Nicholls running back Kaleb Kador sold teammate Altee Tenpenny the gun he was found with on Oct. 18, according to multiple police reports.

Kador, 19, from Baton Rouge, told University Police that he found the gun on the side of Siegen Lane in Baton Rouge while on his way back to campus on Sept. 29. Kador exited the vehicle, picked up the gun and got back into his car and drove back to Thibodaux, parking next to Calecas Hall.

According to a University Police report, Kador stated his initial intention was to sell the handgun at a pawnshop. After learning of the weapon in Kador’s possession, Tenpenny approached Kador on Oct. 2nd in order to get the gun from him. Tenpenny told Lafourche Parish deputies he did this because Kador “gets into trouble.”

The exchange of the weapon happened on campus, according to University Police.

According to the Lafourche Parish Police report on the incident, Lafourche Parish deputies approached Tenpenny after reports of a single gunshot was heard in the area of Canal Blvd and W. 2nd St. around 5:40 a.m. on Oct. 18. Tenpenny cooperated with deputies, openly admitting the firearm was on him and he was the one who discharged the weapon.

Tenpenny told the deputies he fired the weapon to ensure there was not a bullet loaded in the chamber of the gun. He was charged with illegal use of weapons, illegal carrying of weapons and obstructing public passages.

The charges stemming from his arrest is what prompted Tenpenny to be suspended from the football team. He was not allowed to reside on campus following the incident, but was given the option to continue his semester if he chose to do so. Tenpenny decided to withdraw from the University to receive W’s in his classes.

The next day Tenpenny was involved in a single car accident while on the way back to his hometown of North Little Rock, Arkansas. and transported to Delta Regional Medical Center in Greenville, Mississippi where he passed away from injuries sustained in the wreck.

Despite initially lying to University Police investigators that he and Tenpenny were not friends and didn’t know anything about a gun or an exchange of money. Kador eventually apologized and said he should not have picked the gun up in Baton Rouge or sold it to Tenpenny.

Kador is criminally charged with possession of a gun in a Firearm Free Zone and received a disciplinary summons from the University for violation of the student code of conduct regarding weapons on campus. A Judicial Affairs Committee will decide his status as a student, and Kador has an arraignment date in Lafourche Parish Court on Nov. 23.

“In my 12-year career at Nicholls, we have had maybe three or four incidents involving the possession of illegal weapons on campus,” Nicholls Police Chief, Craig Jaccuzzo said.

Jaccuzzo told Bridgit Mire of the Houma Courier that considering the increased number of school shootings around the country, there is zero tolerance policy.