Suspect in Reno middle school shooting to undergo psych exam:
James Scott Newman, the Pine Middle School shooter, has been ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation, but he must remain in juvenile detention until the evaluation is completed.
Newman has been expelled for a year not only from Pine Middle but also from every school in the state of Nevada. If Newman is found guilty, he could be held until he is 21.
Charges filed in alleged Sierra Vista High hazing incident:
I told you about the Sierra High School hazing incident here.
Basically, six basketball team members jumped a freshman player and one of them gave him the old UFIA.
Well, only one of the alleged attackers is facing charges. I’m going to assume it’s Stinkyfinger himself.
The article is extremely light on details, which is not surprising considering I’ve received comments from a couple of people with connections to the school that said they’re not surprised that the school is trying to keep this under the radar.
Teenage Victim’s Father Speaks Out about Daughter Being Solicited Online:
This one is so wrong on so many levels, I don’t even know where to begin…
An FBI investigation led to the arrest of a Wisconsin man accused of having a relationship with a West Texas teenager, who is a minor. Thirty-nine year-old John Krieser was arrested in his home in Cudahy, Wisconsin, he’s now charged with sexual assault. NewsChannel 11’s Kealey McIntire spoke with the victim’s father and has more.
Raymond Stapleton says he knew his daughter was talking online with John Krieser for almost a year and a half, however he didn’t know until two months ago that Krieser was 39. Krieser’s MySpace profile doesn’t even give his age, it says he’s 99-years-old.
Stapleton says he’s heard of teenagers being solicited online in the past, however he never thought it would happen to his daughter.
It all started in a seemingly innocent way, two people chatting online. However, Raymond Stapleton says what would happen over the next several months are shocking. “I was one of those parents– all my life I said this will never happen to my child,” commented Stapleton.
His daughter was 15-year’s-old when she started chatting with John Krieser on MySpace. One of Krieser’s profiles says he’s 23.
Stapleton knew his daughter had chatted online with Krieser and had occasional phone conversations with him, however didn’t learn until January that Krieser’s true age is 39, and that Krieser traveled from his home in Wisconsin to Abernathy to visit his daughter. That’s when Stapleton called police. “When I found out he was here, within feet of my home taking my daughter in his van to who knows where, then I said no, something’s gotta be done about this.”
The Texas Rangers report states “Krieser stayed with the teen for two nights during the first visit and for three nights during the second visit in August 2005.”
Both times they stayed at the Motel Six near Interstate-27 in Lubbock. Also according to the report, the teen said “she had sex with Krieser one time at the motel. She stated the sex was consensual. She said she was 15 at the time.”
The report also documents the precautions Stapleton took. It states “the teen had been cautioned about online contact with older men in the past.” It also says “cordless phones were removed from the Stapleton residence to prevent the teen from talking to Krieser.”
Stapleton tells us he used many internet safety tools, but nothing worked. He says the best advice he can give to other parents is always know who your kids are chatting with. “You don’t want to be a buddy or pal all the time, but you do need to be a friend when it comes to something like this. You do need to know what they’re doing, you do need to look in there.”
Stapleton says he began noticing questionable behavior when his daughter wanted to spend more time online than with family or friends. He says another way you can help fight internet predators is to keep your computer in a more used family room, not in your child’s bedroom.
And of course, we have MySpace profile goodness. Thanks to the ever reliable Mr. A we have one of Krieser’s MySpace profiles here. Why does a 39-year-old man have such an obsession with rubber duckies? Anyway, we’ll have more MySpace profile goodness on Krieser from Mr. A later on tonight.
Blumenthal Asks MySpace To Make Site Safer For Kids:
Why are most politicians so clueless?…
HARTFORD, Conn. — Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has sent MySpace.com a letter asking the company to take steps to make the site safer for children.
He is asking them to provide parents with software to block the Web site, ban kids under 16, institute new measures against pornography and take other steps to protect children from sexual predators and inappropriate material.
Has Attorney General Blumenthal thought about asking parents to keep an eye on their own damn kids? MySpace has no responsibility to pay for software for the parents of teen MySpace users.
I’m not surprised, though. An Attorney General is just another lawyer.
Suspect’s transfer called essential:
Our favorite New Jersey psychopath is in the news again. Jonathan Zarate, accused of the murder and dismemberment of his 16-year-old neighbor Jennifer Parks, is in a new prison.
He has been transferred out of the Morris County jail and into the Passaic County jail. Like I mentioned before, he was transferred because he is suing the Morris County jail over alleged abuses. What cracks me up, as if any actual humor could be found in this case, it’s his attorney and the things he had to say…
“Jonathan Zarate is a man with very deep emotional problems,” his lawyer, Anthony Fusco Jr., said Monday. “He was not getting the treatment he needed in the Morris County Jail.”
