Teen Threatens Mass High School Murder Spree. Free on $45 bail fee.

[MethuenProgressive]

http://www.eagletribune.com/local/local_story_114093811
Teen girl charged in Central Catholic 'hit list' case

LAWRENCE - Police don't know if 17-year-old Katherine Koontz of Methuen actually planned to hurt anyone, but she was arrested yesterday on charges of threatening to murder 18 of her classmates at Central Catholic High School.
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Police say Koontz also created a MySpace page under the tag "cchskilla" that again threatened Central Catholic students and also posted a photo of nine female students, including herself.
Koontz, of 6 Spring Valley Drive, Methuen, surrendered at Lawrence Police headquarters yesterday evening, arriving with her lawyer, Ted Cranney. She was released on a $45 bail fee and was scheduled to be arraigned this morning in Lawrence District Court.
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Something tells me if this was a Korean boy from a poor neighborhood he'd still be in jail...

[MADem]

1. Jeeez...Central Fucking Catholic!!!!!!!

And the stupid (GOP) paper...printing the full address...heckuvajob, Brownie!!!!!

That "Korean boy" wasn't from a poor neighborhood by any stretch--his father owned cleaning establishments, and they lived in a neighborhood of upper middle class townhomes conveniently close in to DC...not that it matters.

And we have no idea what race or ethnicity this young woman is, so making assumptions about that is premature, absent a photograph. A last name doesn't always tell the tale, in America, especially.

[MethuenProgressive]

4. Photos/video of the teen have been all over the news and papers here

and our oldest kid goes to Central. My personal opinion is a $45 bail says quite a lot about the local justice system. A local hispanic teen stole a car last month, and has been in custody ever since - but this teen threatens mass murder, and she's allow to remain free.
God Bless America.

[seriousstan]

2. Would that also mean 32 innocent lives would be spared?

[slampoet]

3. Name all the black people you know with the name "Koontz"

About as popular as German kids named "Adolph"

[MADem]

5. Bad assumption, there. I actually served with a black guy with that name.

He fucking hated it too. He got out and changed it.

And then there's Elizabeth Koontz from the DOL:



Elizabeth Duncan Koontz
(served 1969 - 1973)
Elizabeth Duncan Koontz taught for 30 years before becoming the first black woman to head the Bureau and the highest ranking black woman in the Nixon Administration. A champion on the rights of minority women, Ms. Koontz also fought for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/history/people/pioneers.html#Koontz



Roscoe L. Koontz was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1922. He graduated from Vashon High School in St. Louis. His college education at Stowes Teachers College was interrupted by a three-year hitch in the U.S. Army during World War II. While in the army, he received technical training through a special pre-engineering army training program at West Virginia State College. Upon discharge from the army in 1946, he returned to Tennessee State University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry.


Roscoe Koontz was among the first formally trained health physicists through his participation in the first Atomic Energy Health Physics Fellowship Training Program, sponsored at the University of Rochester in 1948. He designed a pinhole gamma ray camera and collimator and helped to design and fabricate automatic air and water sampling equipment and radiation activity measuring devices.

Health physics became a recognized profession around 1942. When Koontz entered the field, there were few rules and guidelines and procedures for health physicists to follow. Together with their instructors, the early students, like Koontz, originated many of today's practices, instrumentation and techniques to protect people from the hazards of ionizing radiation.

[Ian David]

6. Hmmm... Do I smell a Loyal Bushie?

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