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Friday, May 09
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Source: Los Angeles Times , Ventura County Star King shooting The arraignment of Brandon McInerney, accused of the fatal shooting an Oxnard schoolmate, was postponed again Thursday and rescheduled for June. Ventura County Superior Court Judge Kevin McGee granted the delay requested by McInerney's lawyer, William Quest, Ventura County senior deputy public defender. The 14-year-old from Oxnard is set to be tried as an adult in the classroom killing of Larry King, a 15-year-old who sometimes wore lipstick and told friends he was gay. Earlier, Quest said in an interview that he is working on a...
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Friday, April 18
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Source: Associated Press via CNN , E! Online King shooting Lance Bass doesn't want others to stay silent as he did. He wants the youth of America to get in sync with sexual tolerance. So he's made a public service announcement for the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN). The erstwhile 'N Syncer filmed the announcement to urge students to stop the bullying, harassment and discrimination occurring in schools. [See YouTube video of the announcement at the bottom of this post.] "Everyday, thousands of students are silenced," Bass says in the spot. "They're...
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Thursday, April 17
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Source: KESQ TV King shooting Palm Springs, Calif. -- A Coachella Valley high school is taking a stand against violence, hate, and intolerance. People banded together Wednesday night in a vigil to remember a Lawrence King, 15, who was shot and killed in February at his school. Police say the teen was targeted because he was gay. Vigil organizers say bullying and name calling often lead to suicide, fights, and even murder. Students, teachers, and valley organizations are banding together to save lives by creating unity and equality. "We must be people of one heart," David Pelletier of...
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Wednesday, April 16
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Source: Ventura County Star , Lambda Legal press release King shooting A coalition of 27 groups advocating for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights is calling for Ventura County prosecutors to try 14-year-old Brandon McInerney in juvenile court, not as an adult. McInerney has been charged as an adult in connection with the Feb. 12 fatal shooting of a classmate, Larry King, at E.O. Green School in Oxnard. According to students, King, 15, might have been targeted because he was openly gay. The coalition of lesbian, gay and other organizations, including Lambda Legal, the National Center...
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Monday, March 31
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Source: The Argus King shooting ON TUESDAY, Feb. 12, 14-year-old Brandon McInerney accompanied his class to the computer lab at E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard. He was supposed to complete an English project. Instead, he approached his classmate Lawrence King and shot him in the head. Brandon since has been charged with premeditated murder with a hate-crime enhancement. You see, although Brandon has offered no public explanation for his action, it appears he murdered Lawrence because Lawrence was gay. Classmates report Lawrence had taken to dressing effeminately, had revealed his sexual...
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Friday, March 28
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Source: Ventura County Star , TransWorldNews King shooting A dozen students from E.O. Green School in Oxnard stood around a picnic table at a local park Tuesday eating pink vegan cupcakes and waiting for autographed photos of two reality TV stars. Most of the eighth-graders gathered in the park had never watched CBS' "The Amazing Race," or heard of Kynt and Vyxsin, one of 11 teams that raced around the world on the show's 12th edition. But that didn't matter, said Jesus Cruz, 13. "They came all the way from Kentucky to see us," he said, "and I think that's...
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Friday, March 28
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Source: Associated Press via Washington Post King shooting [ seaQwa editor's note: The in-depth AP story by Greg Risling summarized here has been carried widely by US and international papers. It finally seems to have given this tragic story wider circulation -- something that's been unaccountably missing in the five weeks since the shooting. The LA Times and other California papers have -- as one can see from the summaries here -- given it extensive coverage while national press mostly ignored the story until now. It is true, as Risling writes here, that "King's death has drawn...
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Thursday, March 27
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Source: LA Daily News , Daily Breeze King shooting When a gay teenager was gunned down earlier this year at an Oxnard school, the violence resulted in the unexpected: Young people, gay and straight, rallied across the nation for civil rights. And even at an age when they're grappling with their own fragile sexuality, teens weren't afraid to stand up for the classmate who had been different. "In middle school, you don't think about your own sexuality so much as you think of what society thinks is normal for kids, and you try to blend in," said 18-year-old Luis Roman, a gay...
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Saturday, March 22
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Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel King shooting by William Butte "Are you looking at me, you faggot? You know what I do to faggots? I break their necks!" Melbourne Brunner heard this expression of irrationality, fear and hatred just moments before he was attacked by a stranger last month in front of a restaurant on Fort Lauderdale 's toniest street. Brunner's partner had the temerity to say "Good morning" to the would-be assailant when they made eye-contact as he passed by their table. [see Qnews summary ] But Brunner was lucky, so to speak. He survived the assault...
