A 13-year-old boy is facing juvenile life in prison, meaning custody until he is 21, when he is scheduled to be sentenced later today.
Lynell Reynolds was found guilty of attempted second degree murder following a March shooting that left a victim paralyzed.
But before he is sentenced a number of Lynell's teachers will testify on behalf of the boy. Lynell is a star student at New Orleans ReNEW SciTech Academy. And the teachers will say the level of violence and trauma faced by the young man demand more than just confinement for eight years.
According to the Times-Picayune/New Orleans Advocate Tulane clinical professor of psychiatry placed Lynell in the top 1-percent of trauma severity. Dr. Denese Shervington says Lynell needs treatment in a psychiatric facility rather than incarceration.
