Alleged Attempted Ashley Hall Shooter Indicted on 4 Federal Charges

Alice Boland, the Beaufort woman accused of attempting to shoot school officials at Ashley Hall, was indicted on four charges by a federal grand jury in Charleston Wednesday morning.

Boland, 28, is charged with making a false statement in order to purchase a firearm, illegally possessing a firearm because of her status as a person who had been previously committed to a mental institution or who had been adjudicated as mentally incompetent, possession of a firearm in a school zone and attempted discharge of a firearm in a school zone, according to a statement issued by the office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina.

If convicted Boland faces up to 10 years in prison on both charges of making a false statement to purchase a gun and of illegally possessing a firearm. She also faces up to five years on each of the other charges against her, and the sentences resulting from convictions on either charge of possessing a firearm in a school zone and attempted discharge of a firearm in a school zone can not be served concurrently with any other sentence, according to the U.S. Attorney statement.

On Feb. 4 Charleston Police responded to Ahsley Hall for a report about a woman with a gun on campus. Boland was arrested on the sidewalk on Rutledge Avenue, just outside of school grounds, according to a Charleston Police Statement about the arrest.

The case against Boland was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Charleston Police Department.