Student Injured With Needle; Teacher Suspended

Another teacher is being suspended in Pitt County. That makes two in one week. This time it involves a student being injured with an EpiPen.

Heather Mayo with Pitt County Schools says it happened on Tuesday at Ridgewood Elementary. Teacher, Amy Burne, put the EpiPen in a ziploc bag and a box. Then put the box in an equipment box that went out to recess. Mayo says Burne did not go outside with the second graders and none of the teachers removed the EpiPen out of the equiment box.

A second grade female student picked up the EpiPen.

"A male student, who is a second grader, comes over and tries to take it from her. In the course of trying to take it away from the student, he got injected with the EpiPen," describes Mayo.

The boy's mother picked him up from the school and took him to the doctor. Mayo says EpiPens are not locked away since they are used in emergency situations.

The principal at Ridgewood Elementary is looking at different ways teachers and staff can keep EpiPens on hand in case of emergencies, but out of the hands of students who don't need them.

Earlier in this week, a J.H. Rose High School teacher was suspended after a he left a shotgun and knife in his truck and was parked on school grounds. He told school officials he had planned on going hunting after school that day.