The City Council put a hiring freeze on school safety agents. All rights reserved. Phone: 212-788-6859 After shots rang out yesterday near a #Brooklyn school, @NYPDBklynSouth & @NYPD70Pct cops quickly took a 16-year-old shooter & this 9mm Glock into custody.Already familiar with the justice system, he now has 3 unsealed gun arrests in just the last 8 months.#PrecisionPolicing pic.twitter.com/3jWmtYtNyi. ", News 12 is told the school just opened on East 21st Street this school year. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. A 47-year-old female teacher whose shoulder was grazed by a bullet was discharged from a hospital after treatment. Im hoping it will bring more focus to the larger issue of gun violence as a whole because gun violence is something that affects people from all walks of life, all over the country, and disproportionately black and brown communities," Whitman told Fox News. Nothing, other than random grace, prevented this person from walking down Abbot Road instead of turning left on Burcham.". The perpetrators are still loose. Leyko said the funds that paid for those positions were "repurposed" to instead provide personnel who could help monitor hallways and support students and families. statistics class had just started when Aiden Page, a senior at Oxford High, heard the sound of two gunshots. Flatbush, East Flatbush, Midwood, Marine Park, Flatlands, Kensington, CONTACT:Kristia Winter, Communications DirectorKWinter@council.nyc.gov, 718-629-2900. No one should be afraid to go to school, Michigans governor says. For constituent services, please email: SDieujuste@council.nyc.gov. By submitting your email to receive this newsletter, you agree to our. February 27, 2014 / 11:03 PM The victim is a student at the Urban Dove Charter School on E. 21st St. near Ave. K in Midwood, said police sources. District officials said the small number of survey results may not accurately reflect the thoughts or opinions of a majority of the school district and they are working to get more people to complete the survey, including East Lansing Public Schools staff, only 59 of which completed the survey. Its not a concern about race its concern about security, said Carlo Bartolomucci, 48. And some schools will even have featured speakerswho are calling on Congress to pass gun control measures. NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea tweeted that the suspect has two other gun-related arrests in the past eight months. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. Inside one classroom, students barricaded the door and grabbed scissors. We have the suspect in custody. "All we want to do is honor these peoples lives. According to the news outlet Education Week, there have been 28 school shootings resulting in injury or death so far in 2021, with 20 of them reported since Aug 1. The deadly gunfire in Oxford, Mich., on Tuesday added one more episode to a growing list of fatal shootings on school property in the United States this year, following a lull in shootings earlier in the coronavirus pandemic. We dont want them to live in fear and literally be terrorized, Roberts told Fox News. And we are not aware of any warnings. 2023 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. Once the location of a middle school, an architecture firm in neighboring Bloomfield Hills finished transforming the space into Oxford High School in 2004. It has been a source of controversy since 2019, when Urban Dove first announced it would lease space within the East Midwood Jewish Center, with predominantly Orthodox Jewish neighbors bemoaning the arrival of the schools predominantly Black, at-risk teens, despite members and the centers board voting overwhelmingly in favor of the school. ARE YOU A PEOPLE PERSON? ", Its important for everyone to realize that although it is about guns and its political, its more to commemorate the lives lost, Giancola said. Gunfire rang out outside the Urban Dove charter school on East 21st Street in East Midwood around 2:45 p.m., according to police. A candlelight vigil at Lakepoint Community Church in Oxford, Mich., on Tuesday night. No one talked, we didnt scream or anything, we were just silent, she said. Wilentz attended Midwood High School in Brooklyn, New York, and earned one B.A. The dead were all students at Oxford High. The school was placed on lockdown after three or four shots were fired, sources said. Catch up on the days top five stories every weekday afternoon. So we didnt know 100 percent sure, but since we all heard the same thing, and you know, better be safe than sorry., We just bombarded the door with a bunch of chairs, desk, everything we could find completely got the door shut down.. She is also a member of the committees on Civil Service and Labor; Economic Development; Education; Finance; Housing and Buildings; Youth Services; and Justice System. The incident occurred after five guns were taken out of city schools in the last week. Two of the guns were turned up by metal detector scanning, one was discovered during a brawl, and two were reported by other students. WebAfter the shooting, investigators found two videos on Crumbleys cell phone made the night before the shootings in which he talked about shooting and killing students at the This is a time for us to come together and help children feel safe at school., President Biden, speaking at an event in Minnesota, said, My heart goes out to the families enduring the unimaginable grief of losing a loved one, adding, That whole community has to be in a state of shock right now.. WebA junior at Midwood High School in Brooklyn, New York some 1,200 miles away from Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the Florida high school where a gunman murdered 17 I had tears in my eyes. At about 12:51, we had over a hundred 911 calls into our dispatch center of an active shooter at the Oxford High School. Police officers blocked access to roads near the high school. The Oakland County sheriff said the semiautomatic gun used by a sophomore at Oxford High School was bought by his father four days before the shooting. And its in those drills that he said he feels helpless., Theres really nothing we can do if a shooter enters the building, he told Fox News. The undersheriff said one of the deputies who helped take the suspect into custody was assigned to patrol the high school full time. The Village Lansing staff brought more than 15 of the boys from both groups together, Brooks said, to provide additional conflict resolution and mediation. Michael Lynn Jr., co-founder of