A 20-year-old college student from San Diego has been rebuffed in her request to carry a concealed gun on campus for protection against a man facing criminal charges for stalking and menacing her.
Taylor Woolrich had asked officials at Dartmouth College, where she is a junior, for permission to carry the weapon for defense against possible attack by a 67-year-old man facing felony charges in San Diego County Superior Court.
Woolrich has a restraining order against Richard Bennett, who is set for a readiness hearing in court next week. Bennett, now in jail, faces charges of stalking, possession of a firearm while under a restraining order and unlawfully obtaining personal information about Woolrich’s family.
Woolrich has a “reasonable fear” of Bennett, who has repeatedly followed and harassed her, according to court documents filed by the district attorney’s office.
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