Powell Junior High

On March 23, 2007, the Powell Junior High School student packed his backpack with a gun, 3 knives, and latex gloves with the apparent intent to hold his classroom hostage and be killed by police, referred to as "suicide by cop."

"We were being blackmailed," said Donette Reid, Clark's mom. "That terrorism charge was blackmail."

His mom fears that his childhood is gone and his experience in prison will take his adulthood too.

"My heart is broken." she said through tears. "They just took my heart."

"I'm not a bad kid. I just lost it," he said. "I just want my old life back."

He said he was the victim of nine long months of bullying.

"I was suffering continuous bullying from a kid. Every once in a while he would say, 'Sir, yes, Sir,' because I was in the young marines and it really bothered me."

"He was screaming for help," said his mom, Denette Reid.

"I never thought to address the issue before this happened. My feeling is that if my child has to go to a school, the adults there have a responsibility to him that he feel safe," said Reid.

"I don't think my son is a martyr, " Reid said. "I do know that taking his entire future away isn't right. And that's not opinion. That's fact. It's not right."

David Michael Cantor, the teen suspect's attorney, said he has several concerns with this case.

One of them is the county attorney's decision to try Brent Clark as an adult. Another concern is charging him with terrorism.

"I think it's an insult to add a terrorism charge in this day and age to a case like this -- a 14-year-old boy. That's just politicking at the lowest level," Cantor said.

"With adult charges, he may never get into college, or a dormitory, they would ruin him simply because of an emotional problem," Cantor said.

Cantor describes his client as a good kid who was the victim of intense bullying at school. He said it was a cry for help and not an act of terrorism.

"What the public does not know is that we have discovered that he has been bullied at school for almost a year," Danette Reed said. "No one is willing to investigate that allegation."

A 7th grade girl walks home alone and when she gets to her apartment complex she said she was attacked by a classmate with a pocketknife.

"He said he was going to kill me if I say anything," said the girl who didn't want to be identified.

The boy let her go and she ran home and called police.

But since that day two weeks ago she's been getting sick, loosing weight and this week didn't go to school.

She claims it's just something she ate, but her mom thinks its something else, a bad case of nerves.

The accused attacker was a classmate. Clark and the girl had 7th hour Spanish together.

As for girl who was attacked, she believes the boy might have done it, but she doesn't feel like a hero.

She just wants her old life back.

The lawyer for Clark said charging him with terrorism goes way too far.

Something that could ruin his life instead of teach him a lesson. He calls it politicking by the prosecutor's office.

"I thought that was the appropriate charge," Thomas said. "How it ends being handled by the courts and what penalties are ultimately given to this alleged offender will be determined at a later date."

Danette Reed told K-T-A-R she and her husband called the police on their son hoping to get him help in the juvenile system.

The decision to charge him as an adult upset the boy's mother. Reed says she believes her son was crying out for help and years in an adult prison are unjustified.

Holly Hosac, spokeswoman for Mesa police, said the teen was a good student and apparently had trouble with another boy at school.