11-year-old Alief ISD student gets gun pulled out on him, forced to fight after school
HOUSTON - An Alief mother is speaking out after she claims her 11-year-old son was threatened with a gun and forced to fight other teenagers. It happened after school last week at an apartment complex off Shadowbriar Drive and Richmond Avenue. Now, the mother is determined to seek justice for her son.
"They could have killed him, and before the video even started, they put the gun up to my son’s head," said Lucille Longoria, the mother of the 11-year-old Alief ISD student.
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Last Tuesday, Lucille Longoria's 11-year-old son was walking home from Budewig Intermediate School when she said he was approached by a group of teens.
"You see his gun," said Longoria. "He was attacked, literally attacked, violently attacked."
Longoria said the teenagers pulled out a gun and forced her son to fight. She said the incident left him traumatized.
"He was attacked by two random guys, who he don’t know these boys, at all. He doesn’t know them at all," said Longoria.
A disturbing video circulating on social media shows the fight.
"Took a hard jab at my son, then he busted his nose," said Longoria. "They stomped on him."
In a statement, Alief ISD said: "Alief ISD was made aware of a video circulating of a group of young people fighting last Friday. The parent of one of the students involved contacted a campus administrator to inform them of the video’s existence. This incident did not transpire on school grounds. We worked with local authorities to identify the students in the video and were able to confirm that there were some that were current students in our district. We do not condone bullying of any kind, and we encourage our students to make better choices."
"What those other individuals did to my son is not okay. They need to be held responsible. We need to get them off the streets," said Longoria.
Longoria said because of the incident, she's working to move out of Alief ISD and transfer her son to a different school district.