National Nonprofit To Patrol Around Garinger High School

CHARLOTTE, NC — Garinger High School students may see some unfamiliar faces as they leave school. A national non-profit created to stop school violence is making it’s way to east Charlotte.

The Uvalde Foundation For Kids says their volunteers will be patrolling outside of the school property around Garinger High School.

“First of all, who are they and where do they come from?” asked Will Adams.

The youth violence prevention activist finds it strange that local volunteers are not the ones involved.

“You’re going to come and you’re going to do all of this for Garinger and nobody around here knows you,” explained Adams.

The Uvalde Foundation For Kids is based out of Dallas, Texas. The foundation was created after the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.

The nonprofit says it picked Garinger High after 17-year-old Daikwan Deese was shot and killed walking home from school last week.

CMS tells me they are not affiliated with the Uvalde foundation or their patrols — and that they don’t have permission to be on CMS property.

In a statement to WCCB, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools writes: “We are not affiliated with the Uvalde Foundation or their volunteer patrols. They do not have permission to be on CMS property.”

The Uvalde Foundatoin says their trained, unarmed patrol members do not enter school property without school permission and that since patrols are separate from school security they don’t need school collaboration.

The Uvalde Foundation For Kids is also offering an undisclosed reward for information that leads to an arrest of those responsible for the death of Deese.

We reached out to the foundation for further comment and are awaiting a response.