The man detained Monday for assaulting an instructor in the Village has been charged with making death threats, according to officials.
The suspect, identified as 19-year-old Tyshaun Middleton by a friend, is being held on $40,000 bail in the Men’s Central Jail in Los Angeles, according to Deputy Peter Gomez of the Sheriff’s Headquarters Bureau.
Pierce College student Tim Hamilton said he and Middleton were “close. Really, really close,” and that Middleton had been expelled from William Howard Taft High School.
Middleton told another friend the night before the incident that he was going to see his girlfriend at Pierce in the morning, according to Hamilton.
“He was intoxicated,” Hamilton said. “It could’ve been anything, knowing Middleton.”
Middleton’s girlfriend’s father had filed a restraining order against him after he repeatedly took a car of the family’s, according to Hamilton.
“He’s a little wild,” Hamilton said. “He wants attention all the time.”
