-The Big Bang: Gun Shots Fired at Kean High

The Big Bang

Dr. Suess

It was an intense Saturday afternoon, January 28, 2012, and hundreds of people had come to watch the basketball games at Kean High’s gymnasium when a young man walked into the school parking lot and fired shots into a small group of people.

Everyone scurried into the gym, trying to dodge the rounds that were being fired from across the lot. The shooter then ran out the school gates and headed towards Red Hook.

No one was hurt or injured during the incident, but everyone was shocked and disappointed by the fact that somebody would come and fire shots in a school yard. It was a day to remember.

The first suspect that was arrested was Alex “Sk Swagga” Harris. He was charged with reckless endangerment and unlawful possession of firearm. This marked his fourth arrest. He was apprehended almost a week after the shooting at his apartment as he was packing up in an attempt to flee to the BVI.

The second suspect, Roland Murrel, 21, was arrested a month later in relation to the shooting that took place in Kean’s parking lot. He was charged with possession of an unlawful firearm. Murrel graduated from Ivanna Eudora Kean in 2011. He was arrested before on similar charges.