EASTPOINTE, Mich. (AP) - A man has been ordered to stand trial for involuntary manslaughter in the drowning of a ninth-grader in a Detroit-area high school pool.
WDIV-TV reports that 25-year-old Johnathan Sails was bound over Thursday to Macomb County Circuit Court.
Prosecutor Eric Smith has said Sails was assigned to monitor a remedial swim class at Eastpointe’s East Detroit High School in November when students told him 14-year-old KeAir Swift was having trouble.
Smith said Sails initially told students Swift was fooling around. He then changed clothing in a locker room before jumping into the pool. Swift was pulled out by another teacher and died after several days on life support.
Defense attorney Robert Leonetti says Sails changed at the pool and spent two to three minutes trying to rescue the teen.
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