White man who harassed black Florida A&M students surrenders to police
A white man accused of pulling out a gun while he told a group of black Florida A&M University students that they weren't allowed in an off-campus apartment building turned himself in on Friday, a week after he was charged.
Don Crandall, Jr., 49, reported to Leon County Detention facility in Tallahassee after police charged him with improper exhibition of a firearm, a police spokesman told NBC News. If found guilty, he would face no more than a year in jail, according to the Florida State Attorney's Office.
Crandall was recorded grabbing his gun after telling four black students that they didn't "belong" in an off-campus apartment building on the weekend of Sept. 8. The video, filmed by one of the students, Isaiah Butterfield, has since been viewed nearly 500,000 times on Twitter.
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Butterfield told NBC News after incident that Crandall told Butterfield and his friends they couldn't come into the Stadium Centre apartment complex in Tallahassee unless they had a key. "This is my elevator," Crandall can be heard in the video saying. Then, he takes out a gun and holds it by his side.
"He made sure that we saw the gun. He was holding his arm in a way to emphasize," Butterfield said.
Crandall was identified as a general manager of the Baymont by Wyndham, Tallahassee Central, owned by Pax Hotel Group. The company said in a statement last Thursday that he had been fired.