TTAPR on March 20th, 2012

Five students and one parent were charged with disorderly conduct after a fight broke out at Hunters Lane High School Friday. A 16-year-old student who police believe started it all will be charged in juvenile court with inciting a riot. The trouble began around 10 a.m. when a student threw a water balloon into the [...]

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TTAPR on February 6th, 2012

Memphis Police have charged a teen boy with the murder of another 17-year-old boy at a high school basketball game. 17-year-old Alvin Upchurch is charged with First Degree Murder in Perpetration of a Robbery for the shooting death of 17-year-old Terrence Wilkins. Wilkins was shot while leaving a basketball game at Central High School around [...]

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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 [...]

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TTAPR on August 12th, 2011

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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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville school officials say a fifth grade student was cut with a knife during a fight with another student at an elementary school. Metro schools spokesman Ralph Thompson told WKRN-TV that the fight happened on Tuesday afternoon at Buena Vista Elementary School. He said two boys got into a fight and [...]

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TTAPR on December 2nd, 2010

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 [...]

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TTAPR on November 13th, 2010

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 [...]

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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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