Posted on 07/23/2022 5:37:41 PM PDT by mac_truck
A school resource officer who shot and wounded a Kansas high school student after the student shot him four times won’t face charges because he believed his life was in danger, a prosecutor announced Friday.
Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe said school resource officer Erik Clark shot Jaylon Elmore at Olathe East High School after Elmore shot him four times inside an assistant principal’s office on March 4.
An assistant principal, Kaleb Stoppel, was shot and wounded during the exchange, “most likely” by two bullets fired by Clark, Howe said in a report.
Clark and Stoppel were released from the hospital the same day. Elmore was hospitalized for weeks before he was jailed on $1 million bond on an attempted capital murder charge. He pleaded not guilty.
“(Clark) believed that he was going to die when Jaylon Elmore drew a handgun and began firing at him,” Howe said in the release. “He watched the muzzle flashes and felt the bullets impact his body. This was a sudden burst of deadly violence without provocation.”
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No pic of student at article, presumably because he is a minor. But Jaylen? Wanna guess?
And was it a .22?
That article was written by a random word generator.
there is usually a back story
to this kind of thing
So glad we had to have a full investigation of this - without it, no reasonable person could have concluded that someone who had been shot 4 times had reason to believe their life was in danger.
Only “Breaking” to the brain dead.
He belongs to the most productive segment of our society.
Democrats say being shot four times is no excuse to shoot a teen...
Don’t underestimate .22s. There have been cases where individuals have taken head shots, where the light weight round hit the back of the skull at such and angle, causing it to spin round the inside of the skull, turning the brain into confetti. Same with the rib cage and other bones, bouncing around like a ball on a pool table. Would I use a 22 for self defense/protection? No, but I have great respect for them.
“Elmore used a Polymer 80 9mm gun, which is a “ghost gun” that can be made from a kit or individual parts often purchased online, the report said.”
SRO is lucky he didn’t get his lungs blown out with that 9mm.
When someone shoots you 4 times, heck even one time, yes, your life is in danger. One does not have to be a genius to figure that out.
after the student shot him four times
= = =
Is that counting by ‘new math’?
That could be 0 to 8 to -4.
Agree...the other person Elmore shot was the school's athletic director and the kid played football and ran track.
How was this even ever a question?
Yep. A .22 almost killed President Reagan...
It’s a shame there were not teachers around. They could have disarmed the kid.
Too many young black males are just like a stick of lit dynamite waiting to go off. Why and how did they let the kid get in the principals office with a gun?! Geez!
There was a report Elmore had a gun on campus so they called him into the principals office and requested he let them search his back pack. Things went down hill from there.
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