Tyrone N. Butts
APE Reporter
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Student's fatal shooting rattles Holmes CC campus
Photo of dead nigger at link!
GOODMAN --The night a bullet pierced Holmes Community College student Dwaeuntre' Davis, a crowd chanted, "Hang in there, D.D., you're going to make it."
"None of that worked," said Holmes President Starkey Morgan Sr., who was among the chanters. "I don't know how to express the emotion of the tragedy we felt."
The 19-year-old freshman football player from Franklinton, La., died of a gunshot wound about 10 p.m. Wednesday in a parking lot on campus, officials said. Davis was the third Holmes athlete to die this school year.
The Wednesday night sh
ooting occurred after a fight broke out at an end-of-the-year dance in the student union.
"This boy was ju
st a bystander. He was not involved in the altercation at all," Holmes County Sheriff Willie March said. "He just happened to be in the path of the bullet."
A large-caliber bullet struck Davis in the right side of his chest and lodged in the left side, March said.
Witnesses identified two males who were being held in the Holmes County jail in Lexington on Thursday, March said. One is from Pickens, the other lives in Holmes County and neither is a student, he said. Their names have not been released.
Classes are canceled today, and students who missed classes Thursday will be excused. Counselors worked with students Thursday.
Sophomore Phylis Stahl, 21, and freshman Lindsey Netherland, 18, saw people fighting and pushing at the dance. Others tried to break up the fight before gunshots rang out, they said.
"We hurried up and got
out of there, ducked and got behind one of the cars," said Netherland, a business administration major from Winona.
Stahl questioned why IDs were not checked at th
e dance. "They do functions for us to get out of the dorms and socialize, but so many students come who are not a part of the campus," she said.
Holmes doesn't allow nonstudents at dances, but Morgan said they may slip in because of the difficulty of checking hundreds of IDs.
Three security officers, the dean of students, the director of student activities and one or two faculty members attended the dance, he said.
Rayana Rule, 18, a freshman business administration major from Lexington, said she is considering transferring to another college because of safety concerns. "If they can't control something as simple as a dance, how can they control school activities all day?"
Curtissa Dixon, 20, also of Lexington, said she and her sister
, Deshenia Dixon, do not plan to return. Davis was her sister's boyfriend.
The sophomore liberal arts major hopes administrators will use the shooting as a lesson to keep the campus more secure. "Take it and run with it and
make sure this doesn't happen again," she said.
Morgan doesn't know what to do yet. "Do we close our campus off? Do we put up a fence around it? What do we do?" he asked. "Here you send your child off to what we consider to be one of the safest environments in the state of Mississippi and you lose your child."
History instructor Caroline Barton said Davis held the door open when she saw him in a building. "The common courtesy a mother tries to teach her kids," she said. "He was just an example of that."
Davis, who played wide receiver for the Bulldogs, was a fast runner, pleasant and always exuded confidence, said Hugh Shurden, athletic director and head football coach. "There wasn'
;t anything he thought he couldn't tackle and do."
Recruiters from Texas Christian University visited Holmes on Wednesday to watch Davis work out, he said.
"I've seen a lot of young men come and go," Shurden said. "I've never seen one come and go like this one."
Two other Holmes athletes
died this school year. Baseball player Jabari Crockett of Jackson, 18, died in a carjacking in August. Softball player Carrie Lott, 20, of Stewart died in December in an automobile accident.
Said Morgan: "I'm heartbroken."
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Wake up America and smell the nigger!
T.N.B.
Student's fatal shooting rattles Holmes CC campus
Photo of dead nigger at link!
GOODMAN --The night a bullet pierced Holmes Community College student Dwaeuntre' Davis, a crowd chanted, "Hang in there, D.D., you're going to make it."
"None of that worked," said Holmes President Starkey Morgan Sr., who was among the chanters. "I don't know how to express the emotion of the tragedy we felt."
The 19-year-old freshman football player from Franklinton, La., died of a gunshot wound about 10 p.m. Wednesday in a parking lot on campus, officials said. Davis was the third Holmes athlete to die this school year.
The Wednesday night sh
ooting occurred after a fight broke out at an end-of-the-year dance in the student union.
"This boy was ju
st a bystander. He was not involved in the altercation at all," Holmes County Sheriff Willie March said. "He just happened to be in the path of the bullet."
A large-caliber bullet struck Davis in the right side of his chest and lodged in the left side, March said.
Witnesses identified two males who were being held in the Holmes County jail in Lexington on Thursday, March said. One is from Pickens, the other lives in Holmes County and neither is a student, he said. Their names have not been released.
Classes are canceled today, and students who missed classes Thursday will be excused. Counselors worked with students Thursday.
Sophomore Phylis Stahl, 21, and freshman Lindsey Netherland, 18, saw people fighting and pushing at the dance. Others tried to break up the fight before gunshots rang out, they said.
"We hurried up and got
out of there, ducked and got behind one of the cars," said Netherland, a business administration major from Winona.
Stahl questioned why IDs were not checked at th
e dance. "They do functions for us to get out of the dorms and socialize, but so many students come who are not a part of the campus," she said.
Holmes doesn't allow nonstudents at dances, but Morgan said they may slip in because of the difficulty of checking hundreds of IDs.
Three security officers, the dean of students, the director of student activities and one or two faculty members attended the dance, he said.
Rayana Rule, 18, a freshman business administration major from Lexington, said she is considering transferring to another college because of safety concerns. "If they can't control something as simple as a dance, how can they control school activities all day?"
Curtissa Dixon, 20, also of Lexington, said she and her sister
, Deshenia Dixon, do not plan to return. Davis was her sister's boyfriend.
The sophomore liberal arts major hopes administrators will use the shooting as a lesson to keep the campus more secure. "Take it and run with it and
make sure this doesn't happen again," she said.
Morgan doesn't know what to do yet. "Do we close our campus off? Do we put up a fence around it? What do we do?" he asked. "Here you send your child off to what we consider to be one of the safest environments in the state of Mississippi and you lose your child."
History instructor Caroline Barton said Davis held the door open when she saw him in a building. "The common courtesy a mother tries to teach her kids," she said. "He was just an example of that."
Davis, who played wide receiver for the Bulldogs, was a fast runner, pleasant and always exuded confidence, said Hugh Shurden, athletic director and head football coach. "There wasn'
;t anything he thought he couldn't tackle and do."
Recruiters from Texas Christian University visited Holmes on Wednesday to watch Davis work out, he said.
"I've seen a lot of young men come and go," Shurden said. "I've never seen one come and go like this one."
Two other Holmes athletes
died this school year. Baseball player Jabari Crockett of Jackson, 18, died in a carjacking in August. Softball player Carrie Lott, 20, of Stewart died in December in an automobile accident.
Said Morgan: "I'm heartbroken."
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Wake up America and smell the nigger!
T.N.B.
