September 6, 2010
Cowan already known to be armed and unstable: As I postulated in my last post about Thomas Cowan it seems that he was not unknown to police. In fact he had several violations for carrying illegal concealed weapons. Not to mention many nuisance charges that he was ordered to undergo psych evals which he never5 [...]
Filed under: School Violence
Tags: « Blountville • Officer Carolyn Gudger • police shooting • Sullivan Central High School • Tennessee • Thomas Cowan »
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August 30, 2010
Update: Sheriff says no doubt gunman at Sullivan Central High School intended to kill someone: Parents, students react to fatal shooting at Sullivan Central: It isn’t known why 62-year-old Thomas Cowan stormed into Sullivan Central High School in Blountville, Tennessee with two handguns but what is known is that he didn’t make it out. Police [...]
Filed under: School Violence
Tags: « Blountville • Officer Carolyn Gudger • police shooting • Sullivan Central High School • Tennessee • Thomas Cowan »
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August 7, 2010
Hainstock seeking new trial for murder: Eric Hainstock was sentenced to life in prison for the shooting death of Weston schools principal John Klang. Hainstock was 15 when he killed Principal Klang. He’s been one of those that the kid criminal crowd have touted that he was too young to be sentenced to adult prison. [...]
Filed under: Eric Hainstock
Tags: « Eric Hainstock • John Klang • shooting • Weston Schools »
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July 26, 2010
Victim’s kin: Pity for John Odgren ‘unthinkable’: The parents of James Alenson have spoken out on the latest ploy to get their son’s killer out of jail early. Jon and Carman Alenson had this to say about John Odgren’s request to have his conviction lowered to second degree murder. “Our family waited three and a [...]
Filed under: Lincoln-Sudbury
Tags: « James Alenson • John Odgren • Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School • stabbing »
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July 25, 2010
Carneal hearing will look at guilty plea appeal: Heath High School gunman Michael Carneal will receive a hearing to see if he was mentally competent to see if his guilty plea was valid. If you’ll recall when the 27-year-old Carneal in 1997 he shot and killed 3 students at heath High School in Paducah, Kentucky. [...]
Filed under: School Violence
Tags: « Heath High School • Michael Carneal • school shooting »
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July 24, 2010
Odgren’s lawyers ask judge to reduce murder conviction: The lawyers for John Odgren have requested that the judge throw out his first degree murder conviction and reduce the charge to second degree murder so he could be eligible for parole after 15 years. Odgren was convicted of first degree murder for stabbing James Alenson in [...]
Filed under: Lincoln-Sudbury
Tags: « James Alenson • John Odgren • Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School • stabbing »
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July 13, 2010
Colo. school shooting suspect pleads not guilty: As expected Bruco Eastwood has entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. If you’ll recall the 32-year-old Eastwood opened fire on Deer Creek Middle School in Jefferson County, Colorado striking two students who luckily survived. As I previously posted not only did Eastwood claim that [...]
Filed under: Deer Creek
Tags: « Bruco Eastwood • Deer Creek Middle • shooting »
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July 10, 2010
Man Sentenced in Computer Lab Shooting: I originally posted about Rodney Smith here and here. He opened fire at South Mountain Community College in Phoenix, Arizona striking three people. One of the people was his intended target Isaac Smith. Isaac Smith had his day of karma coming as the shooting was in retaliation for a [...]
Filed under: School Violence
Tags: « Rodney Smith • shooting • South Mountain Community College »
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July 3, 2010
Discovery Middle School shooting suspect to be tried as adult: I originally posted about Todd Brown here. He was the 14-year-old from Discovery Middle School in Madison, Alabama who was shot in killed in the hallways of the school back in February. His alleged shooter has now been charged as an adult. He is 14-year-old [...]
Filed under: Discovery Middle
Tags: « Discovery Middle School • Hammad Memon • shooting • Todd Brown »
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June 20, 2010
Sources: Amy Bishop Attempts Suicide: Former UAHuntsville professor Pete Rose Moe Howard Emo Phillips Amy Bishop is said to have attempted suicide after finding out that she had been indicted in her brother’s shooting death. Was she ashamed for bringing dishonor to her family or something? I guess she figured it’s ok to be accused [...]
Filed under: UAHuntsville
Tags: « Amy Bishop • shooting • UAHuntsville »
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