Earlier today the media reported that prosecutors charged a 14-year-old boy with the attempted murder of 15-year-old Lawrence King. Prosecutors will file a hate-crime enhancement and want the suspect to be tried as an adult.
Tuesday morning, King was shot in the head while in class at E.O. Green Junior High in Oxnard, California. He was declared brain dead and is currently on a ventilator for organ donation. Once taken off the ventilator the charges against the 14-year-old boy will be upgraded. "It is inevitable that this is going to become a murder case," Ventura County prosecutor Maeve Fox said.
The victim was known to be gay and sometimes attended school wearing makeup and high heels, an eighth-grader Nicholas Cortez, 14, told The Associated Press. Another eighth-grader, Michael Sweeney, said King's appearance was "freaking the guys out," the Los Angeles Times reported today. "He would come to school in high-heeled boots, makeup, jewelry and painted nails — the whole thing," Sweeney told the Times.
Lawrence King was in the county foster care system and lived at Casa Pacifica, a nearby center for abused and neglected children, said Steve Elson, the facility's chief executive. "We're are all stunned and it's just an unspeakable tragedy," Elson said Wednesday. "This is a very big traumatic experience for all of us."
Absolutely heartbreaking.
- QTC
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