Posted on 10/09/2025 6:29:08 AM PDT by pnz1
No criminal charges will be filed in the case of August Borden, the Deshler High School teen who was seriously injured in August.
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Too bad someone outside area couldn’t take a look at this case.
Consistent with an assault!
From that description, it sounds like the two were joking, a bear hug was given, which caused the person to black out and he fell face first into a concrete step.
If a person is given a bear hug, they can pass out. We did this as kids to each other. That he coughed and made a strange sound bears that out a bit.
Am I missing context here? It sounds like they were, by all accounts, not enemies.
Supposedly there’s way more to the story.
https://1819news.com/news/item/father-of-injured-deshler-high-school-student-august-borden-shocked-and-appalled-at-madison-county-das-decision-not-to-press-charges-this-case-is-far-from-over
Sounds like the Madison County DA got just one side of the story.
Is the injured boy conscious? Even so, with a traumatic head injury, he might not even recall the injury event.
If there’s a back story, such as friction between the injured boy and the football star, it might be difficult to get classmates to confirm.
I’ve read various things (fwiw) saying he can’t remember what happened. Also that the school/students may be protecting someone. As I said, just what I’ve read on social media.
I read the link you provided, and even drilled down further on links in the article, but all of them that I followed went back to the father of the injured boy saying he thought the school was lying and he thinks something different happened.
He doesn’t have any proof. There isn’t any video (that has been found). If there were any witnesses to a different dynamic between the two, none of them have come forward. Because the school started off saying they thought the kid might have had a seizure, and after that said there was another kid involved is what makes the father think he is being lied to.
I think they should absolutely interview other kids, coaches, and teachers. I don’t know how much of that they did, but unless they can spot inconsistencies, the father’s suspicions cannot be corroborated.
But if they do interview the people about the nature of the relationship between the kid and the other person involved, I would think the interrogation might go something like this:
DETECTIVE: Did Joe and Shevon hang around together?
KID 1: Well, no. Joe was one of my good friends, and I hung around him a lot, and never saw them even acknowledge the other. They were on the team together and didn’t really interact. I was on the team, and never saw them even speak to each other before, either during team activities or in school in general.
And when another kid is interviewed:
DETECTIVE: Did Joe and Shevon hang around together?
KID 2: Sure. They were friends and used to kid each other and wrestle around. Shevon had a good friendship with them. I saw them together all the time.
DETECTIVE: Were you good friends with Shevon?
KID 2: Yes. He had a lot of friends, because Shevon was one of the best players on the team. Joe was a quiet kid who was on the team, but I know Shevon liked him. He would never do anything to hurt someone like Joe.
I support the sentiment to do a real investigation, but honestly, it is going to be circumstantial at best unless some kid really decides to open up about it, which could happen being interrogated by a detective.
I just think that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and the original disparity between a kid having a seizure by himself and falling down stairs, and another kid giving a bear hug is entirely possible. Early on, things can be confused.
Unless someone lies and gets caught, there isn’t any way a different story can be verified.
I don’t know? The father has recordings of what the coaches etc initially told him. There’s now a Snapchat circulating of two involved parties with #beatthecase. Supposedly at last game supporters wore “the Price is Right” buttons for the QB.
There’s also a $10K reward for video of attack.
That is why I would support a re-investigation. It doesn’t sound like one was correctly or thoroughly done.
But from what is publicly known and verified, those aren’t proofs. Get people to give their accounts to an officer of the law with the suggestion they may be called as witnesses.
It is said that they didn’t talk to doctors that examined him at hospital either.
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