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E.O. Green shooter takes plea

Published on November 25, 2011 by Trench Reynolds in E.O. Green and School Violence. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Brandon McInerney

Calif. teen faces 21 years in prison after guilty plea in killing of gay classmate:

After a mistrial 17-year-old Brandon McInerney has pleaded guilty to the 2008 shooting death of 15-year-old Lawrence King inside E.O. Green Junior High in Oxnard, California. By all reports McInerney was a white supremacist homophobe who felt threatened by the openly gay King. According to some reports that I have read McInerney was a bully to King but King fought back by making faux passes at McInerney.

According to terms of the plea deal McInerney will be sentenced to 21 years in prison as he was charged as an adult. So he’ll be 38 when he gets out and will be able to still lead somewhat of a life. Lawrence King doesn’t have that option anymore.

What really kills me is that Lawrence King’s father has the gall to make any sort of comments about the case.

“I don’t think that 21-year sentence is justice for my son, but I understand the reality that was facing the DA of trying to convict a defendant who was 14 … when he committed the murder,” Greg King said.

While I agree with him Mr. King kicked his son out of the house for being gay. Of course I guess he has to keep up appearances since he’s suing the school district for his son’s death. A son he basically disowned for being gay. I wouldn’t be surprised if Mr. King looked at the lawsuit as a way for his son to make up for being gay and murdered. Pathetic.

James Lewerke released

Published on November 25, 2011 by Trench Reynolds in James Lewerke and School Violence. 1 Comment Tags: , , .

James Lewerke in 2005

Valpo High School slasher out of treatment seven years after attack:

It’s been four years since I last posted about James Lewerke and seven years since he committed his crime. For those of you who weren’t around here back then a then 15-year-old Lewerke attacked some of his classmates at Valparaiso High School in Indiana with a machete and a tree saw. In 2007 he pleaded guilty but insane and was sentenced to a mental facility in Iowa until he turned 21. Now, he’s been released from that facility and for once I’m ok with it.

Lewerke was one of the rare instances where I thought that the suspect in a school attack was actually mentally ill. Doctors testified that he thought God told him to make the attack. According to reports Lewerke has had no incidents while at the facility and that he’s sorry for what he did back in 2004.

Now he has 9 years of probation to fulfill. It sounds like that he has responded to his treatment very well. I wish nothing but the best for James and I hope he continues to thrive.

Deer Creek Middle shooter sent to psych hospital

Published on November 12, 2011 by Trench Reynolds in Deer Creek and School Violence. 3 Comments Tags: , , .

Bruco Eastwood

School-shooting suspect sentenced to time served, will spend years in mental facility:

Not surprisingly Bruco Eastwood, the triggerman at 2010′s shooting at Deer Creek Middle School in Littleton, Colorado, has been ordered to the state psychiatric hospital in Pueblo.

By all reports Eastwood seemed sane at the hearing even going as far to apologize for his actions.

“Mea culpa,” he said in front of the packed courtroom. “I apologize on my behalf. The words can’t express how remorseful I am about my reactions to my mental illness. I am sorry.”

“I have lost a lot more than my dignity and respect. I have lost a lot of forgoing perspective into my life. I’ve lost everything,” he added.

Personally I have no doubt that Eastwood was in fact insane at the time of the shooting and I also had no problem that he was found not guilty by reason of insanity. What I do have a concern about, as I’ve mentioned before, if his treatment is successful and he’s released to the public is anyone going to be keeping track of him to make sure he’s maintaining his treatment? Or are we just delaying a repeat of his actions in a few years?

15-year-old girl shot at Cape Fear High School

Published on October 25, 2011 by Trench Reynolds in School Violence. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Ta'von McLaurin

Charges filed in Cape Fear High shooting; victim in critical condition Tuesday:

2 teens arrested in school shooting at Cape Fear High in N.C.; Girl, 15, shot as she ate lunch:

15-year-old Catilyn Abercrombie was shot yesterday while eating lunch outside Cape Fear High School in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The bullet struck her in the neck and the bullet is lodged against her spine. She is currently in critical condition. My thoughts and prayers go out to her friends and family.

Two suspects have been arrested in her shooting. The triggerman is said to be an unnamed 15-year-old who allegedly shot Catilyn with a .22 rifle. Also arrested was 18-year-old Ta’von McLaurin for aiding and abetting. Police say the pair were caught on camera going through the halls of the school with the .22 rifle.

Now granted that a .22 is not the largest rifle in the world but it’s still a rifle. How in the hell did no notice these cowards going through the halls of the school with a rifle until after the fact?

Catilyn is not believed to be the target and locals say that there has been a gang problem in the school.

