Show me a picture of a bully and someone he bullies, but don’t tell me which is which, and I’ll bet I can correctly identify which one is the victim and which one is the bully about 99% of the time. There is NO WAY that poofter wasn’t being bullied by the dead guy. As usual, the dindu nuffin (or in this case, his tutor/mother of the lying arts) is trying to lie his way through life. Sorry boy, you dead.
I’m sure the victim - and probably several other classmates, since the “bullied” little precious stabbed (didn’t kill, fortunately) another student as well - probably made remarks about the killer, since his appearance and no doubt his behavior look like they were absolutely meant to provoke. A lot of teenagers who decide they’re gay or, nowadays, decide they’re actually members of the opposite sex, go out of their way to flaunt it and “get in your face” with it, and actually like to feel that their behavior calls attention to themselves.
But I doubt that the “bullying” went any further than remarks, and even if it did, it’s no excuse for stabbing somebody to death. There are certainly other ways to handle it, and the sexually disturbed such as this kid are so privileged and protected that the supposed bully would have been dealt with even by NYC’s lax school administrators.