Last Updated on: 2nd September 2021, 06:32 am
Who is William Chavis Raynard Miller Jr.? Biography, Wiki
Authorities said William Chavis Raynard Miller Jr. was killed in a shootout at Mount Tabor High School in Forsyth County on Wednesday afternoon.
Hours later, the suspect was arrested without incident, the sheriff’s office said.
The suspect was also believed to be a student, but authorities did not immediately provide further details.
Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Christina Howell said all other students were safe.
William Chavis Raynard Miller’s Age
His age isn’t clear yet.
What Was The Incident?
Winston-Salem Police Chief Catrina Thompson held back tears when she announced Wednesday night that the Mount Tabor High School student had died after being shot.
Thompson said officials from the Winston-Salem Sheriff’s Office and police responded to a call at 12:07 p.m. and found a student with gunshot wounds.
Thompson noted that first responders were trying to save his life and transported him to the Health Wake Forest Baptist Atrium, where he died of his injuries.
Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough Jr. said the victim’s mother wanted to reveal her identity and the office identified the student as William Chavis Raynard Miller Jr.
“We are experiencing something that we see on television across the country,” Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines said. “Today we are facing it head-on.”
On Wednesday evening, the sheriff’s office said the suspect had been “arrested without incident”.
The students were reunited with their parents and guardians about five hours after the shooting.
“It’s like a punch in the stomach and it takes your breath away not knowing if your kids are safe, your friends’ kids are safe, your neighbor’s kids are safe. And you’re in agony until you find out what’s going on and what happened,” said Jim O’Neill, Forsyth District Attorney.
“As a parent or an attorney, he didn’t. there is no worse feeling than you can imagine.”
Who Were The Suspects To Be Arrested?
A student was killed in a high school shooting in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on Wednesday that caused panic among students, staff, and parents as several schools in the district closed for hours.
A suspect is in custody, the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday evening. It was the second state school shooting in three days.
This is tragic. Every year scores of our children are gunned while our politicians bicker about things that are less important than the security of our children who are supposed to be safe in a learning environment. My opinion is this, WE (citizens) are way too quick to forget about the agony of every family that loses a family member, friend, neighbor to “GUN VIOLENCE” go through.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!! Let’s start holding our politicians accountable by voting them out of office if they do not take serious action to implement gun laws in order to protect our citizens. “GUN VIOLENCE” IS and has ALWAYS been an important topic that lawmakers seem to take lightly and for granted.
You think gun laws would have stopped that? You’re an idiot. It’s what is wrong and endemic in our society that is causing that – not guns. He was 15 – he could not have or own a gun legally – so there were laws, and he broke them. There are laws against murder, and he broke them, laws against bringing guns to school and he broke them. If he did not have a gun he would have used a knife or a bat – especially as this seems to be gang or pseudo gang related. Gun laws do nothing. Fixing our selfish, self-centered blame someone or something else world will.