Posted on 04/07/2011 9:36:43 AM PDT by Daffynition
Palm Harbor, Florida - Students at Carwise Middle School are planning a prayer vigil, after investigators say a 7th grader stabbed the school resource officer.
"It's just sad," Kimberly Frazier said while dropping off her son Wednesday morning.
"I mean, something's not right in that child's life. It's really sad."
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Ofr. Kenneth Fridlund is recovering from surgery and is in good condition. Investigators went to St. Joseph's Hospital Wednesday to question him.
According to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, Fridlund was questioning the boy about 11 bottles of gasoline in a duffle bag, when the teenager stabbed him in the stomach Tuesday.
The 13-year-old later told detectives that he'd brought the bottles to school to scare some kids who bullied him.
10 News is not disclosing the suspect's identity until he is officially charged with a felony, but in the photograph on his Facebook page, he is wearing a Boy Scout uniform.
Classmates say he was teased about wearing the uniform to school almost every day.
"They were just bullying him, because he was wearing the outfit to school and stuff," says Nicole Carver.
Loren Jackson says, "I'm guessing this led from bullying and this is his way of taking it out."
A spokesman for the Pinellas Boy Scout Council says the teen was a member of Troop 64.
Bill Davis says, "We are concerned about the boy and the victim... the Boy Scouts certainly don't condone this type of violence."
Troop leaders also tell 10 News that the teen was well-liked in the troop and that he was a role model for the other kids.
"He wore his uniform to school [and was] very proud of it," said scout master John Ruckart.
"And he was actually teased by the boys at school for being a scout and being in uniform."
The suspect remains at a local hospital undergoing a psych evaluation.
When that's complete, he'll be taken to the Juvenile Assessment Center. It's expected he'll be charged with attempted murder and possession of fire bombs.
Thursday morning, a school spokesperson told 10 News that the student prayer vigil is in the planning stages. It's expected to be held in the next several days at the school flag pole one morning before school.
God bless you...having a house full of rambunctious Tigers would be more than I could bear ...it’d put me over the edge!
Good luck to your pre-eagles. It’s a wonderful experience and looks great on a resume.
The Cubs meet at church ... I have ten Tigers, if they all come.
I have 16 in my first-grade Sunday School class ... but they’re not all boys.
Well, I know I’d be scared if I saw one flying towards me. So perhaps he is correct.
But I wonder why, if he had some classmates who were also in his troop, didn't they say something to his troop leader? The leader might have been able to talk to the kid, and help him through whatever was going on, or at least steer him toward some help.
I don’t know. Many adults assume the school will keep things from reaching a disastrous level, although I don’t know why, and other students don’t want to be snitches. I can still name and describe the people I would happily have killed when I was in school, say around 1980, if I’d thought I’d get away with it.
If I had been a kid with no family life worth mentioning, I might have decided going out with a blaze was worth it.
But we have to have a boogeyman to blame !!!
From what I read, this is what I would think happened.
Kid was bullied and had enough. He decided to come and either scare or actually harm the bullies. The cop found out and the kid, out of fear of being caught, stabbed him.
It happens a lot when a desperate person feels trapped.
Also notice the posters were calling him a “counselor” when the 1st sentence calls him an SRO.
And the NCAA has a no cheating policy, too.
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