MILWAUKEE – Sarion McGee, 23, a school basketball recruit from Milwaukee is in jail with out bond in New York state, dealing with greater than a dozen felony costs after officers say they discovered him on the Canisius Faculty campus with unlawful weapons and ammunition.

McGee’s family members say there’s rather more to the story.

McGee has performed school ball earlier than, together with at Grambling State. Canisius Faculty was recruiting McGee when he was arrested for allegedly having three unlawful weapons and ammunition. His household and fiancee say reasonably than a legal, McGee is a job mannequin.

“Give him an opportunity, and get to know him,” mentioned Thea Cosey, McGee’s mother. “That’s all I would like.”

McGee’s household mentioned he is a person who’s going locations with followers on and off the courtroom. 

“He helps youngsters to know that they are often no matter they need to be,” mentioned Cosey.

“It’s not simply to followers. It’s to us,” mentioned John McGee, Sarion McGee’s uncle. “We glance as much as him. I look as much as him.”

“Rising up, my dad wasn’t actually in my life, so my huge brother and my uncle, they’re my position fashions,” mentioned Will Morgan, McGee’s brother.

Arrested at Canisius Faculty the place he was being recruited to play basketball, McGee has now discovered himself in a special courtroom.

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“I really feel like they’re making him out to be a mass shooter, and that’s clearly false,” mentioned Teri Goins, fiancee. “I simply need individuals to know he’s a delicate large.”

In keeping with prosecutors, Canisius Faculty Public Security officers discovered McGee with two loaded, unlawful handguns together with magazines on him and a shotgun and extra magazines in his automotive parked close to the varsity’s Athletic Middle.

In courtroom, McGee’s lawyer argued that was all bought legally in Wisconsin and Illinois for defense, including that he had all of his issues in his automotive as a result of he was nonetheless on the lookout for a spot to stay.

This comes after a Might taking pictures through which a person is accused of killing 10 individuals at a grocery store a bit of greater than a mile from Canisius Faculty’s campus.

The decide introduced up the nationwide debate on weapons in courtroom, calling the weapons and ammunition discovered an “arsenal,” questioning how anybody couldn’t know that every state has completely different gun legal guidelines.

“I can’t get too deep into stuff,” mentioned Cosey.

For authorized causes, McGee’s household and associates aren’t speaking particulars in regards to the case itself, however specializing in the place McGee goes from right here.

“His legacy will proceed as a result of nothing’s going to cease him from getting what God’s received for him,” mentioned Cosey.

McGee faces 15 counts and as much as 15 years in jail if convicted of essentially the most critical cost. 

The Related Press contributed to this report.