"Student accused of aiming at police; 17-year-old held; loaded gun found" by Travis Andersen and Maria Cramer, Globe Staff | March 25, 2010
A Roxbury teenager was arrested yesterday after he allegedly brought a loaded gun into his South Boston high school and pointed it at two school police officers when they chased him.
Tyshawn Lewis-Smith, 17, pleaded not guilty yesterday in South Boston District Court to charges of unlawful possession of a firearm and assault and battery on a police officer, among other charges. He was ordered held on $100,000 cash bail and is due back in court April 16.
Lewis-Smith, a junior at Odyssey High School, one of four high schools in the South Boston Education Complex on G Street, tried to enter the building through a side door at about 8:15 a.m. to avoid metal detectors at the main entrance, according to a report from Boston police.
I'm glad I'm all dun with skul.
Two school police officers, who are separate from the Boston police and do not carry weapons, confronted Lewis-Smith inside, the report said. One of the officers felt what appeared to be a gun in Lewis-Smith’s waistband during a pat-down, according to the report, and the teen then pushed the officer and ran outside. The school officers pursued Lewis-Smith and told police that he pointed the gun at them during the chase. Boston police later apprehended the teen near his home on Annunciation Road.
Police said in a report that they found the gun, a Beretta Tomcat .32 model, in a trash bin near the Old Colony public housing development in South Boston. It had one live round in the chamber and seven in the magazine, the report said.
Is that any place to be leaving a gun lying around?
Lewis-Smith stood handcuffed at his arraignment yesterday, wearing a gray button-down shirt and pants, his jaw set, and his eyes darting to his father, Roy Smith, 62, who sat in the front row of the courtroom. Lewis-Smith’s lawyer, Jack Garland, tried to raise doubts about the allegations that the defendant turned back and pointed a gun, arguing that someone fleeing police would focus on running forward.
You know, THAT MAKES SENSE!
I just can't help but think that there the cops around here go again!
“That just defies common sense,’’ Garland said, adding that the gun was not found near Lewis-Smith.
The state asks us to do that all the time.
“The gun is found nowhere near where he lives,’’ Garland said, “nowhere near where he goes to school.’’
Then it SMELLS like a PLANT!
Lewis-Smith was arrested in December for allegedly carrying a dangerous weapon, a knife, to a fight near the high school. That charged was dismissed. He was also charged with assault and battery, but the case was continued without a finding, prosecutors said yesterday. Smith said he believed his son had been set up in the latest charge. He also said he has not had any trouble with his son. He said Lewis-Smith hopes to join the Army so he can travel.
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I think he is tough enough!
“He always wanted to be in the Army,’’ Smith said.
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