NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- A high school valedictorian who interrupted his graduation ceremony to try to deliver the speech traditionally given by the student body president has been cited for disorderly conduct, his father said.
Chris Linzy, 18, grabbed the microphone as his name was called out Friday with the rest of his classmates and said about two sentences before he was cut off and removed from the ceremony.
After meeting with Gallatin High School Principal Rufus Lassiter on Monday, the student's father, David Linzy, said he thought the situation was resolved with letters of apology to the school's faculty and the school board.
But the principal then "went down and swore out an arrest warrant," Linzy told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
Calls to Lassiter at the high school in Gallatin, about 30 miles northeast of Nashville, and his home were not returned Tuesday. Calls to the Sumner County School Board were also not immediately returned.
Only the student body president speaks during the school's graduation ceremony and Chris Linzy said Monday he thought he should have given a speech.
"I was the valedictorian and I was the one who achieved the most," he said.
David Linzy said his son was scheduled to appear in court on June 12.