Associated Press
MURRELLS INLET, S.C. – A South Carolina high
school has been evacuated for the day after someone burned several American
flags outside the front entrance before classes started.
Officials at St. James High School in Murrells Inlet found the burned flags around 6:20 a.m. Monday and called Horry County Police. When investigators reviewed surveillance video, they say they saw the suspect do other suspicious things and decided to keep students and teachers outside.
A photo released by police shows a man with flags dressed in all black, including black rimmed goggles.
The students and teachers were eventually taken to St. James Middle School. Students aren't being allowed back on campus as police continue to check the high school.
So far, authorities say nothing else suspicious has been foundMurder suspect wanted to ‘kill 1st person he saw,’ police say
2. Murder suspect wanted to ‘kill 1st person he saw,’ police say
CLEARWATER - Police have been trying to figure out who killed a 22-year-old man for eight months. Now, they say a 16-year-old has confessed to the murder. Jason Paul died in January of this year after he was stabbed while riding his bicycle home from work near Crest Lake Park.
Officials at St. James High School in Murrells Inlet found the burned flags around 6:20 a.m. Monday and called Horry County Police. When investigators reviewed surveillance video, they say they saw the suspect do other suspicious things and decided to keep students and teachers outside.
A photo released by police shows a man with flags dressed in all black, including black rimmed goggles.
The students and teachers were eventually taken to St. James Middle School. Students aren't being allowed back on campus as police continue to check the high school.
So far, authorities say nothing else suspicious has been foundMurder suspect wanted to ‘kill 1st person he saw,’ police say
2. Murder suspect wanted to ‘kill 1st person he saw,’ police say
CLEARWATER - Police have been trying to figure out who killed a 22-year-old man for eight months. Now, they say a 16-year-old has confessed to the murder. Jason Paul died in January of this year after he was stabbed while riding his bicycle home from work near Crest Lake Park.
The case is the latest in a string of
high-profile acts of violence by teenagers. A 13-year-old St. Petersburg boy
was charged with shooting a 15-year-old after being taunted. In Oklahoma, one
of three teenagers charged with the murder of a jogger said they acted out of
boredom.
Despite the headlines, USF professor of
criminology Kathleen Heide told FOX 13 News that juvenile homicide is down after
peaking in 1993 during the crack cocaine epidemic.
Heide is the author of three books on
homicidal adolescents and said physiology plays a major role.
"The last area of the brain to develop is
the pre-frontal cortex, which is the area of the brain associated with thinking,
and deliberation and judgment," Heide explained.
Offenders also lack any empathy or
connection with their victims.
"It's as if that individual, for that
moment, meaning the victim, is simply an object in their way, or an object
toward their gratification, or an object on which to act out," she
continued.
Jason Paul's mother knows how wrong that
misperception can be. Describing her son, Renee Langfritz said Paul, "...had
good friends, had a girlfriend he was madly in love with. They were getting
ready to move in together...he wanted to go to school to be a vet tech."
Paul was riding his bicycle home from one
of his two jobs when King confronted him. Clearwater police chief Anthony
Holloway said, after the murder, King gave the knife used in the crime to a
friend, who later turned it over to detectives.
Detectives say King has a long criminal
history and was already in jail on other charges.
"He just had a whole bright future ahead of
him," Langfritz added. "It just makes me sick that someone could do this to
someone who's so innocent and so full of life."
3. Black teens in Oklahoma murder white Australian jogger for sport
A Hispanic guy shot a black teenager in self-defense, and it was proof that America hasn’t gotten any better since Emmett Till was murdered. Whereas the following story, which is literally an international incident, has no significance beyond the individuals involved. It’s not useful to Al Sharpton and Barack Obama. WND:
3. Black teens in Oklahoma murder white Australian jogger for sport
A Hispanic guy shot a black teenager in self-defense, and it was proof that America hasn’t gotten any better since Emmett Till was murdered. Whereas the following story, which is literally an international incident, has no significance beyond the individuals involved. It’s not useful to Al Sharpton and Barack Obama. WND:
As the family of an Australian baseball player gunned down in Oklahoma mourns his death, police said today that the college athlete was targeted by three black teenagers who simply “wanted to see someone die.”
The suspects followed Chris Lane, 22, as he jogged alongside a road in Duncan, Okla., Friday afternoon, shot him in the back and left him to die on the side of the road, said Duncan Police Chief Danny Ford…
“He went by a residence where these three boys were, they picked him as a target, they went out and got in a vehicle and followed him.”
While no one saw the actual shooting, Ford said several people heard a gunshot and “saw Lane stagger across the road, go to a kneeling position and collapse on the side of the road.” Witnesses also reported seeing a black car speeding away from the scene.
Surveillance video from several businesses captured images of the suspects’ vehicle…
After the teens were arrested, Ford said the driver, who is 17, told police they were all at the scene of the slaying and that the 16-year-old suspect pulled the trigger.
“He said the motive was, ‘We were going to kill somebody,’” Ford told Australian radio station 3AW.They were defending themselves. From being bored.
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