FAYETTEVILLE (AP) — Two teenagers were in custody in the shooting of a 15-year-old fellow student who was wounded in the neck during a lunch period outside her North Carolina high school, and a sheriff said Monday the pair will be charged.
The 18-year-old and 15-year-old male suspects and the victim attend Cape Fear High School in Fayetteville, Cumberland County Sheriff Earl “Moose” Butler said. Both suspects participated in the shooting and were being questioned, he said. The weapon, a .22-caliber Daisy rifle, and shell casings have been recovered.
Catilyn Abercrombie was in stable condition after surgery at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, according to Butler, who said she was standing in a breezeway outside the school cafeteria when she was shot.
The older suspect is scheduled to appear in court today, while the 15-year-old will go to juvenile court, although an exact date for the student’s appearance wasn’t known, sheriff’s office spokeswoman Debbie Tanna said.
The sheriff said the two teens were apprehended with the help of surveillance video which showed them carrying the rifle inside the school. The suspects were either in the hallway with the door open or outside the breezeway where Abercrombie was walking.
While the high school has metal detectors, Butler said he didn’t know if they were used on a daily basis at the school. WTVD reported that the suspects may have sneaked the rifle into the rural school in a shirt or pants.
Butler said investigators don’t think Abercrombie was the intended target, but no motive has been established.
“Why did they shoot? I don’t know,” he said.
The high school and nearby Mac Williams Middle School were locked down for hours before students were allowed to go home.
Butler said additional staff will be on hand at both schools today to help the school resource officer on duty. The schools are scheduled to operate as normal.
When asked how long the extra deputies would be on the campuses, Tanna said, “As long as it takes to make sure the school has been put back in order and students and parents feel confident about their safety.”
A police officer assigned to the high school was standing near Abercrombie when she was shot at about 1 p.m. and immediately called 911, Tanna said.
Students from the middle school were sent home before their high school counterparts, who were still gradually leaving the campus by 6 p.m. Students were searched by police and left the building in long lines holding their hands above their heads before boarding buses that took them from campus.
.....I'm so scared!!!!!!!!!!!!! You got nothing.....but mouth
I have definitely yanked your chain!!!!!!!! Innocent parties do not need to reply.... Guilty parties make a big scene...... You have not given one positive thing that Pembroke PRobation is doing to supervise their clients and keep our community safe... But on the other hand you have spent alot of time and you are writing to me doing STATE time at work.... Spent alot of time tying to TEAR me DOWN... Now that is addict behavior, but then you are not educated I am sure in the field of human behavior.... No its more the field of buddying around with the addicts and criminals... Come on now... And by the way my comments are always after 5.... I do have a job have had the same job for 27 years.... But you are wrong on the bonds... I will confirm this with New Hanover County Probation I will be working in that area tomorrow... I know your system does not work the same as ours. And listen it is ENTAIL not intail.... Ok get it right...
First, you completely ignore all the facts that I stated in reference to your previous "claims", which show they were biased and unfounded. Now you claim to have a "papertrail". I say BRING IT! Your claims hold no substance other than to feed your ill-informed and inflated ego! I would welcome any type of internal investigation. Name names, produce your evidence, PLEASE! Let the people who read this know that you finally have no clue to what you are talking abot, in most of your comments, especially in reference to probation and bonds. Personally, I would not buy or pump gas at Nic's, let alone eat there. I don't know of any officer that does. Hint: we like to sit done in a nice place for our (1 hour) lunch" wink, wink....Also, no officer can go to a judge to get bonds reduced; you must have a law degree to do that, which means you would have to be a lawyer! It's called a Bond Hearing!!! And lastly, get a job, or a degree, please.....you are on the internet way too much....you have lost any and all concept to reality.
I’m sure the men and women at Probation, the Judges, DA's office and the magristates appreciate you standing up for them, but you have to remember that old saying. “You accomplish nothing when you agree with a fool”.
Get your facts on the bonds.... Don't try to fool people... I know how the bonds are set just as well as you do... Come on now..
I don't believe you want me to tell about the ones you officers take directly to judges to get unsecured... You want me to write those offenders names??? Might jar your memory...
Boy, I yanked your chain.... Well first I do know what I am talking about... Do you want to me to give a list of offenders from your case load and possibly get an internal investigation... Because I can... You do not supervise your clients... You do not even know where they live... Come on no there is a papertrail that leads straight to you.... If you are as blind as your respond is you need to retire...
Oh and yeah I will be seeing you at Nicks and all your other hangouts during the day instead of supervising your clients....
This sir, proves you have no clue of what you are talking about. Offenders, not clients, are supervised daily which is currently @ 90 per officer. Every violation from an offender has, by law, to be responded, depending on the degree of violation, it could range from a verbal warning to an order for arrest. The response is based upon a GRID that has been approved by the General Assembly in the recently passed Justice Reinvestment Act. Also, when supervising for another county, that offender is living in Robeson County and once the file is received, the sending county has NO SAY SO in anything regarding the case whatsoever. Nothing is ever DEMANDED from another county and never will be. They are just like any other case from this county once received. People judge from the outside and have no idea how the justice system works and they take some miniscule incident from their own lives and use that incident to base all their misguided bias and beliefs upon others and claim them as fact; when in reality, it is far from the truth.
If you want to know the real problem, look at changing the laws, which for the most part, are liberal based and ties the hands of law enforcement including judges who have no say so in sentencing except to sentence according to structured sentencing which sets out the maximum and minimum term for every crime in the book. Same goes for probation, as we can no longer revocate (or in laymen's terms, send to prison) probation violators unless they commit a new crime and are found GUILTY of the crime or if they abscond probation. All other violations result in slaps on the wrist. We can only do what the LAW allows to be done.
"Look at the bonds............ The majority are with written promise or unsecured... Even on felony violations.... Then do some investigation on the written promise bonds... Most belong to our "good ole boy"... Jimmie....
Those bonds were set upon initail arrest and do not reflect arrest upon their probation violation. Again, you do not know what you are talking about.
"Then look at two "special touched" officers in Pembroke the only cases they EVER take to court are violations out of county......."
This statement is also not true, as for one, it would not make any sense to only violate out of county cases as they are supervised IN ROBESON COUNTY. These people live in Robeson County! They just went to another county and got in trouble there and was placed on probation. Then their probation was transferred back to this county for supervision since they live here. So, it would make no sense to say they only violate out of county cases since they are the same as in county cases. Also, once a case from out of county is in violation status, it is assigned a ROBESON COUNTY CASE # and becomes a ROBESON COUNTY CASE! Get your facts straight before spewing false information and trying to make it look like you know more than you actually do.
This is under NC District Court Calender... Robeson County....
Look at the bonds............ The majority are with written promise or unsecured... Even on felony violations.... Then do some investigation on the written promise bonds... Most belong to our "good ole boy"... Jimmie....
Then look at two "special touched" officers in Pembroke the only cases they EVER take to court are violations out of county.......
You see these two regulary at Nicks eating and socializing with the offenders.....
My question is "Why do they support the offenders and victimize the victims along with the offenders?"
I just want to know what they are doing to you or for you to risk your job.....
Must be goooooooooooooooooooood
Come on now.....
You are absolutely correct!!! However the difference with our county and Cumberland is they have MAGISTRATES that work for the victims not the offenders... The bond on one of the young men is $250,000 and all charges are not posted yet... In Robeson it would be 9,000.00 or just a written promise... I have forgotten about you Jimmie............................................