The suspect, Kenny Alexis, 20, is a Haitian immigrant who had been living in Boston on a student visa, prosecutors said.
It sounds to me as though the Cook County state's attorney's office could use an infusion of student prosecutors.
In their case against a bouncer accused of killing a 24-year-old graduate student, prosecutors yesterday gave defense lawyers four boxes of evidence described as medical reports and hair and fiber analyses.
A doctor pleaded guilty yesterday in State Superior Court to stealing a hand from a cadaver at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey while he was a student there in 2002, prosecutors said.
Written threats of a courthouse shooting have been directed at a bar bouncer accused of raping and killing a graduate student last year, prosecutors disclosed yesterday.
The young people slain in Durango were traveling from a farming community where they lived to the town of Los Naranjos to collect federal financial aid for students, prosecutors said in a statement.
Yesterday's announcement by the acting Essex County prosecutor, Donald C. Campolo, that a student and a former student had been charged with setting the fire brought little relief to the families, only a stark reminder of what they lost that night in January 2000.
Three Senate Democrats are planning a series of round-table discussions with students, prosecutors, campus police and university administrators on college sexual assault.
CHARDON, Ohio — The fatal shooting rampage in a high school in this quiet suburb of Cleveland remained a puzzle on Tuesday, with prosecutors saying that a student had confessed to the killings and had told them that he did not know his victims and chose them at random.
A12 Hazing Charge for 15 Students Prosecutors in Skokie, Ill., filed misdemeanor battery charges against 15 suburban teenagers for their involvement this month in a drunken touch football game that degenerated into a melee, injuring several of the participants.
