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A Riviera Beach Middle School principal is still feeling the mental effects of a traumatic experience two days after a former employee allegedly threatened to kill him, a district spokeswoman said.
Jashon Johnson, 37, used his vehicle to try to run the man off the road as the John F. Kennedy Middle School principal tried to make a turn, according to a report. He had to swerve onto the sidewalk to avoid being hit.
Johnson, who served two stints as the school’s behavior intervention specialist, then yelled: “You think I forgot? I’m going to kill you, (expletive).”
The principal is now out of town for an already-scheduled conference, and isn’t planning to miss any work, district spokeswoman Julie Houston Trieste said.
“Physically he’s OK,” she said of the principal. “He’s shaken up by the whole thing.”
Johnson's position was cut due to budget restraints, the spokeswoman said. The person in the position was tasked with diffusing tense situations between students. The lack of renewal wasn’t necessarily performance-based, Trieste said.
The arrest report did not indicate why Johnson was angry with the principal.
At first, Johnson denied ever seeing the principal and said he didn’t know why police were talking to him, the report said. Johnson then said he saw the principal who gave him the middle finger.
He said he never ran the principal off the road then refused to say anything else without a lawyer.
Johnson was released from Palm Beach County Jail under supervision Wednesday night.
His criminal history includes a guilty plea for driving with a suspended license in 2005 for which he served 28 days in county jail. He has had other felony arrests but charges were not filed.
The principal has been with the school since 2011, Houston Trieste said. School police will put resources into protecting the principal and the students, but wouldn’t provide specifics.
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