Teen charged with inciting riot in Athens Drive High School brawl
An 18-year-old has been charged with inciting a riot in a fight involving roughly 25 people in a parking lot at Athens Drive High School last week.
Jermaine Lovon Canteen, who lives on Open Field Drive in southeastern Wake County, turned himself in Tuesday night on the charge that Raleigh police made in an arrest warrant Monday.
Canteen is also charged with misdemeanor assault and second-degree trespassing.
The fight outside the west Raleigh school happened about 2:20 p.m. Thursday. A 19-year-old suffered a "serious concussion," according to the arrest warrant.
A message from the school principal, Stephen Mares, said the fight involved students from Athens Drive High and other schools.
The felony charge says that Canteen "did assemble with at least two other persons ... and riot by engaging in a public disturbance." The law makes the crime a felony when someone is seriously hurt.
Canteen was accused of injuring Robert Ruffin, 19, who the Wake County Public School System said is a student at Athens Drive.
The assault charge, made in a second arrest warrant issued Monday, says he and a person named Brian McCrimmon were "hitting each other with closed fists."
The trespassing charge involved being on school property even though it is posted with signs telling intruders to stay away.
Police also issued citations to McCrimmon, 16, charging simple affray; Craig Campbell, 19, charging misdemeanor inciting to riot, simple affray and trespassing; and Khadeem Fleming, 21, charging simple assault.
Canteen was booked into the Wake County Detention Center and held in lieu of $10,000 bail.
The Wake County Sheriff's Office shows that Canteen is to be placed on house arrest on the assault charge if he is released from jail.
Canteen was arrested Nov. 28 at a house in Garner and charged with possession of a stolen firearm. He is due in court in October in relations to that case.
This story was originally published April 18, 2018 at 10:11 AM with the headline "Teen charged with inciting riot in Athens Drive High School brawl."