{"id":990873,"date":"2023-09-30T15:43:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T22:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/?p=990873"},"modified":"2026-10-06T02:31:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T09:31:57","slug":"family-sues-school-sheriff-over-teens-suicide-just-days-after-his-arrest-being-expelled-for-vape-pen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/es\/2023\/09\/30\/family-sues-school-sheriff-over-teens-suicide-just-days-after-his-arrest-being-expelled-for-vape-pen\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlestown Football Player Jase Emily Died Three Days After a THC Vape Arrest, and the Expulsion Rule Is Still in the Handbook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlestown, Indiana –<\/strong> Jase Emily was a Charlestown High School Pirate with a 4.6 grade-point average, a football helmet still waiting on him, and three days between a locker and a funeral. On May 17, 2023, a school resource officer took a vape pen out of the 15-year-old’s locker, the pen tested positive for marijuana, and the teenager was handcuffed at school, taken to the Clark County Juvenile Detention Center, and put on the road to expulsion. On May 20 he died by suicide. His mother, Elyce Emily, later told WHAS11<\/a> that the part her son could not shake was simpler than any policy manual: he had been shackled where other people could see him, and football, the thing that organized his week, was gone.<\/p>\n

The family’s lawyers answered with a tort claim against the Greater Clark County Schools and the Clark County Sheriff’s Office, the notice Indiana law requires before someone sues a public body. Gordon Ingle, of the Ingle Law Office, said the punishment did not fit the conduct. He also said the district and the sheriff’s office had no probable cause to open the locker and no right to run a criminal interview of a juvenile before that child had a real chance to talk to a parent. Evan Bardach, also of the Ingle office, described the sequence the same way: a criminal investigation that started before anyone called the family.<\/p>\n

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In May, Jase died by suicide, three days after his arrest and the expulsion process that followed a cannabis vape found in his locker. (Family Handout)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Born November 3, 2007, in Louisville, Kentucky, Jase was remembered by relatives as a soft-spoken teenager who liked video games, music, and the people in his house. Elyce said he had not looked like a boy in crisis. \u00abHe never seemed unhappy or upset. He just liked his life and he liked everything,\u00bb she told WHAS11. What changed, she said, was the news that he would not play the next year. \u00abFinding out he wasn’t going to be able to play the next year, it was rough for him. And it didn’t hit us of what that might do to him until after he was gone.\u00bb At a later Charlestown game, cheerleaders wore blue shirts that read \u00abIn Loving Memory of Jase Emily,\u00bb and players put \u00abJE\u00bb stickers on their helmets.<\/p>\n

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15-year-old Jase Emily was arrested at school for having a vape pen. He took his own life three days later. Now his family is seeking justice. STORY: https:\/\/t.co\/pe24RgtvgI<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/DwZxnrVvOg<\/a><\/p>\n

— WHAS11 News (@WHAS11) September 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n