Update: Campbell University Student Surrenders After Standoff with Police
- Posted on November 9, 2011 at 3:45pm by
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BUIES CREEK, N.C. (The Blaze/AP) — A standoff at Campbell University ended peacefully Wednesday after a student who had slipped out of handcuffs and locked himself in his home surrendered to sheriff’s deputies following a three-hour lockdown of the campus.
Jared Dale Knight, a 24-year-old freshman who recently received a bad conduct discharge from the Air Force, was being served with a warrant when he broke away from police and locked himself inside his room. As a precaution, the university canceled evening classes and police told students and faculty to remain indoors while officers surrounded the building.
Knight was arrested on Tuesday and charged with stealing an AR-15 carbine from a Fuquay-Varina gun store where he worked. Police in that town said they were looking into a report that other guns had been stolen from the store, but the carbine had been recovered. Following the first arrest, Knight was released after posting a $3,000 bond.
According to a source familiar with incident, Jared stole a rifle from the gun store on Friday. Jared later confirmed in a phone conversation to a colleague that he did in fact take the rifle, but intended to buy it. Obliging a request by his coworker to return the firearm, Jared was then arrested and posted bond early the next morning.
Upon further inspection by gun store staff, additional weapons were found missing. Police were notified and later issued a warrant for Jared’s arrest.
The gun store staff assert that they take the incident very seriously and are fully cooperating with local, state and federal authorities in their investigation.
According to records from the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals, Knight was given a bad-conduct discharge and a sentence of eight months’ confinement by a military court at Dyess Air Force Base in Texas.
Knight was convicted of keeping a laser range finder, two radios, an infrared camera and a pair of binoculars that he found in a metal trash container. The military property was worth about $10,600.
Knight was living at the small, university-owned home on the edge of campus with two other students, according to Campbell spokesman Britt Davis. Davis said Knight had listed himself as an Air Force veteran on his application, but didn’t say where he had served. The university was trying to help Knight get veteran’s benefits, Davis said.
Harnett County Sheriff Larry Rollins said Knight was apparently concerned about the effect his arrest would have on his family.
“He had a lot of concern about what some other people were thinking of him, his parents particularly,” Rollins said after the standoff ended. “He was concerned about them, and the issue of him being arrested last night. Kind of brought it together. That seemed to be a lot of his concern, his parents.”
Knight was taken into custody in Harnett County and will face charges related to the standoff. A phone message left Wednesday evening at his father’s home in Abilene, Texas, wasn’t immediately returned.
The younger Knight was persuaded to come out of the house peacefully thanks largely to the efforts of the negotiator from the sheriff’s office, Rollins said.
“I think he won his confidence and had him thinking clearly at the end that this needs to end,” the sheriff said.
This story has been updated
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Dismayed Veteran
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 4:08pm@ Dejohn
Have you ever been in a war zone? Have you ever had someone trying to kill you day after day? If yes, then you get to say PSTD is BS. If not, you are blowing smoke through your B-Bag.
If you did walk it, you would know PTSD exists. You may not have it but, you would know troops who did.
Report Post »jtm45
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 9:48amthem thar goll dang eyerackees,who woulda thunk!
Report Post »biker mike
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 7:46pmdrove by there around that time , didnt see anything, , at least from the main road (rte 421)
Report Post »CHESTER MOUSE
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 6:35pmAnd the idiots out there on Occupy Wall Street are protesting what? Banking? yeah that’s where the problem is.
Report Post »Sgt_Rock
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 6:12pmPTSD is for real. It is serious and if left untreated it will eat you up. It effects all walks of life. It can be caused by any singular significant trauma or as new studies are showing several traumas over time. Cops. paramedics, firefighters, military are all susceptible. It ain’t no joke.
Report Post »georgiavietvet
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 6:03pmDEJON……………………someone else already said that you should go visit their vet center and tell the guys there that ptsd is b.s. i was going to say the same thing. i’m a vietnam vet and have been living with ptsd since 1968. i want you to come to the vet center in savannah, georgia and tell me and the rest of the vets, who are being treated for ptsd, to our faces, that ptsd is b.s. and see the reaction that you get. i don’t believe you have the guts to do it. which means you are a coward. back up you charge with provable facts or shut the hell up. you don’t have a clue what you are talking about. ……………………………….
