POLICE BRIEFS
Published in the Asbury Park Press 05/9/05

Cops probe fight at middle school

ABERDEEN: School officials and police are continuing to investigate a Friday altercation between two Matawan Avenue Middle School students that left one sixth-grader in the hospital.

The injured 12-year-old boy, whom police did not identify, was treated for a concussion at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune over the weekend, Matawan-Aberdeen Regional Superintendent Bruce Quinn said. A nursing supervisor could not release information on the youth without his name.

While authorities are still looking into how the boy was injured, Quinn said it appears it was the result of horseplay and not bullying.

He declined to comment on whether the district was considering disciplinary action but said any incident of bullying would be taken seriously.

Aberdeen Police Deputy Chief John T. Powers said Sunday that police also still are investigating the incident, which took place at the middle school around 10:30 a.m. Friday.

Justin Vellucci