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Thursday, March 13
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Source: Daily World (Aberdeen/Gray's Harbor) King shooting Aberdeen, Wash. -- An Aberdeen High School senior who threatened a classmate on a MySpace web site will serve seven days in jail for harassment. “You are young,” the judge told Brandon Peterman, “but you’re old enough to know better.” Peterman, 19, pleaded guilty Tuesday to harassment -- a reduced charge from felony malicious harassment -- for an online "joke" threatening to hang a 17-year-old black student. The message included profanity and a racial slur. [see Qnews summary ] District Court Judge Stephen Brown ordered the...
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Thursday, March 13
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Source: Holmen Courier King shooting Holmen, Wisc. -- A few parents in this Wisconsin town near Lacrosse objected at a Monday school board meeting to a proposed vigil to honor victims of anti-gay violence, including 15-year-old Larry King, who was murdered in his Oxnard, Calif. classroom because he was gay. It wasn’t on the agenda, but homosexuality occupied 15 minutes of the Holmen School Board time at its meeting Monday night. Three audience members spoke to the board opposing the district allowing students to have a gay/lesbian vigil April 25. The organization the speakers referred to, called...
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Wednesday, March 12
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Source: Los Angeles Times King shooting Gizelle Studevent was a 13-year-old eighth-grader at prestigious La Jolla Country Day School when the harassment began. She returned from a basketball tournament to find an unsigned note in her suitcase: Addressed to "Senorita," it mocked the girl's skills on the court and suggested she go home to Mexico. Over more than two years, an anonymous band of bullies tormented Gizelle. Their acts grew increasingly cruel -- on the Internet, in notes and around school. Finally, she transferred. "I would go home and cry every day," said Gizelle...
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Wednesday, March 12
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Source: E! Online , Yahoo News , PageOneQ King shooting "If you think gay teens like Lawrence King are safe in our schools," says Grey's Anatomy's T. R. Knight, "you're wrong." In partnership with GLSEN, LGBT-oriented television network Logo , is airing a public service announcement urging awareness and vigilance against homophobia, transphobia and discrimination in schools. The ad was made in response to the recent murder of openly gay junior high student Lawrence King. The E!Online includes a streaming player showing the ad . "One more murder, one more life...
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Monday, March 10
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Source: Washington Blade King shooting The defining setting for anti-gay violence for the last decade was a rickety fence in a desolate Wyoming field. But a string of anti-gay beatings, shootings and killings in recent months shows that homophobic hatred didn’t disappear when Matthew Shepard was killed 10 years ago this October, nor is it confined to rural pockets of America’s heartland. In the last year alone, young gay people have died at the hands of straight friends in central Florida, been beaten to death after leaving a bar in Greenville, S.C., and assassinated in an eighth grade classroom...
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Sunday, March 09
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Source: Los Angeles Times [seaQwa editor's note: This is the most complete article yet published on the King school shooting and devastating because of its detail. I've included a larger digest than usual, but still recommend reading the complete article in the LA Times . -- REvans ] By Paul Pringle and Catherine Saillant , Los Angeles Times Staff Writers Larry King in 2006 portrait photo: Memorial website King shooting For teens living in a shelter for abused and neglected children, school can provide a daily dose of normalcy, a place to fit in, a chance to be just another kid. It didn't...
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Friday, February 29
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Source: Huffington Post , AP via San Jose Mercury News , TMZ.com King shooting Ellen Degeneres took a moment on her show Friday to remember 15-year-old Lawrence King. King was shot and killed by a fellow student, 14-year-old Brandon McInerney. King, who was gay, reportedly had asked McInerney to be his Valentine in the days before the shooting. Ellen looked into camera and talked about the murder in Oxnard, Ca. The YouTube clip of the program segment is included at the bottom of this post. Ellen was on the verge of tears as she made a plea to stop the hate "I don't want to be political...
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Tuesday, February 26
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Source: Ventura County Star About 200 people participated in a rally Saturday in Oxnard to raise awareness about children's safety after the fatal classroom shooting of 15-year-old Larry King. The Kids First -- Stop the Violence rally was organized by the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Oxnard and Port Hueneme, the latest of similar events in the wake of the shooting. King shooting "The purpose of the rally is to engage people and help everybody understand that we all share a responsibility in helping our youth become responsible and productive citizens," said Nancy Mayerson, board...
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Saturday, February 23
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Source: New York Times and Ventura County Star OXNARD, Calif. -- Hundreds of mourners gathered at a church here on Friday to remember an eighth-grade boy who was shot to death inside a junior high school computer lab by a fellow student in what prosecutors are calling a hate crime. Larry King in 2006 portrait photo: Memorial website In recent weeks, the victim, Lawrence King, 15, had said publicly that he was gay, classmates said, enduring harassment from a group of schoolmates, including the 14-year-old boy charged in his death. “God knit Larry together and made him wonderfully complex,” the Rev...
