State Sen. Don Shooter, R-Yuma, (click here) faces a possible assault charge after he barged into his grandson’s Yuma high-school classroom and confronted the boy’s teacher, according to a police report.
After being asked to leave three times, and realizing the teacher was video-recording the incident on her cellphone, Shooter left.
The Yuma Police Department report, as well as witness accounts, portrayed the senator as visibly angry when he entered the classroom at the Yuma Private Industry Council charter school last Friday morning.
The Republic obtained the police report through a public-records request Thursday evening. The report notes that police have been unable to contact Shooter, a committee chairman at the state Legislature; he did not return a phone call from The Republic....
Muñoz told police that Shooter’s abrupt entry into her classroom made her “afraid for her safety and the safety of her student.” She later told police she wanted to press assault charges against Shooter, and the investigating officer said he would forward the report to the city prosecutor.
...Muñoz then reached for her cellphone and started recording the encounter, while another school official entered the classroom and also asked him to leave, the report said.
Muñoz told police that Shooter’s abrupt entry into her classroom made her “afraid for her safety and the safety of her student.” She later told police she wanted to press assault charges against Shooter, and the investigating officer said he would forward the report to the city prosecutor.
Muñoz also told police she would pursue an “injunction against harassment” against Shooter in city court.
The school’s policy prohibits visitors from going past the front desk, according to the police report....
