TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Tag: school shooting

  • Red Lake families settle lawsuit

    Settlement in Red Lake school shooting:

    The families of the victims of the Red Lake shooting have settled their lawsuit with MacNeil Environmental. MacNeil is a security consulting firm that provided Red Lake High with a contingency plan in case of a school shooting. Obviously, it failed.

    The terms of the settlement were not disclosed but both sides are saying that MacNeil admitted no liability. Of course, they wouldn’t. Did anyone expect them to say ‘our bad’?

    Personally, I don’t think you can have a contingency plan for a school shooting because the acts are so random.

  • E.O. Green shooter pleads not guilty

    Teen Pleads Not Guilty in Murder of Gay Classmate:

    Yesterday 14-year-old Brandon McInerney pleaded not guilty to the shooting death of Lawrence King. As discussed previously King was an openly gay student who was bullied by McInerney and to defend himself King would mockingly flirt with him. McInerney didn’t take kindly to this and shot and killed King in front of a bunch of witnesses at E.O. Green Junior High. Yet he pleads not guilty.

    McInerney has been charged as an adult on first-degree murder charges with a hate crime sentencing enhancement. That means that he’s looking at 51 to life behind bars with no possibility for parole.

    His attorney is calling that a death sentence…

    “This is essentially a death sentence for Brandon McInerney,” said Quest, who is asking that the boy be tried on a lesser charge of manslaughter. “That is the only way Brandon does not die in prison.”

    But it’s ok for Lawrence King to die in school? Manslaughter usually denotes a ‘spur of the moment’ killing if you will. This was no spur of the moment. This was obviously premeditated. If your client didn’t want a ‘death sentence’ he shouldn’t have killed Lawrence King.

    On the other side of the fence, we have a quote from Lawrence King’s father that makes my blood boil…

    King’s parents say they support the adult charge.

    “He went into a classroom in front of other students and shot my son in the back of the head twice,” father Greg King said. “For is age to be taken into consideration – he didn’t take my son’s age into consideration.”

    While I agree with what he’s saying you have to remember that the family kicked Lawrence King out of the house for being gay and are now trying to cash in by suing the school for not preventing the shooting.

    Maybe if you let Lawrence live at home like a family is supposed to none of this would have happened.

  • Kip Kinkel seeks new trial yet again

    Kip Kinkel’s Attorneys File Appeal, Seek New Trial:

    Kip Kinkel is asking for a new trial again.

    You remember Kip don’t you? He’s the soulless monster who killed his parents and two of his classmates from Thurston High in Oregon. The same 16-year-old who was sentenced to 111 years for the killings.

    Now the 26-year-old Kinkel is trying to get a new trial again using the insanity method. That request has already been denied once.

    Let’s hear from one of his attorneys…

    Dennis Balske: “Nobody’s trying to, quote, get him off in any sense of the word. And so what the case is about is whether or not he gets to have a trial at which a jury determines whether or not in fact he was insane at the time.”

    If Kinkel were to get a new trial and found insane he would be transferred to a state hospital. So basically since he can’t get out of prison he wants to stay in a cushy hospital.

    What I’d like to know has he been insane since the shootings? Or was this that legendary ‘temporary’ insanity we’ve heard so much about.

    And here’s another great case for bringing back asylums for the criminally insane. Don’t make the insanity plea an incentive. Make the places just as nasty as prison and we’ll see who is truly insane and who has a case of faker-itis.

  • Central High shooter’s sister captured

    Ciara Siler
    Ciara Siler

    Knoxville woman wanted for murder nabbed in Atlanta:

    Ciara Siler was wanted in Knoxville, TN for the shooting murder of Jerri Lynn Goodman. US Marshals and Knoxville police have been looking for her for two months. Marshals finally apprehended her in Atlanta.

    Ciara Siler is the adoptive sister of Jamar Siler. Jamar Siler is in juvenile custody for the shooting death of 15-year-old Ryan McDonald at Central High in Knoxville.

    It seems the Siler family like to settle their disputes all in the same way, behind a coward’s gun.

    I guess the rest of the family will have to alternate which prison they have to go visit.

  • Was E.O. Green shooter a white supremacist?

    School shooting suspect had white supremacist material:

    To the surprise of no one with a half decent level of intelligence white supremacist materials were found in the home of 14-year-old Brandon McInerney. McInerney is accused of shooting and killing openly gay student 15-year-old Lawrence (Larry) King at E.O. Green Middle school.

    McInerney’s lawyer claims it was just material from studying about WW II in school. However, prosecutors contend that the material written by McInerney contained the number 88 which is code used by white supremacists for ‘Heil Hitler’ since H is the 8th letter of the alphabet. The material also contained references to the ’14 Words’. Neither of those symbols were ever used by Nazi Germany and were created by more modern white supremacists.

    These materials are what prosecutors used in part to establish hate crime charges against McInerney.

  • Two years since Nickel Mines

    Amish school shootings: 2 years later:

    Tomorrow it will be two years since the Nickel Mines shooting that took place in Amish county in Pennsylvania.

    On that day Charles Carl Roberts IV stormed the Amish school at Nickel Mines, made the male students leave and shot several female students before taking his own life.

    The link I posted is to a great story about how the Amish community has been coping since the tragedy.

  • Finnish police probe launched

    Probe Launched into Kauhajoki Police Actions:

    Prosecutors in Finland are launching a probe that will look into whether or not police acted properly in releasing Maati Saari and giving him back his gun.

    I’m very unfamiliar with Finnish law so I can’t comment. The only thing I can say that if this happened in the U.S. then, in my opinion, they would have had probable cause to at least search the house.

    I’d appreciate it if a legal expert from either country could weigh in on this.

  • Did police prompt Saari to attack

    No indication that police action prompted Saari to move up Kauhajoki attack:

    Someone is saying, I’m not sure who because the article doesn’t say, that Matti Saari did not attack the school last Monday because the police interrogated him the Friday before. Whoever is saying that is mistaken.

    Why else would he attack on that Monday if he wasn’t interrogated the Friday before? It seems obvious that he knew that police were getting close to uncovering his plan so he stepped it up.

    My guess was that since he was such a ‘special friend’ of Pekka-Eric Auvinen that he was more than likely waiting for the anniversary of Jokela.

    That’s the way the tiny minds of these mutants work.

  • Foss shooter found competent once again

    Douglas S. Chanthabouly
    Douglas S. Chanthabouly

    Accused Foss gunman found competent to stand trial:

    For the third time, Foss High School gunman Douglas S. Chanthabouly has been ruled mentally competent to stand trial.

    Chanthabouly is accused of gunning down fellow Foss student Samnang Kok in January of 2007.

    Chanthabouly’s defense team will still argue an insanity defense claiming their client has a history of schizophrenia.

    If he had such a history why wasn’t anything being done about it?

    A tentative trial date has been set for March.

  • Kauhajoki victims identified

    All victims of Finnish school shooting now identified – Update:

    All the victims in the Kauhajoki School shooting have been identified even though their cowardly killer burnt their bodies.

    Police are still withholding their names.