Boy gets jail time for shooting outside high school
A 16-year-old boy will spend five more months in jail for firing a handgun outside Citadel High School in Halifax shortly before classes were let out on the afternoon of March 14.
“The facts here are nothing short of shocking,” Judge Jamie Campbell said at the teen's sentencing today in Halifax youth court.
The judge rejected the defence's recommendation that the Halifax boy, who's been in custody since turning himself in to police four days after the shooting, not be given any more time behind bars.
“The only sentence that will hold (the boy) accountable in any kind of meaningful way is a custodial sentence,” Campbell said.
“When you take a handgun to a school and you discharge it in a confrontation, probation or other non-custodial measures simply do not reflect a meaningful consequence.”
After serving five months at the Nova Scotia Youth Facility in Waterville, the boy will be on probation for a year.
Court was told that the accused, who was not enrolled at Citadel, was standing on a sidewalk outside the school at about 3:10 p.m. when he was approached by four boys who were leaving the building.
One of the boys took out a can of mace and sprayed it at the 16-year-old, who took out a handgun and fired at least five shots. No one was injured.
A security guard who witnessed the encounter from inside the school said the teen did not fire directly at the other boys, but at an angle into the air and off to the side.
Five shell casings from a .32-calibre semi-automatic handgun were found at the scene, but the weapon has not been recovered.
The boy, whose identity is protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, pleaded guilty June 10 to careless use of a firearm and possession of a restricted weapon without a licence.
Eight other charges, including two counts of attempted murder, were dismissed Tuesday.
The boy's only previous conviction was for mischief, for vandalizing a $70,000 public playground. He was sentenced for that less than two weeks before the shooting, receiving community service.
Crown attorney Jamie Van Wart said the boy's actions on the day of the shooting were premeditated and required a sentence of a further seven months in custody, followed by probation.
Defence lawyer Luke Craggs argued that his client was defending himself and fired the gun as a warning, but he admitted that one shot probably would have sufficed.
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Gadsden State Community College recently hosted a National Court Reporters Association convention.
Each year, the association holds mini-conventions at various certified court reporting schools in the U.S. GSCC was chosen as a host site this year.
Mini-conventions are geared toward students, but are conducted in the same manner as the national convention.
The mini-convention at GSCC was funded by the National Court Reporters Association . Twenty-four students attended, along with the GSCC faculty and the staff of the realtime reporting program.
The focus was not on the continuing education credits students received for attending, but on helping students learn more about court reporting, new technological developments and how to network with others in the profession.
Bruce Matthews, chief court reporter for the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Ohio, was the keynote speaker. He currently serves as secretary/treasurer of the NCRA.
Presenters included Marybeth Everhart, national marketing manager for Realtime Coach. She has taught at all levels and worked as a freelance reporter in the Baltimore-Washington area and as a reporter in Brisbane, Australia.
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Sabrina Lewis, official court reporter for the U.S. District Court in Birmingham, spoke about the pros and cons of the profession. Karen Ruud, a captioner for 22 years at the National Captioning Institute, shared some of her experiences.
Terri Towe, GSCC’s court reporting instructor, and Lynette Eggers, assistant director of educational services for NCRA, worked together to coordinate the convention.
“This is the first time we have been chosen to host a mini-convention, and you would have thought that we’d won a million-dollar sweepstakes,” Towe said. “Our faculty, staff and students couldn’t have been more excited.”
For more information on realtime reporting or closed captioning at Gadsden State, contact Towe at 256-549-8627 or ttowe@gadsdenstate.edu.
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