ANTELOPE VALLEY : Expulsion for Student Backed
A high school student convicted of pointing a loaded pistol at another student during a campus argument should be expelled, Antelope Valley Union High School District Board President Steve Landaker said Friday.
“If you bring a gun on campus you’re out of here,” Landaker said. “No ifs, ands or buts about it.”
Twenty-six students in the 12,835-student district have been expelled for weapons possession since September, with five based on possession of firearms, Landaker said. The full board is scheduled to take up the case Wednesday. The 16-year-old boy, in custody at Sylmar Juvenile Hall, was found guilty earlier of assault with a firearm and possession of a firearm on school property in a Juvenile Court trial.
Sheriff’s deputies said the incident occurred shortly after noon on Feb. 2 when the boy held a semiautomatic pistol to another student’s head at Antelope Valley High School and threatened to kill him unless he paid unspecified debts.
The youth is scheduled to be sentenced March 24 and faces a maximum penalty of confinement with the California Youth Authority until age 25.
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