Did it really happen? Is it a stage and scripted hoax to advance the agenda? Another turn of the psyops knife? Or did it all happen as reported, as unlikely as that is?
"21 students hurt in knife attack at Pa. school" by Kevin Begos and Joe Mandak | Associated Press April 10, 2014
MURRYSVILLE, Pa. — Flailing away with two kitchen knives, a 16-year-old boy with a ‘‘blank expression’’ stabbed and slashed 21 students and a security guard in the crowded halls of his suburban Pittsburgh high school Wednesday before an assistant principal tackled him....
The rampage — which came after decades in which US schools geared much of their emergency planning toward mass shootings, not stabbings — set off a screaming stampede, left blood on the floor and walls, and brought teachers rushing to help the victims.
Police shed little light on the motive....
My first thought was what SSRIs was he on.
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Time to ban knives, isn't it?
"Pa. stabbing suspect doesn’t grasp event, lawyer says" by Joe Mandak and Kevin Begos | Associated Press April 11, 2014
PITTSBURGH — The 16-year-old accused of stabbing 22 people at his high school was dazed ‘‘like a deer in the headlights’’ later and does not fully grasp what he did, his lawyer said Thursday as he sketched out the beginnings of a possible mental health defense.
Deepening the mystery of what set off the violence, attorney Patrick Thomassey said Alex Hribal had no history of mental illness or troublemaking, did not abuse drugs, and was no outcast. He described him as a B or B-plus student.
‘‘In a case like this, it’s pretty obvious to me that there must be something inside this young man that nobody knew about.’’
The prosecutor, meanwhile, said Hribal remains an enigma.
‘‘We have very little information about him,’’ Westmoreland District Attorney John Peck said, ‘‘except for the fact that he was a student, his age, and how he was as a student.’’
Authorities seized the family’s computer as they searched for clues to Wednesday’s rampage at Franklin Regional High, about 15 miles from Pittsburgh. Authorities said Hribal armed himself with two kitchen knives and stabbed 21 students and a security guard before an assistant principal tackled him.
The slender, dark-haired boy who looks younger than his years was jailed without bail on four counts of attempted homicide and 21 counts of aggravated assault. Authorities are prosecuting him as an adult, but Thomassey will try to have the case moved to juvenile court.
He plans to get his client examined by a psychiatrist.
‘‘I think his mental state now is unstable. I’m not sure that he recognizes the enormity, if that’s the word, of what has occurred,’’ Thomassey said. ‘‘And I think in his own mind he’s trying to figure out what happened here, as we all are trying to figure out what the heck happened here.’’
Actually, I'm not. Who knows what happened?
What I do know is the account in my newspaper is not to be trusted.
The attack seemingly came out of nowhere, the lawyer said.
‘‘Both parents are good parents. They’re parents who pay attention to their kids, who eat dinner with their kids every day, who understand their kids’ friends, who, you know, care about who they hang out with.’’
But a school security consultant said it is often the case that attacks are perpetrated by kids who were not on officials’ radar.
‘‘In incident after incident, when you start peeling back the onion, you find there were some indicators, there certainly were some issues. But it takes some time to find,’’ said Ken Trump, president of National School Safety and Security Services.
So which contract are you trying to land for further examinations of the kids?
‘‘Often times, it’s not the kid who’s the class clown or acting out the most, but the kid who’s changed, who’s turned more introverted or withdrawn,’’ he said. ‘‘I think the one consistent theme across all of these is mental health.’’
And there you go. This is about the state discovering which of us is "insane."
What about the victims in all of this?
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Schools are in AmeriKa are scary, so much so that I would keep my children at home and school them there if I were you.
"Motive still unclear in Pa. rampage" by Joe Mandak | Associated Press April 12, 2014
MURRYSVILLE, Pa. — No evidence has surfaced yet to show that a boy charged in a stabbing rampage at his high school was targeting any particular student, and efforts to establish a motive are stalled because the suspect isn’t talking.
After being taken into custody, Alex Hribal, 16, made statements suggesting he wanted to die, a prosecutor has said. Hribal’s attorney did not immediately return a call for comment Friday. But he has said the boy’s family remains as puzzled as police by the attack.
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Also see:
"Students at the middle and elementary schools, which share a campus with the high school, returned to classes a day after the attack, Dan Stevens, spokesman for the Westmoreland County emergency management department, said, adding that, since then, the focus has been on returning things to normal at the high school."
