Former star high school quarterback was denied bail by the judge for a mass shooting incident in South Carolina that injured 12
A judge denied bond for a South Carolina man who was a star football player in Charleston. Deljavon Lamat Simmons, 31, is charged with five counts of attempted murder and one count of possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. He was arrested for a mass shooting on May 30 that left 9 people wounded and three others injured.
Simmons was a star quarterback in Charleston and even had a scholarship offer from The CItadel but his grades ended up keeping him out of playing.
Simmons told asked the Judge for bail and was quickly denied.
“I don’t want to go near that area. I will never touch another gun, like, to be honest with you, all those people that got shot, those are my friends,” Simmons said. “Every last one of them is my friends. I was running around the whole time just checking on everyone that had a gunshot wound because all of us were standing in the same area.”
Nine people — three women aged 22, 21, and 33, five men aged 35, 27, 27, 35, and 28, and a 17-year-old girl — were injured by gunfire, according to the report. Eight shooting victims were treated and released from the hospital. One remains hospitalized, in stable condition. Not one of the victims died which is a miracle.
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