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Thu Mar 1, 2012, 11:15 PM Mar 2012

Teenager Is Charged In Killing of 3 At a School

Source: NYT

Prosecutors on Thursday formally filed murder charges against T. J. Lane, the teenager accused of methodically killing three students and wounding two others in a shooting rampage on Monday in a high school cafeteria east of Cleveland.

The Geauga County prosecutor, David Joyce, filed the charges in juvenile court, but he has said that the seriousness of the case would probably mean that Mr. Lane, 17, would be charged as an adult. If he is found guilty of the charges — three counts of aggravated murder, two counts of attempted murder and one county of felonious assault on a student who was nicked in the ear — he could face life in prison without parole.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/us/teenager-charged-as-juvenile-in-ohio-school-shooting.html

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Teenager Is Charged In Killing of 3 At a School (Original Post) alp227 Mar 2012 OP
Four lives thrown away. liberal N proud Mar 2012 #1
A product of domestic violence... ellisonz Mar 2012 #2
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