03-31-18 WAVE Volume 4 Issue 24

According to CNN just 11 weeks iff’s Deputy Blaine Gaskill or
into 2018 there has been 17 Rollins own bullet killed him.
school shootings in the United
States in which at least one per- March 13, 2018
son was killed or hurt. That is an Seaside, Califorina
average of 1.5 shoots a week.
Dennis Alexander, Seaside City’s
Let’s recap the shootings as of mayor pro tem and a reserve po-
March 23, 2018. lice officer with the city, was
teaching a lesson at Seaside
March 20, 2018 High School, where he is em-
Lexington Park, Maryland ployed as a fulltime teacher. He
was demonstrating gun safety to
At 7:55 in the morning Austin students.
Wyatt Rollins entered Great Mills
High School and sought out Jae- Alexander pointed his gun to-
lynn Willey, 16, who he had a wards the classroom ceiling and
prior relationship with. He shot accidentally fired a shot. A 17-
her, she later died at the hospital year old student in the room was
after her parents took her off life injured by a bullet fragment. It
support. Also shot that morning was a superficial injury.
was Desmond Barnes, 14, who
is in stable condition. A spokesman for the Monterey
Peninsula Unified School District
When Rollins was confronted by has stated that Alexander was
an armed police officer at the placed on administrative leave
school two shots were fired at the from his teaching position. The
same time. school district has not answered
questions if Alexander had per-
As of today law enforcement has mission to conduct a gun safety
not said if the bullet fired by Sher- class.

March 8, 2018 The student was taken to the February 27, 2018
Mobile, Alabama hospital with non-life-threatening Norfolk, Virginia
injuries.
At 7:30 in the evening one per-
son was shot in an on-campus
apartment at the University of
South Alabama. The shooting
occurred at The Grove Apart-
ments on the campus. It ap-
pears to be an accidental
discharge.

March 7, 2018
Birmingham, Alabama

One student dead, another hurt
in an accidental shooting at Huff-
man High School during dis-
missal.

At least two gunshots were fired, March 2, 2018 At 1:00 a.m. a student was found
killing a 17-year old female stu- Mount Pleasant, Michigan shot in a dorm at Norfolk State
dent and injuring a 17-year old University. It was reported to po-
male student. A Michigan college student is ac- lice by a student in the adjacent
cused of shooting and killing his dorm room.
Huffman High School was place parents.
on lockdown. The school does Kahilil Williams was doing home-
have metal detectors, and armed James Eric Davis, Jr. 19, is sus- work in his room when he heard
school resource officers who pected in the fatal shooting of a the loud bang. Then he felt a
were on site at the time of the family-related domestic dispute sharp and burring pain in his but-
shooting. The female student at Central Michigan University. tocks and realized he had been
had a birthday approaching and This was the 12th killing on a shot.
was accepted into college and school grounds during 2018.
was planning on being a nurse. When police arrived they
The victims were identified as searched the room next door but
March 7, 2018 James Eric Davis, Sr., 48, and the suspect student was gone.
Jackson, Mississippi his wife Diva Jeenen Davis, 47.
The killings occurred at 8:30 a.m. February 27, 2018
Police are investigating a shoot- on the fourth floor of the dorm. Itta Bena, Mississippi
ing on the campus of Jackson The dad was a part-time police
State University. It occurred at officer for the Bellwood Police One person was injured in a
1:00 p.m. and police have con- Department in Chicago. shooting on the campus of
firmed that one male student was
shot inside his Dixon Hall apart-
ment.

Mississippi Valley State Univer- leaving school at dismissal at
sity just before 7:00 p.m. 2:30 p.m.

Early reports that night indicated February 9, 2018 Crowder was not a student at
that a dispute between a small Nashville, Tenn. Pearl-Cohn HS, but instead at-
group of students had turned tended W.A. Bass Learning Cen-
ugly. At some point during the Police in Nashville are looking for ter. He is listed in critical
disagreement, one of the stu- a 14-year old male suspect condition at Vanderbilt University
dents fired a weapon. Police say wanted for the shooting of a 17- Medical Center.
the injuries were not life-threat- year old male outside Pearl-
ening. Cohn High School. February 5, 2018
Oxon Hill, Maryland
February 24, 2018
Savannah, Georgia Two teenage suspects are in
custody for non-fatal shooting at
One person was shot on the Oxon Hill High School.
campus of Savannah State Uni-
versity and was transported to a The suspects are 18-year old An-
local hospital, where he died as thony Hollingsworth and 17-year
a result of the injuries. old Zanaya Bryant. Police were
called to the HS at 5:15 p.m.
February 25, 2018 the accused where they discovered the victim
shooter was in custody. Police who had a single gunshot
have stated that the victim and wound. According to police the
killer were not students of the victim entered an SUV with
university. Hollingsworth and Bryant and
was shot.
February 14, 2018
Parkland, Florida

