Teen used brass knuckles in school cafeteria fight, cops say
LAKE WORTH — A fight in the Lake Worth High School cafeteria landed a student in the Palm Beach County Jail after he allegedly hit another teen in the head with brass knuckles.
About 12:30 p.m. Aug. 24, a staff member called Palm Beach County School District police over to a 17-yearold student who was “bleeding profusely from the right side of his head,” an arrest report states.
A staff member told officers the teen and 17-yearold Pascual Francisco were “saying words toward each other.” Francisco, of Lake Worth, had a pair of brass knuckles on his hand, she said. The other teen took off his shirt and stood up.
The staff member stepped in between the two, but Francisco went around her and she said he repeatedly punched the teen in the head with the brass knuckles.
Francisco fled from the school on Lake Worth Road just east of Interstate 95, police records state, but turned himself in the next morning.
Francisco denied having brass knuckles. When an officer told him school surveillance video shows him punching the teen with the brass knuckles, Francisco asked for a lawyer, records show.
He was booked into the county’s juvenile assessment center Aug. 25 and moved to the Palm Beach County Jail on an adult charge Sept. 15, jail records show.
He is out of the county jail on a $5,000 surety bond, records show.