Simpsonville Teen Charged with Assaulting His Mother

A 16-year-old Simpsonville boy faces charges for attacking and injuring his mother following his suspension from Hillcrest High for making alleged threats against the life of a female student, Simposnville police incident reports said.

The teen's mother told police the pair were in the Bank of America parking lot on Fairview Road last week when the assault occurred, the report said. When the pair got into a verbal altercation after the son allegedly began "running his mouth" and upsetting his mother, the mother said she threw a water bottle at her son, who in turn struck her in the right eye, shattering her sunglasses and causing a bloody one-inch cut above her eye, the report said.

The teen has a history of acting out and trouble with the law for a past drug-related offense, the report said. The day of his assault on his mother, the youth had also allegedly threatened to shoot a female classmate in the neck, telling the girl that his older sister would also beat her up, and asking her "if she was ready to die," a separate incident report said.

That incident had left the victim visibly shaken and frightened, since she had had an uncle who was "murdered brutally" just two weeks prior, the report said. However, the male student was suspended in lieu of arrest for lack of corroborating evidence, the report said.

At the mother's request, the teen was arrested and charged with third-degree assault and battery and taken into custody and transported to the Greenville County Juvenile Detention Center, the report said.