CALL: Deputies responded multiple times to Topsail student’s home before arrest

PENDER COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — The woman who called the Pender County Sheriff’s Office about a post her child made online wanted to speak to a deputy on the phone, instead of having one come to her house, according to the recording of the call.

The mother of Bryce Sheehan, who was arrested and charged on Tuesday with bringing a weapon on campus, called the sheriff’s office and asked a deputy to give her a call.

“I don’t know if I need to make a report, but I’d like to go over with them something that somebody just sent me about one of my children,” Sheehan’s mother said.

The person who answered the phone at the sheriff’s office asks for the address. Sheehan’s mother then says she doesn’t want them coming to her house.

“Unless they feel they need to of course because my neighbors are already up in arms about, because you all have already been over here multiple times,” Sheehan’s mother explains.

The sheriff’s office asked if this was in reference to what someone said to her child.

“No, it’s about a posting my child made and several other adults saw it and forwarded it to me,” she said.

That post was a picture of a gun Bryce Sheehan posted on Instagram, according to the sheriff’s office.

While we don’t know what Sheehan’s mother said to the deputy who returned her call, the sheriff’s office previously said the call alerted them that a student from Topsail High may be on the way to the campus with a gun.

Topsail High, Middle and Elementary Schools went on lockdown.

Sheriff deputies rushed to the school and say they found Sheehan, 18, in his car with a knife strapped to his leg and three other knives on him.

Sheehan was involuntarily committed a week before his arrest, according to the district attorney’s office.

He is being evaluated at a psychiatric hospital in Butner to see if he can stand trial. According to the motion filed in court, Sheehan suffers an ongoing brain injury and was on suicide watch at the jail.

No weapons ever made their way inside the school.

According to the Pender County Sheriff’s Office, deputies have responded to Sheehan’s house four times since November.

On November 21, a deputy responded twice to the home. The first time was in reference to skipping school and the other call related to a disturbance where family members were threatened.

Deputies responded again on May 24 for an 18-year-old male causing a disturbance.

The final time was on Tuesday, when Sheehan’s mother made the call to the Pender County Sheriff’s Office.