Eighth-grader Gives “Death List”
to School Librarian
A 13-year-old student at Davis Intermediate School in San Jose, California, was arrested September 9 after allegedly drawing up a “death list” of 50 students and showing it to a school librarian.
Oak Grove School District Superintendent Manny Barbara told the San Jose Mercury News September 14 that the boy has been taken out of school while the district conducts an expulsion hearing.
Barbara said that initially the boy claimed he had found the list at the school but administrators matched the handwriting on the list to the boy’s. “He obviously wanted it to be found,” Barbara said. “He was the one who brought it forward.”
San Jose police spokesman Rubens Dalaison told the newspaper that the list was comprised of people the boy disliked. “He himself gave the list to the librarian there. It was his way of reaching out.”
Posted September 20, 1999.
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