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CHARLOTTE, NC (AP) – Update on a fatal shooting at a North Carolina high school (local time):
6:25 p.m.
An affidavit filed in connection with a fatal shooting in a North Carolina high school indicates that a recent fight in a parking lot of a shop might have triggered the shooting.
The WSOC-TV in Charlotte announced in an arrest affidavit in Mecklenburg County, based on an interview with the police, that Jatwan Cuffie was involved in the fight last Friday with four other boys in front of a grocery store. According to the affidavit, Bobby McKeithen was not involved in the fight, but was asked his opinion on the winner.
The affidavit says that Cuffie took a gun to school to protect herself on Monday, and when teens arrived at Butler High School, McKeithen hit Cuffie in the face while they were in a corridor. According to the affidavit, Cuffie then shot McKeithen and went to a classroom where a teacher took a bag with the weapon.
Police Matthews, a suburb of Charlotte, said Tuesday that the gun would have been stolen in August.
Cuffie appeared in court on Tuesday, charged with first degree murder. His public defender asked for a weak bond and Cuffie was placed under his mother's care. A bail hearing on this matter is scheduled for November 7.
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2:55 p.m.
A teenager accused of shooting another student at a high school near Charlotte, North Carolina, made his appearance in court.
Jatwan Cuffie appeared Tuesday afternoon in the Mecklenburg County District Court, wearing a green suit and waist straps. The ninth grade, 16, is charged with first degree murder after the shooting death of 16-year-old Bobby McKeithen. According to the authorities, McKeithen, a 10th grade student, was shot dead before classes began Monday at Butler High School in the Matthews community.
Cuffie's face showed virtually no emotion when Judge David Strickland spoke to him. Public defender Joel Adelman told Strickland that the teenager posed no threat to the community and asked him to set a $ 10,000 bond. He asked that Cuffie be placed under the supervision of his mother, at home, under electrical supervision.
Strickland said that a bail decision would be made at a hearing on November 7. Cuffie is currently held without bail.
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14h
The family of a teenager shot in his high school in North Carolina remembers him as a brother to the "biggest heart" who loved sports and dancing.
The 16-year-old Bobby McKeithen's family spoke at a press conference Tuesday, a day after the death of the 10th grader before the start of classes at Butler High School.
Charlotte – Mecklenburg Superintendent of Schools, Clayton Wilcox, said Monday that the shooting may have been linked to intimidation, but McKeithen 's family disputed the idea that McKeithen was a bully.
Her mother, Ashley Mewborn, is worried about her other children and wants the school system to do everything in its power to keep students safe.
Jatwan Craig Cuffie, a Grade 9 student accused of first degree murder after McKeithen's death, is scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday.
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