“Student 1” wants to confront Cummins, 50, so she brings “Student 2,” another middle schooler, to his classroom, the report says. The high schooler will later describe Student 1 as “freaked out” by the incident, according to the report. Uncomfortable, she leaves the room and finds “Student 3,” a high schooler, to whom she relays what she just saw. “It wasn’t like a make-out kiss, just a peck on the lips,” the middle school student says when she reports it to the administration. Fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Thomas begins freshman year, during which she will take a forensics class with Cummins.Īccording to an internal school investigation report, “Student 1” says she walks into Cummins’ classroom to retrieve her bookbag and witnesses Cummins kissing Elizabeth. Maury County Public Schools hires Cummins for a health sciences position at Culleoka Unit School, which houses kindergarten through 12th grade, after he received strong marks during the interview two days earlier.Ĭummins is notified that he has been “renewed” as a teacher.Ĭulleoka Unit School begins the school year. He earned a black belt in Kenpo Karate in 1999, he says. He volunteered in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina and in the Panamanian rainforest. “I am a Christian,” he continues on his resume, before reeling off the many capacities in which he’d served at his Columbia church - among them, teen Sunday school teacher and “adult chaperone for youth activities.” The website for one of his bands, Cry for Holiness!, says the group is made up of “5 Dads that God brought together as one collective vessel to use the musical talents He gave us to glorify His precious name and reconcile His children to Him!” He also holds copyrights for 65 songs, most of which he wrote “with my guitar, piano, or behind my congas,” he writes. Under “achievements,” he says he has been a percussionist since the late 1970s and has been in several bands. On his resume, the Mount Pleasant native says he graduated magna cum laude from Columbia State Community College in 1993 with an associate of applied science degree in respiratory care technologies. He had spent the previous four years working as a respiratory therapist at medical services companies in Tennessee.

Here’s a timeline of what led up to and has transpired during the manhunt:Ĭummins applies for a job with Maury County Public Schools. Tad Cummins and Elizabeth Thomas have been missing since March 13. A nationwide manhunt continues for an armed Culleoka, Tennessee, teacher accused of kidnapping a 15-year-old student just weeks after he was investigated for kissing her in his classroom, police say.

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