Tower Hill School says its headmaster has stepped down after the attorney general's office searched his home and school office as part of a child abuse investigation.
In an email to parents, the school says no charges have been filed against 53-year-old Christopher Wheeler. The school says Chief Deputy Attorney General Ian McConnel and State Prosecutor Kathy Jennings supervised the search of Wheeler's office and home on the campus in Wilmington on Tuesday.
Earl J. Ball III, chairman of the school's board of trustees, says in the message that the state prosecutor advised that the state doesn't have information that the investigation involves a current student. He says Wheeler agreed to step down as headmaster and vacate the headmaster's residence.
Wheeler became the private school's headmaster in 2005.
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