Hunt Valley, Md. (WBFF) — A Project Baltimore investigation has uncovered more emails from parents at Dumbarton Middle School warning school administrators that some students were in danger.
The most recent warnings came days before a massive student fight at a York Road bus stop in Towson that led to criminal charges.
That bus stop fight from April 20 went viral after being posted online by the law firm Turnbull Brockmeyer. In the video, a group of students from Dumbarton Middle School can be seen attacking another student.
Now, Project Baltimore has obtained emails from the alleged victim’s mother to school officials, sent days before the fight. Emails where the mother is pleading for the school to protect her daughter.
The alleged victim’s mother sent emails to school officials days before the Towson bus stop fight (WBFF)
“She did what she (the mom) was supposed to do,” said Ryan Coleman, former president of the Randallstown chapter of the NAACP. “This was an ongoing problem. And now we have five black children arrested and it’s preventable.”
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The emails Fox45 obtained begin on April 15th – five days before the fight. The mother wrote Dumbarton’s administrators, including Assistant Principal Amy Beale and Principal Amanda Shanks, the 2026 BCPS Middle School Principal of the Year.
In the emails, the mother of the alleged victim at the bus stop fight, whose name Project Baltimore is concealing, is concerned about an incident, from mid-April, where her daughter was confronted and threatened by a group of students inside a bathroom at the school.
In the emails the mom writes she is “furious that this happened to my baby” and it is “totally unacceptable.” The mom writes that she wants to “file a police report” because she does not “tolerate bullies.”
In the emails the mom writes she is “furious that this happened to my baby” and it is “totally unacceptable” (WBFF)
A few days after that email was sent, the fight happened on April 20, where her daughter was the alleged victim. Afterwards, the mom wrote school administrators again saying, “This could have been avoided. This has been an ongoing issue. Please make sure those students that was involved receive major consequences.” And she talks about, “getting a lawyer.”
“When children get hurt, don’t we have to look at the administration?” Asked Coleman. “There’s no accountability, or at least there’s no accountability that we see.”
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Project Baltimore requested an interview with Beale, Shanks or BCPS officials to discuss if school administrators should “be held accountable when student safety concerns are brought to their attention, but are not resolved?”
Project Baltimore received a response from school spokesperson Gboyinde Onijala, who earns more than $222,000 a year from taxpayers to communicate with the public. Onijala replied, “We have no further comments at this time.”
Patrick Miller warned Dumbarton school officials of serious problems on the bus prior to the April 20 fight (WBFF)
Project Baltimore, last week, first reported on emails from Patrick Miller, whose daughter attends Dumbarton and rides the same bus, he says, as the students in the April 20 video. Miller also warned school officials of serious problems. He even sent video to the school of another school bus fight, he says, involve some of the same students.
“I’ve been making it very clear that things are escalating, that it’s getting more violent on there, that it’s very unsafe,” Miller told Project Baltimore.
Coleman, for years, says he has seen similar scenarios play out in many public schools – where some students show of pattern on misbehaving, the school is made aware, but steps are not taken to prevent violence.
“There has to start to be consequences,” Coleman remarked. “Public education is starting to fail our children, especially our black children.”
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