Interesting item - and in this article it speaks of Williams room being shot up, etc. Williams, the kid said he got the idea from a song to shoot up the school - maybae he saw the movie Heathers which was quite a time before Littleton - but drugs involved once again and the mother was in military - but we have another smiling killer who is fifiteen years old, and the Prosecutor gets in on the show with boy prosecute him as an adult - with the natural kill instinct of a prosecutor. So life is so cheap in America - was reading today on this Chris Ofili, the English painter who painted Black Madonna in dung, etc. And how certain Rock Stars supported this art - remember too this one ugly rock star, with the song We're Not Going to Take It Anymore - in the film version of song he pushes his father out the window....then we have the popular Rap Stars they call them with the kill whitey? TV Violence and these morons want to see warning signs of kids in trouble? You have to be kidding - warning signs? Look to Hollywood where they play games with our chldren - notice how many moves have kids being slaughtered - big joke? Sinking into sublime pictures - what someone needs to do is file a few law suits - seems odd Larry Flynt a front for drus can sell his pornography and be made into an American Hero in movies - yet kids are not permitted to say a prayer in school - but sodomy teachings is A-Ok. Saba Home | Register Web Search: News Home Page News DigestNation National Security Science Courts Columns Special Reports Search the States Photo Galleries Live Online Nation Index World Metro Business Washtech Sports Style Education Travel Health Home & Garden Opinion Weather Weekly Sections Classifieds Print Edition Archives Site Index Toolbox On the Web Census information Federal crime data Economy by region Stateline.org Boasts to Friends Went Unbelieved _____Related Article_____ � 2 Students Die in Calif. Shootings(The Washington Post, Mar 6, 2001) _____Live Online_____ � Joanne McDaniel, interim director of the Center for the Prevention of School Violence, will discuss the Santana High shooting on Tuesday, March 6 at 11 a.m. EST. � Vincent Schiraldi, founder and president of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, discussed school violence and the Santana High School shooting. Read a transcript. _____Video_____ � At a press conference, San Diego County Sheriff William Kolender, Santana High School Principal Karen Degiescher and San Diego District Attorney Paul Pfingst update reporters on the shooting. � President Bush offered condolences to the victims' families in the Santana High School shooting. _____Timeline_____ � Recent School Shootings _____Special Report_____ � Juvenile Violence _____On the Web_____ � Santana High School Web Site E-Mail This Article Printer-Friendly Version Subscribe to The Post By Michael A. Fletcher and Sharon Waxman Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, March 6, 2001; Page A01 If he was not talking about owning a gun, Charles "Andy" Williams was spinning some wild tale about stealing a car and riding off to Mexico. As recently as last weekend, though, he seemed to embrace a more ominous idea, one he had raised on and off for months: shooting up his new high school. He even offered to enlist some friends in the plot. As always, no one really took him seriously. But in a tragic repeat of other school shootings that have rocked rural and suburban communities from Kentucky to Colorado in recent years, Williams is accused of making good on his boasts. The 15-year-old freshman is being held in a shooting that left two dead and 13 wounded at Santana High School in suburban San Diego. In many ways, the broad outlines of Williams's life fit the profile of the suspects in the string of school shootings. Pale and scrawny, he was the constant butt of jokes. After moving to California from Maryland, he hung out with a bunch of skateboarders who dabbled in drugs and did not fit in with the mainstream high school crowd. And when he talked about his plans for mass murder, no one knew quite what to make of them. "He was a talker," said Andrew Kaforey, 17, a Santana senior who said he knows Williams well. "He would talk a lot of stuff and would not act on it. He'd say he's going to steal a car and drive to Mexico. That he was going to shoot people. You wouldn't really think about it." Others said they didn't put much stock in Williams's bravado. Chris Puttbrese, 16, says when he heard rumors that Williams was thinking about bringing a gun to school, he thought he didn't have the nerve to do it. Jacob Kaforey, Andrew's younger brother, said that Williams seemed to enjoy the attention that his bragging brought to him: "He would just say anything that he thought would be cool." Williams and his father moved to California from tiny Knoxville, Md., in Frederick County, last year. Neighbors near the two-story, yellow clapboard home where Williams lived in Maryland described him as small, unassuming and the frequent victim of neighborhood bullies. The Williams home was vandalized within the past two years, one neighbor said, and the vandals concentrated on the boy's room, shooting at his television with BB guns. In another incident, a tree house the boy had built near his home was "torn apart" by bullies, the neighbor said. "He was small and couldn't defend himself, so the punks would pick on him," said the neighbor, who identified himself only as Phil. "Maybe he just got tired of being picked on." Williams attended Brunswick Middle School, the neighbor said, and his father worked at Fort Detrick in Frederick. He told neighbors he had gotten a job with the U.S. Park Service in California shortly before leaving for California in a U-Haul truck. Debby Pfeifer and other neighbors in Knoxville said Williams was well known as a latch-key child who often ate dinner and slept over at friends' homes. Pfeifer said Williams came back to Knoxville last summer and stayed with her family. Williams and Pfeifer's daughter had become friends at middle school. After arriving in the middle-class town of Santee, Williams shaved his head and constantly wore a blue hooded sweat shirt bearing a Navy insignia. In his new town, he tried hard to fit in and ran with a fast crowd. He was often teased about his stature, but he never fought back. He would run away or use his quick wit to deflect the taunts. Teenager after teenager hanging out in front of Santana High School, or rolling around at a local skate park, said they would never have expected a murderous outburst from Williams. "He was at our house not a week ago," said Amber Townsend, 14. "He was always smiling. If you can think of any friend who was unlikely to do this, it's him." But Williams also frequented the skate park where kids from the high school used to hang out and get high. Drugs were readily available for those who wanted them: marijuana, mushrooms, acid, speed. And even young teens would get drunk on the weekends. Williams, they said, smoked pack after pack of Marlboro Reds. Friends said Williams got into a fistfight with a fellow skater two weeks ago. But even in the haze of the skate park, some of Williams's stranger ideas raised eyebrows -- if not real concern. A few weeks ago Jesse Cunard, an 18-year-old redhead, heard Williams boast, that he "could bring down the school and not get caught. "I thought he was joking," Cunard said. But by last weekend, "everybody knew about" the plan to bring a gun to school, said Samantha Davis, 17. Last Saturday night, Williams and about five other friends got drunk at a bonfire at a friend's house. Fifteen-year-old Neil O'Grady was surprised when Williams "blurted out how he was gonna bring a gun to school and shoot people. He said a song inspired him." Again, there was disbelief. "I said, 'Yeah, right.' He didn't seem like that kind of person. He's funny, always messing around a lot." Staff writers Jeff Adler, Dan Eggen and David Snyder, research editor Margot Williams and staff researcher Lynn Davis contributed to this report. © 2001 The Washington Post Company Related Links More National News Juvenile Violence on Web Keep Schools Safe: Information on preventing school violence Kids in Crisis: What you can do Warning Signs of Teen Violence: Learn how to spot potential trouble Remembering Columbine Juvenile Violence Report New from Frederick Boasts to Friends Went Unbelieved (The Washington Post, 3/6/01) CRIME & JUSTICE (The Washington Post, 3/2/01) Frederick Calendar (The Washington Post, 3/1/01) More Stories >From Britannica: Introduction to Maryland Introduction to California SITE SEARCH: Search Options ADVERTISINGLINKS Home | Register Web Search:
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