Jan 8, 2009 12:48 pm US/Eastern
Judge Orders Dillard Teen Be Held For Gun Incident
Prosecutors Pushing To Try Him As An Adult
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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A 16-year old Dillard High School student who brought a gun on campus Wednesday morning will remain behind bars for the time being.
Tevin Clark, who mugged for the television cameras Wednesday and joked with photographers as police led him off in handcuffs, was much more serious as he made his first court appearance.
A Broward circuit judge ordered that Clark be held in juvenile lock up for the next 21 days. During that time, prosecutors said they planned to charge him as an adult.
According to Ft. Lauderdale police, Clark showed off a .380 Colt automatic in the cafeteria Wednesday morning around 7 a.m. and reportedly said "I'm going to shoot you" in front of two female classmates. This frightened one of the girls who contacted the school resource officer who called police.
Fort Lauderdale Police Sgt. Frank Sousa said 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 was charged with Carrying a Concealed Firearm; Bringing a Weapon to School; Resisting without Violence; Disruption of School Function; and two counts of Aggravated Assault. He was suspended from school.
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.
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