A Princeton High School senior who says he inadvertently brought an unloaded shotgun onto school property, will be allowed to graduate, an attorney for Johnston County Schools said Thursday.
David Cole Winthrow, 16, was arrested Monday on a felony charge of bringing a weapon onto educational property, after he realized he left the gun in his car after skeet shooting over the weekend.
Kim Boykin, a family friend speaking on behalf of Winthrow’s family, said he went to school administrators to get permission to take the weapon home but was, instead, arrested and expelled.
Jimmy Lawrence, an attorney for the Johnston County Schools Board of Education, said in a statement that Winthrow has not been expelled and that the school system superintendent “has made provisions” that will allow him to continue his education and to receive his high school diploma if he meets graduation requirements.
Mr. Winthrow will be allowed to graduate from an alternative school but not with his fellow classmates. This is another example of laws passed to make people into criminals. I would recommend a class wide boycott of the graduation ceremony: it already has been made into an example of local tyranny.
David DeGerolamo
Liberty University steps up and offers full scholarship:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/02/liberty-university-offers-scholarship-to-n-c-high-school-student-arrested-for-accidentally-leaving-gun-in-his-truck/
No mention whether the egregious felony charges will be dropped.