No charges to be filed after incident at Richland 2 school board meeting, police say

No charges will be filed after an incident at a Richland 2 school board meeting earlier this week, the Richland County Sheriff’s Department announced Thursday.

After a verbal altercation at the Tuesday school board meeting, Superintendent Baron Davis confronted a member of the public who had exchanged words with Davis’ wife. The person who had exchanged words with Davis’ wife, Gary Ginn, accused the superintendent of charging at him to the point that Davis had to be restrained by security.

Richland 2 has denied Davis charged at him, and witness accounts of the incident vary.

Two police reports were filed following the incident. The first was from a deputy who removed a member of the public from the meeting, and the second was filed by Ginn. Deputies collected statements from witnesses, and after presenting evidence to the Fifth Circuit Solicitor’s Office, prosecutors declined to file charges, according to the release from Richland County Sheriff’s Department.

This story was originally published January 27, 2022 at 1:48 PM.