Posted on 01/27/2005 5:17:39 PM PST by NativeTexun
First court appearance--Cory Gregory. (Very little news beyond further corroboration of Gregory being charged with 'two' counts of first degree murder. One would think that a reporter with ask 'Two?')
http://www.qconline.com/archives/qco/sections.cgi?prcss=display&id=228527
LOL
Project much?
http://www.wqad.com/global/Story.asp?s=2870583
Sister Says Adrianne's Murder Left 'Big Space'in Family
KILGORE, Texas -- Adrianne grew up in Longview and Kilgore, Texas. She lived there with her mother until last November when she moved to the Quad Cities to live with her dad.
"It's hard when you lose anyone, but when they're that young it makes it a lot worse, said Adriannes grandfather, Gary Gibson.
Nine-hundred miles away in Kilgore, Texas near Dallas, Gibson found out his granddaughter is the victim of a brutal murder. He says the details of her gruesome death just seem unreal.
"I couldn't really believe it, that somebody could do something like that, said Adriannes sister, Courtney Huffman. It's hard to believe."
"Takes a while for it to sink in," said Gibson. "I can't imagine someone doing something this horrendous."
Courtney is also having a tough time accepting what happened.
"We used to give each other makeovers, she recalled. We listened to music."
Adrianne's mother left Texas Wednesday to help plan her daughter's memorial here in the Quad Cities. The rest of her family in east Texas is hanging on to their memories and planning a funeral service for her back home.
"I guess the word that comes to mind when I think of Adrianne is very outgoing, said Gibson. She liked people."
And they're all trying to deal with the pain.
"We used to have this big family and now I just feel like there's just a big space in it."
Cory Charles Gregory made his initial appearance in court Friday afternoon and waived arraignment on murder charges for the death of Adrianne L. Reynolds.
Mr. Gregory, 17, of East Moline, was arrested Thursday and charged with two counts of murder and one count of concealment of a homicide. Sarah A. Kolb, 16, Milan, faces the same charges for her part in Ms. Reynolds' death. She was arrested Wednesday.
Both teens are due back in court Tuesday.
A man and two women were at Mr. Gregory's hearing Friday and visited with him in the jail afterward. They declined comment afterward with the man saying "Isn't it bad enough?" as he walked out of the jail.
Moline attorney Steven W. Hanna is representing Mr. Gregory but he also had no comment after the hearing.
Ms. Reynolds, of East Moline, was reported missing last Friday. Parts of her dismembered body was found in Black Hawk State Historic Site in Rock Island Tuesday night. Other parts may have been found near Millersburg, a small town south of the Quad-Cities.
Rock Island County State's Attorney Jeff Terronez said Ms. Reynolds was killed during the noon hour Friday, Jan. 21 in the parking lot of the Taco Bell restaurant, 4400 Avenue of The Cities, Moline.
The victim and the two teens accused in the murder were all students at the Black Hawk College Outreach Center in East Moline.
The investigation is continuing. Police say another arrest may be made.
Relevancy to this case yet to be determined but Illinois is one of 15 states that have fetal homicide laws 'where fetuses are victims at any stage of development'.
http://womensissues.about.com/cs/parentingfamily/a/aafetalhomicide.htm
That's NOT the picture I posted earlier. It was clearly a picture of Adrienne holding up a birthday cake. What happened?
The picture I originally posted to you was indeed that of Adrienne holding up her cake at her 16th birthday party. It appears the Moline tv station site has replaced that picture with a picture of the family but kept the image URL the same so it's now reading the same address but posting the replacement picture of the family now.
Both named http://wqad.static.worldnow.com/images/121350_LS.jpg
Not the high school --- the alternative high school--- and yes ---- all parents working or otherwise. They are required to deliver and pick up their kids or the kid can't attend. Any time a teacher asks for a meeting --- the parent must make arrangements. Uniforms on campus --- students and teachers and zero tolerance for drugs, alcohol, and violence.
It seems harsh --- but it's alternative --- a last chance --- an alternative to the streets.
'Parents of Adrianne Speak' (text)
http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=2872986&nav=1sW7Vk06
That's why I think it's best for alternative schools to have very strict rules, zero tolerance, and parental involvement because the good kids that inadvertently end up in them need protection. Here they have to have parents driving the kids to and from because many of the students were involved with drive-by shootings --- you just can't have those kids going in a car together to any school after that.
Some of the better kids just go for a semester and return to the public school and have no more problems --- so they shouldn't have to be put in harm's way because there are true criminals also attending.
One parent told me her son actually felt safer at his alternative school because the rules were so strict-- no fighting, no loitering, just clasroom and study. He was supposedly getting in fights at the public school out of self-defense --- some gang types were starting things with him.
More info on the case--this article identifies the alleged 4th occupant of the car, Sean McKitrick. Quotes from McKitrick in the article. I note a hole in the article--first saying that McKitrick was in the car the day of the murder, witnessed some of the argument, left the car. Further down in the article, supposedly McK saw Kolb & Reynolds the next day?? May be haphazard reporting?
The other noteworthy detail is: ''Police have since arrested both Kolb and Gregory, charging each with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of concealing a homicide.'' So far as I know, Kolb was (initially) charged with one count of first degree murder...so either another count has been added to her charges or the article is in error?
http://www.qctimes.com/internal.php?story_id=1044564&l=1&t=Local+News&c=2,1044564
I hate to see my homeschooled kids miss out on socialization.
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