Posted on 08/24/2012 9:07:48 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A 17-year-old Prince George’s County honor student who aspired to attend Harvard University was killed in her bedroom after a gunman burst into her house, police said Thursday — a crime considered unthinkable to residents who remembered the girl for her ambition and intellect.
The shooting occurred at about 10:15 p.m. Wednesday inside a split-level home on a quiet street of single-family houses in the Kettering neighborhood. Detectives are investigating a report that the gunman came through the front door, made his way into the house in the 100 block of Chartsey Street and shot Amber Deanna Stanley.
Other family members were inside during the ordeal, but police said they fled at some point. Officials on Thursday had no suspect description and did not speculate about a motive.
Amber was a senior at Charles H. Flowers High School, where officials described her as well-liked and scholarly and said she planned to become a doctor.
“She had the grades, SAT scores and the attitude to attend any college in this country and succeed,” Flowers High School Principal Gorman Brown said.
Amber was among 500 students enrolled in an advanced science and technology magnet program. Her death took an especially hard toll on the 100 or so seniors in the program with whom she attended classes for the past three years, Mr. Brown said. Grief counselors were on hand Thursday, just the fourth day of the school year, to talk with students and staff.
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I graduated from Oxon Hill High in 1973. I would guess that you were in about the same class from Friendly. Did you know Bob Krewson? I think he was Friendly class of 74 or 75. We were roommates in Ct. in the 80s.
They demolished my house on Oxon Hill Rd. for the Gaylords development but ended up not using it. My dad played a major role in GPS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_L._Easton
I graduated in `72. Sorry, the name doesn’t ring a bell. Recall that seniors got big yearbook photos while sophomores (it was 10-12 there, unlike here in IN, 9-12) were just ... underfoot.
Did they do the donkey basketball games while you were there at Oxon Hill? I enjoyed that a lot. They put rubber shoes on their hooves, teachers played students. (On the donkeys hooves, that is.)
After my father’s second all expense paid vacation in sunny, exotic Vietnam we were transferred to Kansas, he went to the CGSC at Ft. Leavenworth and retired in Manhattan, KS (K-state) so my bro’ and sisters and I could all get more edjumicachun.
I’ll have to buy a Tom-Tom or whatever it’s called. I’ve put it off, mebbe cause like most guys I don’t like asking for directions, even from machines!
Yeah, that’s too bad about PG county. Walking through the school I was surprised at how rundown it was: stained ceiling tiles, cracked floor tiles, kids loitering in the halls while classes were being held. And the fact that they needed day care/a nursery for students’ children was a jaw dropper.
The racial per centage flipped. It was about, I’m just guessing, a few black kids out of a hundred when I was there, and the opposite 25 years later.
They had good football teams though, and named the field after coaches Crawford and Kanode. Enough of this wool gathering.
Again sorry I didn’t know your bud. Friendly was a big box school and operating pretty much at capacity when I re-visited. Take care, td
Ha...my dad was the XO at Cheltenham just a few miles from Andrews AFB off of Dangerfield Road. I went to Surratsville High for a few years...really didn’t like it at all.
But I sure did have a good time on the base with the other military brats for a couple of years...:)
When I went to Surrattsville back in 1971 to 1973, they were well into busing, and it was about even as I recall. Didn’t have any black friends and I remember it was tense and unpleasant.
I walked into the bathroom one day and there were eight black kids smoking a joint. Ever try to walk into a situation like that and take a piss? As I am standing there trying to go, they edged over my way and one of them said “You ain’t gonna tell anyone, are you?”
Hm. A kid I knew who was a “Grit” (like the greasers, high top tennis shoes, cuffed slacks, white t-shirts and greased or short hair...) told me a kid had brought a shotgun to school and fired it in the hallway. I don’t remember that, but that was what he said.
Bah. I hated school, and that wasn’t a good one to go to. I remember the gym outfits were dirty yellow.
Sterling in the early/mid 90s was okay.
This will turn out to have been over something utterly stupid. Someone (boyfriend, family, etc.) got “dissed” over something small, and is now going to spend the rest of their life (lives if it a girl got her boyfriend to do it) in jail. Some people have no self-control.
Northwestern High School.
I’m betting the cops already have a pretty good idea who did it or, at least, who’s behind it.
“I’m betting the cops already have a pretty good idea who did it or, at least, who’s behind it.”
Yeah, I’m sure you’re right. It’ll go from “no suspects” to “person of interest” to “arrest” or “shot while resisting” in short order.
IMO that is very likely.
So I guess downtown Baltimer would be the *?
http://essentials.baltimoresun.com/micro_sun/homicides/
My guess is that the local detectives already have a suspect and an idea about what happened, and are in the process of interrogating him and/or gathering evidence.
I do that drive every day, up and down the US-15/I-270 gauntlet.
If you choose Frederick, you can use the decent MARC train to get back and forth to Germantown in about 30-45 minutes and avoid all the perpetual road construction and traffic jams. I do it when I can. Saves hundreds and even thousands on my gasoline bill.
I live on the Eastern Shore of Maryland (like living in another state) and work in Montgomery County, Mayland. I like Montgomery County, but it really is like being in a whole different state with the same name. The Eastern Shore is slowly, but surely, becoming like the Western Side of The Bridge, however. That is because people flee here from the West, not realizing that by bringing their “growth” and ideas here, they are just dragging with them what they tried to leave behind.
Or she was just taken out for “acting white”.
A county where everyone is related to each other....
A county where everyone is related to each other....
You are probably right. Real or perceived.
Don’t count on Washington County anymore, there’s too many city-ites that have come up here and destroyed our peace!
Oxon Hill had an excellent band when I was there with Mr. Johnson as director. My sister Joan class ‘71 played the flute.
We recently had a reunion with my 5th grade teacher at Thomas Addison. Driving around a bit, it was scary how much the area had deteriorated.
I vaguely remember the donkey basketball games.
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