NEW ORLEANS (AP) — One of the teenagers at the center of the Jena Six civil rights demonstration shot himself amid worries that news reports of his Christmas Eve shoplifting arrest would extinguish his hopes of playing college football, a lawyer said Tuesday after talking with family members.Mychal Bell, 18, shot himself Monday night at his grandmother’s house in Monroe, La. He remained hospitalized Tuesday with what police said was a non-life-threatening chest wound.”When it was broadcast that he was charged with shoplifting he just felt that the whole year had been wasted and that he had worked all of that time for nothing,” Louis Scott, who represented Bell in the Jena Six case, said after talking to Bell’s family members.
Jena Six teen hospitalized — 12/30
December 30, 2008