A 16-year-old Cypress Lake High School student, who wrestled a loaded revolver away from a teen threatening to shoot, is being punished.What kind of lesson is THIS teaching kids who have been taught to “stop snitchin’” by their favorite rapper?
The student grappled the gun away from the 15-year-old suspect on the bus ride home Tuesday after witnesses say he aimed the weapon point blank at another student and threatened to shoot him.
The student, who Fox 4 has agreed not to identify and distort his voice because he fears for his safety, says there’s “no doubt” he saved a life by disarming the gunman. And for that he was suspended for three days.
“I think he was really going to shoot him right then and there,” the student said. “Not taking no pity.”
The student says he wrestled the .22 caliber RG-14 Revolver away from the suspect, a football player, who witnesses say threatened to shoot a teammate because he had been arguing with his friend.
“No doubt,” the student said, “he was going to shoot him point blank.”
According to the referral, he was suspended for being part of an “incident” where a weapon was present and given an “emergency suspension.”
“If they wouldn’t've did what they had to do on that bus,” the teen’s mother said, “I think there would have been a lot of fatalities.”
The mother agreed to talk with us in disguise. She can’t understand why her son, who disarmed the gunman, was suspended.
“Those kids had to fight for their lives,” she said. “All the kids that was involved in this they should have a pat on their backs because they did the right thing to save someone from burying their child.”
According to the mother, the school suspended her son because he refused to cooperate in the investigation. She says he was scared.
Fox 4 asked the Lee County School District about the suspension.
“We cannot discuss specifics involving students,” said district spokesman Alberto Rodriguez in a statement. “Florida law allows the principal to suspend a student immediately pending a hearing.”
The district confirmed three students were suspended in all but wouldn’t provide additional information citing privacy concerns.
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