CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) -- It was a crude animation of one stick figure shooting another created for a school graphics class last week.
But during the same week as a shooting massacre at Virginia Tech, officials at Williamstown High School found nothing innocent about the sketch. As a result, the student says a vice principal told him he would not be allowed to attend classes again until he passes a mental health evaluation.
In response, the 18-year-old, identified in court papers only as "J.K.,'' filed a lawsuit Monday asking a federal judge to order school officials to allow him back to class and to pay for damages.
Although J.K. has attention deficit disorder, according to court papers he was an honor student, a flight commander in his school's Air Force junior ROTC program and took some courses at Gloucester County College.
According to his report card, he earned five "A's'' and a "B'' last quarter. One of those A's was in his graphic design class.
During that class on Monday -- hours before the world knew that Seung-Hui Cho had killed 32 people at Virginia Tech -- J.K. said he was asked to make animations for a program they were learning.
J.K.'s sketch comprised of two stick figures, one with a raised a gun that had dashes leading from it to the head of the other one.
The next morning, he said he showed the drawing to his teacher, Christine Dailey, but told her he was not done with it. In court papers, he said he planned to show the victim deflecting or destroying the bullet. But, he claimed, Dailey did not listen to him further.
Two days later, he said, vice principal Paul Deal told him that he was not being suspended or expelled, but that he might be a threat to the school or himself. J.K. said he was told to leave and not return until he being cleared by a mental health professional.
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