EBRSO finds Glen Oaks High School student

Advocate staff photo by ARTHUR D. LAUCK -- East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputies leave Glen Oaks High School Thursday after they arrested a 17-year-old ninth grade student for pulling a gun on another student during a fight.

East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s deputies booked a Glen Oaks High School student on weapons charges after he allegedly pulled a gun on a fellow student during a fight Thursday morning.

According to Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Casey Rayborn Hicks, at about 7:10 a.m., ninth-grade student Neil Harris, 17, 7132 Skylark Ave., pulled a Lorcin .25-caliber semiautomatic pistol on 11th-grader De’rrell Haynes, 17, 7618 Percy Ave., after Haynes punched Harris. Harris then fled the school, taking the gun with him.

Sheriff’s deputies responded to the call and placed the school on lockdown.

Deputies found Harris at approximately 8:51 a.m. near his house and he showed them where the unloaded gun was, Hicks said.

Hicks added that during the investigation, Harris provided detailed information about where and in what condition he found that weapon and told the deputies that there was no magazine in the gun.

Harris told deputies that he brought the gun to school because he thought Haynes and his friends would try to fight him, Hicks said. Their fight stemmed from a verbal argument between the two on their way home from school Wednesday afternoon, Hicks said.

Harris was booked on one count each of illegal carrying of a weapon on school property and aggravated assault while Haynes was issued a misdemeanor summons for simple battery.

This is the second incident this school year in which a handgun has been found on school property in East Baton Rouge Parish, according to Hicks and school system spokeswoman Sonya Gordon.

McKinley High School authorities found a loaded .22-caliber handgun on Aug. 21 inside the bookbag of a 16-year-old junior.

School administrators confronted him about suspected drug use and the student ran. When the administrators caught up to him, they found the loaded gun in his bag with a bullet in the chamber. A school drug task force deputy booked the student into the East Baton Rouge Parish Juvenile Detention Center on the charge of carrying a firearm on school property.

According to Hicks, there were six incidents where a gun was found on school grounds in the 2011-12 school year and eight incidents in 2010-11.

Comments

1) Comment by Whatnow - 29/09/2012

Twinkiecat is Rhonda Browning, the educator. Scary, isn't it? It's everyone else's fault that this man-child brought a gun to school. Blame. It's the other word for liberal.

2) Comment by whathappenedtoBR - 28/09/2012

just kick him out of school. probably doesn't go anyway

3) Comment by Attila - 28/09/2012

Maybe we could start some kind of vocational school that could teach these kids that are 3 or 4 grades behind some sort of skill that they can use to make a living. It is scary to think that his kid will be able to VOTE by the time he is in the 10th grade; IF he stays in school and doesn't fail the 9th. Just another reason to repeal the 26th amendment. @Twinkie: if you are a teacher I thank God that my child never had you for teacher. If not, how did you become such an authority on teaching?

4) Comment by whathappenedtoBR - 28/09/2012

Thank you "Hello Baton Rouge," for pointing out the obvious problem with most of the citizens of Baton Rouge. 17 in the 9th grade. This punk and over 1/2 the population has turned my home town into the "new" New Orleans, and I'll never move home because of it. I would not subject my daughter to what this city has become. Simply pathetic. A new prison needs to be built, b/c these idiots keep reproducing. That way we can lock the parents up with their delinquent kids. All 15 of them!

5) Comment by BR is Ruined - 28/09/2012

twinkie1cat, I don't know what idealistic fantasy land you are living in, but you are WAY off base in this case. The quality of teachers or their degree count matters not when they are dealing with students who place NO value on education, life, or anything else for that matter. You can't make chicken salad out of chicken sh*t. And no, I don't fit your republican categorizations - I think we need to get serious about this crime problem and institute mandatory abortions.

6) Comment by joey.esposito - 28/09/2012

Why is twinkie1cat blaming Glen Oaks Middle and charter schools for a Glen Oaks High School student bringing a gun to school?

7) Comment by twinkie1cat - 28/09/2012

BRYankee: Usually if a child is that far behind they have a learning or cognitive disability and need to be in special education. And I don't mean "inclusion" where their disabilities are on display. I mean they go to a separate room for core courses and are taught by a real special education teacher who will help them learn in spite of their disability. Scum, nothing. This is a failure of the system.

8) Comment by twinkie1cat - 28/09/2012

SPQR: All children can learn. All children can be reached. But the teachers need to be protected from the Republicans so they don't burn out. They need decent working environments, reduced paper work, competent administrators, small classes, supply money, a paraprofessional, planning time, no "duty" and regular raises and opportunity for advancement. And also a good, strong, UNION. Those are all things the Republicans don't want them to have. No we should not be grateful that anyone will teach, because anyone cannot teach. It takes a real teacher with at least one education degree, preferably two or more. That is part of the problem. The governor thinks anyone can teach.

9) Comment by twinkie1cat - 28/09/2012

Hello Baton Rouge: I guess you are probably against three of the things that prevent unwanted pregnancy also----homosexuality free contraception, and abortion. What do you expect the women to do, be abstinent??? Ain't going to work. Makes priests attack children. You Republicans are such hypocrites always saving the unborn babies but refusing to take care of the ones who are already here. Go adopt a black teenage boy how about it. Then blame the mamas.

10) Comment by twinkie1cat - 28/09/2012

Here is another case of systemic failure. This kid was being bullied so he decided that he would stop his tormentors. Guess who went to jail? Glen Oaks Middle was one of the failing schools that was taken over by a charter group a few years ago. As usual it failed to resolve the problem, as charters are prone to and look at what we have now. Where were the administrators? Why had this boy not been mentored and tutored or placed in special education with a teacher who could help him compensate for a learning disability or catch up. Failure to fund the schools and poverty have struck again and here is another young man on the prison train.

11) Comment by Hello Baton Rouge - 28/09/2012

17 in the 9th grade, but lets continue paying unfit parents for having 5 and 8 kids when they have no job, no viable means of support, no spouse, own nothing and have no foundation to raise a kid, much less a half a dozen. What could go wrong?

12) Comment by spqr - 28/09/2012

Why is everyone so shocked at his age and grade? There are literally hundreds of EBR students between age 17-20 in grades 9-11. They do not attend school regularly or are there for the free breakfast, lunch and free health clinic. That's it. Educational reform? Need for better teachers? Union issues? Are you kidding?!? We should be grateful ANYONE is willing to start their day at 6:45 am to attempt to teach these students. Final note: outside of a weapons charge, state law makes it next to impossible to remove them. Just so you know.

13) Comment by CitizensArrest - 27/09/2012

Just to reiterate...17 and in the 9th grade. I'm sure his parents work hard with him to get his grades up. Maybe he didn't start kindergarten until he was 8. One thing is certain, this guy will be an asset to society.

14) Comment by BRYankee - 27/09/2012

17 years old and only a Freshman in High School... that's pathetic. Get this scum out of the school system. He's never going to graduate and his presence is only a detriment to other students.

15) Comment by NewsReader - 27/09/2012

Just another day in a city where the mayor doesn't think crime is a major issue.