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U.S. NEWS Thursday 28 sepTember 2017

Teen stabs classmates at NYC school, killing 15-year-old boy

By COLLEEN LONG up their children. Parents
KAREN MATTHEWS said they were forced to
Associated Press wait for hours in fear.“I’m
NEW YORK (AP) — very upset. No one wants
A high school student who to send a child to school to
hadn’t been getting along be in danger,” said Rosa-
with two classmates sud- lyn Valoy, who picked up
denly attacked them with her fourth-grade daughter
a switchblade during his- about four hours after the
tory class Wednesday, kill- stabbing.
ing one boy and gravely Denise Jackson, the moth-
wounding another, police er of a high school fresh-
said. man, said she was terrified.
Fifteen to 20 students wit- “She hasn’t been here for a
nessed the attack. After month yet. I don’t know if I
leaving the classroom, the want to keep her here,” she
18-year-old assailant hand- said. “I just don’t know.”The
ed the bloodied knife to a school, attended by about
school counselor he met 1,100 students, is not one
in the hall, then went to of the roughly 75 schools in
an assistant principal’s of- New York’s million-student
fice and quietly waited for system that requires chil-
authorities to arrive, police Parents and guardians arriving for after school pickup are blocked at an entry at Urban Assembly dren to pass through metal
said. School for Wildlife Conservation, Wednesday Sept. 27, 2017, in New York. Earlier, a high school stu- detectors.City officials and
The dead student, who dent fighting with two classmates at the school pulled a switchblade killing one boy and wound- parents have debated for
was stabbed in the chest, ing another. years whether the school
was 15. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) system should be install-
A 16-year-old was stabbed Boyce said the 18-year-old peared his dispute with the before the stabbing, au- ing more metal detectors
in the chest and side and was being questioned by victims had been going thorities said. or taking them away be-
was hospitalized in critical police. on for about two weeks, Angry parents, some in cause of the stigma of at-
but stable condition. Authorities were looking Boyce said. tears, gathered outside tending a school deemed
The stabbing happened into whether the teen had They had been tossing pa- the school demanding unsafe enough to require a
about 15 minutes into third been bullied, but it ap- per at one another shortly they be allowed to pick weapons check. q
period at the Urban Assem-
bly School for Wildlife Con- Plan in motion for OJ Simpson release as soon as Monday
servation, a middle and
high school in the Bronx By KEN RITTER freed, Keast said. the public of the release. Florida has not received
that shares a building with Associated Press Simpson’s release is ex- “We’ve been trying to any transfer paperwork
an elementary school. LAS VEGAS (AP) — O.J. pected after he spent nine keep things as normal as from Nevada, said Ashley
Students described tense Simpson could be re- years behind bars for his possible,” she said. Cook, a spokeswoman for
moments huddled in clos- leased on parole as soon 2008 armed robbery and High Desert State Prison is the Florida Department of
ets and in classrooms while as Monday in Las Vegas kidnapping convictions fol- located in Indian Springs, Corrections.
the school was locked under a plan being final- lowing a confrontation with about 45 miles northwest Nevada Parole and Pro-
down, wondering what ized by Nevada officials, a two sports memorabilia of Las Vegas. It is the main bation Capt. Shawn Arruti,
was happening. prison spokeswoman said dealers in a Las Vegas hotel processing center for in- who is involved in Simpson’s
“The guidance counselor Wednesday. room. He was sentenced to mates from southern Ne- release, did not immedi-
couldn’t even keep herself The process culminating up to 33 years behind bars. vada. ately respond to messages
calm,” said eighth-grader in freedom for the former Simpson won parole in July A close Simpson friend, seeking details.
Abbie Mincey. football player, actor and from a state parole board Tom Scotto, said Simp- Malcolm LaVergne, Simp-
The counselor told them: TV pitchman is in motion, that set Sunday, Oct. 1, son is scheduled to be re- son’s lawyer in Las Vegas,
“I’ve never seen so much but must be approved as the date he becomes leased “shortly after” Oct. also didn’t respond to ques-
blood in my life.” and documents must be eligible for parole. Once 1. Scotto cast doubt on the tions about a release plan.
It was the first homicide in- signed, state Department released, he will be super- Monday release date, say- Simpson was acquitted in
side a New York City school of Corrections spokeswom- vised by the state Division ing officials were keeping 1995 of murder charges in
since 1992, when two teen- an Brooke Keast said. of Parole and Probation. plans secret. the 1994 slayings of his ex-
agers were shot to death Meanwhile, the 70-year-old His release could come on Scotto has offered to have wife Nicole Brown Simp-
in the hallway of a Brooklyn Simpson remains at Love- the first business day after Simpson live with him in Na- son and her friend Ronald
high school about an hour lock Correctional Center Oct. 1 because state pro- ples, Florida. Such a move Goldman.He was found
before Mayor David Din- in northern Nevada await- bation officials don’t han- would require an agree- liable for the killings in civil
kins was to visit the school ing transfer to High Desert dle releases on weekends, ment between parole de- court two years later and
to talk about violence. State Prison outside Las said Keast, who said she partments in Nevada and ordered to pay the victims’
Chief of Detectives Robert Vegas, where he would be intends to provide video to Florida. families $33.5 million.q