A 19-year-old man gunned down Police have charged
students and staff with a rifle at
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High Hollingsworth and Bryant with at-
School in Parkland, slaughtering
17 unsuspecting students and tempted murder. The victim was
adults. The shooter, Nikolas
Cruz, had been expelled from the treated and released from the
high school over disciplinary
problems, officials said. hospital that evening.

Students from this high school Rico Ransom is accused of February 1, 2018
have created a movement that shooting DeMario Crowder who Los Angeles
has never been seen following a was shot five (5) times while
mass shooting.

A 15-year-old boy was shot in the Winston-Salem Police are look-
head and a 15-year-old girl shot ing for 21-year old Jakier
in the wrist at Sal Castro Middle Shanique Austin for the shooting
School in Los Angeles, officials death of Najee Ali Baker who
said. Two other students were was a football player at Winston-
grazed by bullets. A 12-year-old Salem University.
girl was booked for negligent dis-
charge of a firearm in that shoot- A party was being held at “The
ing, which was considered Barn” an event space which can
"unintentional," Los Angeles po- be rented on campus for different
lice said. events. Baker was at the party
Bailey Holt and Preston Cope, bothwh1e5n, wherewaksillekdilleind.the shooting.
January 31, 2018
Philadelphia ree assault. The shootings oc- Police said two other men be-
cured at 8:57 a.m. sides Austin are wanted for ques-
A 32-year old man was shot and tioning. One of the men was a
killed outside Lincoln High January 22, 2018 victim of an assault in which a
School in the Mayfair section of Italy, Texas firearm was pointed at him near
Philadelphia. The victim was a the location where Baker was
father of 8 with 2 more on the A 15-year-old student was shot.
way. wounded in a shooting at a high
school in Italy, Texas, authorities A 16-year old was taken into cus-
911 calls started flooding police said. The suspect, also 15, was tody and has been charged with
reporting a large fight with shots quickly apprehended. possession of a firearm, pointing
fired in the school’s parking lot at a gun and possession of a gun
3:51 in the afternoon. January 20, 2018 on educational grounds.
Winston-Salem, NC
The victim was identified as
Ralph Kennedy and was attend-
ing a high school basketball
game when the fight broke out.
Police say students from the rival
school and Lincoln HS started
fighting. Three shots were fired
from three different guns accord-
ing to police.

January 23, 2018
Benton, Kentucky

A 15-year-old student shot 16
people -- killing two other 15-
year-olds -- at Marshall County
High School, authorities said.
The student faces two charges of
murder and 12 counts of first deg

‘March For Our Lives’ —
the signs you might’ve

missed

On Saturday, March 24, hun-
dreds of thousands of partici-
pants marched for gun law
reform in the student-led protest
dubbed “March For Our Lives.”
Here’s what you might have
missed this weekend:

In addition to the march on
Washington D.C., several hun-
dred sister marches were held in
all 50 states and cities around
the world. Here are some of the
best signs from protests around
the globe:

President Trump faced criticism
for his decision to go to his golf
course in Mar-a-Lago and did not
comment on the rally.

What’s happening next?

Parkland students say they’re
planning another school walkout
on April 20 in remembrance of
the 1999 Columbine High School
shooting. During the walkout,
student activists will be working
to register eligible peers to vote,
the group said. More than 1,700
walkouts have already been reg-
istered.

Later this week, ED Secretary
Betsy DeVos will take the lead in
the first “organizational” meeting
of the White House commission
on school safety.

