Halting crowdfunding scams, Attorney General says state will pay for Florida school shooting victims’ funerals
Mass shooting
“If you think you’re going to scam people during this tragedy, you’re not.”
School Crimes
February 15, 2018
EXCLUSIVE: Deadly school shooter’s teen victim tells horror story
Nancy Grace talks with a student who was barricaded in the school during the deadly attack on her show ‘Crime Stories’
School Crimes
February 15, 2018
Florida teen charged with 17 murders legally bought AR-15
PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — An orphaned 19-year-old with a troubled past and his own AR-15 rifle was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder Thursday morning after being questioned for hours by state and federal authorities following the deadliest school shooting in the U.S. in five years. Fourteen wounded survivors were hospitalized as bodies were …
School Crimes
February 14, 2018
Officials identify alleged shooter who left numerous people dead, injured at Florida high school
PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — A former student opened fire at a Florida high school Wednesday, killing “numerous” people, sending students running out into the streets and SWAT team members swarming in before authorities took him into custody about a mile away. Frantic parents rushed to the scene and ambulances converged in front of the Marjory …
Mass shooting
February 14, 2018
BREAKING: Florida school shooting suspect in custody
Authorities have reportedly apprehended the suspect in a mass shooting incident at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Fox 10 News reports that police have a male suspect believed to be the gunman responsible for the deadly shooting in custody. He has not been identified but police say he was a former student at …
Court
February 13, 2018
After shooting ‘drunk’ dad dead, boy kisses his pets, then drives to school & fatally shoots first-grader: Report
A South Carolina court heard the confession made by a 14-year-old boy after he shot and killed his father before fatally shooting a 6-year-old at his former elementary school in September 2016. The Anderson Independent Mail reported that the 48-page transcript, which can be read in full below, was made public as an Anderson County court …
School Crimes
February 5, 2018
Dental students took selfie with severed heads: Report
By DAVE COLLINS, Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Graduate dental school students and a top University of Connecticut orthodontics professor took a selfie with two severed heads used for medical research at a training workshop at Yale University last year — an episode Yale officials called “disturbing” and “inexcusable.” The selfie was taken in June …
School Crimes
January 26, 2018
High school teacher offers students better grades in exchange for penis photos: Cops
A Spanish teacher in Passaic, New Jersey, is accused of offering two teen students a better grade if they provided him with pictures of their penises. According to NorthJersey.com, a Passaic High School student, identified only as Ro.C., claimed he agreed to Jose Maria’s request to send a picture of his privates in an exchange for …
School Crimes
January 23, 2018
NIGHTMARE: 2 dead, 17 injured in Kentucky school shooting; suspect held
By KRISTIN M. HALL and DYLAN LOVAN, Associated Press BENTON, Ky. (AP) — A 15-year-old student opened fire with a handgun inside his rural Kentucky high school Tuesday, killing two classmates, injuring 19 others and sending hundreds fleeing for safety. Police were seen leading a teenager away in handcuffs. It was the nation’s first fatal school …
School Crimes
January 22, 2018
15-year-old girl shot at Texas school; boy, 16, arrested
ITALY, Texas (AP) — A 15-year-old student was injured in a shooting at her high school in Texas Monday morning and a 16-year-old boy, also a student at the school, has been taken into custody, sheriff’s officials said. The girl was airlifted to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas following the shooting in the town of …
School Crimes
January 10, 2018
Teen student fatally shoots self in elementary school bathroom: Police
A 14-year-old Arizona boy found dead in an elementary school bathroom Tuesday died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police confirmed Wednesday. According to KOLD, Coronado Elementary School in Sierra Vista went under lockdown at around 9:20 a.m. Tuesday following reports of an active shooter. Responding police canvassed the campus and found the eighth-grader deceased in the …
Child Abuse
January 5, 2018
Middle school teacher who slashed wife’s throat while children were in the home was having sex with teen student
Police investigating a husband’s alleged knife attack on his wife discovered that the had been having an ongoing affair with a teen student at the school where he was a math teacher. WZZM 13 reports that James Philip Chelekis, 32, of Wyoming, Michigan, pleaded guilty to three felony charges, including assault with intent to murder. Chelekis …