Sorry if this has already been discussed, but I just now came across this article:
http://www.dailyprogress.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=CDP/MGArticle/CDP_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149190716458&path=
Hawranke, Newsom and the 13-year-old eighth-graders at Jack Jouett Middle School were convicted in juvenile court of conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to use an explosive device to blow up a school.
After serving seven months in juvenile detention, Hawranke is now being treated just outside of Knoxville, Tenn., at Peninsula Village, a home for troubled youth.
Does anyone have more info on this case?
Hawranke should have been in PV while you were there, act. However, the state of TN might have objected to "hosting" the guy and refused to take responsibility for him, like Andy Klepper.
There's more on Hawranke on the PV homicidal alumni thread, or alumnus.
I don't feel sorry for the rich little felons like Hawranke and Klepper, but the Matthew Grant story is tragic. He did shoot a cop, but...there was a lot of abuse and exposure to drugs from the time he was a toddler. Grant's grandparents bankrupted themselves to pay for PV, hoping such an "acclaimed" program could help him. Instead, PV did nothing, Grant felt alienated and tried to escape from the place, and his PV family therapist, Jean Bolding, hung him out to dry with her testimony during the murder trial. Ironic, considering she was called in by the
defense team. After reading Grant's account of the shooting, I don't see how the prosecution could even consider it a premeditated homicide. Not to sound too bleeding heart, but Matthew Grant was a poor kid, and he was run over roughshod by the system and swept under the rug.