice in one day by police, accused of repeatedly hitting a woman and her child with a stop sign stick on Monday morning.
Louis Chaves, 68, was taken into custody by Taunton police a second time late Monday night following an altercation with news photographers outside of the courthouse he was arraigned in, Taunton police said.
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Chaves was fired on Monday after he was accused of repeatedly hitting a woman and her child with a stop sign stick during an altercation outside the high school.
According to the prosecutors, the incident involved a parent in a vehicle on Williams Street outside the Taunton High School. The woman said she stopped at the intersection when she sneezed and was trying to find a tissue. The crossing guard, later identified as Chaves, started yelling at her to keep driving.
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"He was yelling at her while her child was in the vehicle. The crossing guard then put the stop sign stick through the passenger window and started swinging it all around the car, calling her names and told her that she needs to get out of there," the prosecutor said. "The defendant was swinging the stop sign stick in the vehicle, and it struck the daughter in her arm."
Police say Chaves struck her child in the arm with the stick. When the woman got out of the car to confront him, police say he threw her on the ground.
"When the parent got out of the vehicle and confronted this defendant about the assault, that's when the defendant started to attack her with a stop sign stick, eventually throwing her to the ground," the prosecutor said. "(She) stated while she was on the ground, she was dragged and kicked repeatedly by the defendant. She did have multiple abrasions and lacerations on her arm."
Chaves was charged with two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, the stop sign stick, and one count of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, a shod foot.
He was released after the arraignment and will return to court on Aug. 8.
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As Chaves left court, he lunged at cameras while a woman pleaded with him and tried to hold him back. He is then seen on camera kicking at a photographer, hitting another photographer and throwing a stick.
Late Monday night, Taunton police arrested Chaves for a second time, charging him with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and assault with a dangerous weapon.
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“Taunton Public Schools is aware of a physical altercation this morning (June 3) involving a crossing guard,” Taunton Public Schools said in a statement. As a result of the incident, “the crossing guard has been terminated, effective immediately, and is no longer an employee of Taunton Public Schools.”
The woman was taken to Morton Hospital with cuts and abrasions.
