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[sunshine326]

This has serious potential of sounding callous and rude. I felt really bad for the kids yesterday. I still feel bad that they have to grieve over a friend this early in life, but it was gang activity. The kid that was shot (D'Angelo) went to a gas station with a gun to wait for someone to kill him. He was a murderer. He was a murderer who got shot killing someone else. I can't feel bad for this kid. I'm can't immortalize him as a decent person. His friends (friends that must also be involved in drugs and gangs...) are furious that he was shot and deeply saddened by their loss. I can't even fathom what it must feel like to lose a friend espeically that suddenly, but he was a murderer! We had a moment of silence in his honor today. We had announcement about how it's ok to grieve and what we can learn from his passing. NONE of which was necessary. I don't think the school should pretend he was a good kid either. He wasn't. The one encounter that I remember having with him was I was monitoring the hallway and he was supposed to be in the basement. He didn't tell anyone about it, but walked down the hall as a "normal" student. Apparently walked over to a kid, punched him in the face and knocked him down kicked him a few times and nonchantly walk back to his class. Not a teacher saw it even though 7 of us were with in 20 feet. It was that fast. The other kids didn't know or see it either. Only the ones that were near the locker. We had to verify it with the cameras. He was a known drug dealer and was expelled in the first quarter of school. I just can't feel anything but may be relief that it was him and not a different kid that was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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http://nwitimes.com/articles/2007/05/11/news/top_news/doc82dfffb1416cd771862572d8000c38db.txt

I'm not sure how I feel about the last line. "spilling over into the summer months" ...