School “Kill List” Was a Hoax
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Karen Rouse, Denver Post, Mar. 24
Aurora—A 13-year-old African-American boy who was trying to “fit in” confessed to a hoax that prompted parents to pull their kids out of Laredo Middle School on Wednesday, officials said.
The boy, a Laredo seventh-grader, created two “kill lists,” discovered Tuesday, that included a racial slur and threatened harm to roughly a dozen black students, police said. The suspect included his own name, said Kathleen Walsh, spokeswoman for Aurora police.
One list was scrawled in pencil in a boys’ restroom, Walsh said. An African-American student reported finding a second list in his locker.
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The suspect was released to his mother and may face misdemeanor charges of racial intimidation, harassment and interference with an educational institution.
He has also been suspended and could be expelled, said Michelle Ancell, spokeswoman for the Cherry Creek School District.
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(Posted on March 24, 2005)