When McKelvey was arrested a third time, after being near a (non-fatal) shooting, his father refused to pay his bail money. After 41 days in jail, McKelvey asked his mother to pay for bail, at which point his father decided to "give him another chance".<ref name=":0" /> After his release, he began attending night school<ref name=":0" /> and graduated from [[Berkeley High School (Moncks Corner, South Carolina)|Berkeley High School]].<ref name="TheState">{{cite news |last1=Schechter |first1=Maayan |title=SC native Charlamagne is changing the 2020 conversation one candidate at a time |url=https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article231196593.html |access-date=8 December 2020 |publisher=The State |date=13 June 2019}}</ref>
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