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Oregon
Sept 21, 2005 15:42:05 GMT -5
Post by Sher on Sept 21, 2005 15:42:05 GMT -5
KLAMATH FALLS, Oregon (AP) -- Two girls were charged with attempted murder Tuesday after authorities said they put rat poison into milk cartons of two fellow students.
No one was seriously hurt in the incident. Both girls were being held at a juvenile detention facility.
"The investigation reveals there was some premeditation and thought before the act," said Lake County District Attorney David Schutt. "It wasn't a spur-of-the-moment event."
He did not elaborate on any possible motive.
Stephanie Quesnoy, 12, and Holley Sweeney, 13, are accused of putting the poison in the milk cartons during lunch hour Monday at Daly Middle School, authorities said.
The school's principal notified police after the green, crystalline pellets of poison were found in the cartons.
"It wasn't until they finished their milk that they saw it at the bottom," Schutt said. "I don't think it had time to work its way into the milk."
The two victims and one of the suspects -- who may have accidentally gotten some of the poison in her own milk -- were evaluated at a hospital and released, Schutt said.
A hearing was scheduled Monday.
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Oregon
Feb 24, 2006 1:14:36 GMT -5
Post by Sher on Feb 24, 2006 1:14:36 GMT -5
ROSEBURG, Oregon (AP) -- A teenager shot and wounded another student at school Thursday, then fled to a restaurant, where he put the gun to his head before surrendering, police said.
The shooter, who police said was a 14-year-old freshman, was arrested shortly after the attack at Roseburg High.
The school went into lockdown after the shots were fired about 7:45 a.m.
The victim, identified as Joseph Monti, 16, was shot twice in the abdomen and once in the chest. A bullet also grazed his left elbow, said Kathleen Nickel, spokeswoman for Mercy Medical Center.
He "is doing very well, better than can be expected considering the bullet wounds," said hospital CEO Vic Fresolone. He said surgeons had repaired intestinal damage caused by the most serious of the wounds.
The suspect was not immediately identified. Sgt. Aaron Dunbar said the shooting wasn't random and the two knew each other.
"We're trying to come up with what the beef was," Dunbar said.
The boy was expected to be arraigned Friday on felony charges of attempted murder, assault, illegal use of a firearm and illegal possession of a firearm, authorities said. He was being held in juvenile detention.
A nearby elementary school in Roseburg, a former southwest Oregon timber town of about 21,000 residents, was briefly locked down as a precaution.
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