Posted on November 18th, 2009 by heygrrrl
Rachel Brown
The Daily Citizen
Chattsworth, Georgia — No one will be charged at Murray County High School in connection with alleged bullying incidents David and Tina Long say led to their son’s Oct. 17 suicide.
The couple asked the Chatsworth Police Department to look into their son Tyler’s last days, saying he took his life because he [...]
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Posted on November 17th, 2009 by heygrrrl
Karen Zatkulak
News Channel 9
Chatsworth, Georgia — A family wants answers after they say bullying lead to their son’s death. Seventeen year old Tyler Long committed suicide last month.
“He was my best friend, my role model, I looked to him for advice,” Troy Long, Tyler’s fourteen-year-old brother, says.
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Posted on November 8th, 2009 by heygrrrl
Independent Television News
CORNWALL, England — Police have said they are pursuing a number of lines of enquiry in their hunt for the killers of a devoted mother of nine who died in a house fire started by a firework pushed through her letterbox.
Mary Fox, 59, was trapped in her bedroom after reportedly pushing her 17-year-old [...]
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Posted on November 8th, 2009 by heygrrrl
By Steven Swinford
London Sunday Times
POLICE have opened a murder inquiry into the death of a mother of nine in a house fire that started when a firework was pushed through her letterbox.
Mary Fox, 59, died after helping her teenage son jump through an upstairs window to save him as flames engulfed the house in Bodmin, [...]
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Posted on November 7th, 2009 by heygrrrl
BBC News
Mary Fox helped her 17-year-old son jump out of a window on the first floor
The family of a “devoted” mother-of-nine from Cornwall, who died in a house fire after a firework was put through the door, have paid tribute to her.
Mary Fox died in the fire in Wallace Road, Bodmin on Thursday night, after [...]
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Posted on November 7th, 2009 by heygrrrl
By Richard Savill
Telegraph
BODMIN, Cornwall — Police are investigating a report that the blaze may have been caused by a firework which had been pushed through the letterbox.
Neighbours said Mary Fox, 59, was seen pushing her 17-year-old son Raum out of the first floor window of their three storey home in Bodmin, Cornwall, shortly after the [...]
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Posted on November 4th, 2009 by heygrrrl
By BRUCE TOMASO
The Dallas Morning News
The parents of a Prairie View A&M University student who died last month have filed a lawsuit alleging that the death was the result of brutal fraternity hazing.
The lawsuit stems from the Oct. 20 death of Donnie Wade Jr. of Oak Cliff, a 20-year-old transfer student who collapsed during an [...]
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Posted on November 4th, 2009 by heygrrrl
By CINDY HORSWELL
Houston Chronicle
A 20-year-old Phi Beta Sigma pledge at Prairie View A&M University underwent systematic hazing — including a strict bread-and-water diet, paddling and mandatory rigorous exercises — that intensified until it culminated in his death, a lawsuit filed by his parents states.
Donnie Wade II, a biology major studying to become a doctor, died [...]
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Posted on November 3rd, 2009 by heygrrrl
By DAN MCCUE
Courthouse News
DALLAS – A fraternity killed a freshman pledge by forcing him onto a bread and water diet while inflicting extreme exercise regimes on him in a hazing ritual, his parents claim in Dallas County Court. The Rev. Donnie and Katrina Wade seek punitive damages from Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity and Prairie A&M [...]
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Posted on October 31st, 2009 by heygrrrl
by Megan Nichols
Anniston Star
Anniston school officials on Friday continued investigating what may have led to a middle school student’s suicide, but offered few specifics on a case that’s shocked, saddened and angered the community.
“We’re still in the information-collection stage, and we’re also trying to support these kids and these faculty members who are grieving,” said [...]
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Posted on October 30th, 2009 by heygrrrl
By Megan Nichols
Anniston Star
Anniston, ALABAMA — Tre’Juan ‘Trey’ Cordell Figures’ family and friends talk about the problems Trey had. Family friend Deidra Parker, left; Trey’s grandmother, Essie Figures; his mother, Veronica McGee; and his father, Johnny Figures; and his aunt, Virginia Eastman.
Tre’Juan Figures hugged everyone, but it wasn’t enough to ease the pain he felt [...]
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Posted on October 29th, 2009 by heygrrrl
London Telegraph
A 12-year-old boy with a heart condition was scared to death by two older boys who were threatening to beat him up, according to a coroner who has asked lawyers and police to consider prosecuting the pair.
Derek Winter, coroner for Sunderland, halted the inquest after hearing evidence for two hours and said that the [...]
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Posted on October 27th, 2009 by heygrrrl
By BEN DOBBIN
Associated Press
GENESEO, N.Y. — Two former members of a banned college fraternity at a western New York campus admitted Tuesday they plied a student with so much beer, champagne and vodka during a three-day hazing that the young man died of alcohol poisoning.
Arman Partamian, 19, a biology sophomore from New York City, was [...]
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Posted on October 20th, 2009 by heygrrrl
SAFFRON HOWDEN
Brisbane Times
ALEX WILDMAN’S school principal and deputy admitted days after the bullied teenager committed suicide he might still be alive if the school had handled his case differently.
His mother, Justine Kelly, told the inquest into the 14-year-old’s death in July 2008, that Kadina High’s then-principal Stephen Lowndes and deputy Bradd Farrell had visited her [...]
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Posted on October 19th, 2009 by heygrrrl
By Brian Charles
Signal Staff Writer
SANTA CLARITA VALLEY, Calif. — The report from the investigation into Jeremiah Lasater’s suicide at Vasquez High School last year will remain confidential pending a lawsuit filed by the Lasater family against the Acton Agua Dulce Unified School District, a school district official said.
“We’re not able to talk about it because [...]
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Posted on October 18th, 2009 by heygrrrl
By Pete Kendall/reporter@trcle.com
Cleburne Times-Review
Hunter Layland was different.
His differences, some believe, were not embraced by the entire student body at Cleburne High School.
“He had been in an accident when he was little and had a scar on his face,” said senior John Longoria. “He got a lot of trouble for that from grade school to high [...]
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Posted on October 11th, 2009 by heygrrrl
By Reid Kerr
TYLER, TX (KLTV) – Wednesday’s murder was not the first incident on the John Tyler campus, only the most serious. Numerous fights and gang-related problems have created what a psychologist calls an atmosphere of fear for students.
While TISD says Wednesday was an isolated incident, they admit there are problems on campus.
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Posted on October 8th, 2009 by heygrrrl
BY FRAN SPIELMAN
Chicago Sun Times
Mayor Daley today threw more money and police bodies at a daunting problem no closer to being solved than at any time during his 20-year tenure: the bloodbath on Chicago streets that’s destroying another generation of young people.
The videotape replayed around the world of 16-year-old Fenger High School student Derrion Albert [...]
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Posted on October 5th, 2009 by heygrrrl
BY MITCH MITCHELL
Fort Worth Star-Telegram.com
CLEBURNE — The rain began falling shortly before Hunter Layland’s funeral Saturday afternoon.
A friend said it was as if the sky was crying for the troubled teen, a Cleburne High School freshman who committed suicide last week.
Hunter Layland, 15, shot himself before school Wednesday, at about 6:35 a.m. He was at [...]
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Posted on October 1st, 2009 by heygrrrl
By Annie Sweeney
WGN News
Two South Side mothers on Monday confronted the brutal violence their sons are accused of as formal charges against the teens were filed and images of them allegedly beating and stomping to death another teenager made national news.
One tearfully said she could not bear to look at the video. The other regretfully [...]
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