A Mainland High School student was hospitalized after a beating by several other teens in the auditorium, an incident that was caught on video.

  • Mainland High student beaten by 3 others in auditorium
  • Mom says she didn't receive a call from school administrators
  • Students involved are being disciplined, district says

Tarronn Brown, a 17-year-old sophomore, was beaten Tuesday by a freshman and two 18- and 19-year-old seniors, according to Daytona Beach Police.

Brown's mother, Sherri, said Wednesday that she should have gotten a call from the school but didn't.

“My main concern is that no one never gave me a phone call about what happened to my son,” Sherri Brown said.

Brown said she rushed to school after getting a call from one of her son’s fellow students — no school administrator called to notify her.

Volusia County School District spokeswoman Nancy Wait said the 17-year-old was taken to the school nurse, who planned to call the teen's mom after she finished evaluating him. But she said Brown and the teen’s cousin, Maureen Fields, arrived before the nurse could call.

Brown and Fields took the badly beaten sophomore to the hospital.

“Why was the ambulance never called? My cousin was throwing up blood. He was coughing up blood in front of us, eye messed up and everything,” Fields said.

“He’s going have to have facial surgery. They fractured his nose. He may lose his left eye,” Brown said.

Daytona Beach Police filed an incident report, which said the fight was over marijuana. One of the boys told police that the 17-year-old stole some of it, but none was found on the victim. Police did find a gram of pot on one of the attackers, they said.

None of the students involved in the beating were arrested, but felony assault charges were sent to the State Attorney’s Office for review and to determine whether an arrest should be made.

“They need to be arrested. They should not be allowed to just walk out of the school with just being suspended,” Fields said.

Wait, the district spokeswoman, said the boys are being disciplined but added she cannot disclose the level of discipline because of confidentiality rules.

She said four adults were inside the auditorium at the time of the fight and broke it up. She said the reason so many students were in the auditorium at the time of the beating is because students are going to testing right now, and classrooms that students would normally be in were being used for testing.


The mother of Tarronn Brown, 17, says her son was beaten in the auditorium at Mainland High School on Tuesday.