Shooting at McGavock?

[Midstate]

News 2 is reporting a 17 year-old female has been shot near McGavock High School tonight and possibly everyone is being held inside the basketball gym until everything cleared up. Any details? Sounds like it may have been a drive by shooting and they are searching for a SUV.

 

I wonder if it had anything to do with this ...

 

 

McGavock Football Player Found With Gun, School Shocked"

Friends of a McGavock High School senior and football player found with a 9mm pistol on Monday are shocked the student would get his hands on a gun.

 

Monday afternoon, Metro Police found 18-year-old Michael Sowell and a 17-year-old McGavock High School student with the semi-automatic gun in Old Hickory.

 

Those who know Sowell said his positive attitude and involvement in school is a far cry from his actions Monday.

 

Police said Sowell was parked on a side street in a 1992 Lexus when they found him.

 

The weapon was lying across his lap.

 

Police also uncovered 20 hollow point bullets in the car.

 

Angela Poellnitz is the registrar and McGavock High School and has known Sowell for four years.

 

“He may have been influenced or even provoked to do something of this sort. I really don't believe that's him, at all,” she said. “Michael’s usually friendly, laughing, joking.... He doesn't seem to be a violent individual."

 

Sowell played football at McGavock High School and was very involved in athletics.

 

People who knew him in the athletic department said they can't understand how the student went from “highlights to headlines.”

 

The 9mm gun that was confiscated from Sowell is now in the Metro Police propertyroom where it will be entered in the police data.

 

From there, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms will trace the gun and compare their findings with police.

 

Police said the problem is, the trace only goes back to the original owner, and most of the time the gun has been sold or passed on a few different times.

 

The particular weapon, said police, is one they often find on the streets, involved in criminal activity.

 

Metro Police Capt. Todd Henry said, "Kids are killing kids. As a society, we have to do something about it because we are not going to arrest our way of the juvenile crime problem."

 

Police said tracing the weapon will have no effect on Sowell's case because he is 18 and of legal age to own a gun.

[hvillefootball]

It really is a shame that a kid can't even go to a basketball game without the risk of being shot these days.

[Indian]

News 2 is reporting a 17 year-old female has been shot near McGavock High School tonight and possibly everyone is being held inside the basketball gym until everything cleared up. Any details? Sounds like it may have been a drive by shooting and they are searching for a SUV.

 

I wonder if it had anything to do with this ...

McGavock Football Player Found With Gun, School Shocked"

Friends of a McGavock High School senior and football player found with a 9mm pistol on Monday are shocked the student would get his hands on a gun.

 

Monday afternoon, Metro Police found 18-year-old Michael Sowell and a 17-year-old McGavock High School student with the semi-automatic gun in Old Hickory.

 

Those who know Sowell said his positive attitude and involvement in school is a far cry from his actions Monday.

 

Police said Sowell was parked on a side street in a 1992 Lexus when they found him.

 

The weapon was lying across his lap.

 

Police also uncovered 20 hollow point bullets in the car.

 

Angela Poellnitz is the registrar and McGavock High School and has known Sowell for four years.

 

???He may have been influenced or even provoked to do something of this sort. I really don't believe that's him, at all,??? she said. ???Michael??™s usually friendly, laughing, joking.... He doesn't seem to be a violent individual."

 

Sowell played football at McGavock High School and was very involved in athletics.

 

People who knew him in the athletic department said they can't understand how the student went from ???highlights to headlines.???

 

The 9mm gun that was confiscated from Sowell is now in the Metro Police propertyroom where it will be entered in the police data.

 

From there, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms will trace the gun and compare their findings with police.

 

Police said the problem is, the trace only goes back to the original owner, and most of the time the gun has been sold or passed on a few different times.

 

The particular weapon, said police, is one they often find on the streets, involved in criminal activity.

 

Metro Police Capt. Todd Henry said, "Kids are killing kids. As a society, we have to do something about it because we are not going to arrest our way of the juvenile crime problem."

 

Police said tracing the weapon will have no effect on Sowell's case because he is 18 and of legal age to own a gun.

 

 

 

Was he charged with anything? The article didn't make it clear about any offense, or a reason why it should have made news.

[Midstate]

Teenage Girl Shot Outside McGavock High School"

Metro police say a 17-year-old girl was shot three times with a 45-caliber weapon in the arms and chest outside McGavock High School Tuesday night.

 

Police believe it may have been connected to a possible drive-by shooting.

 

A basketball game was in progress in the high school auditorium.

 

Witnesses saw a black SUV driving away.

 

Officers roped off the parking lot and kept people inside the basketball game.

 

The girl was transported to Vanderbilt Medical Center.

[Jumpshot]

It wasn't clear from your article or post whether the victim actually attended the ball game or whether she was even on the campus itself.

 

In Memphis, we experience this kind of thing also. Most of the time the violence has nothing to do with the game being played or with the school itself, but because it is reported that way, people tend to not go to ballgames fearful of being shot. The media glamorizes any violence around schools these days and the public assumes every student and every game is going to be this way. Random acts such as this have destroyed public attendance at athletic events in Memphis.

[Bri]

I don't know the story, but I know McGavock is on the same property as Two Rivers Park by Wave Country.

[War Eagles]

I don't know if I even want to make the trip to the Metro Thanksgiving Tourney at McGavock after hearing about all of this.