Parent Banned From All Wake County Schools

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Eyewitness News

(05/24/07 -- CARY) (WTVD) -- Derry Schmidt appeared in a Wake County court Thursday afternoon to face charges that he assaulted a school bus driver at his daughter's elementary school.

A judge reduced the 46-year-old's bond to $25,000. Schmidt is ordered to have no contact with the victim, he is not allowed at any Wake County school, and he can't go within 50 feet of a school bus.

According to Capt. Wulff, Cary Police Department, the assault took place Wednesday morning around 8:30 a.m.

Police say Schmidt, was dropping off his child for school in the school bus drop off area instead of the parent drop off area.

After dropping off his child, Schmidt told police he was blocked in by buses. That's when police say he verbally assaulted a school bus driver.

That driver, Jametta Farrar, then got off the bus. Police say Schmidt then assaulted her by knocking her to the ground. He then got back in his car and bumped into Farrar when she was on the ground with his car. According to the police report Schmidt also called Farrar a racial slur.

Farrar, 35, was taken to WakeMed for treatment of non-life threatening injuries. "I was scared for my life" Jametta Farrar is still reeling from the unforgettable incident. "He had a whole, like, anger in his face," she explained her attacker was parent, Derry Schmidt.

Police say when Schmidt's car was boxed in by school buses, he took it out on Farrar. "All of a sudden I see in the corner of my eye someone approaching me." Farrar says that's when he started yelling. "When I said help, he came and grabbed me and he drug me. He drug me trying to make me get on the school bus to leave - move the f*** door, n***," she said.

Farrar says she was too terrified to drive the bus anywhere. "I was just deranged by then, I was scared for my life."

That's when Farrar says Schmidt got back in his car and came at her again. "He bumped into me... and I fell back on his hood," she said. "And as I fell back on his hood, he came back and he hit me again, and when he hit me again, my foot got jammed between the bumper and the ground."

Farrar says she's nursing bruises on her arms and a sprained ankle, but most of all a heart that aches for a man who felt the need to use vulgar language and rage instead of patience. "Hopefully he gets the appropriate help that he needs," Farrar said.

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