A plea hearing is scheduled later this month for a teenager accused of attacking a deputy with a sword and an arrow. Eion Coats was charged with felonies for second-degree assault and resisting arrest, as well as misdemeanor counts of institutional vandalism and making a terrorist threat, after a series of incidents beginning at North Andrew High School in March.

School officials discovered a message on a damaged white board in the boy’s locker room March 21. According to court documents, Coats had admitted to members of his family that he wrote the message and then hit his head on the board. A deputy interviewed Coats at his home in Bolckow That’s when the teenager allegedly attacked the deputy, threatening him with a sword, and stabbing him in the leg with an arrow.

The defendant appeared in an Andrew County courtroom on Monday. His lawyer asked for a continuance. Coats is free on bail pending a change-of-plea hearing before Circuit Judge Daniel Kellogg July 31 at 8:45 am.