The case of Sequoyah High School teacher Stacy Swallows, who held nine teenagers at gunpoint in a cemetery in early September, is now in the hands of a grand jury.
Hamilton County Sessions Court Judge Bob Moon sent the case to the grand jury today. He said the teens Swallows blocked on a road leaving the Shipley Cemetery late on a Saturday night weren’t doing anything illegal and never stepped foot onto the private graveyard in Shipley Cemetery.
Swallows, 45, who is out on bond and has returned to his job teaching diesel mechanics, is charged with nine counts of aggravated assault and false imprisonment.
The teens and their parents were present in the courtroom for the rules, along with more than 20 of Swallow’s supporters.