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February 3, 2003, 05:09 PM
Tulsa World
January 31, 2003 Friday Final Home Edition
SECTION: NEWS; Tulsa; Pg. A13
LENGTH: 307 words
HEADLINE: School security guard gets probation in shooting case
BYLINE: BILL BRAUN World Staff Writer
BODY:
A school security guard who was involved in a shooting on Tulsa school property was placed on one year of probation Thursday.
Ronald Lee Littles Jr., 25, pleaded no contest to recklessly handling a firearm -- a misdemeanor.
The deferred sentence granted by Tulsa County Special Judge Millie Otey means Littles can have the case dismissed with no conviction if he completes his probation. Otey ordered Littles to pay $250 to the court fund plus $125 to the victims compensation fund.
He can still work as a security guard during his probation, although not at the Tulsa High School for Science and Technology.
Littles was on duty and working for Burns International Security Services Corp. when he fired a shot at Jermaine Cox, an 18-year-old suspended student, on Oct. 31 outside Tulsa Science High, 4929 N. Peoria Ave., according to reports.
During a confrontation, Littles saw Cox begin "to pull what he believed to be a silver semiautomatic handgun from the front of his sweatshirt pocket," and he fired while "fearing for his life," a police detective reported.
Police never found a weapon in Cox's possession, and Cox reportedly has denied threatening Littles.
The shot missed Cox and ricocheted, and a projectile struck a cell phone in the pants pocket of a 15-year-old student who was about 200 feet away.
Shrapnel from the collision with the cell phone left the 15-year-old with a graze injury to his face, police reported.
As a probation condition, Littles must meet and maintain certain educational and training standards if he continues to work as a security guard.
Unrelated to this episode, Cox is in the Tulsa Jail and charged with three counts of robbery by force or fear.
January 31, 2003 Friday Final Home Edition
SECTION: NEWS; Tulsa; Pg. A13
LENGTH: 307 words
HEADLINE: School security guard gets probation in shooting case
BYLINE: BILL BRAUN World Staff Writer
BODY:
A school security guard who was involved in a shooting on Tulsa school property was placed on one year of probation Thursday.
Ronald Lee Littles Jr., 25, pleaded no contest to recklessly handling a firearm -- a misdemeanor.
The deferred sentence granted by Tulsa County Special Judge Millie Otey means Littles can have the case dismissed with no conviction if he completes his probation. Otey ordered Littles to pay $250 to the court fund plus $125 to the victims compensation fund.
He can still work as a security guard during his probation, although not at the Tulsa High School for Science and Technology.
Littles was on duty and working for Burns International Security Services Corp. when he fired a shot at Jermaine Cox, an 18-year-old suspended student, on Oct. 31 outside Tulsa Science High, 4929 N. Peoria Ave., according to reports.
During a confrontation, Littles saw Cox begin "to pull what he believed to be a silver semiautomatic handgun from the front of his sweatshirt pocket," and he fired while "fearing for his life," a police detective reported.
Police never found a weapon in Cox's possession, and Cox reportedly has denied threatening Littles.
The shot missed Cox and ricocheted, and a projectile struck a cell phone in the pants pocket of a 15-year-old student who was about 200 feet away.
Shrapnel from the collision with the cell phone left the 15-year-old with a graze injury to his face, police reported.
As a probation condition, Littles must meet and maintain certain educational and training standards if he continues to work as a security guard.
Unrelated to this episode, Cox is in the Tulsa Jail and charged with three counts of robbery by force or fear.