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12-16-2005, 11:42 AM
Student, 17, sentenced, may face expulsion
Thursday, December 15, 2005
DARRYL Q. TUCKER
THE SAGINAW NEWS

Saginaw School District officials say they will take steps to expel a student who had a gun at Saginaw High School during the first full week of school this year.

Randell J. Harris, 17, of 3222 Parkwood will serve three years of probation for attempting to carry a concealed weapon Aug. 29 at Saginaw High, 3100 Webber.

Saginaw County Chief Circuit Judge Leopold P. Borrello this week gave Harris credit for 102 days served behind bars and ordered him to pay $480 in fees and fines. Harris pleaded guilty.

"We will take formal expulsion action in January with him," said district spokesman Michael B. Manley.

Police said Harris, a second-year freshman, had the loaded pistol in his pants when security guards struggled to disarm him.

The teen was standing in a hallway about 10 a.m. when security guards approached him after another student tipped them that the teen was armed, authorities said.

After a struggle, the gun fell to the ground. Harris did not try to grab the gun when it fell.

A security guard grabbed the .32-caliber Smith & Wesson. Part of its serial number was scratched off.

Meanwhile, a judge has sentenced 17-year-old Orieano J. Thompson to serve two to five years in prison for carrying a concealed weapon, a gun, at Saginaw High on April 27.

Manley said the district has no record of Thompson attending Saginaw High.

Thompson, 2125 Sheridan, also is serving a concurrent sentence of nine to 20 years in prison for taking a cellular phone at gunpoint April 13 in Saginaw, court records show.

Borrello also ordered Thompson, who pleaded guilty to both charges, to pay $120 in fees and fines.

Thompson, who was a fugitive, carried a loaded revolver into Saginaw High a week after prosecutors say he robbed an 18-year-old Trojan student at gunpoint at Warren and Emerson, officers said. The repeat juvenile offender, who police say has East Side Boys gang ties, ran into school staff members, who asked whether he was armed.

"He told them, 'I have a gun,' " Saginaw Police Detective Terry Carpenter has said. "They took a light revolver off him."

Authorities also wanted Thompson for missing court dates, which violated his juvenile sentences, prosecutors said.

The teen has not attended school in the Saginaw district since his middle school years, police said. v

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