No criminal charges in Georgia teen’s suicide, bullying

Rachel Brown
The Daily Citizen
Chattsworth, Georgia — No one will be charged at Murray County High School in connection with alleged bullying incidents David and Tina Long say led to their son’s Oct. 17 suicide.
The couple asked the Chatsworth Police Department to look into their son Tyler’s last days, saying he took his life because he [...]

Tyler Long: Did bullying lead Georgia teen to suicide?

Karen Zatkulak
News Channel 9
Chatsworth, Georgia — A family wants answers after they say bullying lead to their son’s death. Seventeen year old Tyler Long committed suicide last month.
“He was my best friend, my role model, I looked to him for advice,” Troy Long, Tyler’s fourteen-year-old brother, says.

Mary Fox murder probe: No ‘obvious evidence’ of bullying

Independent Television News
CORNWALL, England — Police have said they are pursuing a number of lines of enquiry in their hunt for the killers of a devoted mother of nine who died in a house fire started by a firework pushed through her letterbox.
Mary Fox, 59, was trapped in her bedroom after reportedly pushing her 17-year-old [...]

Mary Fox death: Youths hunted over woman’s firework murder

By Steven Swinford
London Sunday Times
POLICE have opened a murder inquiry into the death of a mother of nine in a house fire that started when a firework was pushed through her letterbox.
Mary Fox, 59, died after helping her teenage son jump through an upstairs window to save him as flames engulfed the house in Bodmin, [...]

Cornwall bullying: Firework victim Mary Fox ‘devoted’ mom

BBC News
Mary Fox helped her 17-year-old son jump out of a window on the first floor
The family of a “devoted” mother-of-nine from Cornwall, who died in a house fire after a firework was put through the door, have paid tribute to her.
Mary Fox died in the fire in Wallace Road, Bodmin on Thursday night, after [...]

Cornwall: mom-of-five died saving ‘bullied’ son in fire

By Richard Savill
Telegraph
BODMIN, Cornwall — Police are investigating a report that the blaze may have been caused by a firework which had been pushed through the letterbox.
Neighbours said Mary Fox, 59, was seen pushing her 17-year-old son Raum out of the first floor window of their three storey home in Bodmin, Cornwall, shortly after the [...]

Parents’ suit alleges hazing in Prairie View A&M student’s death

By BRUCE TOMASO
The Dallas Morning News
The parents of a Prairie View A&M University student who died last month have filed a lawsuit alleging that the death was the result of brutal fraternity hazing.
The lawsuit stems from the Oct. 20 death of Donnie Wade Jr. of Oak Cliff, a 20-year-old transfer student who collapsed during an [...]

Prairie A&M U: Parents say hazing killed their son

By DAN MCCUE
Courthouse News
DALLAS – A fraternity killed a freshman pledge by forcing him onto a bread and water diet while inflicting extreme exercise regimes on him in a hazing ritual, his parents claim in Dallas County Court. The Rev. Donnie and Katrina Wade seek punitive damages from Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity and Prairie A&M [...]

Anniston Schools continue Trey Figures’ suicide probe

by Megan Nichols
Anniston Star
Anniston school officials on Friday continued investigating what may have led to a middle school student’s suicide, but offered few specifics on a case that’s shocked, saddened and angered the community.
“We’re still in the information-collection stage, and we’re also trying to support these kids and these faculty members who are grieving,” said [...]

Trey Figures’ family: Bullying led to 12-year-old’s suicide

By Megan Nichols
Anniston Star
Anniston, ALABAMA — Tre’Juan ‘Trey’ Cordell Figures’ family and friends talk about the problems Trey had. Family friend Deidra Parker, left; Trey’s grandmother, Essie Figures; his mother, Veronica McGee; and his father, Johnny Figures; and his aunt, Virginia Eastman.
Tre’Juan Figures hugged everyone, but it wasn’t enough to ease the pain he felt [...]

Jordan Maddison, 12, ’scared’ to death by bullies?

London Telegraph
A 12-year-old boy with a heart condition was scared to death by two older boys who were threatening to beat him up, according to a coroner who has asked lawyers and police to consider prosecuting the pair.
Derek Winter, coroner for Sunderland, halted the inquest after hearing evidence for two hours and said that the [...]

Ex-frat members plead guilty in NY hazing death

By BEN DOBBIN
Associated Press
GENESEO, N.Y. — Two former members of a banned college fraternity at a western New York campus admitted Tuesday they plied a student with so much beer, champagne and vodka during a three-day hazing that the young man died of alcohol poisoning.
Arman Partamian, 19, a biology sophomore from New York City, was [...]

