Deputy uses Taser on 16-year-old student

BUDA, Texas (AP) -- Officials said a sheriff's deputy used a Taser on a high school student who was destroying school property Monday afternoon.

Officials said the student left his classroom around 1 p.m. and began walking around campus, kicking ground lights and flipping over park benches.

Hays County Deputy Roger Ramirez, who works as a school resource officer at Hays High School, tried to stop the 16-year-old student. But a sheriff's department spokesman says the boy resisted and head-butted Ramirez.

The boy was taken to the hospital for evaluation. The deputy has a contusion on his cheek from the head-butt.

Officials did not say whether they would charge the student with a crime.

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