Student Tips Called Key To Avert Violence
Like most of the school shooters before him, Charles Andrew Williams apparently made no secret of his desire to open fire on his classmates. In fact, the Santee, Calif., youth reportedly invited several friends to join him in the shooting spree last week at Santana High School that left two students dead.
Revelations that the bloody scene might have been prevented if word of Mr. Williams' dark musings had only reached the right adults troubled violence- prevention experts and school officials around the country.
"It's just déjà vu—I've been there, done that, seen that," said Bill J. Bond, the principal of Heath High School in West Paducah, Ky., where three students died and five others were wounded in December 1997 after a 14-year-old freshman opened fire into a...
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