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SCHOOL SHOOTINGS SURGE STIRS SRO CONCERNS
VOL. 23,, NO. 19
15 violent school shootings have been recorded this year
Alfred
Dupree
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Victoria
McCurley - Courtesy photo
Teens Sentenced to 40 Years for Plotting Massive Attack on Georgia HS
Arcadia Police Officers quickly swarm the campus a few years ago when a threat was issued via social media and a lockdown initiated. Luckily, no one was harmed in this instance. - Photo by Terry Miller/Beacon Media News
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ast week in Denver, a few miles away from Columbine High, yet another mass shooting took place at a STEM school. One student died trying to save his fellow students and eight others seriously injured. The police responded very quickly to the numerous 911 calls and identified and arrested two suspects. The previous week, another student died trying to save his fellow students at a university in North Carolina. Thus far in 2019, there have already been 15 school shootings in the U.S. in
which someone was seriously hurt or killed. The full scope of gun violence in the U.S. and abroad is immense. In the U.S. alone there were 346 mass shootings in 2017, or about one per day. Despite attempts by nonprofits like the Gun Violence Archive and by government agencies, it is impossible to grasp the enormous impact this has on our educators, students and deeply concerned community and parents. Despite all the recent publicity and seemingly all-too-frequent school shootings, the National Center for Education Statistics, a government education website, says: “Violent deaths at schools are rare but tragic events with farSEE SCHOOL SHOOTINGS PAGE 10
In perhaps one of the more stunning cases of a planned attack on a school, two teens have been sentenced to 40 years for planning a massive “Columbine style” attack on their school in 2017. The pair apparently drew up a “kill list” of their classmates. Pleas were non-negotiated and sentencing hearing began on Friday, May 10. Evidence was presented on May 10, 13 and 14 and Judge Ellen McElyea sentenced both defendants on the afternoon of May 14. “Both defendants, Alfred Dupree, 19 and Victoria McCurley, received a sentence of 40 years with the first 20 to be served in confinement in the state prison system and the remainder to be served on probation,” Shannon Wallace, Cherokee GA DA told Beacon Media.
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