Sun coverage: Student stabbed at city school

December 4, 2008

14-year-old indicted in stabbing of classmate at city school

A 14-year-old accused of stabbing a classmate to death on school grounds was indicted by a grand jury yesterday on a charge of first-degree murder, according to the city state's attorney's office.

November 30, 2008

Teen recalled as playful, gifted

In the same West Baltimore church where he played the drums and goaded its leaders into shooting hoops with him, 15-year-old Markel Williams was remembered yesterday as a playful kid, though one who could be quite a handful.

November 25, 2008

School officials say help was offered to two teens involved in fatal stabbing

In recent days, teachers and administrators at William H. Lemmel Middle School learned of a rift between two boys they thought were friends. They tried, unsuccessfully, to get their parents to come in for a conflict-resolution session.

November 23, 2008

Boy, 14, charged in school killing

A 14-year-old boy who turned himself in to police late Friday has been charged as an adult in the fatal stabbing of a classmate at a West Baltimore middle school, an act that the suspect's attorney and law-enforcement sources say followed a long-running feud between the two teenagers.

November 22, 2008

Peter Hermann: Dixon the mayor, teacher and mother mourns another young life lost

On the Friday of American Education Week, Baltimore's mayor found herself inside a city middle school, addressing teachers in the gym and then students gathered in a hallway.