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Post by Self-Savior on Apr 25, 2014 18:08:22 GMT -5
A 16-year-old female student at a Connecticut high school died Friday after she was attacked and stabbed inside the school's stairwell, authorities said at a press conference.
Maren Sanchez, a junior at Jonathan Law High School in Milford, was pronounced dead at Bridgeport Hospital despite attempts by teachers and emergency responders to save her life after the attack inside thew school, authorities said. A student at the school and local media reports indicate that Sanchez was attacked because she refused to go to the prom with the attacker later in the evening.
Police would not immediately confirm a motive in the attack and said the investigation is in its early stages.
"We'll get to the bottom of it, or how it happened or why it happened," Keith Mello, Milford police chief, said.
The suspect, also 16, whose name is being withheld because he's a minor, was subdued by teachers immediately after the attack and is in custody, authorities said. The victim and suspect appeared to be "friends" on Facebook.
The school in Milford was put on lockdown Friday morning and students were sent home after the 7:14 a.m. stabbing. Students and faculty received a text message from the school alerting them that the girl died prior to the press conference. The school will offer students counselors.
Police said that the attack was an isolated incident and no other students were in danger. The school's prom, scheduled for Friday night, was postponed to an as-yet undetermined date, a school official said.
Sanchez was an honor student and swim team manager who was heavily involved with community service, particularly causes like underage drinking and veterans' services, school officials said.
A junior at the school told FoxNews.com that a teacher who witnessed the attack said Sanchez was asked to the prom by the attacker inside a stairwell at the school. Sanchez, who has a boyfriend, said no to the date, and the suspect began to strangle her, the student said. He pushed her down a flight of stairs and stabbed her.
Two male teachers eventually took the suspect to the principal's office until police arrived. The student said she saw the suspect being handcuffed and he "looked angry."
Dafuq is wrong with teenagers these days? Granted I've been out of high school for about 10 years, but not once has anything like this happened in any of the schools near me.
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Post by Colter on Apr 25, 2014 18:09:26 GMT -5
I'm sorry, but that's ing ridiculous.
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Post by James on Apr 25, 2014 18:20:31 GMT -5
Why can't everyone in the world just get along?
I've had enough of crap about stabbings on the streets, shootings at school, terrorism and crime in general. Some thing needs to change in this world we live in.
It should be an eye for an eye as a punishment.
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Post by Darkhawk on Apr 25, 2014 19:13:54 GMT -5
that guy and this generation of teens. Worst of the worse generation.
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Post by slappy on Apr 25, 2014 19:15:47 GMT -5
Why can't everyone in the world just get along? I've had enough of crap about stabbings on the streets, shootings at school, terrorism and crime in general. Some thing needs to change in this world we live in. It should be an eye for an eye as a punishment. That makes sense. Trying to make the world less violent by giving a violent punishment.
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Post by slappy on Apr 25, 2014 19:16:51 GMT -5
that guy and this generation of teens. Worst of the worse generation. How is this generation the worst that has ever lived?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2014 19:24:09 GMT -5
That's why I'm hanging out with the bros on prom night.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2014 19:25:23 GMT -5
I hate this world.
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Post by Word™ on Apr 25, 2014 19:40:30 GMT -5
If I've learned anything in the past 20 years, it's that I'm not going to raise my family in Connecticut.
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Post by The Yes Man on Apr 25, 2014 19:45:18 GMT -5
that guy and this generation of teens. Worst of the worse generation. P.S. The generation before yours said the same about your generation, as has every generation before that. As with any generation there is a lot of good, and some bad. But, some people (meaning you) decide that everybody is a piece of craplike the guy that killed this girl. You should think before being a prick and saying that anybody that's a teen is terrible because of that one who killed that girl. I'm sure that in your generation that was absolutely perfect nobody killed anybody and it was all just puppies and snowflakes.
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Post by WMDman on Apr 25, 2014 19:48:58 GMT -5
I don't know how to respond so ill just give my condolences to the Sanchez family. RIP
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Post by Nivro™ on Apr 25, 2014 19:53:20 GMT -5
She was STABBED for not going to prom with a guy? Seriously, why have we not banned guns already?!?!?!?!
