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Michigan Shooting, and more...

From: Lawrence A. Parker (occti)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 06:18:01 PST

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    Lawrence A. Parker
    Philosopher/Educational Consultant
    The Ohio Center for Critical Thinking Instruction
    http://www.acorn.net/lists-ht/occti.html
    Truth, Honor and Courage

    Update: Mich. boy, 6, kills classmate, 6

    MOUNT MORRIS TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - In a school shooting made especially
    disturbing by the age of the youngsters, a 6-year-old boy pulled a gun from
    his pants and shot a little girl to death in their first-grade classroom
    Tuesday in front of their horrified teacher and classmates. The boy fired a
    bullet from a .32-caliber gun inside Buell Elementary near Flint, striking
    6-year-old Kayla Rolland in the neck. She died a half-hour later. Genesee
    County Prosecutor Arthur A. Busch said there may have been "some sort of
    scuffle or quarrel on the playground" between the boy and girl a day earlier
    in which one slapped the other. The boy, whose name was not disclosed by
    authorities, was questioned by police and released. Police would not say
    where he was sent, but earlier in the day, Chief Eric King said the boy
    would be put into the custody of the state child welfare agency.

    Update: U.S. teens in murder rap in Germany

    DARMSTADT, Germany (AP) - With thousands of U.S. military personnel in
    Germany, police are used to dealing with the occasional Army brat who runs a
    red light or lifts beer from a supermarket. But three teen-age Americans who
    allegedly spent their nights hurling rocks at cars from a pedestrian bridge
    are facing something far more serious - murder charges for the deaths of two
    drivers. This community was on edge Tuesday as tabloids blared demands for
    justice. Military families worried about anti-American backlash. "They were
    American soldiers' sons - the killer kids from Darmstadt," screamed a banner
    headline in Bild, the nation's top-selling daily, which devoted half the
    front page to the story. On television, German psychologists and
    commentators tried to explain the mindset behind the attacks. They focused
    on the sense of isolation felt by U.S. military personnel in Germany and a
    lack of direction among today's teen-agers. 

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