When two people who share a history — romantic, parental, professional — agree to meet in a classroom, they carry all of that history with them. On July 17, at a Miami charter boarding school, what began as a handwritten note asking to talk ended in violence, hospitalization, and arrest. The incident asks a quiet but serious question: what happens when the unresolved weight of private lives spills into the spaces where children learn and live?
Two Miami teachers arrested after romantic dispute turns violent on school campus
Two teachers sustained injuries including head trauma with loss of consciousness and chemical exposure requiring hospitalization.
She lost consciousness. When she came to, she went and got a weapon.
Mark
Why would two people with a child together agree to meet alone in a classroom if there was this much tension between them?
Mimi
The note suggests Torrence initiated it—maybe he thought they could resolve something, or maybe the conversation was always going to be difficult. We don't know what he wanted to discuss. But the fact that she agreed tells you something about the dynamic: she was willing to engage.
Mark
The pepper spray feels like a response to what happened to her. She lost consciousness.
Mimi
Exactly. She was hit hard enough to black out, hit her head into a wall. When she came to, she went and got a weapon. That's not a calm decision. That's someone who felt she needed to protect herself or retaliate.
Mark
But then she tracked him down on campus and used it. That's not self-defense in the moment.
Mimi
No, it's not. It's pursuit. And it's on school property where other people live. The surveillance video shows the effect—he couldn't walk straight, his eyes were burning. She made sure he felt what she felt.
Mark
Do we know if students saw any of this?
Mimi
The police report doesn't say. That's actually one of the most troubling unknowns. This is a boarding school. Students live there. A violent confrontation between two adults on campus—if kids witnessed it, that's a different kind of harm entirely.
Mark
What happens to them now?
Mimi
They both have $2,000 bonds and domestic violence charges. Torrence has a no-contact order. His arraignment isn't until September. But the bigger question is whether they still work there. The school hasn't said. How do you keep two people who assaulted each other employed at the same institution, especially one where they share custody of a child?
The Pulse
- A handwritten note requesting a conversation became the opening act of a violent confrontation between two teachers who share a child and a workplace.
- Torrence allegedly struck Biggins repeatedly and drove her head into a wall with enough force to knock her unconscious — inside a classroom on a school campus where students reside.
- Rather than leaving, Biggins returned from her vehicle with pepper spray and found Torrence, sending him stumbling from a classroom with inflamed eyes and requiring hospitalization.
- Surveillance footage captured the second attack, and both teachers were arrested on domestic violence battery charges within two days of each other, each released on $2,000 bond.
- A no-contact order now separates them legally, but the school has not confirmed whether either still holds a position there, leaving the community in unanswered silence.
When two people who share a history — romantic, parental, professional — agree to meet in a classroom, they carry all of that history with them. On July 17, at a Miami charter boarding school, what began as a handwritten note asking to talk ended in violence, hospitalization, and arrest. The incident asks a quiet but serious question: what happens when the unresolved weight of private lives spills into the spaces where children learn and live?
On the morning of July 17, two teachers at The SEED School of Miami — a charter boarding school — met in Classroom 119 at one teacher's request. Terrod Tiyan Torrence, 36, had left a handwritten note on Odiria Biggins' desk asking to talk. They had once been in a relationship and share a child. She agreed. The conversation did not stay a conversation for long.
According to police, Torrence struck Biggins repeatedly on the left side of her head and then drove her head into a wall hard enough to render her unconscious. She collapsed to the floor. When she came to, she walked to her vehicle, retrieved a canister of pepper spray, and came back for him.
Surveillance cameras caught what followed: Biggins entering a classroom where Torrence was present, and both emerging shortly after — Torrence visibly struggling to walk, his eyes raw from the spray. Staff intervened and he was taken to a hospital.
The entire sequence — assault, unconsciousness, retrieval of a weapon, chemical attack — played out across a campus where students not only attend school but live. Police have not said whether any student witnessed any part of it.
Biggins was arrested Monday on charges of discharging a weapon on school property and misdemeanor domestic violence battery. Torrence was arrested the following day on a matching battery charge, booked into a Miami-Dade facility, and ordered by a judge to have no further contact with Biggins ahead of his September arraignment. Both bonds were set at $2,000.
The school has offered no statement on either teacher's employment status, and no explanation has emerged for what Torrence had hoped to resolve with that note on her desk.
On the morning of July 17, two teachers at The SEED School of Miami, a charter boarding school, agreed to meet inside Classroom 119. Terrod Tiyan Torrence, 36, and Odiria Biggins had once been romantically involved and share a child together. Torrence had left a handwritten note on her desk days earlier asking if they could talk. She said yes. What happened next, according to police investigators, turned what might have been a difficult conversation into something far worse.
The meeting began as a discussion but quickly became physical. Biggins told police that Torrence repeatedly struck her in the left side of her head before driving her head into a wall with enough force to render her unconscious. She collapsed to the floor. When she regained consciousness, the confrontation was far from over.
Biggins made her way to her vehicle, retrieved a canister of pepper spray, and returned to campus to find Torrence. Surveillance footage captured her entering a classroom where he was present. Moments later, both emerged. Torrence was visibly struggling to walk, his eyes inflamed and irritated from the chemical spray. School staff moved quickly to assist him. He was taken to a hospital for treatment of his injuries.
The sequence of events—the initial assault, the loss of consciousness, the retrieval of the weapon, the spray attack—unfolded across the campus of a school where students live and study. Police did not clarify whether any students witnessed any part of the confrontation, or what had sparked the argument that led Torrence to request the meeting in the first place.
Biggins was arrested on Monday and charged with discharging a weapon on school property and misdemeanor domestic violence battery. A judge found probable cause and set her bond at $2,000. Torrence was arrested the following day by Miami-Dade Schools Police and charged with misdemeanor domestic violence battery. He was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center and appeared before Judge Alicia Garcia Priovolos, who set his bond at $2,000 and issued a pretrial no-contact order preventing him from contacting Biggins. His arraignment is scheduled for September 23.
Neither the school nor the police department has disclosed whether either teacher remains employed, or provided details about what triggered the initial request to meet. The incident raises questions about workplace safety, the handling of personal disputes in institutional settings, and the protocols in place at schools where staff and students live on campus.
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Biggins told police that Torrence repeatedly struck her in the left side of her head before driving her head into a wall with enough force to render her unconscious.— Miami-Dade Schools Police arrest affidavit
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