Zyaire McBride

Name:
McBride, Zyaire Jovan

Date of Booking:
05/05/2025

Reason(s) For Booking:
Disorderly conduct

Obstruction of Officers (M)

Disruption or interference with operation of public schools

Simple battery

Officer’s Narrative:
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[NARRATIVE #1 on May 06, 2025]

Deputy Hooton was summoned to the office of Heritage High school in regards to a fight that occurred in the cafeteria between the victim and offenders. While approaching the main office, Deputy Hooton observed the complainant and offender Z.J.M. standing in the main lobby of the school. Deputy Hooton could hear offender Z.J.M. cursing the complainant and bowing up his arms and clenched fists in a manner that suggested he was going to fight with the complainant. Deputy Hooton and the complainant were able to walk offender Z.J.M. through the main office and into Deputy Hooton’s office, but he continued to curse the complainant and Deputy Hooton. It should be noted the main lobby of the school and main office were full of students, staff members and visitors when this disturbance occurred.

While in Deputy Hooton’s office the decision was made to charge the offender with disorderly conduct and he was advised he was under arrest. Deputy Hooton moved to offender Z.J.M. and attempted to handcuff him. The offender responded by cursing Deputy Hooton and saying “your not taking me to jail”. He also responded by pulling away from Deputy Hooton and he continued to curse and resist the efforts of Deputy Hooton to handcuff him. This struggle lasted for about 3 minutes, but the offender was handcuffed and taken into custody. Deputies Colonel Holcomb, Detective Roden and Detective Lyons arrived at the school and helped Deputy Hooton further secure the offender and get him searched and placed in Deputy Hooton’s patrol vehicle. The offender was searched and no contraband was found. The offender has very small wrist and the handcuffs were tightened down to the smallest setting and did not need to be double locked. They were checked for fit.

After searching the back seat of Deputy Hooton’s patrol vehicle, the offender was placed in the seat and seat belted in. Offender Z.J.M. was then transported to the Catoosa County jail without incident. The offender was turned over to detention staff.

Once the medical questions for the detention center were completed, Deputy Hooton asked the offender if he would like to give a statement about what happened to cause the fight at the high school and he advised he would give a statement.

Deputy Hooton read the Miranda warning to the offender and he advised he understood his rights and wished to talk to Deputy Hooton about the fight.

He advised the victim had called him a “bi*ch” several times while they were in the cafeteria and he asked him to repeat what he said and the victim did call him a bi*ch again so he and offender [JUVENILE #1] got up from their table and walked over to the victim’s table to confront him about name calling. He advised after he the victim and himself exchanged words a few times, he punched him in the face several times. He also advised the victim did not punch him back. He advised he has not had any problems with the victim in the past and he does not know why he began calling him names.

Deputy Hooton returned to the High school to continue the investigation into the fist fight in the school cafeteria.

Offender [JUVENILE #1] was interviewed with his mother present and [WITNESS #1] was translating for the mother of [JUVENILE #1] Offender [JUVENILE #1] advised he was sitting at a lunch table with Z.J.M. and the victim began calling Z.J.M. a “bi*ch” several times and this upset Z.J.M. He advised they both stood up and walked over to the table the victim was sitting at and confronted him. He advised Z.J.M. began punching the victim in the face and he felt the victim may punch him so he decided to punch the victim in the face as well. He said he punched the victim in the face one time and then the fight got broken up by the principal. He advised he did not have any kind of prior history with the victim.

Deputy Hooton spoke with the victim about this incident and the complainant was present for this interview. The victim advises he did go sit down at a table near where the offenders were sitting and he admits to calling offender Z.J.M. as “snitch” twice during the encounter. He advises he did stand up and confront the offenders when they walked over to him but he advises he did not punch them back when they started punching him.

Deputy Hooton observed the school security camera footage of the fight and it shows the offenders approach the victim and after a few words were said to him, the offenders began punching him. It shows the offenders stand up and approach the victim, but there is no audio to determine what was said during the incident. During the fight the victim continually backed up and tried to get away from the offenders, but they continued to come at him. After the victim was punched 12 to 14 times by offender Z.J.M. and 3 times by offender [JUVENILE #1].

Based on the statements and video evidence, the offenders were both also charged for their actions during the fight. A juvenile complaint was filed against offender [JUVENILE #1]. The juvenile charges and the complaint process were explained to the mother of offender [JUVENILE #1] through [WITNESS #1] acting as an interpreter.

[End of Narrative]

[NARRATIVE #2 on May 08, 2025]

On 05/08/2025 Deputy Boshears was was flagged down by a gentleman at the lobby of the Sheriff’s Office. Deputy Boshears met with the juvenile ZJM who advised that his bond conditions were to not contact the Victim [VICTIM #1]. ZJM states that this date at approximately 2000 [VICTIM #1] began contacting him with vaguely threatening messages. Deputy Boshears photographed these messages and advised ZJM to block [VICTIM #1].

ZJM and his mother have asked that a report be made to document the event and protect ZJM from being accused of violating his bond conditions.

[End of Narrative]