Starkville superintendent convicted on assault charges
STARKVILLE (AP) – A Mississippi school superintendent has been found guilty of misdemeanor assault charges after admitting he fired a handgun into the air during a confrontation with a neighbor last year.
Justice Court Judge C. Martin Haug found Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District Superintendent Lewis Holloway found guilty Friday of two counts of simple assault. The Commercial Dispatch reports Haug heard from five witnesses and reviewed video interviews recorded by a sheriff’s deputy after the Aug. 9, 2015, incident.
Holloway was fined $500 on each count.
Attorney Roy Carpenter says he will appeal the conviction in circuit court and Holloway, who has been superintendent in Starkville since 2012, declined comment.
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