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...illness itself," laments Joanne Verbannic, a Michigan grandmother employed at the Ford Motor Credit Co., who at age 25 had paranoid schizophrenia diagnosed. "Every time I read about a 'paranoid killer' or hear on TV that the weather will be 'schizophrenic,' I feel like someone has put a knife...
When Greenhill entered the classroom, a few students whispered, "Get her now! Get her now!" while others said, "You better not." The assistant principal intervened and ordered the two conspirators to her office, where she confiscated the knife and called the police. Last Friday, Okiki and Marlena were charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated murder. Now parents, teachers and the 700 students at Irving Middle School in Lorain, Ohio, a racially mixed, economically strained town of 70,000, are looking for explanations. They are talking about the growing gang violence, the drug syndicates from New York City and Detroit that...
Every time another knife or gun is drawn in one of the nation's classrooms, parents search for some reason why it was an unusual case, why it couldn't happen in their community. But the exception to the rule has become exceptionally common. The National Education Association estimates that every day 100,000 students carry a gun to class; another study reports that 13% of all incidents involving guns in the schools occur in elementary and preschools. This month the Los Angeles school district will initiate spot checks with portable metal detectors in many of its schools...
Okiki did not seem like the type to make trouble. Her friends describe her as a quiet girl who lived alone with her mother. But she roared on the day before the knife incident, when Kirk yelled at her for not paying attention. When Okiki left the classroom, she complained about how the teacher "got in my face" and warned, "I'm going to kill her." Other students apparently teased her, and then began betting on the life of their English teacher...
That night, Okiki told police, she got "angrier and angrier." She had told friends that "cutting somebody is no big deal" and that she stabbed her father once. A few hours before dawn the girl crept into the kitchen and selected a knife, which she tucked into her book...