By Jim Clark

Police investigated a reported case of assault of a student at Somerville High School last week.

The investigating officer met with the alleged victim in the school’s Nurse’s Office and gathered facts pertaining to the case, including taking the victim’s statement as to what had occurred.

The left side of the victim’s head was swollen and red, including his cheek, the area around his eye, his ear and the area within his hairline.

The victim reportedly told the officer that he had been attacked in the stairwell between the third and fourth floors of the school building. He said that he had been followed down the third floor hallway by one of the alleged attackers, Salvador Castro-Ramos, 19, and that Castro-Ramos, along with a juvenile accomplice, began hitting him as he made his way through the stairwell area, according to reports.

The victim further stated that the two alleged attackers had knocked him to the ground and kicked him in the head with their shod feet.

The school nurse reportedly confirmed that marks consistent with the soles of the type of sneakers the alleged attackers were wearing were present on the side of the victim’s head.

The officer asked the victim why he thought he had been attacked and he reportedly said that he had been in a fight with another student a few days earlier and that he thought this attack was made in retaliation.

The victim’s father arrived and took the student to the Somerville Hospital Emergency Room.

Searching for the alleged attackers, it appeared that the juvenile had left the premises. Castro-Ramos could not be found in his scheduled class, but was located in the cafeteria. He was subsequently placed under arrest and charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (shod foot).

A warrant for the arrest of the juvenile suspect was also put into effect.