MOUNT VERNON — The 17-year-old high school student charged with seriously injuring his classmate in the East Knox cafeteria May 20 entered a guilty plea to one count of felonious assault in Knox County Juvenile Court, Thursday.

According to Knox County Assistant Prosecutor Chip McConville, Brandon McCown, who has remained in detention in a Zanesville juvenile detention center since his arrest, did not address the court, and was immediately sentenced by Juvenile Court Judge James Ronk.

Ronk gave McCown credit for the 42 days served and sentenced him to 90 days in jail. The remainder of his jail sentence was suspended on the condition he remain under house arrest for the next 17 to 18 days.

McConville said the youth was assigned a probation officer, but will not be electronically monitored.

“In theory he could have faced a year in the youth prison system,” McConville added.

McCown was also ordered to attend anger management classes and pay $100 in court costs and fines.
The 16-year-old student assaulted by McCown was flown to Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus following the fight for treatment of head injuries. He has since been released from the hospital.