Saturday, February 27, 2010

Mother charged with using sword to threaten school employees

A Memphis mother is under arrest after police say she brought a sword concealed in a walking cane to her daughter's school. Toni L. Price is charged with Aggravated Assault and Carrying a Weapon on School Property. She's being held on a $4,500 bond.

A relative says Price was angry because a student spit on her seven-year-old daughter. The relative says Price went to Riverview Elementary School on Joubert to confront the girl's parents.

The parents of the girl Price went to confront were not at the school, so Price confronted a school administrator.



Suspect Toni Price's mother Bennie Price says her daughter brought the weapon to fend off pit-bulls on the way to Riverview, not to threaten anyone once she arrived at the school.

The suspect's mother says her daughter never took the blade out of the cane, but according to the affidavit in the case, the victim told police Price "pulled out a knife from a walking cane and told her that she was going to cut her."

The affidavit says Price told officers she drank a 40 ounce Colt 45 before she went to the school.

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