A student at the University of Southern California was taken into custody on Monday for assault with a deadly weapon after she allegedly struck a lecturer in the head on Monday using a metal water bottle.
The event reportedly took place in the rear of a Dauterive Hall classroom at approximately 11 a.m., according to campus safety officials.
According to the reports, the female student struck the female lecturer who was not named “in the side of the head with a fairly large metal water bottle.”
To help with the situation, the Los Angeles Fire Department and the school’s Department of Public Safety were dispatched to the location.
After being found in a nearby building, the anonymous student was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon, and the professor was sent to a nearby hospital to receive medical attention.
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It was unclear at first what her condition was.
It’s still unknown what exactly led up to the attack, and investigators are trying to figure out why. There were additional students present to witness the assault, according to campus safety police.
There was no other information offered.
