Recent content by LongBeachGuy

Hi all, I attended this school although not in the years that Chaim Weiss was there. To respond to a few things mentioned earlier: This was just a dorm. The temple or 'Beis Medrash' (study hall) is a 10 minute walk away and the boys walk back and forth at least once or twice a day. They are...

No, they just have standard industrial sized fire extinguishers hanging on a hook. There were no deliveries made to the dormitories - only to the school building 3 blocks away. The only people that I ever saw in the dorm in all my years were students and the Polish workers.

Hmm, the story we always floated around was that it was a targeted killing to get dad. Not that there's any reason to believe someone was upset at his dad but I guess it just makes more sense than that someone hated a 15 year old boy. Definitely not a student or teacher. It also seems like he...

Nah, most of the neighbors kept to themselves. Quiet sleepy area during the winter. FYI they now have police escorting the boys on their 3 block walk to the dorm on Halloween night.

Here's a google maps street view of the dorm building. http://goo.gl/maps/StzfC It's in a residential neighborhood and there are 3 other dorms from the same school in the area. (Across the street, around the corner, etc.) The ages range from 14 to 22 and all the dorms had the same combo. The...

I've discussed this case both with the Rabbi who was called to the scene by the student who discovered him and with the police officers who responded to the scene. The cops told me they have several details in the case that they've never released to the public so that if someone one day comes...

I went to school in the Mesivta of Long Beach for many years and lived in that dorm at one point. First of all, the dorm was 3 stories tall but there were no bedrooms on the first floor. Mention has been made of the fire escape - it was sometimes propped open to allow guys to go in and out. The...