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Post by Self-Savior on Apr 25, 2014 20:08:29 GMT -5
She was STABBED for not going to prom with a guy? Seriously, why have we not banned guns already?!?!?!?! Haha that will be mentioned when they report it on local news stations. Anyways, the school violence crapis just getting out of hand. I mean a few weeks ago there was some kid that stabbed like 20 people in a school...it's a ed up world we live in.
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Post by Darkhawk on Apr 25, 2014 21:35:21 GMT -5
that guy and this generation of teens. Worst of the worse generation. P.S. The generation before yours said the same about your generation, as has every generation before that. As with any generation there is a lot of good, and some bad. But, some people (meaning you) decide that everybody is a piece of crap like the guy that killed this girl. You should think before being a prick and saying that anybody that's a teen is terrible because of that one who killed that girl. I'm sure that in your generation that was absolutely perfect nobody killed anybody and it was all just puppies and snowflakes. There's more bad than good in this generation to be honest. I know because I was part of it I'm only 19 so I should know before you make assumptions I'm older or something for whatever reason. Kids are getting dumber and more violent and they're not even in the ghetto dude. I'm just glad I didn't come out as messed up as most teens these days. Less than 25% of students in my high school actually graduate from college and we're one of the top schools in the South CA. Not all teens are bad, but the majority are.
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Post by The Yes Man on Apr 25, 2014 21:40:16 GMT -5
P.S. The generation before yours said the same about your generation, as has every generation before that. As with any generation there is a lot of good, and some bad. But, some people (meaning you) decide that everybody is a piece of crap like the guy that killed this girl. You should think before being a prick and saying that anybody that's a teen is terrible because of that one who killed that girl. I'm sure that in your generation that was absolutely perfect nobody killed anybody and it was all just puppies and snowflakes. There's more bad than good in this generation to be honest. I know because I was part of it I'm only 19 so I should know before you make assumptions I'm older or something for whatever reason. Kids are getting dumber and more violent and they're not even in the ghetto dude. I'm just glad I didn't come out as messed up as most teens these days. Less than 25% of students in my high school actually graduate from college and we're one of the top schools in the South CA. Not all teens are bad, but the majority are. I'm also a part of this generation, and I can honestly say that at least 95% of my high school are just normal average teens. Probably more.
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Post by danielbryanwwe on Apr 25, 2014 21:48:34 GMT -5
I'm 15 good student. This is rediculous never in a million years would anyone in my school think of doing it. First off either he is ugly as fuq or he got tired of getting turned down
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Post by The Mask of Truth on Apr 25, 2014 22:45:19 GMT -5
Blame it on Facebook.
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Post by King Richius on Apr 25, 2014 22:51:39 GMT -5
that guy and this generation of teens. Worst of the worse generation. P.S. The generation before yours said the same about your generation, as has every generation before that. As with any generation there is a lot of good, and some bad. But, some people (meaning you) decide that everybody is a piece of crap like the guy that killed this girl. You should think before being a prick and saying that anybody that's a teen is terrible because of that one who killed that girl. I'm sure that in your generation that was absolutely perfect nobody killed anybody and it was all just puppies and snowflakes. As someone who was in high school in the early 80s, I know we were bad. Plenty of drug use and our fair share of violence. I personally witnessed one teenager getting dragged out of a city bus through the emergency window exit by three other kids and they beat the crap out of him in the middle of the street in front of dozens of kids and adults. The biggest difference I can see 30 years later is that the fights in my generation rarely involved weapons and the worst injuries might be a nasty cut requiring stitches or a broken bone. I'm not going to postulate any theories because I'm no expert but it does seem that deadly weapons are more prevalent now.
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Post by Sleeping Like An Angel on Apr 25, 2014 22:57:05 GMT -5
I feel like crapdidn't used to be this bad. But then I realize that news coverage on everything was much less back in the day.
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Post by The Yes Man on Apr 25, 2014 23:43:22 GMT -5
I feel like crap didn't used to be this bad. But then I realize that news coverage on everything was much less back in the day. That's basically it. There is more coverage on this kind of crap. There used to be only 3 channels on all of TV, and now there's 30 just for news and self righteous bungholes (Nancy Grace) telling everyone how terrible the world has become.
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