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Virginia Tech Massacre Investigation
The series was published around the time of the one year anniversary on the April 2007 Virginia Tech campus school shooting, and published periodically from June to December. It was found that university officials misled the public about how long they knew a gunman was at large, delaying the issued warning.
Tags: Seung-Hui Cho; Norris Hall; school shooting; gun control; Columbine; concealed weapon; license; serial killer; murder;
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Paschall's military record questioned
The Columbine Courier tells the interesting story of Jefferson County Treasurer and former state Representative Mark Paschall. Apparently, Paschall's own view of his stint in the military differed from the Navy's. The Navy said he was not dishonorably discharged, He said he was.
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Teen Suicide: The Silent Epidemic
Education Week reporter Jessica Portner collected data on teen suicides across the nation and wrote this in-depth piece on how the teen suicide rate is bigger than ever before. She backs up her data with testimonies from experts involved with children or child psychology.
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No Way Out: When a child reports abuse at school, then kills herself, what is the school's responsibility? Kerby Casey Guerra's parents want to know.
The Independent tells the story of Kerby Casey Guerra, a 13-year-old Colorado Springs girl who was incessantly tormented by her peers at Eagleview Middle School. According to her parents, she and her friends were pushed into lockers, cussed at and threatened. Guerra, her parents and her friends parents all spoke with school administrators about their treatment, but the abuse continued. In March of 1999, Guerra killed herself with a deer rifle, driven, presumably, by the constant harassment. Guerra's parents believe the school should have done more to help their daughter because peer abuse has become worse in the late 1990s.
Tags: Kerby Casey Guerra; teaching; school; education; violence; Columbine; death; Colorado Springs; Colorado; Eagleview Middle School
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Living in Exile
Westword takes a look at Project Exile, a program in which previously convicted felons caught with firearms are targeted for harsh federal prosecution.
Tags: guns; Project Exile; Tom Strickland; violent crime; Columbine; firearms
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"A Hard Hit," "Living in Exile," "Trick of the Trade," "Between Rock and a Hard Place," "Trial and Tribulations"
Westword investigates crime in Colorado in a series of stories. The first profiles "Eric Scott, a former street kid turned mid-level marijuana dealer who ran a de facto homeless shelter out of his home. " The second article looks at a fierce crusade to prosecute violators of firearm laws. The third story reports on street prostitution along Colfax Boulevard in central Denver. The fourth story investigates crack cocaine trade in Denver's notorious Five Points district. The fifth story reports on a former Afghan Army officer who was charged with sexual assault.
Tags: drugs; gun control; Columbine shooting; police; courts; law enforcement
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A week in the life of a high school
Gibbs reports that teacher have worries beyond test scores. TIME picked a Missouri school, because after Columbine, some schools turned into citadels, metal detectors at the doors, mesh backpacks required, but not this one.
Tags: teenagers; Columbine; metal detectors; violence; trust; bombs; guns; teachers; students
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Columbine
60 Minutes II returns to "the site of the worst school shooting in U.S. history, Columbine High" and shows "how police and school officials bungled opportunities both to stop the massacre before it happened, and to save more people once it began."
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Columbine Series: Lights, Camera...No Comment; Chronology of a Big Fat Lie, The Do-Nothing Defense; Unhappy Returns; Back to School; More Whoppers From Jeffco; I'm Full of Hate and I Love It; Shocking the Conscience
Prendergast reports on the "aftermath of the Columbine school shootings, particularly the missteps by law enforcement officials." The series features the "first publication of pages from gunman's Eric Harris' diary, which police investigators have kept hidden for two years, showing that Harris had composed a detailed plan of the attack...." County officials not only concealed and destroyed investigative records, but also fabricated false statements in order to cover up the prior warnings that police had on the shooting plot, Westword reports. Some of the documents that contradicted the first official version have been exposed through the process of public records litigation.
Tags: FOI; law enforcement; Jefferson County Sheriff's Department; police; crime; juvenile psychology; judges; guns; weapons; explosives
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Invisible Scourge
The New Times reports on the invisibility of the problem of gang violence. Much more time and attention is devoted to "preventing the next Columbine" than to combating gang violence, even though no shootings have ever happened in Arizona schools . In the meantime, incidents of gang violence continues to rise. One of the key problems cited by the article is poor media attention. Another is an unresponsive legislature and governor.
Tags: gangs; homicides; National Youth Gang Center; gang legislation