Principal considers cutting activities after shooting at Westover High

Fayetteville, N.C. — Principal Mark A. Smith is considering canceling some after-school activities after a boy was shot in a Westover High School parking lot Friday night.

Smith said Monday that no changes were in effect yet and that he was “looking at” whether some events should be scrapped. He said he had no plans to cancel any athletic events at the school.

Cumberland County deputies arrested Terrance Donnell Johnson Jr., 19, of 1358 Worstead Road, Friday on charges of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury and discharging a firearm on school property.

Investigators said that Johnson and several other people got into an argument during the fashion show shortly after 10 p.m. They moved outside and started to fight in a parking lot.

Shots were fired, and a stray bullet hit a ninth-grade boy in the foot as he was walking out of the high school at 2465 Gillespie St., investigators said. School officials did not name the boy.

Johnson appeared in court Monday where a judge set bond of $50,000.

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They should enforce rules at the school and all functions. All people entering the facility you have to buy a ticket (that will stop the people that don't want to be there not to enter) show ID and pass through a metal detector. No hanging out in the parking lot. Have the Po Po there to run the trouble makers off or to jail...

didisaythat
March 10, 2009 10:21 a.m.

Hope and change, baby. And pass the ammunition...

meh2
March 9, 2009 4:46 p.m.

A shooting at Westover? Say it isn't so. I went to a Basketball game there once a few years ago, wasn't all that impressed with the characters allowed to "hang out" who clearly were not students. Personally I think there should be armed guards with metal detectors at all public schools. It will, dare I say it, "create jobs" and hopefully save a life.

Tired Of Excuses
March 9, 2009 3:15 p.m.

I don't think cancelling all events will work. Students are shot on buses, at games, etc. This is one incident and while we certainly don't want it to happen again, you cannot punish all for a few. For those who are not connected to school, a fashion show is usually hosted by students as a fundraiser. It allows the talents of those young people to be used in the public while raising money. There is a lot of "real world" learning that takes place in hosting one of these events. I guess you just want pencil and paper learning, huh? I guess that is safer.

due_whats_right
March 9, 2009 3:11 p.m.

Fashion shows? Hmmm....would that be extra credit for Designing 101? Unless they were showing off the new styles of uniforms that should be in all schools, then really there is no purpose.

BELLA28
March 9, 2009 2:49 p.m.