Authorities in Colorado say the two suspected shooters behind this week’s deadly STEM school shooting in Highlands Ranch had more planned for the day of their attack. According to KDVR, the two students attempted to ignite a residential blaze at the home of the older teen. Police reports indicate the fire did not spread far …
The mother of the 18-year-old student accused of gunning down several people at a Colorado school on Tuesday, killing one, told a reporter she had no idea what prompted her son to commit the violent act. The New York Post reports that it reached Stephanie Erickson, the mother of shooting suspect Devon Erickson, by phone …
Details continue to emerge following reports of a mass shooting at a STEM grade school near Denver, Colorado. As CrimeOnline previously reported, two suspects have been taken into custody as officers continue to investigate the incident at the Highlands Ranch school. According to the Houston Chronicle, Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock identified the suspected shooters …
A Kansas teacher who was fired in March after reportedly being filmed kicking a 5-year-old girl could face criminal charges months after the recorded incident. Though Crystal Smith was fired from her job at Bluejacket-Flint Elementary School, the Johnson County District Attorney’s Office told NBC News they’re currently investigating the February 21 complaint. A lawyer representing …
A former New Jersey superintendent who admitted to repeatedly defecating on a high school’s football and track field last year is suing the township where he was charged, alleging police released his mugshot to media outlets in a deliberate effort to shame him and ruin his reputation. In May 2018, Holmdel police arrested then-Kenilworth Public …
A Tennessee teacher is facing criminal charges following allegations that she dragged a preschool student into a classroom by her ankles. WTVF reported that a school resource officer witnessed Friday’s alleged assault involving a student and Pre-K teacher Carla Haynes. The officer reportedly spotted the incident unfold on surveillance cameras and reported it to the …
A medical examiner has determined that a 13-year-old Texas girl died due to complications of an undetected brain tumor, not from a fight she was reportedly involved in days before her death. KTRK reported that Kashala Francis’ April 24 death was caused by an intracranial neoplasm which doctors discovered following an altercation near her middle …
The father of a former Sarah Lawrence student is accused of recruiting college students into a controlling, sex-fueled cult, and and forcing them pay him back thousands of dollars in “damage” to his property — leading one student to consider suicide if he could not come up with the money. New York Magazine published an …
The girl’s mother said children were laughing as her daughter suffered blows to the head that could’ve caused her death
An Illinois mother has filed a federal lawsuit, claiming that bullying at two schools her 11-year-old son attended went unchecked to the point that he attempted to kill himself in February. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Teirra Black sued the Chicago Board of Education for a February 18 suicide attempt that has left her son, Jamari Dent, …
South Carolina officials announced Friday that criminal charges won’t be filed in last month’s death of a 10-year-old girl who reportedly died after a fight at her middle school, revealing the fifth-grader died as a result of an undiagnosed medical condition unrelated to the altercation. According to BuzzFeed, county prosecutor Duffie Stone said Raniya Wright’s March …
One school resource office went to the hospital and a teacher sustained injuries as part of a food fight at a high school in Connecticut this week, police say. According to Fox News, the incident took place on Friday at Westhill High School following promotion on social media by the students who planned the massive …
