If the prosecutors get their way, the student who is charged with bringing his grandfather’s gun to school in his backpack with tragic results will be tried as an adult.
The boy was reportedly already on probation.
Here’s what ABC reported:
The 17-year-old student accused of carrying a loaded gun to Gardena High School was charged Thursday with two felonies.
Prosecutors charged him with one count of possessing a firearm in a school zone and one count of discharging a firearm in a school zone.
Officials said the gun went off from inside a backpack, critically injuring two students on Tuesday.
The suspect is scheduled to be arraigned on Friday. Prosecutors also filed a motion to have the minor tried as an adult.
The teenager faces stiff penalties if convicted on the two felony charges. He could get as many as seven years in state prison if he is tried as an adult.
(Gee, that would be the same sentence that Estaban Nunez now has for stabbing two people and taking part in a murder, then covering it up.)
PS: The DA’s office has determined that no charges will be brought against two Gardena High School students who were accused of helping the suspected gun kid.
The Washington Post has a lot more.
And me, I am wondering if the student who was injured has access to the same kind of care Gabreil Giffords is getting, if, indeed, she has health insurance, etc. (I am thinking that because I grew up in and around Gardena and that area…)