A former high school dean and anti-violence advocate nicknamed “Rev” for his pastor-like influence was sentenced Friday in Boston to up to 26 years in prison for shooting and nearly killing a student he had recruited to sell marijuana for him. Shaun Harrison, 58, was sentenced a day after a Suffolk Superior Court jury convicted him of armed assault with intent to murder and other charges, reports the AP.
Harrison, a dean at Boston English High School, recruited 17-year-old Luis Rodriguez to sell marijuana for him at the school and shot him on March 3, 2015, because he believed the student was not generating enough sales and withholding money, prosecutors said. Harrison joined the school as a dean a few months before the shooting. Rodriguez sat in the back of the courtroom and cried quietly along with his family as his aunt took the stand to describe almost losing him.
“He was my counselor. I went to him for everything,” Rodriguez said. On the day of the shooting, the pair met at a gas station. Harrison shot the student in the back of the head and fled on foot, prosecutors said. The bullet entered Rodriguez’s head just under his right ear. It just missed his carotid artery, broke his jawbone, and caused nerve damage and hearing loss. Rodriguez said he was saved by occupants of a passing car, who called 911.
Wonder who he voted for.
An high school “dean”? Oh, come on! Everything about this guy was phony.
He certainly demanded excellence from his students.
SMILE! If you’re happy and you know it your face will surely show it. This glum guy looks anything but happy and cheerful. Why is it that blacks tend to name obvious hucksters and bums like this guy Reverend something or another? He sure as hell isn’t a Reverend, just like Al Sharpton isn’t either.
Like I say like a wise person
with sage & lofty advice=
Truth is stranger than fiction.
I thought they had tough gun laws
in BeanTown,Mass. ??? what happened?
Repulsive thug, so many advocates for disarming end up being absolutely the worst kind of people.
The nastiness that hides behind the curtain of Political Correctness!
A guy recruited school teens to sell marijuana at the school, shot one of his mules in the head, and was sentenced to 26 years?
Do the “authorities” believe he can be “rehabilitated?”
Yumpin Yiminy!
izlamo delenda est …
Besides being in charge of the “Head Start Program”
He also taught Ethics.
No child left behind …… unless he’s smokin’ the product instead of selling it.
Let’s add cultural appropriation to that. This guy’s no Paddy – and he spells the name wrong.
Maxine! Where you at?
lesson to Rev. never shoot anyone from the hood in the head with a measly .22. He might live and finger yo ass. Use a larger caliber firearm dumbass.
No doubt this will be classified as a “school shooting”.
He was just trying to keep the boy out of the law enforcement stream. O’bama’s orders!
And the left will use this guy as an example of why we shouldn’t arm school teachers.
Well I’m gonna lay some guilt on the victim in this way…Why would the kid sell pot for this guy? He didn’t think it was odd that a ‘morality expert’ would tell someone to sell pot for him?
Who was raising that kid anyway? His aunt? Where are his parents?
I think generally, criminals know exactly what kind of person they can recruit. He saw that kid coming a mile away.
My dad graduated from there. Used to be all Irish Catholics.
Obviously not anymore.
Oh… Look… Another black democrat bullshit artist. Probably made fat stacks from government grants to run his sham program, which he probably thought up after he murdered someone for hire a long time ago.
Urbanites?