The fatal shooting of 17-year-old Terrance Wilkins outside Central High School on Friday was an isolated incident, but also a sign of youth gun violence targeted for greater attention, Memphis police and school officials said Tuesday. Wilkins died over the weekend at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis after being shot in the head at [...]
A 17-year-old student charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of a Christian school principal has been detained without bond and ordered to undergo a mental evaluation. Eduardo Marmolejo (mar-moh-LEH’-ho) is charged with killing 49-year-old Suzette York on Wednesday at Memphis Junior Academy, a Seventh-day Adventist school of about 100 students. He had an [...]
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Father angry son’s attacker got only a 3-day suspension A school bus fight left one 9-year-old boy with a large cut on his leg and the boy’s father upset that more wasn’t done to punish the 8-year-old who used the razor of a pencil sharpener to cut his son. Monday, Jace, a fourth-grader at Montgomery County [...]
Ten Howard High School students were arrested Friday after two separate fights broke out at the school on South Market Street. A male teacher tried to break up one of the fights, but he was kept from doing so by a male student, the sheriff’s office said. The teacher suffered a broken foot. One of [...]
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Five Marion Junior High School students faced a judge today, charged with disorderly conduct. School officials and police say this was an average school fight but yet some in the community are still worried. Deronique Turner says she was in the middle of a brawl at her school Thursday morning. “We were trying to get [...]
Here again teachers and principals intervene in fight to protect the students. The staff are injured. Thus showing again that most school violence involve students, not staff and staff need tools to keep these students safe. A Chattanooga school officer and a student crashed through a window when the officer tried to break up a [...]
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This is an interesting article and especially the comments because deals with the issues of: Intended Consequences. Here the youths were placed in juvenile detention centers, but then released to community programs within days and were back in court shortly afterwards. Unintended Consequences. The article deals withe unintended consequences on the youths whose behavior is [...]
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MOUNT JULIET, Tenn. — A system put in place to ensure students’ safety failed, and a mother is demanding answers after her daughter was injured in a fight Wednesday morning. No Tape of Incident Exists as School Bus Camera Was Not Working During Beating The Mount Juliet school district worked recently to increase security on [...]
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A fight broke outside the Frayser High School cafeteria Tuesday, shortly after 11am. Police were called and arrested two 18-year-old students. Five others were taken to juvenile court. “My friend’s brother told me he wanted a one-on-one. So I waited till school to start, and after lunch, started a fight,” said Latravis Vinson, a 15-year-old [...]
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