A female student at a Connecticut high school is in critical condition Friday after a male student allegedly stabbed her at school because she would not go with him to tonight's junior prom, the
A female Jonathan Law High School student was stabbed shortly after 7 AM in what sources say was a dispute over a prom date.
UPDATE: Milford police chief Keith Mello says student has died.
The prom has been postponed.
Police would not speculate on the prom date report, but they are investigating that angle. “We’ll get the bottom of it or how it happened or why it happened,” Mello said.
Assault happened in hallway. Part of the attack was seen by a teacher.
Confirmed the victim is Maren Sanchez, 16.
The boy who attacked her is unidentified. He is 16.
Police responded to a deadly stabbing at a high school in Milford on Friday morning.
It happened at the Jonathan Law High School on Lansdale Avenue. Police called it an isolated incident between two students that happened inside the building.
The victim, 16-year-old junior Marion Sanchez, was found in a stairwell by a staff member and transported to the hospital where the student was pronounced dead. Police said she had neck injuries.
During a news conference Friday morning, school officials called Sanchez a vibrant honors student and a well-liked athlete.
The 16-year-old suspect, also a junior, was arrested by the school resource officer and could be arraigned later in the day. The officer said it happened around 7:14 a.m.
I hope he's tried as an adult, and if convicted - gets the death penalty. Anyone who acts like nothing more than a rabid animal should be put down like one.
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I hope he's tried as an adult, and if convicted - gets the death penalty. Anyone who acts like nothing more than a rabid animal should be put down like one.
Don't answer that it really doesn't need an answer, personally I think anyone who try's to kill anyone else unless in defense of themselves or loved ones or innocents are nuts, NUTS, Nuts. With the exception of the military in a war of course.
but we need to do a lot more psychological testing of kids in schools as well as anyone else who does crap like this.
WTF, Just WTF
Steve
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This gal would have been damned no matter what she did. If she had gone with him it would have been an abusive relationship, so she was smart to say no. (Want to bet she knew what he was like and that's WHY she said no?) But then saying no got her killed. The irony is there was no right answer for her. She was dead the second he set his sights on her, she would have been dead either way. It's a sad irony, but irony all the same.
I was reading what some people in Connecticut are saying. There was a comment about him being an ex-boyfriend and another comment that he told a friend he was going to kill her if she said no when he asked her to go. If someone knew what he was going to do and didn't do anything about it, they are partly responsible for what they let happen.
How did the student get the knife into the school?
Pants pocket??? Someone this sick and twisted doesn't take a zero tolerance policy to weapons on the premises as a rule they should follow. I doubt he cared whether or not he was expelled or arrested.
Pants pocket??? Someone this sick and twisted doesn't take a zero tolerance policy to weapons on the premises as a rule they should follow. I doubt he cared whether or not he was expelled or arrested.
Many schools these days have security guards and metal detectors. I was at a school a couple months ago that had three metal detectors that all 1500 students went through every morning. I wonder if this school had any, especially being in CT.
Many schools these days have security guards and metal detectors. I was at a school a couple months ago that had three metal detectors that all 1500 students went through every morning. I wonder if this school had any, especially being in CT.
I hate those dam metal detectors we have everywhere now, before it was just like courthouses and such. I have always carried a pocket knife, Buck Knife or Leatherman since the time they came out. they were all part of me so to speak, needing them for work I still to this day carry my Leatherman even though I don't work for a living it comes in handy every dam day. but the down side to that is that I have forgotten I had it on when I went someplace that they were not allowed.
recently, a few years ago was a witness in a court case and forgot I even had my Leatherman on and that court house did not have a metal detector, small town. When I was called as a witness the court bailiff noticed I had it on as I was about to sit down in the witness seat and he just motioned to me that I needed to give it to him, no problem just said I forgot I had it on. he showed me his under his coat and just smiled. after I was done he just handed it back to me as I was leaving the witness stand and whispered he forgets he has his on all the time as well.
I am sure more schools now have those metal detectors but they were never around when I went to school, hell half the pickup trucks in our high school student parking lot had a rifle on a gun rack in the back window. of course that was the early 70s and no one ever thought anything about them, we didn't go around shooting each other back then ether.
I hate those dam metal detectors we have everywhere now, before it was just like courthouses and such. I have always carried a pocket knife, Buck Knife or Leatherman since the time they came out. they were all part of me so to speak, needing them for work I still to this day carry my Leatherman even though I don't work for a living it comes in handy every dam day. but the down side to that is that I have forgotten I had it on when I went someplace that they were not allowed.
I agree with you. There's always a continuum between ultimate security and ultimate accessibility. I wish the current state of schools wasn't such that metal detectors were necessary, but for whatever reasons they are nowadays. The difficulty lies in finding an acceptable balance, and all compromises introduce risk to varying degrees.
