A reminder in Roseburg.Byline: The Register-Guard Nearly eight years have passed since Kip Kinkel's shooting rampage at Thurston High School Thurston High School is located in Springfield, Oregon in Lane County. Their mascot is a black colt. Shooting On May 20, 1998, student Kipland "Kip" Kinkel killed his parents, William and Faith, both Spanish teachers at local high schools. , but painful memories of that day returned on Thursday on learning that a Roseburg High School Roseburg High School is the only high school in Roseburg, Oregon, United States. Shooting incident At 7:45 a.m. on February 23 2006, 14-year-old freshman Vincent Wayne Leodoro shot and wounded a fellow student, 16-year-old sophomore Joseph Monti, using a 10mm pistol. student shot and wounded a classmate before surrendering to police. It was the first serious shooting on school grounds in Oregon since the morning of May 21, 1998, when Kinkel shot and killed two classmates Classmates can refer to either:
As with last year's shooting spree at a high school in Red Lake, Minn., and the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School Columbine High School is a secondary school in unincorporated Jefferson County, Colorado. The school is located at 6201 South Pierce Street, one mile west of the Littleton city limits and half a mile south of the Denver city/county line. in Littleton, Colo., the images are uncomfortably familiar to many in Springfield and Eugene: Police standing in front of a school entrance cordoned off with yellow crime-scene tape. Dazed daze tr.v. dazed, daz·ing, daz·es 1. To stun, as with a heavy blow or shock; stupefy. 2. To dazzle, as with strong light. n. A stunned or bewildered condition. kids clinging to one another, staring emptily into the distance. Harried parents searching for their children and for answers. We've seen these scenes before and hoped never to see them again. More will be learned in the coming days about the Roseburg shooting and the 14-year-old freshman, Vincent Wayne Leodoro, who is charged in the attack. Detectives have yet to identify a motive, and it's unclear whether the suspect fits the profile of so many other school shootings - of alienated loners lashing out in retaliation for bullying and intimidation. Despite occasional outbreaks, school violence generally has been on the decline over the past decade, as schools and communities have taken serious, thoughtful steps to combat the problem. Those steps include identifying and working with children at risk of committing explosive acts of violence; promoting tolerance and teaching children how to resolve conflicts without aggression; monitoring and eliminating bullying and intimidation; encouraging children to contact authorities when they learn that a student has a weapon or is planning an act of violence, and restricting access to firearms for young people. The Roseburg shooting - like those in Red Lake; Littleton; Thurston; Spring, Minn.; Santee, Minn.; Lake Worth, Fla.; Mount Morris Township Mount Morris Township may refer to:
There is always more work to be done, more lessons to be learned. Each tragedy can reveal new and productive ways to prevent future incidents - and to prepare for the worst in case prevention fails. In the days to come, there will probably be a steady stream of visitors to the memorial at Thurston High School. This week's shooting at Roseburg adds renewed emphasis to the words engraved en·grave tr.v. en·graved, en·grav·ing, en·graves 1. To carve, cut, or etch into a material: engraved the champion's name on the trophy. 2. there that urge us "to do everything possible to make sure that it never happens again." |
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