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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBullied young man kills a fellow student in NYC. His side of the story.
http://gaycitynews.nyc/gay-bronx-youth-arrested-fatal-stabbing-tells-side/Abel Cedeno, 18, the bullied gay teen charged with killing one classmate, Matthew McCree, 15, and wounding another, Ariane Laboy, 16, with a knife spoke to Gay City News from Rikers Island on Sunday, recounting the incident, the anti-gay bullying that preceded it for years, and the way it intensified on September 27 inside his history class at the Bronxs Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation in front of two teachers and a class full of students.
While most press reports say that Cedeno was just being pelted with pencils before the stabbing, Abel said he was defending himself from repeated punches from McCree, who saw that Cedeno had a knife.
I was trying to get him off me, Cedeno said, explaining he knew his tormentors to have gang connections and that many of the students at the school carry weapons knives and, in some cases, guns, he said. I was afraid for my life.
Abel Cedeno recounts years of bullying, September 27 pummeling that made him afraid for my life
In using his recently purchased knife itself legal but forbidden in school for protection, No way did I think someone could die, Cedeno said, adding he was convinced he would die if he did not defend himself from McCrees attack.
[McCree] knew me as the gay kid with the long hair, Cedeno said. He hated that entity. He didnt know me.
He said that McCree continued to pummel him even after Cedeno used the knife to ward him off.
much more at link above.
He did the wrong thing by bringing a knife to school. But I am convinced he is telling the truth here.
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Bullied young man kills a fellow student in NYC. His side of the story. (Original Post)
dsc
Oct 2017
OP
He had more justification for this than Zimmerman did or any of the murdering cops.
coolsandy
Oct 2017
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smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)1. Sounds like self-defense.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,196 posts)3. I think the knife will make it manslaughter n/t
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)2. I couldn't read the whole thing
I got bullied mercilessly and spent plenty of time in the principal's office. I've stood up in class plenty of times and yelled at people bullying me. Every time, though, the teachers took over and handled the situation. Sometimes the teachers didn't do as much as I thought they should, but at least they did SOMETHING. You know, sometimes that's all it takes to get these assholes to leave a kid alone.
I hope they let Abel off and transfer him to the LGBT friendly school mentioned in the article.
coolsandy
(479 posts)4. He had more justification for this than Zimmerman did or any of the murdering cops.
No question this was self defense.