Students charged with plotting to kill teacher
The plot was foiled when a handgun the boys brought to Maury Middle School discharged in the boys’ bathroom Thursday morning as they were examining it. The bullet went through a door and hit one of the students in the leg.
“It could have been worse had she not been sick that day,” Davenport said of the teacher. “She didn’t come to school. So she was very fortunate.”
The boys, two 12-year-olds and a 14-year-old, were charged Tuesday in juvenile court with conspiracy to commit murder and possessing a weapon on school grounds, the sheriff said. They face trial and sentencing Sept. 22.
The sheriff refused to identify the teacher, who is still at the school, or the boys. He also declined to say how the teacher had punished one of the boys, apparently only days before.
Davenport would only say the “teacher had disciplined one of them and evidently he wanted to get even because of being disciplined, and decided that he and the others were going to shoot this particular teacher.”
The boys all gave statements and “admitted some involvement in this plot,” the sheriff said.
Two of the boys remained in custody while the injured boy was under house arrest.