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Lawyer Confirms Georgia School Shooter On Ritalin
Tuesday, May 25, 1999
CONYERS, Ga. (Reuters) - A lawyer for a schoolboy who police say wounded
six classmates in a shooting rampage at a Georgia high school confirmed
Tuesday that he was taking the drug Ritalin, usually prescribed for
hyperactivity.
``He was taking Ritalin, that was the only medication he was under,''
Atlanta attorney Don Samuel said. ``We're going to be looking at that, but
we have no reason to believe that was (the cause).''
None of the six students hit in last Thursday's shooting at Heritage High
School in Conyers, Georgia, about 25 miles (40 km) east of Atlanta,
suffered life-threatening injuries.
Samuel, in an interview with NBC, said he believes accused shooter Thomas
``T.J.'' Solomon, may have suffered some kind of mental problem before he
opened fire last Thursday with two guns taken from his stepfather's locked
gun cabinet. He was reportedly distraught over the end of a high school
romance.
``It (the shooting) is not because he is evil, it's not because he's
malicious. Something went terribly wrong in his mind,'' Samuel said.
The boy has been charged with aggravated assault, cruelty to children,
possession of a firearm and taking weapons on to school grounds. Because he
is 15 years old, Solomon would face a maximum of five years in jail if
convicted as a juvenile.
Rockdale County District Attorney Richard Read, however, filed a court
motion Monday asking that Solomon be tried as an adult. The boy's lawyer
said he would fight that motion.
``He is a young boy, he is not an adult,'' Samuel said, adding that the
youth would get mental health care in a juvenile jail that may not be
available in a prison for adults.
``There was no anger, there was no hostility, there was no malice,'' the
lawyer said. ``He is everybody's next door neighbor.''
Solomon, who allegedly fired 14 shots inside the school, then put the
barrel of the revolver in his own mouth just outside the building.
Assistant principal Cecil Brinkley, who retires from a 40-year teaching
career Friday, convinced him to surrender.
The alleged shooter is being held on 24-hour suicide watch at a juvenile
jail in Lawrenceville, Georgia, about 20 miles (32 km) from where the
shooting occurred.
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