Ramsey County sheriff wants resource officers brought back to St. Paul Public Schools

Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS that 15-year-old Devin Scott would not have died if there had been trained school resource officers at Harding High School last Friday.

Tuesday, the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office charged 16-year-old, Nosakhere Holmes, with second-degree unintentional murder for the stabbing death of Scott.

Fletcher said school staff tried valiantly to break up a fight between Scott and Holmes, but added SROs would have been better equipped to defuse the situation.

“This incident, that Devin Scott was killed in, he would not have been killed if a police officer was present to intervene rather than school staff,” said Fletcher. “They, SROs, have the intelligence that we glean out there from our agencies and other law enforcement agencies. They would have known it was Devin Scott’s first day at school and that there were some people there who didn’t like him and they would have been able to intervene at the earliest moment.”