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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Alexandria needs more highschools! This is all so awful. A hard working teen was murdered in the needle is the school day by another student. There's no evidence of gangs. So I wish everyone would quit using that line as a scapegoat. They school in is chaotic because it's too large and has students running around town unsupervised to other campuses. This shopping center is right in the middle.  ACPS is now turning Alexandria's one high school into basically a jail with all these security or measures. Really if you were unsure about the high school before now how could you fathom sending your kid there if you had options and that is why people move out of the city. Alexandria has thier priorities so wrong.[/quote]

There is evidence of gangs, including the original photo from the ALXnews article of the friends of the victim holding a vigil all flashing gang signs. When people pointed this out, ALXnews replaced the photo. So please stop. There are gangs. This stabbing involved gang violence. Everyone sticking their fingers in their ears and being in denial doesn’t help anyone today or tomorrow. ACPS system needs to acknowledge the problem and find solutions. [/quote]

I think there are definitely gangs but I think there are a lot of kids who like to think they are going to be in a gang or pretend they are for photos. Unfortunately, like all teens, I am sure the kid was involved in things his parents didn't know about but it could be just about anything - secret gf, going to secret parties. I honestly wonder if this kid was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.[/quote]

So he mistakenly strolled into a 30 to 50 person organized fight and he's the one person, essentially an innocent bystander, who got stabbed? [/quote]

Yes, and there are tips to the police that this was definitely gang-related - the security response, also, indicates this is gang related.  It is the continued unwillingness of this community to acknowledge the gang activity that led to this incident.  People love to blame COVID mental health issues instead of addressing the truth, because, let's face it, no one wants to pay over a million dollars for a house where MS-13 runs the only high school.  If the schools, police, and City would just be open and transparent this may have been preventable.  But, even after the shooting at Bradlee in the fall, the massive convergence of loitering kids onto Bradlee continued - - - and property values continued to rise.[/quote]

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