Seventeen-year-old Aidan Rice says a former student led to him bringing a gun to Gibraltar Secondary School on Friday.
According to WLUK-TV, Rice was released on a $5,000 signature bond on Monday after appearing in court. In his criminal complaint, Rice said he was scared of a former student, a person who allegedly pounded on a bathroom door while he was at Wal-Mart a week prior. School Resource Officer Heather Bemmann stated that the unidentified student had not been on campus since last November. Rice added in the complaint that he knew it was illegal to bring the gun, but he had it to protect himself in case the former student showed up. Rice may have had the gun on him on Thursday when a classmate noted that he said “something about someone chasing him in a park” before tapping on his jacket.
Rice was arrested last Friday for possessing the gun on school property and stayed in Door County Sheriff’s Department custody until Monday. He will still have to wear a GPS unit as a condition of his release, in addition to having no contact with Gibraltar Area Schools and not possessing any firearms. He is due back in court on May 13th at 10 a.m.
