[BunnySlippers]

Firefighters pull the fuselage of a Cessna 172R into an office at the Bank of America building in Tampa, Fla., early Sunday morning Jan. 6, 2002. A 15-year-old student pilot crashed the plane into the building Saturday afternoon.

[Mr. Buzzcut]

2 1/2 weeks vacation???

[jmp702]

Another tragic teenage suicide?

From the article he seemed withdrawn and not much of a participant in school or otherwise.

[dbwz]

Something tells me that instead of shooting up a school to "make a statement," the kid decided to crash a plane.

[Cultural Jihad]

Here's the school homepage:
http://homepage.mac.com/eastlakehigh/contents.html

And the Theatre Dept:
http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/9351/ (GeoCities??)

[madprof98]

. . . in the apartment complex where Bishop lived with his mother, Julia . . .

And the dad???

[uvular]

Has no intrepid reporter found a picture of this kid yet?

[fnord]

Snare said Bishop was one of about 450 freshmen and remained largely unknown to administrators. "I did not know him and I've been in conversation with my five assistant principals and they did not know him either," Snare said.

sheesh, how big is this 'education factory'? Time to bring back smaller schools, where adults can keep an eye on kids, by name.

[SarahW]

He was just the right age for schizophrenia to begin to manifest - Depression, paranoia, delusions/voices. I don't know anything about the particular case, but if I were investigating, I would ask Q's about mental disease in the family; his withdrawn behaviour fits in with the prodrome or early onset of schizophrenia.

[veronica]

FOX reporting he left a pro-Osama suicide note.

[F-117A]

"He rode my bus to school. He sat in the front row. He always had sunglasses on for some reason," said David Ontiveros, a 14-year-old neighbor...

An opposing softball pitcher always had sunglasses on.

"So people can't see into my brain."