A 60-year-old crossing guard allegedly killed a 14-year-old student who was on his way to school. The guard reportedly choked the student to death. Click below to read the full story.
A school crossing guard was arrested for choking a 14-year-old student in Queens Friday morning, police and sources said.
The guard, Jillian Selby, 60, scolded the boy at Rockaway Blvd. and 99th St. in Ozone Park, sparking a fight, sources said.
She knocked away his baseball cap and allegedly “grabs him with both hands and chokes him,†during the 7:30 a.m. spat, police sources said.
The teen, who was on his way to Middle School 137, did not appear to be seriously hurt but had marks and scratches on his neck.
His mother took him to the 106th Precinct to file a complaint.
Selby was charged with criminal obstruction of breathing, acting in a manner injurious to a child and harassment. She was taken into police custody at noon Friday.
Neighbor Marissa Jewel, 21, said such behavior was not typical of Selby.
“She is going to yell at you if you walk when it says ‘Don’t Walk.’ Actually, she’s just doing her job,†Jewel said.
Jewel, who said she’s known Selby 15 years, described the woman as a “strict parent, but she never put her hands on her daughter.â€
The boy “probably said something mean†to prompt such a reaction, she added.