Ya think?
Since his arrest July 31, Zarate has twice been charged with assaulting guards at the Morris County Jail. After the second alleged assault on Dec. 10, Zarate was sent to the Ann Klein Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in West Trenton. He was treated there until Feb. 2, when he was brought back to the jail.
Fusco said his client’s mental condition has worsened since his return to the Morris County Jail — and Zarate has served notice that he intends to sue the state for depriving him of his proper medical treatment. On Friday, state Superior Court Judge Salem V. Ahto allowed Zarate to be transferred to another jail.
Well, maybe if he didn’t kill and dismember a 16-year-old girl he wouldn’t be having these problems. It sounds like to me that they’ve been laying the grounds for an insanity defense for some time now.
Juvenile battery charges for Reno school shooting suspect:
James Scott Newman, the gunman at the Pine Middle School shooting in Reno, Nevada that wounded two, is now being charged as a juvenile…
Washoe County District Attorney Richard Gammick said that based on the current evidence, Newman was moved to a juvenile detention center in Reno where he will face two counts of battery with a deadly weapon.
“It has been determined that a review of the evidence and meetings between prosecutors and police personnel, that the requirement of specific intent to kill cannot be met from the facts of this case,” Gammick said in a statement late Friday.
He planned the shooting a week in advance. He researched other school shootings. He brought a gun with three bullets to school. He discharged the weapon at the school, striking two students. But there was no intent to kill?
Whatever.
Bill would limit sale of video games:
Our favorite idiot lawyer from Florida is on the move again. This time he’s in Delaware trying to help State Rep. Helene Keeley, D-Wilmington South, get a law passed that would restrict businesses from selling M-rated games to minors. Never mind the fact that most legitimate stores won’t sell M-Rated games to anyone under 18 and that the majority of kids who get these games are getting through their parents. Jack never lets facts get in his way. Like this little nugget of misinformation from Jack…
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the Colorado teens who massacred 13 of their fellow Columbine High School students in 1999, “literally trained on the game ‘Doom,’ ” Thompson said.
Sure, they did Jack. Just forget all those tapes they made, showing them at a homemade target practice. I myself, and millions of other people, have played Doom and never picked up a gun in anger but again let’s not let facts get in the way.
Jack also had this to say about the free speech ramifications…
Thompson, meanwhile, said the First Amendment debate is misplaced.
“This isn’t even speech,” Thompson said, holding up a video-game display box. “This is software that enables a machine to allow a player to play a game.”
Does he really believe the lies that he’s spewing forth?
When will politicians, especially Democrats, stop getting in bed with this assclown? It’s making them look worse than they already are.
Weise planned a far more lethal assault:
Anonymous sources within the investigation have revealed to the Pioneer Press that Jeff Weise’s assault on Red Lake High School could have been much deadlier than it already was…
Jeff Weise, who killed nine people at the Red Lake Indian Reservation before taking his own life, envisioned a higher body count and wanted friends to help him turn his high school into a death trap, a yearlong investigation into the shootings found.
His original aim was to lead an attack on Red Lake High School when it was sure to be crowded, possibly on prom night or the first day of school, according to two sources with knowledge of the investigation.
Weise’s massacre would have targeted the school’s gymnasium as a central “killing zone,” the sources said. Details of Weise’s initial scheme have not been previously disclosed.
The troubled teenager considered executing his plot on April 20, the birthday of Adolf Hitler, one of the boy’s idols. That date would have marked the anniversary of the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado, the deadliest school shooting in American history.
Weise’s intent was to eclipse that tragedy, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Weise wanted to station armed accomplices at the school’s exits and in main hallways, where those who survived the gym assault would run for safety or escape, the sources said.
“The plan was to have them picked off like sitting ducks as they came out,” said one of the sources.
Why Weise chose March 21 to launch his assault in Red Lake remains a mystery.
What amazes me is the fact that the article states that 39 people knew that Weise had thoughts of shooting up the school, yet none of them thought to go to school officials or law enforcement with that information.
Remember, kids, it isn’t always “just talk”.
Court documents reveal chilling details about Reno middle school shooting:
Nothing we haven’t been over already, but there was this little tidbit at the end of the article…
Police say it’s unlikely that Newman’s parents will be charged with any crime in connection with the gun because they say there were gun locks and other reasonable security methods used at their home.
If the security measures were so reasonable, then how did Newman obtain the gun?
RHS shooting victim home from hospital:
The victim of the Roseburg High School shooting in Oregon, Joseph Monti, has been released from the hospital and is home with his family…
He was struck four times and has since had surgery to remove two bullets and remaining bullet fragments. Family members say Monti has a long road of recovery ahead of him, including reconstructive surgery.
Family members have said they plan to move back to California, where they moved from about two years ago.