{"id":230415,"date":"2025-09-16T03:59:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/230415\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T03:59:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:59:23","slug":"fort-worth-hs-band-director-assaulted-by-group-of-young-suspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/230415\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth HS band director assaulted by group of young suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FORT WORTH, Texas<\/strong> – Fort Worth police are looking for the people who ambushed the Fort Worth ISD band director.<\/p>\n

The Fort Worth Police Department revealed more details about what led to the attack on a high school band director at Southwest High School.<\/p>\n

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What we know:<\/p>\n

Officers say they were called to the scene at 4:47 p.m. on Friday afternoon. Their investigation revealed the ordeal began when a group of people were climbing on a tower near a school campus parking lot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The district says they were young but not believed to be Southwest High School students.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Someone pointed this out to the band director, who we’ve learned was Jeff Demaagd. Demaagd approached the four people and asked them to come down.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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One of the students knocked the phone out of Demaagd’s hand. Another student grabbed the phone and walked away with it. Demaagd followed the suspects for a couple of blocks to the 6100 block of Welch Avenue.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police say that is where three of the suspects assaulted him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Local perspective:<\/p>\n

A driver passing by stopped to break up the assault but at that point all the suspects walked away.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Demaagd was taken to hospital in a private vehicle. While Demaagd did not want to do an interview about the ordeal, he did tell us this in a text message:<\/p>\n

“This is a terrible incident but is NOT a reflection of the wonderful community that is Southwest HS. I am healing and excited to rejoin the students, parents, teachers and admin. I will turn my attention and energy toward all the students making positive choices for themselves and their community.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

What’s next:<\/p>\n

Fort Worth ISD had counselors available for students impacted by this, with special attention given to the band program. The principal said in a Facebook post that the safety and wellbeing of students and staff is always their priority.<\/p>\n

The Source:<\/b> Information in this article was provided by FOX 4′ Lori Brown and the Fort Worth Police Department.<\/p>\n

Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Fort Worth ISD<\/a>Fort Worth<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH, Texas – Fort Worth police are looking for the people who ambushed the Fort Worth ISD…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":230416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,6082,7371,14948,7372,50,12632,7375,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-230415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fort-worth-isd","12":"tag-fortworth","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-organization","15":"tag-tarrant-county","16":"tag-texas","17":"tag-tx","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115211977672541155","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}