16 yr old Arrested for Suspicion of Dinosaur Killing....
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 12:44 am
Well.... I created that headline , but the story is interesting.
High School Student Says He Was Arrested For Writing About Shooting A Dinosaur
Posted: Aug 22, 2014 3:48 AM PST Updated: Aug 22, 2014 3:52 AM PST
By Dawn Sentner, Assignment Editor/Web Producer - email
Summerville,SC-A South Carolina teen's writing assignment ended in an arrest after he says he made a reference to using a gun to kill a dinosaur.
On the second day of school, freshman Alex Stone was suspended and arrested.
"I don't want to go back to that school. I want to transfer or be homeschooled,” said Stone.
Stone says they were told to write a few sentences about themselves and a "status," as if it were a Facebook page.
He says in his "status" he wrote a fictional story that involved the words "gun" and "take care of business."
"I killed my neighbor's pet dinosaur, and then, in the next status I said, I bought the gun to take care of the business," said Stone.
"First of all, we don't have dinosaurs anymore,” said the boy's mother, Karen Gray.
Stone says his statements were taken completely out of context.
Investigators say the teacher contacted school officials who notified police.
His bookbag and locker were searched. A gun was not found in the search.
"What happened to freedom of speech?" said Gray.
Stone's mother says she is furious that the school did not contact her before her son was arrested. She says her son followed directions and completed an assignment.
"If the school would have called me and told me about the paper and asked me to come down and discussed everything and, at least, get his point-of-view on the way he meant it. I never heard from the school, never. They never called me," said Gray.
Stone and his mother say they understand the sensitive nature of what he wrote, but they say it was a rash reaction to an innocent situation.
“I regret it because they put it on my record, but I don't see the harm in it," Stone said."I think there might have been a better way of putting it, but I think me writing like that, it shouldn't matter unless I put it out towards a person."
Police say during their interaction with the student, he was disruptive. The 16-year-old boy was arrested and charged with disturbing schools.
His mother says he's scheduled to return to school Monday.
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High School Student Says He Was Arrested For Writing About Shooting A Dinosaur
Posted: Aug 22, 2014 3:48 AM PST Updated: Aug 22, 2014 3:52 AM PST
By Dawn Sentner, Assignment Editor/Web Producer - email
Summerville,SC-A South Carolina teen's writing assignment ended in an arrest after he says he made a reference to using a gun to kill a dinosaur.
On the second day of school, freshman Alex Stone was suspended and arrested.
"I don't want to go back to that school. I want to transfer or be homeschooled,” said Stone.
Stone says they were told to write a few sentences about themselves and a "status," as if it were a Facebook page.
He says in his "status" he wrote a fictional story that involved the words "gun" and "take care of business."
"I killed my neighbor's pet dinosaur, and then, in the next status I said, I bought the gun to take care of the business," said Stone.
"First of all, we don't have dinosaurs anymore,” said the boy's mother, Karen Gray.
Stone says his statements were taken completely out of context.
Investigators say the teacher contacted school officials who notified police.
His bookbag and locker were searched. A gun was not found in the search.
"What happened to freedom of speech?" said Gray.
Stone's mother says she is furious that the school did not contact her before her son was arrested. She says her son followed directions and completed an assignment.
"If the school would have called me and told me about the paper and asked me to come down and discussed everything and, at least, get his point-of-view on the way he meant it. I never heard from the school, never. They never called me," said Gray.
Stone and his mother say they understand the sensitive nature of what he wrote, but they say it was a rash reaction to an innocent situation.
“I regret it because they put it on my record, but I don't see the harm in it," Stone said."I think there might have been a better way of putting it, but I think me writing like that, it shouldn't matter unless I put it out towards a person."
Police say during their interaction with the student, he was disruptive. The 16-year-old boy was arrested and charged with disturbing schools.
His mother says he's scheduled to return to school Monday.
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