WLBT 3 - Jackson, MS: Girl who brought gun onto school bus is getting treatment

Girl who brought gun onto school bus is getting treatment

By Bert Case - bio | email

JACKSON, MS (WLBT) - The mother of the 15-year-old girl, who took a gun onto a school bus in Yazoo County in September, says her daughter is being treated by a psychiatrist for depression.

In an exclusive interview with Bert Case, Barbara Primer said she is greatly relieved her child will be handled in youth court, rather than tried as an adult.

The case made national news after a football star, Kaleb Eull, took the gun away from the
15-year-old on September first.

The district attorney in the case, James Powell, decided the girl never really aimed the gun at anybody and allowed students to get off of the bus without threatening anybody with the gun.

Primer told us her daughter has been sent to a facility in Meridian for psychiatric examination.

"The doctor said that she was doing good, she is still depressed, but it worked out and she is doing real well, and she is going to do long term treatment" said Primer. "He couldn't tell me for how long she is going to be doing it, but he knows that she is going well with her treatment."

Primer says she wishes her daughter had told her how badly she was being bullied by other students, and if she had, she would have taken a day off from her two jobs to talk with school officials about it.

Primer hopes her child will be sent back to her, and if she is, she plans to get her home schooled. She realizes that will be tough, but has been offered help.

"Well, I have talked to some people in that business, and they told me they would be glad to help me when she comes home" said Primer. 

It is now up to Yazoo County Judge Derek Parker to decide what happens to the child.