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Student kills principal,
self in junior high school
By Marc Levy
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
RED LION, Pa. — A 14-
year-old boy shot and killed his
school principal inside a crowd
ed junior high cafeteria
Thursday morning, then killed
himself with a second handgun,
authorities said.
The shootings happened
about 15 minutes before classes
started at Red Lion Area Junior
High School.
“Everyone ran out of the
cafeteria yelling, ‘He has a
gun!’” said eighth-grader Danny
Dulin.
Principal Eugene Segro, 51,
who was shot once in the chest,
was pronounced dead at a hospi
tal. James Sheets, 14, died at the
scene of a shot to the head.
Coroner Barry Bloss said.
Sheets apparently carried the
weapons in his backpack,
according to Bloss, who said he
saw the backpack in the cafete
ria. The principal was killed
with a .44-caliber weapon, while
the student was believed to have
been killed with a .22-caliber
weapon.
Police do not believe anyone
else was involved and were
investigating where the boy got
the guns.
Sheets was not known for
being a disciplinary problem,
and police and Red Lion Area
Superintendent Larry Macaluso
did not know him to have any
specific disputes with Segro.
Sheet’s parents were helpful
and said they had no reason to
expect anything was wrong,
according to police.
Segro had been at the school
more than a decade, a school
official said.
“He tried to find the most
lenient way to punish the kids. It
wasn’t just a job for him. He
truly loved the kids,” said
Nicole Wisor, 16, a 10th grader
who had attended the school.
Autopsies were being con
ducted on both victims
Thursday. Bloss said a third shot
was fired, but apparently hit
the floor.
The room fell silent after the
shootings, then students began
running outside or toward their
homerooms, said Angel
Williams, 14, a seventh-grader.
Officials dismissed the
school’s nearly 900 students for
the day, and also sent home stu
dents from the high school and
elementary school. Students
who witnessed the shooting met
with counselors, police said.
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remain closed Friday.
The school does not have
metal detectors but does have
security cameras, according to
Terry Robinson, the school dis
trict’s business manager.
The same school district was
the site of a machete attack on a
kindergarten class that injured a
principal, two teachers and 11 of
the 23 pupils in 2001.
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MANASSAS, Va. — A judge
ruled Thursday that prosecutors
will not necessarily have to
prove that sniper suspect John
Allen Muhammad fired the shot
that killed a man to get the death
penalty.
Circuit Judge LeRoy Millette
Jr. also ruled that prosecutors do
not have to tell defense attorneys
their theory about whether
Muhammad or fellow sniper
suspect Lee Boyd Malvo fired
the shot.
Muhammad is charged with
capital murder under two differ
ent statutes. One is a new state
antiterrorism law that requires
no proof of who pulled the trig
ger. But the law had never been
used before the sniper shooting
case and is subject to a constitu
tional challenge.
The other statute allows for
the death penalty in cases of
multiple murders. Typically,
only the triggerman has been
eligible for the death penalty
under this law.
But Millette agreed with
prosecutors who argued that it is
irrelevant who fired the weapon.
Citing the wording in the multi
ple-murder law, he agreed that
prosecutors will have to demon
strate only that Muhammad was
“a principal in the first degree”
to the crime to be eligible for the
death penalty.
“I agree with (prosecutor
James) Willett. I think the term
triggerman is used inadvisably,”
Millette said.
Defense attorneys disputed
that interpretation and immedi
ately filed a motion challenging
Muhammad’s indictment under
the statute.
Unless someone is the trig-
german, he should be
for murder in the first desr
and not capital murder,
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before the judge.
Shapiro also said “
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Muhammad is being tried,
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Malvo’s fingerprints werefat
on the Bushmaster rifle thai'i
used during the three
sniper spree last October.
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Malvo, 18, have been accuse!:
20 shootings, including
deaths, in Virginia, Maryii
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and Washington
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JERUSALEM — Israel will
invite Palestinian Prime
Minister-designate Mahmoud
Abbas to Jerusalem to discuss
restarting the peace process
once a new Palestinian Cabinet
is in place, an Israeli official
said Thursday.
Palestinian officials said
that Abbas would agree to meet
with Israel’s leaders and
affirmed that the Palestinian
Authority would accept a U.S.-
backed peace plan.
Israel, however, wants
changes in the plan, including a
stop to all violence as a precon
dition for other steps.
Underscoring that chal
lenge, a Palestinian suicide
bomber killed a guard and
injured 10 bystanders in a rush-
hour attack at an Israeli train
station on Thursday.
A breakaway faction of a
militia linked to Yasser Arafat’s
Fatah movement claimed
responsibility for the attack in
the town of Kfar Saba, near the
West Bank. Abbas told Israel’s
Channel 10 that he condemned
the bombing and said “we
oppose all such attacks.”
On Wednesday, Arafat and
Abbas, also known as Abu
Mazen, reached an accord on a
Palestinian Cabinet. A
Palestinian parliament vote on
the new government is expect
ed within a week.
The United States and Israel
hope the formal establishment
of Abbas’ government will
amount to a means of sidelin
ing Arafat, whom they accuse
of links to terrorism and failing
to crack down on militias.
The White House affirmed
that once the Palestinian parlia
ment has approved Abbas’
Cabinet, the peace plan — a
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in the Israeli town of Kfar Sate
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