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Thursday, February 21
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Source: MTV and IndyBay.org Two days before a shotgun-wielding Steven Kazmierczak shot 21 students inside a lecture hall on the campus of Northern Illinois University, taking the lives of five people as well as his own, 15-year-old Lawrence "Larry" King was shot in the head at the E.O. Green School in Oxnard, California, reportedly for being gay. He was in the eighth grade. King shooting Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), a leading gay-rights student organization, has decided to make King's murder one of the central themes of this year's annual Day of Silence...
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Tuesday, February 19
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Source: Los Angeles Times The Goths in their black T-shirts were there. So were the punks with fluorescent hair and multiple piercings. There were even a few adolescent boys carrying skateboards among the nearly 1,000 Oxnard youth and other supporters who turned out Saturday for a hastily organized peace march to pay tribute to Lawrence King , 15, the Oxnard student shot to death in a classroom last week. "Larry, Larry, Larry!" the crowd chanted before marchers clasped hands in a moment of silence for the fallen student. King shooting There were no bullhorns, no speeches and no politicians...
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Monday, February 18
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Source: Pasadena Star-News and KNBC News 15-year old Larry King was gunned down in an Oxnard classroom photo via BAR and Ventura County Star EL MONTE -- The shooting death of 15-year-old gay student last week in what authorities are investigating as a hate crime prompted Assemblyman Mike Eng, D-Monterey Park, to introduce legislation that could prevent such actions in the future. Lawrence King was gunned down Tuesday by his Oxnard classmate. King, an eighth grader at E.O. Green Junior High School, was teased at school because of the effeminate way he dressed. King shooting On Monday, Eng unveiled...
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Saturday, February 16
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Source: Ventura County Star and CBS News About a hundred people walked through Ventura with candles and glow sticks in a vigil to remember slain student Larry King photo: Ventura County Star Blue was Larry King's favorite color eye shadow. Along with his signature black, high-heeled boots and varying shades of lipstick, friends say he wore dramatic makeup and dressed more flamboyantly in the last two weeks before he was shot to death by a classmate at an Oxnard middle school. Link: Ventura County Star video of vigil The cosmetics added a quirkiness to his personality, friends said. But they...
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Friday, February 15
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Source: Ventura County Times , LA Times , LA Times , and indybay.org Yearbook photo of Larry King photo via LA Times The Ventura County Rainbow Alliance has organized a candlelight vigil tonight to honor Larry King, an eighth-grader fatally shot Tuesday inside a classroom at E. O. School in Oxnard. The Rainbow Alliance is a nonprofit group that advocates for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights. King shooting The vigil will be held at 7 p.m. today followed by a walk to the beach, starting at 8 p.m. According to reports from friends of Lawrence King speaking to the Los Angeles Times, the...
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Thursday, February 14
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Source: KINBC News LOS ANGELES -- Prosecutors filed a charge of murder with hate-crime and firearm-use enhancements Thursday against a 14-year-old boy who will be tried as an adult in the school shooting of a classmate. The victim, Larry King, has been declared brain dead, but remains on a ventilator. King shooting The charge against Brandon David McInerney was upgraded from attempted murder after authorities learned that victim Lawrence King's condition was not survivable. "When we got confirmation that he in fact was brain dead, there's state law in California that says that's...
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Thursday, February 14
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Source: Ventura County Times The family of Lawrence King, the eighth-grade boy who was fatally shot Tuesday by a junior high school classmate at E.O. Green School in Oxnard, remembered him this morning as a unique, caring young man. King shooting The boy, who was known as Larry, loved to sing songs by folk rock trio Crosby, Stills and Nash, and was studying the Star Spangled Banner in hopes of singing it at his brother’s baseball games, his father said. “He had a very gifted singing voice.” He was so good in fact, that one of Greg King’s friends -- who was unaware of the family’s tragedy -- called...
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Wednesday, February 13
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Source: Los Angeles Times , ABC 7 News , AP , Ventura County Star , and AP via Contra Costa Times [Updated with additional information about the boy's medical condition] OXNARD, Calif. -- A 15-year-old boy who was shot in the head at school was declared brain dead Wednesday but was kept on a ventilator for possible organ donation, a medical examiner said. King shooting Eighth-grader Lawrence King, who was shot Tuesday, was pronounced brain dead at 2 p.m. at St. John's Regional Medical Center after two neurosurgeons examined him, said Craig Stevens, senior deputy medical examiner in Ventura...
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