Bulger suffered multiple skull fractures from blows to the head, and was sexually abused by the two older boys. After the beatings, they left Bulger’s lifeless body across the railway tracks so that his body would be cut in half. Police were able to pin Venables and Thompson because of video images that captured Bulger’s abduction from the mall. DNA testing matched the blood found on the boys’ shoes to Bulger. Thompson and Venables were arrested and controversially tried and convicted in an adult court.
The Real Victim About thirteen thousand people are killed per year in the Untied States of America. On April 20, 1999, 15 students, including the perpetrators were killed in the Columbine High School Massacre. The Columbine High School Massacre, also known as Columbine, occurred in Columbine which is an unincorporated part of Jefferson County, Colorado. Two senior students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, embarked on a massacre, killing 12 students and one teacher. They also injured 21 students directly and three others were injured while attempting to escape.
The Kent State shooting was one of the major shootings and many people were hurt. This shooting occurred on May 4th, 1970 in Kent, Ohio. Involved in the shooting were unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard. The students fired sixty seven rounds in thirteen seconds, killing four students, wounding nine, and permanently paralyzing one (Jerry M. Lewis). Many of the students were only doing meaningless things and got shot for small things such as throwing rocks.
After Cho left the scene at West Ambler Johnston Hall he changed out of his bloodied clothes, logged onto his computer, deleted all of his emails and removed his hard drive. Even later, he stopped at a post office and mailed a package of his writings and videotapes to NBC News. Then, over 2 hours after the initial shootings, Cho entered Norris Hall with chains to lock the front doors, a knife, two handguns and ammunition. Once in Norris Hall, Cho killed 5 faculty members and 25 more students before killing himself as police finally were able to access the building. During the more than 2 hours between the killings at West Ambler and Norris Halls, Cho walked across the campus, mailed
U.S. teenager charged in family killing planned more carnage – police (By Zelie Pollon-Wed, Jan 23, 2013) ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (Reuters) – A 15 year old accused of killing his parents and three younger siblings over the weekend planned to continue his rampage at a local Wal-Mart store then die in a shootout with police, authorities said on Tuesday. Bernalillo County Sheriff Dan Houston told reporters that Nehemiah Griego had been contemplating the killing spree for “at least a week.” Houston said Griego told police that after killing his family at their Albuquerque home on Saturday, he reloaded and planned to go to a nearby Wal-Mart store. “He contemplated ending this with mass destruction,” Houston said. Instead, the 15 year old spent time with his girlfriend, and the pair later went to a church where his
As soon as Moran’s men came inside to pick up the alcohol, Al’s men, dressed as police arrested them. Then the police imposters shot down all seven of Moran’s men. Moran ran away unharmed. Dr. Fredrick L. Hoffman, a researcher of U.S. crime stated how corrupt the U.S. was by saying “ Our murder record of approximately 12,000 persons each year is a most serious indictment of American civilization, and evidence of lawlessness which has no counterpart in any other country in the world” (Scott). Capone and many other gangs terrorized cities with the fear of getting caught in the middle of a shootout (Yancey
COLUMBINE REFLECTION On Tuesday, April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold entered Columbine High School and killed twelve students, one teacher, and then themselves. By committing such a hayness act these two individuals will be remembered forever. They are the blame for thousands of crisis intervention programs to be practiced and up to date. In this learner’s school there are code red, code blue and a shelter in place alerts . Code Red alert is set in place for the scenario of an armed intruder.
Each of these are extremely tragic events, and will play a large role in the future discussions of school counselors in training. However, what could be considered the most tragic event to occur in a United States school is the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. On December 14, 2012 after shooting and killing his own mother, Adam Lanza shot his way into the Sandy Hook Elementary School, killing twenty children and six adults and wounded two other adults; Adam Lanza then killed himself (Sedensky, 2013). Of the six adults shot were the principal, the school psychologist, two behavioral therapists, and two teachers (Sedensky,
More on Moore On the 20th of April 1999 a massacre occurred at Columbine High School in Colorado. Two senior high school students, named Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, had planned and mapped out an entire massacre to occur that day. On that catastrophic Tuesday 14 school students and 1 teacher was killed. Shortly afterwards the two students turned the gun onto themselves and committed suicide. The award winning documentary investigates Michael Moore’s suggestion for the reason behind the Columbine Massacre and other violent events in the US due to the gun policy.
January 17, 1989 Patrick Edward Purdy walked into Stockton schoolyard and open fire with a semi-automatic rifle killing five children and wounding one teacher and 29 other children. March 24, 1998 Mitchell Johnson, 10, and Andrew Golden, 8, took seven guns to school near Jonesboro, Arkansas where they pulled a fire alarm and begin shooting everyone else as they exited the school. They killed four students and one teacher and injured nine others. These and many other random shootings have not stopped. Innocent people are not being protected therefore are dying because there is no control over firearms.