On Tuesday, a grand jury declined to indict a man who fatally shot one Kentucky State University student and critically injured another.
According to AP, Jacob Lee Bard shot and killed 19-year-old De’Jon Fox Jr. earlier this month while moving his sons out of his dorm at Kentucky State University. Defense attorney Scott Danks said that Bard was withdrawing his sons from the school due to “multiple armed, violent” incidents against them and several other students. Bard’s defense attorneys alleged that his son was the target of a burglary in his dorm room. They alleged that the assaults began after Bard’s son reported the burglary to school officials, with some of the assaults being caught by campus security cameras.
Bard was accompanied by two school officers to gather his son’s belongings on Dec. 9. Bard and his sons were being escorted out of the dormitory when a group of students in masks and hoods rushed them and began assaulting them, with one of the assailants allegedly slamming Bard’s youngest son’s head into the pavement…