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Detroit Cops called to another city school January 14, 2006 FREE PRESS EDUCATION WRITER For the second time in as many days, police were called to a Detroit high school Friday, as shots were fired outside Osborn High. No one was injured in the incident, and several teens were taken into custody. The gunfire came a day after three students were stabbed -- allegedly by the parent of another student -- at King High School. On Friday, two of the students remained hospitalized. Naomi McAlister, 32, turned herself in to school police Thursday night in connection with the stabbings. In the incident Friday, Detroit school police said they tracked down a 17-year-old Osborn student, and took him and five other people in for questioning, school district spokesman Lekan Oguntoyinbo reported. No gun was found, but authorities said they found two shell casings and that the shots may have been fired into the air. An assistant principal may have recognized the shooter, who fled, Oguntoyinbo said. Following the gunfire, officials locked down the school, but reports of gunshots set off a panic that led many parents to rush to the school to pick up their children. Ozella Carter, a longtime volunteer at Osborn, said: "We need some security in the building with weapons. ... The students ignore security who don't have weapons. They think they're a joke. "If we could get more volunteers and parents to man those doors, there would be more respect from the students." Meanwhile, more details came out about Thursday's stabbings. Witnesses and police said McAlister arrived at King and joined in a fight that involved her 15-year-old daughter. She stabbed and cut three girls with a box cutter and boning knife, police said. One of the girls was stabbed in the stomach, another in the chest. A third suffered minor injuries and was treated at the scene, police said. McAlister could be arraigned as early as today on two counts of felonious assault, which carries a sentence of up to four years in prison, and two counts of assault with intent to commit murder, which carries up to a life sentence. School police took McAlister's daughter and McAlister's 16-year-old sister, both King students, into custody Thursday night. Attorney Clifford Woodards appeared at a juvenile court hearing Friday for the girls. "After all the facts come out, we're confident that our client will be vindicated," he said, referring to McAlister. Referee David Perkins released the girls after Wayne County Assistant Prosecutor John Sturtridge said his office was not charging them. This is the second spate of serious school violence this school year. On Dec. 5, two students were injured in a drive-by shooting near Southeastern High, and the following day a teen was shot inside a Central High vestibule. Contact CHASTITY PRATT at 313-223-4537 or pratt@freepress.com. Staff writer Jack Kresnak contributed to this report. |
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