Between gangs, bullying, violence and sex related crimes I think we’ll see the demise of public schools within a generation or two. When a school says they have a gang problem it’s a failure between the school, police and most importantly the parents for allowing this to happen.

No word yet on whether the juvenile will be charged as an adult but by all rights he should be.

I’ll post more as detail’s become available and time allows.

Thanks to my lovely and talented wife Jade for the tip.

UPDATE 10/31/2011: The alleged 15-year-old shooter has been named. He is said to be Charles Underwood Jr. No word yet on if he has been charged as an adult.

Hainstock’s conviction upheld again

Published on October 10, 2011 by Trench Reynolds in Eric Hainstock and School Violence. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Eric Hainstock

Appeals court: Hainstock conviction stands:

In 2006 a then 15-year-old Eric Hainstock shot and killed John Klang in the halls of Weston Schools where Klang was the principal. The usual excuses were given, he was bullied, he had a hard home life, etc. Hainstock has become a favorite of the peal-twisters since he was tried as an adult and sentenced to life in prison.

Hainstock had previously tried to get a new trial saying his counsel was ineffective but that appeal was denied.

Last week The Wisconsin Court of Appeals upheld Hainstock’s conviction once again denying him a new trial. This time it was argued that his confession should have been ruled inadmissible which the court agreed with. However the court also ruled that witness testimony would have been more than enough to convict Hainstock and send him to prison for life.

Now before everyone gets all weepy eyed over this punk spending his life in prison John Klang actually tried to help Hainstock with not only the alleged bullying but also with Hainstock’s home life. However he suspended Hainstock for being caught with cigarettes which was his job and Hainstock fires a number of bullets into him at almost point-blank range.

That’s not someone I want in my society.

Hainstock’s lawyer says he will appeal to the Wisconsin Supreme Court but I have to say what I always say in these cases.

John Klang doesn’t have the luxury of appealing his unwarranted death sentence.

Deer Creek Middle shooter not guilty by reason of insanity

Published on October 7, 2011 by Trench Reynolds in Deer Creek and School Violence. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Bruco Eastwood

Colo School Shooting Verdict: Not Guilty, Insanity:

Back in early 2010 batshit crazy rat bastard Bruco Eastwood shot two kids outside of Deer Creek Middle School in Littleton, Colorado. Yes that Littleton, Colorado. The victims have recovered but I’m sure they’re scarred in more ways than one from this.

Anyway this week Eastwood was found not guilty by being batshit crazy. I don’t have a problem with this verdict because I posted before about Eastwood’s mental problems which included such things as he was picking imaginary critters off of himself that he called transforming forces and that he heard voices from a Neilsen box on his TV.

What I do have a problem with is what’s happening to him after the verdict. According to the article he’ll probably spend less than 7 1/2 years in a mental facility. That’s just great. Let’s say that the treatment he receives there and actually makes him sane. What happens if he decides he doesn’t want to take his meds anymore? What if the imaginary critters and the voices come back?

What I’m saying is I have no problem with him getting treatment to make him better but just don’t turn him back out on the streets without any real supervision.

E.O. Green shooter to be retried

Published on October 7, 2011 by Trench Reynolds in E.O. Green and School Violence. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Brandon McInerney

Calif. teen to be retried in gay classmate killing:

Long story short if you’re new. In 2008 then 14-year-old Brandon McInerney shot and killed 15-year-old Lawrence King in the back of the head inside E.O. Green Junior High in Oxnard, California. King was openly gay and used that to his advantage to combat the bullying of McInerney. McInerney being a hate filled mental midget couldn’t handle being made to look foolish by a gay kid so he executed him.

McInerney’s trial resulted in a hung jury because some dumbass jurors wanted to convict him on voluntary manslaughter instead of murder. When someone is shot in the back of the head it’s murder. It’s not called execution style for no reason.

Anyway the little ball of pus will be retried except this time the charge of a hate crime is not being pursued. Hate crime charges are bullshit anyway. Every violent crime is a hate crime. They don’t deter hate crimes from happening. The only good thing about them is that they tack on additional years to sentences. That’s if the scum are convicted in the first place.

Hopefully the jury won’t be half filled with assclowns and will send this little ball of puke to prison where he belongs.

Kid stabs his ex-girlfriend to death in the halls of LA high school

Published on October 7, 2011 by Trench Reynolds in School Violence. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Abraham Lopez

Fatal stabbing at South East High prompts call for more security:

Last week 18-year-old Abraham Lopez stabbed his ex-girlfriend, 17-year-old Cindi Santana, to death in the lunchroom of South East High School in Los Angeles.

My guess is this macho douchebag lived by the ‘If I can’t have you no one can’ credo considering that 3 days prior to Cindi’s murder Lopez was released from jail after being arrested for making threats against her. I’ll get into more of that in a second.