The Village Lansing, who stood with the mothers and their sons, who are Black, said the ongoing violence issue at East Lansing High School is "flooded in bias, racial and economic." On the following Wednesday, Feb. 1, they took some of those boys out to dinner and by the end of the night, they were singing karaoke together, Brooks said. Robert Sean Wilentz was born on February 20, 1951, in New York City, where his father, Eli Wilentz, and uncle Theodore "Ted" Wilentz, owned a well-known Greenwich Village bookstore, the Eighth Street Bookshop. But this wasnt a drill. The school made sure that we knew where to go, who to call and how to act, said Eva Grondin, a 15-year-old sophomore, who attended active shooter training several weeks ago, and who fled from a hallway to a parking lot on Tuesday when she heard gunfire. The NYPD responded to shots fired and recovered a gun at a private residence, the Education Department said in a statement. If the school district does opt to hire a school resource officer, it's unclear which law enforcement agency the officer would come from. WebEAST LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - An Okemos High School graduate was one of the five students injured during the mass shooting at Michigan State Universitys campus two With his parents present, he declined to speak and they have hired an attorney. They say the 16-year-old suspect that was taken into custody has a history of unsealed gun arrests in the last eight months. The school is limiting student entry to the high school to two doors before school starts and just the main door during school hours, adding alarms to exterior doors and planning active shooter training, critical incident response training and de-escalation training. Yale will NOT be rescinding anyones admission decision for participating in peaceful walkouts for this or other causes, regardless of any high schools disciplinary policy, Hannah Mendlowitz, the senior assistant director of admissions and director of recruitment for Yale University, said in a blog post. Her peer, Drew Myers, noted that the school has lockdown drills about three times a semester. The school district sent a survey to students, staff, families and community members to collect input on more controversial safety enhancements, like cellphone and backpack bans in classrooms. A 17-year-old boy was shotmultiple timesoutsideof hisschool in Midwood on Thursday. Edward R. Murrow High School sent a robocall to parents notifying them about a series of threatening posts, including a tweet. Deputies responded and within five minutes had the suspect in custody. I think this is every parents worst nightmare. Gregory P. Mango. Welcome home! Police were unable to say if the victim was a student at the school. A high schooler was shot as he stepped out of a Brooklyn charter school Thursday afternoon, police said. The classrooms where I struggled with math. 1434 Flatbush Avenue In the coming weeks, administrators plan to further improve safety, including reinstating an in-school suspension program that provides discipline, rehabilitation and support for suspended students while also keeping them in school, assuring all 86 exterior doors of the high school are fitted with alarms, installing more lockdown buttons near office secretary desks and improving emergency communications with families. WebBryan Smith is a 6-2, 195-pound Shooting Guard from Brooklyn, NY. Please enter valid email address to continue. Aiden Page, a senior at Oxford High School in the Detroit suburbs, recalled the panic after a student opened fire there. They will somehow have to make sense of one of their peers doing this to them.. With your insight, the Council discovers ways to improve the City we all call home. If you are interested in working at the New York City Council, please submit your resume and area of interest here. Urban Dove educates academically struggling high school students. Market data provided by Factset. I was texting my family, texting friends, seeing if they were OK. Aiden texted his family and told them he loved them. Seeing school shootings happen over and over again just really drives home the point that it seems so easy for these people to commit these acts, and you feel helpless in the drills because theres nothing you can do, Myers said, adding that he does not support arming teachers, a proposal put forth by the White House. They do drills for shootings like this several times a year. It was really traumatic, she said, recalling the sound of gunshots making a noise that sounded like banging on the lockers. Mayor de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Meisha Porter praised school safety agents for their role in recovering the weapons. Its not for you all to do it on your own, its for you all to help us work with this administration to bring some resolution. The groups tally for 2021 is already over 650, with a month left to go in the year. Those participating are encouraged to wear orange the color used by many who support gun control. He planned to return to the school, but it would take some time before he was ready. Related: New Midwood charter school sparks racial and religious tensions. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Students at Packer Collegiate Institute, an independent college preparatory school in Brooklyn Heights, credited the survivors of the Parkland shooting for their own activism and involvement in the walkout. The incident prompted officials to lock down East Lansing High School and postpone the board meeting. City Hall plans to shift supervision of the school safety force from the NYPD to the Education Department, but the move wont take effect until next year leaving the final decision about whether to proceed with the transfer to the next mayor. For media inquiries, please contact press@council.nyc.gov. The A.P. Legal Statement. So we're meeting New Yorkers where they areonline and in person. Later, after the gunman was taken into custody, Aiden said he was still processing what happened. Of the 719 people who responded to the questions, including students, staff, community members and others, 72% supported hiring a school resource officer for the school district. We will do everything to ensure your child's safety.". Follow our live coverage of the Michigan school shooting. We must act to properly address gun violence in our schools and the ongoing threat of another unconscionable tragedy if we continue to only offer thoughts and prayers, Ms. Nessel said. 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