Report Post »quicker
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 7:06pmMy uncle served 3 tours in Nam as a combat medic.He still has nightmares.Thank you for your service.From this vet.
Report Post »ares338
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 5:56pmAn obvious progressive, socialist, Muslim, gay Democrat!
Report Post »ProPatriaVigilans
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 5:18pmHow does PTSD cause someone to steal things. I could see & understand fear, anxiousness, paranoia, and other emotions from ptsd but theft from a store, what does this have to do with being shot at.
Report Post »guntotinsquaw
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 5:30pmPTSD affects basic reasoning…depending on how bad, can include seizures and psychosis…my dad at times doesn’t know who I am.
Report Post »Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 5:50pmif PTSD was a liberal thing then you people here would be telling them to stop crying about it. No one made them sign up and they knew what they were in for.
Report Post »Windsong
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 7:18pmPerhaps if you’d spent the last year being carrying a rifle at all times, shooting often and being shot at more often, a loud noise – like a car backfire – could trigger that part of your brain that is trained for survival. Perhaps the young man didn‘t ’steal’ as much as grab and run out the door to protect…which is engrained in him right now. Ever heard of ‘Wounded Warriors’? They work with these guys and get them grounded again. Go visit a few of the troops at a Veteran’s hospital. Do something positive.
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 3:57pmBIBLE QUOTE
You are absolutely correct. No one made my son sign up. He is on his 3rd deployment. He understands that PTSD may part of the package. He only had to look as far as me.
Report Post »Windsong
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 5:03pmI know. Let’s do something inherantly…American. Let’s pray that this young man gives himself up peacefully, and finds help for the PTSD – that is so prevalent among soldiers, who just spent a year or three being shot at every few minutes, had bombs exploding all around them, watched their friends die and spent all Holidays without their families. Odd, isn’t it? They come home to America, yet those bombs and bullet noises keep waking them up at night. It may take awhile for these heroes to get rid of the nightmares they’ve been living…the ones they had while trying to keep your butts free so you can post some really desrespectful, uneducated remarks.
Report Post »taxpro4u03
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 4:27pm“…lives ON a house…” Nice editing.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 4:32pmyou never know these days, people live in,on and around anything or place these days,
Report Post »Texas Hills Patriot
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 4:17pmLet me get this straight. He has a warrant against him for stealing a rifle and a half dozen other guns and they say … “Davis said there is no indication that the student is armed.” Am I missing something here?
Report Post »Colonel_ICE
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 4:16pmHoly crap, that’s the store I shop at, I recognise him!!
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 4:07pmi pray that he and the officers do not get hurt and he gets the help he needs. this is just another reason for anti gun nuts to use as ammo to get our guns, they are working over time,and every time someone steals or uses a gun to commit crimes they just give them something else to gripe about or use as ammunition against law abiding gun owners,
Report Post »drago
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 4:04pmI was wondering where encinom lived. Wait, this guy’s a war vet, never mind…..
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 4:18pmThis guy defended America, Encinom offends it :-)
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 4:30pmencinodumbhead, is only good at spewing sewer and is probably at rose helens insane-asylum waiting for their loony pills.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 3:56pmPtsd?
Report Post »truckinwife
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 3:59pmSadly I think you are dead right in this. May this end without loss of life.
Report Post »dejon
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 4:05pmNO!! B.S. and P.O.S this person is a disgrace to our military ptsd is ********
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 4:16pmPtsd is what? It’s not fake. I have it from a car accident. I had a TBI, which caused retroactive amnesia for 4 days (still talking, but not conscious of it). I don’t remember the accident, but I still have nightmares of being trapped, wrecking a car, seeing blood, etc. I was very angry for the first two years, depressed, and anxious, but not all at once. I hope you, nor anyone else, has to experience anything like it.
Report Post »O.I.F_03FourtyOne
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 4:40pmHey Dejon, come down to my Vet center and tell them that they are faking their ptsd….. tell them its not real
Report Post »S_Malc13
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 3:53pmI’m not in a standoff, I’m in a bathroom stall!!! I’l be out in a minute!
From my Blackberry.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 4:07pmlight a match man.
Report Post »In detroit
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 3:48pmDont worry america we got the bad guy sourounded , im sure you do
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