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Volume 57, Number 22 • June 3, 2010
Loaded gun found on school bus Mark Bowes Media General News Service
the bus to return to the school complex, and a search was conducted of all the students and their belongings. A .22-caliber handgun with a single live round was discovered in a book bag belonging to the sister of the 16-year-old student, Agnew said. “He had gotten scared and had given it to her and she had hidden it for him,” the sheriff said. “This child could be charged as well, but we’re going to discuss that on Tuesday when we have people that can place charges.” The student acknowledged bringing the weapon to school, Agnew said. “He [said] he brought it to school for protection.” Goochland school officials alerted the district’s parents yesterday through the school system’s automated phone notification system. “Because students reported to administrators that they had seen a gun, we were able to intervene without incident,” an administrator said in the message.
A 16-year-old Goochland High School student is facing charges after authorities Friday afternoon discovered a loaded .22-caliber pistol on the school bus he was riding home. The teen couldn’t immediately be charged, however, because the county’s juvenile intake officers were on furlough yesterday, said Goochland County Sheriff James L. Agnew. “This is what upsets me,” Agnew said. “We were unable to place any charges. We had to release the kid to his parents.” The gun was found after an assistant principal and a deputy -- the school’s resource officer -- were tipped off about a student in possession of a gun. The bus carrying the student was stopped as it was pulling away from Goochland High School and the student was removed, Agnew said. He was searched, the sheriff said, but “they weren’t able to find anything.” Mark Bowes is a staff writer for Authorities then called for The Richmond Times-Dispatch
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Goochland honors its veterans
Photos by Ken Odor
WWII vet O. L. Ligon, above left, salutes during the playing of Taps at Monday’s Memorial Day Ceremony at Goochland Courthouse. State Senator Walter Stosch, above right, gestures toward the marker that was the theme of the Memorial Day Ceremony - “All gave some, some gave all.”
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Lexington Court’s renovation is complete