HARRISON COUNTY — Hallsville ISD and a Hallsville police officer are investigating a junior high school coach and teacher whom a parent says pushed her son to the ground, busted his lip and choked him. \u201cSafety and security of all Hallsville students, at all times, is a primary concern in this district,\u201d Hallsville ISD spokeswoman Carol Greer said. \u201cWe\u2019re aware of this situation and are currently in the process of conducting an internal investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Though Hallsville ISD officials have said they do not believe there was \u201cmalicious intent\u201d involved in the incident and the coach was apologetic, mother Diana Adkins said Friday she won\u2019t stop fighting for justice for what happened to her son. Adkins said Hallsville Junior High School U.S. history teacher and coach Ken Wall pushed her son, 13-year-old Blake Adkins, backward to the ground during a practice Sept. 16 in which the coach and team were \u201chorseplaying.\u201d Wall then injured Blake\u2019s mouth, placed his forearm on Blake\u2019s neck causing him to choke and yelled at him, according to Diana Adkins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
HARRISON COUNTY — Hallsville ISD and a Hallsville police officer are investigating a junior high school coach and teacher whom a parent says pushed her son to the ground, busted his lip and choked him. \u201cSafety and security of all Hallsville students, at all times, is a primary concern in this district,\u201d Hallsville ISD spokeswoman … Continue reading Coach Accused of Assaulting Student<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 16:38:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128011"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128333,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128011\/revisions\/128333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}