Teacher Dies After Breaking Up Fight Between Teen Couple

[Untrust Us]

(June 5) -- A Massachusetts high school teacher died after breaking up a fight between a teenage couple.

Douglas Vaughn Lloyd stopped breathing and turned blue shortly after intervening to break up the scuffle between a 16-year-old boy and his girlfriend at a school in Fitchburg, Mass., Friday morning, The Boston Globe reported.

Lloyd was rushed to nearby Leominster hospital and pronounced dead. The teenagers are facing domestic assault charges in juvenile court.

"There was hitting and yelling involved," one student told a local Fox News affiliate. "He wasn't feeling too good after they split up and he just collapsed."

It does not appear that Lloyd was actually struck by either teenager during the altercation. His cause of death is, for now, unknown. Police and state forensics experts are investigating the case, according to The Boston Globe.

Lloyd had worked at the school since 2008 as a resource teacher, teaching biology as part of the school's college preparatory course. He had previously worked as a chiropractor, the Fox affiliate reported.

The school's graduation ceremony went ahead as planned on Friday evening. School principal Richard D. Masciarelli extended his "heartfelt sympathy" to Lloyd's wife and daughter.

"The Fitchburg High School community has been hit by a terrible tragedy," Masciarelli said. "Vaughan Lloyd, an outstanding teacher, was stricken ill and died at Leominster Hospital today."

The death has left a gloomy atmosphere hanging over the school at what is usually one of the happiest times of the year for students.

"Everybody's miserable," Saleem Kidd, a sophomore, told The Boston Globe. "We're not doing any schoolwork. We're just waiting for school to end."

http://www.aolnews.com/nation/artic...reaking-up-fight-between-teen-couple/19504651

I'm not sure if aol news is a respectable source.

what @ domestic assault charges

 

[ru5514n]

I fail to see how the fight correlates to his death, since the article said the couple didn't actually hit the teacher.

 

[Grandeza]

lolwut @ the whole thing

 

[UberMario]

It was probably a heart-attack or a stroke due to the stress of the situation. He was 65 and he looked pretty old in the image they showed of him.

 

[Mr.Freeman]

Seems like he had a heart attack. I mean, he does look pretty old.

 

[Untrust Us]

I agree. But what gets me the most is that apparently, they're gonna be charged with domestic assault charges.

 

[Luigitoilet]

teens prove again that they are the scum of the earth

 

[GunmasterLombardi]

teens prove again that they are the scum of the earth.

But who's fault is it that teens like us are around?

Heh...

 

[Mota]

Lol, this makes no sense.

 

[Fuelbi]

teens prove again that they are the scum of the earth

I'm offended by this.

 

[Abstract]

Well, i just have one thing to say.......













































WTFAWK!!!!

 

[Luigitoilet]

I'm offended by this.

If you are offended by this maybe you should stop being a teenager!

 

[StealthyGunnar]

The way the story reads, the fight may have been a cause for his unknown cause of death? Maybe it was just too much excitement and he had a heart attack. In no way was it the teens' fault for his 'condition.'

 

[Pluvia]

Misleading title is misleading.

 

[Эикельманн [РУС]]

But who's fault is it that teens like us are around?

I, for one, am making an effort to differ from the average teenager that exists in our society today.

However, I would blame modern culture, and the counter culture movements of the 60's/70's/80's for it.

 

[Today]

I remember reading this... Yeah. I don't think the students should really be blamed for the teacher's death since they didn't physically touch him. But they DID get into a fight however.
As for the current teenagers these days it just seems so hopeless. I'm a graduating senior in high school. And watching seventh graders brag about how many sex partners they have, and how they smoke and drink all the time. It really makes me sad.