Inquest: Alex Wildman bullied before suicide

SAFFRON HOWDEN
Brisbane Times
ALEX WILDMAN’S school principal and deputy admitted days after the bullied teenager committed suicide he might still be alive if the school had handled his case differently.
His mother, Justine Kelly, told the inquest into the 14-year-old’s death in July 2008, that Kadina High’s then-principal Stephen Lowndes and deputy Bradd Farrell had visited her [...]

Jeremiah Lasater suicide sparks bullying lawsuit

By Brian Charles
Signal Staff Writer
SANTA CLARITA VALLEY, Calif. — The report from the investigation into Jeremiah Lasater’s suicide at Vasquez High School last year will remain confidential pending a lawsuit filed by the Lasater family against the Acton Agua Dulce Unified School District, a school district official said.
“We’re not able to talk about it because [...]

Cleburne, Texas: Students learn they can stop bullying

By Pete Kendall/reporter@trcle.com
Cleburne Times-Review
Hunter Layland was different.
His differences, some believe, were not embraced by the entire student body at Cleburne High School.
“He had been in an accident when he was little and had a scar on his face,” said senior John Longoria. “He got a lot of trouble for that from grade school to high [...]

State U. College student’s family files lawsuit

NEW YORK, Oct. 13 (UPI) — The family of a New York college student found dead of alcohol poisoning has filed a lawsuit against eight people connected to the case, officials said.
Arman Partamian, 19, a student at State University College at Geneseo, died March 1 at an outlawed off-campus fraternity known as the Pigs.

Psychologist: School violence creates ‘atmosphere of fear’

By Reid Kerr
TYLER, TX (KLTV) – Wednesday’s murder was not the first incident on the John Tyler campus, only the most serious. Numerous fights and gang-related problems have created what a psychologist calls an atmosphere of fear for students.
While TISD says Wednesday was an isolated incident, they admit there are problems on campus.

Daley plan to combat violence includes more cops, money

BY FRAN SPIELMAN
Chicago Sun Times
Mayor Daley today threw more money and police bodies at a daunting problem no closer to being solved than at any time during his 20-year tenure: the bloodbath on Chicago streets that’s destroying another generation of young people.
The videotape replayed around the world of 16-year-old Fenger High School student Derrion Albert [...]

Friends say bullying drove Cleburne, Tx teen to kill himself

BY MITCH MITCHELL
Fort Worth Star-Telegram.com
CLEBURNE — The rain began falling shortly before Hunter Layland’s funeral Saturday afternoon.
A friend said it was as if the sky was crying for the troubled teen, a Cleburne High School freshman who committed suicide last week.
Hunter Layland, 15, shot himself before school Wednesday, at about 6:35 a.m. He was at [...]

Roseland mob death: Mothers of 2 Fenger suspects react

By Annie Sweeney
WGN News
Two South Side mothers on Monday confronted the brutal violence their sons are accused of as formal charges against the teens were filed and images of them allegedly beating and stomping to death another teenager made national news.
One tearfully said she could not bear to look at the video. The other regretfully [...]

Graphic video: Beating death of Derrion Albert captured

HUFFINGTON POST
UPDATE: Four teenagers have been charged with first-degree murder in Derrion Albert’s beating death.
Silvanus Shannon, 19, Eugene Riley, 18, and Eric Carson, 16, all of Chicago, were charged as adults ordered held without bond. Eugene Bailey, 18, was also charged with first-degree murder and will appear in court Tuesday.
Prosecutors declared Albert an “innocent bystander” [...]

Chicago’s top cop seeks 3 more in Roseland fatal beating

BY STEFANO ESPOSITO
Chicago Sun-Times
The “four most egregious offenders” have now been charged in the videotaped fatal beating of Fenger High School honor student Derrion Albert, Chicago’s top cop said Tuesday.
But even as 17-year-old Eugene Bailey was ordered held without bail Tuesday, police Supt. Jody Weis pleaded for the public’s help in identifying three more people [...]

Chicago police seek 3 more in Roseland teen’s death

CNN.COM
CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) — Chicago police asked the public for help Tuesday in finding three more people believed connected to last week’s videotaped fatal beating of 16-year-old Derrion Albert.
Derrion Albert, 16, was beaten to death last week. His death was captured on video.
“We need the public’s help, your help,” Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis told [...]

$6,000 reward for clues in Roseland’s Derrion Albert death

Associated Press
CHICAGO — Six thousand dollars is being offered for information that leads to more arrests in the fatal beating of a 16-year-old Chicago honor student.
Four teens have already been charged in the death of Derrion Albert. They’re all being held without bond.

Chicago: Teen beaten to death in Roseland mob fight

ABC 7 NEWS
(CHICAGO) (WLS) — Authorities say 16-year-old Derrion Albert was walking from school in broad daylight when he was beaten to death.
It happened on Thursday in Chicago’s Roseland community on the far South Side in the 300-block of West 111th Street.
According to authorities, Derrion Albert was kicked, punched and beaten to death by several [...]