Logan County Prosecutor John Bennett claims there was no clip in the weapon, but that the staff had no way of knowing that.
“He said they had spiders everyplace and he said he told them it wasn’t funny, and he couldn’t stand them, and he did indeed get a gun out. It had no clip in it, of course they wouldn’t know that, I wouldn’t either if I looked at it, to tell you the truth,” Bennett told WCHS.
Bennett has stated that White did not point the gun at any of the three secretaries who were present, but did threaten to shoot all of the spiders.
"Quite naturally, the ladies were concerned, as I would have been. Anybody would be, I would think, with a gun no matter where it was," Bennett said.
Following the incident, Bennett sent out a memo banning firearms in the office aside from the one carried by their investigator. He has stated that he does not intend to fire him at this time.
The incident was caught on surveillance footage and the Logan County Chief Deputy M.A. Mays has opened a criminal investigation.
Mays told WCHS that he does not anticipate filing any charges, however.
