Jan 7, 2009 5:48 pm US/Eastern
Police Arrest Dillard Student With Gun On Campus
Student Identified As Tevin Clark, 16
Police: The Gun Was Unloaded
Clark Tried To Run But Was Tasered By Officer
FORT LAUDERDALE (CBS4) ―
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Tevin Clark, 16, in police custody after being charged with bringing an unloaded gun to the campus of Dillard High School on Wed., Jan. 7, 2008.
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A police car outside of Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale where a tenth grade student was taken into police custody after he brought a gun to campus on Wednesday, Jan. 7th, 2009.
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Police took 16-year old Tevin Clark into custody after he brought a gun to school Wednesday morning and decided to show it off to classmates. Fort Lauderdale police say the gun, brought to campus by a Dillard High School student, was not loaded.
Police were called to Dillard High School, located at 2501 NW 11th Street in Fort Lauderdale with a report of a tenth-grade student on campus with a gun.
Fort Lauderdale Police Sgt. Frank Sousa told
CBS4 News that the student was showing the gun to other students; but one of them alerted a School Resource Officer. When the SRO confronted the gun-toting student, he refused to drop the weapon and the officer used his Taser to try and subdue him but Clark still took off running.
"He confronted him at the front of the school, he did not comply with his commands, he deployed his department issued Taser, it proved to be ineffective, the student continued to run," said Sgt. Sousa to
CBS4's Ted Scouten.
A perimeter was set up and Clark was taken into custody without incident in the 2600 block of Northwest 9th Street and the unloaded firearm was recovered. Clark was taken to Broward Medical General Center to be checked out before being taken to police headquarters for questioning.
Clark is being charged with Carrying a Concealed Firearm; Bringing a Weapon to School; Resisting without Violence; Disruption of School Function; and two counts of Aggravated Assault. Clark is also being suspended from school.
"He had no way of getting a gun, " said his brother Dobie Hunter. "He don't know anybody with guns or anything." Hunter said after the arrest, Clark told him the girl made up the story. I guess she got mad at him and was like, you know, 'Oh, he got a gun on him,' because he was probably saying some stuff that she didn't like."
This whole incident brings up painful memories of last November when a Dillard High School student was shot and killed by a classmate.
Teah Wimberly, 15, has pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder and carrying a firearm on school campus, in the shooting death of 15-year old Amanda Collette.
Authorities say Wimberly and Collette were longtime friends who had recently stopped speaking before Wimberly shot her November 12th in a school hallway. She will be tried as an adult. If convicted, the 15-year-old could be sentenced to a maximum of life in prison.
In Wednesday's gun on campus case, the system of alerting authorities worked well. A student saw the gun and told someone immediately.
"I was told that someone on the campus had a gun and one of the students did report it which was a wonderful thing and I guess they caught him before he could do any harm," said witness Russell Murray.
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