Youngstown City Police were called to East High School on Thursday around 2:43 pm on an initiating call of a fight with a weapon.

Multiple units responded a 17-year-old student had assaulted a principal inside the school and fled. It was later discovered that the student did not have a gun when the suspect was arrested at Grandview and Garland Avenue.

The school was placed on lockdown during the situation.

According to the police report, the student was suspended on December 5, but alerted a school employee that the suspended student was on school property.

The student punched the school employee three times in the chest and then grabbed at his waist as if he had a gun, the report stated. 

The student then fled the school, through the cafeteria, down a hall, and escaped through a window.

The student was charged with felonious assault of a principal, inducing panic, and trespassing.