The picture above was taken by Winston-Salem Journal staff on the afternoon of December 10th at the intersection of Northwest Boulevard and Hawthorne Road. Earlier that afternoon, a RJR student was shot in the upper thigh while being on the sidewalk that connects Bryson Gym to Wiley Middle School.
A January 17th front-page article in this newspaper gave details about arrest warrants that had been issued the day before. These warrants give a lot of insight into the chaos that took place on that rainy December 10th afternoon. The text from that article follows.
Warrants detail chaos at Reynolds Shooting
Filings also allege one of the shooters robbed a teen at gunpoint
Wesley Young
Staff Reporter
Arrest warrants issued in the Dec. 10 shooting at Reynolds High School paint a scene of chaos, as multiple students fought in the minutes before one student was shot in the thigh.
The warrants allege one of the shooters robbed two teens at gunpoint, stealing $2,000 gold necklaces, and that someone else then sold the stolen necklaces to a jeweler, claiming they were his property.
Five people have been charged in connection with the shooting, which led to a massive law enforcement turnout at the school in the pouring rain, and hours of anxiety as hundreds of students were bused to the parking lot of Cloverdale Plaza shopping center for reuniting with their parents.
The shooting victim was not only injured in the upper thigh by the slug fired from a .45-caliber handgun; he also suffered a broken nose. The Journal is not naming the student, who is now recovering at home from his injuries.
The five people charged are a mix of adults and underage teen defendants, but the teens were all charged as adults and were named by law enforcement officers.
According to an arrest-warrant, it was 16-year-old Ricardo Olea-Mejia who fired the shot that hit the student in the thigh. For that, he’s charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury. Olea-Mejia also is charged with inciting a riot, which is a felony, and two counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon.
Authorities allege Olea-Mejia incited two of the other charged teens, 16-year-old Yahir Bulmaro Toledo-Camacho and 17-year-old Larry Roman Noyola-Toledo to start a riot by engaging in physical assault, and that Olea-Mejia urged Noyola-Toledo and an 18-year-old charged in the case, Jonathan Emanuel Dallas to create the public disturbance leading up to the shooting injury.
The robbery charges against Olea-Mejia come about because he is accused of stealing a gold necklace valued at $2,000 from one juvenile victim and two gold necklaces valued at $2,000 from another juvenile victim, in both cases by allegedly using a handgun to threaten them while committing the theft.
Authorities say a charge of felony inciting a riot against Dallas comes about because of his role in inciting Reynolds students to fight with multiple other students during the time leading up to the shooting of the student in the thigh and the student’s receiving a broken nose. Dallas in accused of conspiring with Noyola-Toledo to commit assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury.
Toledo-Camacho’s charges of two counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon relate to an allegation that he threatened a teen with a handgun while stealing a $2,000 gold necklace.
Noyola-Toledo’s charge of felony conspiracy relates to an allegation that he conspired to commit the armed assault that resulted in the student’s thigh injury.
Finally, Moises Lobato Ocampo, at 22 the oldest of the five people charged, is charged with two counts of obtaining property by false pretense and two counts of possession of stolen property.
Authorities said that on the same day as the shooting at Reynolds High School, Ocampo sold two of the stolen necklaces to Alvarado Jewelry on Old Lexington Road by claiming they belonged to him. Ocampo is also accused of possessing a stolen gold pendant belonging to a juvenile and valued at $65.
Olea-Mejia and Toledo-Camacho are being held by Juvenile Justice with no bond allowed. Dallas is being held in the Forsyth County Jail with his bond set at $500,000. Noyola-Toledo was not held but signed a promise to appear in court. Ocampo was released after posting a $5,000 bond.
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On December 13th, three days after the shooting, RJR Alumni President Harry Corpening staged a recorded Zoom conversation with RJR Principal Calvin Freeman. They discussed the shooting incident, and its ramifications.
To view the video of that conversation, click onto the above image.