DETROIT – A teacher at a Detroit high school said he was attacked by another teacher's husband.
Lorenzo Morris said one of his attackers is the husband of a fellow teacher at Central High School. Earlier, Morris unintentionally angered that teacher when he entered her classroom by mistake.
"Two guys got on me. I'm bleeding and everything, and I'm supposed to be a school teacher," said Morris. "When I got there the kids were in organized chaos."
Morris scolded them for their behavior, not realizing the teacher was there.
"She went and complained to the principal," Morris said. "She was telling them that I was inappropriate."
He denied any wrongdoing, but apologized and thought it was the end of it. Twenty minutes later while Morris was teaching geometry, two men came to the classroom door. Morris said one of the men told him, "'You will never talk to my wife like this again.'"
Morris left the classroom and shut the door behind him.
"It was a threatening gesture, and he came up and he had this something in his hand," said Morris.
Morris said it was a paint scraper but he thought it was a razor.
"We bounced across the hallway into the doorway across the hall and onto the stairs," Morris said. "I got one guy I'm fighting with and one on my back."
Morris received a cut on his ear, bumps to his head and a twisted knee.
He proudly showed Local 4 News reminders of basketball and football teams he's coached in the city. He's coached or taught in Detroit since 1991.
"You want to keep doing this? This is the love of my life," Morris said.