Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Maryland student gunned down on walk to school

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Marckel Norman Ross, 18, died just before 7 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 11, during his mile-and-a-half walk to Central High School in Capitol Heights, Md., the Washington Post reports. He was found dead on the street by police, who were responding to 911 calls about a “man down.”

The school’s principal said Marckel was a “strong student” who participated in Showtime Couture, a program for modeling at the high school. He also ran track and served in the ROTC, his father told the Post.

His grandmother said he had struggled with classes and with bullying when he first moved to Capitol Heights, but she thought those issues had been resolved.

Marckel is the second high school student in Prince George’s County to be shot to death less than a month into the 2012-13 school year. On Aug. 22, Amber Stanley, a Charles H. Flowers High School senior, was killed in her Kettering home.

Many parents from area schools are understandably concerned about school safety. “Just walking to school—how does that happen?” the parent of one ninth-grade student told the Post. “That’s very terrifying for people who have their kids walking.”

Paul Katulahttps://news.schoolsdo.org
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