ACLU: Discipline for Meet Noah Christensen, a junior age to buy a gun from 18 to 21.
school walkout protest at Robert McQueen High School.
During the call, Noah said legis-
crossed a line Until the National School Walk- lators who weren’t acting on gun
out, Noah had never been disci- control “need to get off their fuck-
Student protests demanding gun plined at school. He’s a member ing asses and do something.”
law reform have left school offi- of the student council, the travel-
cials wondering exactly when ing debate team and several The protestors, including Noah,
they can – and can’t – discipline other student clubs. received an unexcused tardy. But
students. then school officials suspended
Despite the warning that stu- Noah for two days and told him
As you know, the National dents who walked out on March that he had to forgo his student
School Walkout was a 17-minute 14 would receive an unexcused council activities
protest held on March 14 – one tardy, Noah participated in the
month after the tragedy in Park- event. Turns out, a staffer from
land. Amodei’s office called the school
During the protest, many stu- to complain about Noah’s use of
But because the protest was dents contacted their elected of- profanity during the phone call,
scheduled during school hours, ficials and demanded change to and that’s why he was disci-
there was confusion about the gun laws. plined, school officials said.
best way to respond.
Noah called Rep. Mark Amodei So the ACLU stepped in.
Many schools allowed students (NV-02) – a Republican – to ex-
to participate, saying it provided press support for two gun reform In a letter, the ACLU said Noah’s
a teachable moment. Others measures: making bump stocks rights were violated. It threatened
doled out discipline and faced illegal and raising the minimum legal action unless the suspen-
criticism: sion is overturned and Noah is
reinstated to the student council.
* Arkansas administrators in the
White Hall School District pad- As an FYI: The ACLU is also
dled three students who partici- challenging Amodei’s office for
pated in the walkout. retaliating against Noah for exer-
cising his speech rights.
* In New York, school officials at
Schuylerville High threatened 2 relevant Supreme Court
students with detention if they cases
walked out of school. Faculty
members also blocked campus In Bethel v. Fraser (1986), the
entrances to keep students in U.S. Supreme Court held a stu-
and parents out during the des- dent could be suspended for
ignated protest time making an obscene speech dur-
ing an assembly. But it also
But one of the most peculiar re- specifically said, “[H]ad the stu-
sponses happened in Reno, Ne- dent delivered the same speech
vada. in a public forum outside the
school context, it would have
Suspended for what?

been protected.” beyond the norm just because a pathy and anger after the inci-
student expresses political dent at Great Mills. And their de-
Here, Noah’s out-of-school views. mands for gun reform continue.
phone call to his elected official The March For Our Lives protest
wasn’t made in school, so it was SRO’s quick response is scheduled for this Saturday,
protected speech, the ACLU ex- praised in latest K-12 March 24.
plained.
school shooting Alarmingly, this is not the first
Further, the school didn’t help or- weapons-related incident since
ganize the National School Walk- A Maryland SRO’s immediate re- the tragedy in Parkland:
out for its students, so the protest sponse to an active shooter situ-
couldn’t be considered a school- ation likely saved many lives * March 7: One student was fa-
sponsored event – which also earlier this week. tally shot and another was criti-
meant Noah’s speech was pro- cally injured at Huffman High
tected, ACLU said. An armed teen shot two students School in Alabama. A third stu-
at Great Mills High School. dent faces a manslaughter
Perhaps more relevant to charge.
protests, in Tinker v. Des Moines One victim, the 17-year-old ex-
(1969), the Court held “students girlfriend of the shooter, remains * March 13: A California student
do not shed their constitutional in critical condition. A 14-year-old suffered a neck injury when a
rights … at the schoolhouse boy was shot in the thigh and re- teacher accidentally discharged
gate” so schools can’t censor ceived medical treatment before a firearm while teaching a public
speech unless it causes – or is being released. safety class at Seaside High
likely to cause – a disruption. School. The student was hit by a
The gun was legally owned and bullet fragment that ricocheted
But the walkout disrupted the belonged to the shooter’s father, off the ceiling, according to re-
school day! you might be think- police said. The investigation is ports. The teacher has been
ing. ongoing. placed on paid administrative
leave.
That’s likely what officials at According to reports, SRO Blaine
Robert McQueen High School Gaskill responded immediately Given the recent uptick in school
were thinking, too. and exchanged gunfire with the shootings, Gallup recently polled
armed teen, who later died. Americans on gun law reform. It
Problem is, Noah was already found 67% of Americans want
disciplined – the unexcused Gaskill was not injured during the stricter laws covering the sale of
tardy – for participating in the incident. “He responded exactly firearms. The results were re-
protest. as we train our personnel to re- leased one month after the
spond,” St. Mary’s County Sheriff shooting in Parkland. To com-
The two-day suspension was for Tim Cameron said. pare, 58% said they wanted gun
the phone call to Amodei’s office laws with more teeth after the
– and no evidence suggests that Protests continue tragedy at Sandy Hook.
the call caused a disruption, The incident occurred days after
ACLU said. students at Great Mills partici-
pated in the National School
Bottom line: Schools can’t heap Walkout.
on extra punishment that goes
Parkland victims expressed sym-