Student charged with kidnap, assaults

BRATTLEBORO — A 21-year-old student at the Austine School for the Deaf will be arraigned Friday on charges of kidnapping and aggravated assault for attacking a woman at the school.

Brattleboro police said Timothy P. Carroll of Massachusetts, who lived at the school, locked a 43-year-old woman in an office and choked her.

Carroll was arrested and held at the state prison in Springfield, pending his arraignment in criminal court in Brattleboro.

The Austine School is a boarding and day school for deaf and hard-of-hearing students in Vermont and surrounding states.