I’m not sure how this came about but police thought that Lopez may have planted a bomb in the Santana’s family car so the parking garage at the hospital had to be evacuated.

The high schools in our country have declined into nothing but coed prisons where anybody can be shanked on any given day and do you know whose fault it is? The parents of these thugs who refuse to do anything about their violent kids. Lopez got out of jail after somebody paid the $50,000 bail. Who do you think probably paid that bail to get their stabby little snowflake out of jail?

It’s not going to get better either. With each generation we become a more trashy and violent society and eventually the bad will outnumber the good and violent crime will spread to every corner of our country.

H/T to Bonnie.

UPDATE 5/13/2012: Lopez has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors will be seeking 1st degree murder charges.

Memphis teacher killer charged as an adult

Published on September 8, 2011 by Trench Reynolds in School Violence. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Eduardo Marmolejo

Teen to be tried as adult in stabbing death of principal at East Memphis private school:

Not only has 17-year-old Eduardo Marmolejo been charged as an adult in the stabbing death of Suzette York, his teacher and principal, but more information has been released about the crime as well.

First off I kind of scoffed when I read that Marmolejo studied up on knife combat because it seems he used it to his full efficacy.

On the day of the attack, he slipped his hands into gloves and first stabbed York’s windpipe so she couldn’t scream for help, prosecutor Reginald Henderson said. York was stabbed eight more times, in her face, chin and neck. Marmolejo then ran to the bathroom, where he washed away York’s blood, changed clothes and flushed the knife and gloves down the toilet, police said.

He’s more than just some selfish spoiled brat, he’s also a stone cold killer. This murder couldn’t have been any more calculated for someone his age. Most teen knife wielding assailants would have gone for center mass rather than the throat.

Speaking of someone his age here’s what happened at his hearing to see if he would be tried as an adult.

Eduardo Marmolejo hasn’t said he regrets the stabbing death of his principal, prosecutors said. But he has lamented that a likely prison stint would put his dream of fatherhood on hold.

The teen laughed when he entered a courtroom for a hearing Wednesday in Shelby County Juvenile Court. During breaks, he smiled and muttered rap lyrics though deputies repeatedly hushed him.

This is definitely someone who has no regard for human life in any way shape or form. I have no problem labeling him as a psychopath.

There’s also been more of a motive released other than he didn’t like her. It seems that Marmolejo had some kind of school privilege revoked by Ms. York last school year. I can’t even imagine what privilege would be worth killing over in such a bloody fashion. I would lay odds on this rather him feeling his manhood was challenged by a woman but that remains to be seen.

Of course the mental illness issue has been brought up. The defense claims that he lives in a fantasy world where he believes he’s a ninja. The prosecution says that Marmolejo is competent enough to assist in his defense but they do say that he has a personality disorder. I expect to see the Asperger’s defense come out during the course of this story.

If you think that he should not be tried as an adult I would love to hear your reasoning behind that and yes I am being sincere.

UPDATE: Prosecutors are keeping mum about the privilege that was taken away stating they don’t want to try the case before its time.

UPDATE 4/9/2012: Marmolejo has pleaded not guilty and a judge has agreed to a defense request for a mental evaluation of Marmolejo.

E.O. Green shooting trial ends in mistrial

Published on September 5, 2011 by Trench Reynolds in E.O. Green and School Violence. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Brandon McInerney

Retrial sought in gay student’s slaying:

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything about the shooting at E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard, California.

In 2008 a then 14-year-old Brandon McInerney shot fellow student, 15-year-old Lawrence King, twice in the back of the head.

King was an openly gay student who sometimes dressed in women’s clothes. He lived at a shelter since his own family threw him out. McInerney allegedly bullied King for being gay but King would make faux passes at McInerney to combat the bullying. So McInerney did the not so logical thing of shooting King twice in the back of the head. Investigators also turned up evidence that McInerney may have white supremacist beliefs.

McInerney was charged as an adult.

Last week was McInerney’s trial and it ended in a hung jury. Not because they don’t believe McInerney killed King but on what he should be convicted on. Some of the jurors wanted to convict on voluntary manslaughter while others wanted to convict on first or second degree murder.

I realize that I am far from a lawyer but I don’t see how this can be anything but first degree murder. McInerney went someplace and got a gun and made the conscious effort to bring the gun to school just to shoot Lawrence King. It boggles my mind how the jury was hung.

McInerney’s lawyer claims that McInerney was being sexually harassed by King which I don’t believe to be true. Even if it was true is premeditated murder the proper response? No, it isn’t, ever.

Prosecutors have said they will retry McInerney. Hopefully they can get a jury that isn’t halfway filled with idiots.

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