Ohio HS Football Star Banned From Team Sports
Recently, a HS athlete from Hamilton, Ohio was put on trial for felonious assault. Dwayne “Deejay” Hunter, a 19-year old track and football star at Middletown HS, shot a 15-year-old kid twice with a BB gun in the face from a car; with one of those BBs hit the victim in the eyelid. “You’re 19 years old. And you are standing right here, six inches away from a prison number and the potential to go away to prison for eight years — that’s two presidential terms. You are right there,” Judge Andrew Nasloff said to the people huddled inside the Hamilton courthouse.
But his ruling wasn’t finished. Even though he stayed out of jail, the star athlete will not get to play team sports for 5 years, as terms of his probation. Also included in the fine is a $500 fine; 500 hours of community service, and 180 days in Butler Country Jail. “We’re going to see who Dwayne Hunter the person is, not who Dwayne Hunter the star athlete is,” Nasloff said.
Hunter was number 26 on the football team last season for the Middies, and also ran a 10.2 100-yard dash, but could not participate in states because he violated the terms of his bond. “Find out who you really are without this whole aura of the athletics around you, because quite frankly in some ways it’s made you a Frankenstein monster. It’s made you think you’re owed certain things,” Nastoff said. The emotions inside of Hunter’s family were mixed. “I’m kind of happy and sad at the same time,” Hunter’s aunt said. “It’s kind of strict, but the judge had to do what he had to do.”
