Word: santana
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...kind of music that we do isn't really accepted in that kind of environment. They'd rather give Santana a prize than the Backstreet Boys. Why? I don't know. This is a very sensitive subject. I don't want to sound like I'm saying Santana doesn't deserve awards - he definitely does. Everyone in this business should have an award just for standing it. And most of the people who win the awards are talented and work really hard. They deserve it. Of course I'd be happy if they gave me a Grammy...
...months before the attack, one of the boy's closest friends boasted that Williams had taken one of his father's guns and hidden it in bushes behind a park they frequented. The weekend before, when Williams began saying that he was going to "pull a Columbine" on Santana High, two of his friends called him a "pussy" and dared...
...that it didn't like to hear--that despite street names such as Peaceful Court and Carefree Drive, it was far from the idyllic, pacific suburb that many of the adults in Santee imagined. "There's a lot of hate around here," says Gentry Robler, 16, a sophomore at Santana High. He reels off the high school cliques: the gothics, the freaks, the dorks, the jocks, the Mexican gangsters, the white supremacists. "This is a school that was waiting for something like this to happen." But who would have guessed that it would be the skinny, jug-eared, timid freshman...
Williams continued to be picked on, sometimes even by his newfound friends. "I made fun of him--I regret it now," says John Fields, who said he left Santana High earlier in the school year for frequent truancy and is part of the skate-park group. As recently as the Thursday before the killings, Kathleen Seek, 15, a former girlfriend of Williams' back in Maryland, received an instant message from him saying he didn't want to go to school that day for fear of being bullied. But few of Williams' friends ever really understood what was going on inside...
...temple and announced that she wanted to kill herself. School staff and another student talked Bush out of pulling the trigger, and Marchese spent just one evening in the hospital. But if the outcome was far less bloody than what had taken place two days earlier at Santana High School, the case is equally distressing for another reason: Bush, the first female school shooter in nearly three decades, belies much of the profile we have come to associate with--and use to help intercept--the potential kid killers among...