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CARROLLTON, Texas — A defendant in the Louisiana “Jena Six” case was arrested on suspicion of slamming a student’s head into a bench at his new school in Texas, police said.
Bryant R. Purvis, 19, was arrested on an assault charge Wednesday after an altercation at Hebron High School. It began because Purvis believed a student had flattened his tires, Sgt. John Singleton said.
Purvis was one of six black Jena High School students charged with attempted murder after a 2006 assault on a white student. Charges were reduced, but the original counts caused complaints of racially motivated prosecution that led to 20,000 people marching in Jena.
