{"id":50860,"date":"2021-10-09T12:05:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T16:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=50860"},"modified":"2021-10-09T12:06:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T16:06:03","slug":"update-2-students-accused-of-bringing-a-gun-to-east-lee-county-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/10\/update-2-students-accused-of-bringing-a-gun-to-east-lee-county-high\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: 2 students accused of bringing a gun to East Lee County High"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office arrested two students they say brought a gun to school at East Lee County High School in Lehigh Acres Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA potential tragedy was prevented today thanks to \u2018See it, say it, make the call,&#8217;\u201d Sheriff Carmine Marceno said in a press release. \u201cI am proud of the student who reported this loaded gun on campus. Our youth services and our criminal investigations divisions immediately jumped into action and arrested the responsible students.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputies\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2000627110089140\" target=\"_blank\">arrested students<\/a>\u00a0Devoun Harris Jr., 17, and Tra\u2019Quincia Fuller, 17, for bringing the gun to school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fsheriffleefl%2Fvideos%2F2000627110089140%2F&#038;show_text=0&#038;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>According to LCSO, at 10:30 a.m. deputies responded to an anonymous tip about a student who had a gun in her backpack. They found Fuller at the school and say she had a gun in her backpack. Investigators say they then learned Harris put the gun in her backpack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt no time were any students or our school threatened. Having the weapon on campus is a violation of law, and the Student Code of Conduct,\u201d the school sent in its letter. \u201cThere is zero tolerance at East Lee County High School and the School District of Lee County for this kind of behavior, so in addition to the legal consequences, the student(s) involved will be disciplined to the fullest extent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harris and Fuller both face charges for possession of firearms on school grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both were taken to the Juvenile Assessment Center in Lee County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office arrested two students they say brought a gun to school at East Lee County High School in Lehigh Acres Friday. \u201cA potential tragedy was prevented today&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":50861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[766],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50862,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50860\/revisions\/50862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}