WORCESTER, MASS. (WHDH) - A Canton father who had been charged with bringing a gun into a high school in Worcester to confront a student has been acquitted.
Jerome Weeks, 41, was found not guilty Wednesday of carrying a firearm without a license and carrying a dangerous weapon on school grounds.
Investigators alleged that Weeks brought the firearm into the Doherty Memorial High School around 1:52 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 15 in search of a boy who allegedly punched his 14-year-old daughter on the school bus.
A student told authorities they saw a gun in Weeks’ car prior to the incident.
Weeks denied having a gun and his lawyer argued that there was no sign of a firearm on his person in the school’s surveillance footage.
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