If nothing was done after the killing of twenty school children and six adults in Newtown, Connecticut, and if nothing was done — not even the "bump stock" limitation — after the murder of fifty-eight concertgoers from a sniper's perch in Las Vegas, a month ago, then twenty-six more dead won't alter things.
At the RYSE Youth Center, founded 12 years ago after the killing of four high school students, the soda issue seemed both close to the heart and far away.
It seemed like a movie-script murder out of Hollywood, a mysterious targeted killing of a law school student visiting from Los Angeles that left detectives on two coasts scouring for evidence and a logical motive.
Shane Donald, battered and childlike himself, definitely had a cruel hand in the torture killing of one high school girl in 1989, and he might very well be involved in current disappearances of other teenage girls.
The former military ruler said in a statement issued by his All Progressives Congress party: "No religion allows for the killing of children in school dormitories, in markets and places of worship.
Though inspired by a hate crime — the killing of a high school girl, a lesbian, shot at a Newark bus stop in 2003 — Chisa Hutchinson's "She Like Girls" at the Ohio Theater is a love story at heart.
Two outbreaks of gun violence just before the Memorial Day weekend -- the brutal massacre that left five dead at a Wendy's fast-food restaurant in Flushing, Queens, and the killing of a middle school teacher apparently by a 13-year-old student in a classroom in Lake Worth, Fla .-- showed once again the high price America pays for having too many guns that are too easily available.
The botched mission furthered Castro's opposition to the Grau administration, and returning to Havana, he took a leading role in the student protests against the killing of a high school pupil by government bodyguards.
Many school children witnessed their school besieged by Israeli troops; had seen their school exposed to firing or shelling, a considerable number of children had been a witness to a killing by Israeli troops of a student from their school or seen the killing of a teacher in school.
The language of politics, though, noted the singular emotional toll of the killing of a grade-schooler.
