GUILTY MI - Student dies after stabbing at Fitzgerald High School, Sept 2018 *Arrest*

[BetteDavisEyes]

Thanks for following and keeping this updated, BDE.

I'd rather not be following or updating this senseless, heinous crime. Did Ms. Lewis think she could get away with this? Kill romantic rival, get the guy, and live happily ever after?

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

I'd rather not be following or updating this senseless, heinous crime. Did Ms. Lewis think she could get away with this? Kill romantic rival, get the guy, and live happily ever after?

That’s what I was wondering Bette.....did she really believe that she could stab a fellow student to death and have no repercussions? Senseless is right.

 

[Spellbound]

And both were good students, grade-wise. I don't get it at all. She had to know she couldn't get away with it, so what was she thinking? And know she was ruining the rest of her life -- wasted.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Visitation Tuesday for Danyna Gibson, victim in Fitzgerald High School fatal stabbing

Funeral to be held Wednesday

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

And both were good students, grade-wise. I don't get it at all. She had to know she couldn't get away with it, so what was she thinking? And know she was ruining the rest of her life -- wasted.

Children and teens don't seem to have good coping skills these days. I think it stems from so many parents working and not being available for their children. When kids do get into trouble, parents seem all too ready to blame someone else instead of taking responsibility for their poor parenting or their children's bad behavior. I wonder if either of these teen's parents knew about the rivalry over the boyfriend? At their age, one would hope that neither thought that it was time to make a decision about spending their lives with a particular man. Both girls were good students and should have been thinking about continuing their education. Neither will have that opportunity now.

 

[Spellbound]

Excellent point, BDE. I have worried for years at how little supervision or guidance so many young people have these days.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Funeral today for teen fatally stabbed inside Fitzgerald High School in Warren

Danyna Gibson will be laid to rest

..."I wanted the best for her," said Preston Gibson, her father. "She got all As, was going to college. She was going to be a valedictorian." ...

 

[AliceInPain]

How did she manage to get a big kitchen knife into school??

My kid's previous school had metal detectors and guarded gates, due to a boy being murdered outside the school gates some 15 years ago.
It's NOT expensive, if you feel the kids lives are valuable, and worth protecting.
(I believe the funding for the security was raised by parents/ fruit kebabs and chocolate muffin stands on Fridays, not joking.)

Just from watching her on video in court, she seems so not like a girl who would do this, was she on drugs or what?

 

[MaryG12]

Children and teens don't seem to have good coping skills these days. I think it stems from so many parents working and not being available for their children. When kids do get into trouble, parents seem all too ready to blame someone else instead of taking responsibility for their poor parenting or their children's bad behavior. I wonder if either of these teen's parents knew about the rivalry over the boyfriend? At their age, one would hope that neither thought that it was time to make a decision about spending their lives with a particular man. Both girls were good students and should have been thinking about continuing their education. Neither will have that opportunity now.

No coping school - and really, fighting over a boy in school?

That tells me where their priorities are.

None of the boys at the schools I went to were dateable nor marriageable, most didn't have dime one.

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

How did she manage to get a big kitchen knife into school??

My kid's previous school had metal detectors and guarded gates, due to a boy being murdered outside the school gates some 15 years ago.
It's NOT expensive, if you feel the kids lives are valuable, and worth protecting.
(I believe the funding for the security was raised by parents/ fruit kebabs and chocolate muffin stands on Fridays, not joking.)

Just from watching her on video in court, she seems so not like a girl who would do this, was she on drugs or what?

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Hi Alice,

Here’s Bette’s post #11 from page 1 stating there were no metal detectors at the school. I have a feeling they will be installing some ASAP:

Security questioned after 16-year-old fatally stabbed by fellow student at high school in Warren

..."They knew they should've had metal detectors in that school," another friend posted.

Warren's police commissioner said all security measures were in place at the school except metal detectors.

"I am very outspoken (about the) need for more funding to tighten up more (security) resources," Commissioner Bill Dwyer said. "I have advocated for metal detectors in schools." ...

 

[Indy Anna]

Children and teens don't seem to have good coping skills these days. I think it stems from so many parents working and not being available for their children. When kids do get into trouble, parents seem all too ready to blame someone else instead of taking responsibility for their poor parenting or their children's bad behavior. I wonder if either of these teen's parents knew about the rivalry over the boyfriend? At their age, one would hope that neither thought that it was time to make a decision about spending their lives with a particular man. Both girls were good students and should have been thinking about continuing their education. Neither will have that opportunity now.

Add to that the influence of adult-themed TV shows. Often the parents allow the TV to babysit/entertain the kids in their stead, because they don't have the time to spend with the kids themselves. In poorer families and one-parent households this is true because the parent(s) are busying working to support their families. But, it's also true in wealthier households, in which the parents often work in professional/executive positions, which may involve business travel, and have a busy social life as well.

The parents also don't supervise their kids' time on SM, again using it to babysit their kids or wanting to give the kids some privacy. In this case, Lewis expressed her intent on SM. An adult should have been aware what she was posting and intervened at that point.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Suspect in fatal Fitzgerald High School stabbing to get psychiatric evaluation

Tanaya Lewis facing first-degree murder charge

...Lewis will undergo a psychiatric evaluation to determine if she's competent to stand trial...

 

[Trident]

I'd rather not be following or updating this senseless, heinous crime. Did Ms. Lewis think she could get away with this? Kill romantic rival, get the guy, and live happily ever after?

I don't think many of us are understanding the world/times we live in. I doubt Ms. Lewis was thinking that far ahead, and if she did, would love, marriage and a house with a white picket fence been part of those thoughts/dreams? I doubt it, but that's just my opinion. The world has changed in a way many of us can't understand, it has become a different place. Maybe we need to catch up?

 

[JerseyGirl]

A preliminary exam is scheduled on Feb. 15 in district court to determine whether there is sufficient evidence for Lewis to stand trial in Macomb County Circuit Court. If Lewis does not waive her right to that hearing, prosecutors will formally lay out in district court the details of the incident in class. That could include testimony from students who were in the classroom.

Teen charged with murdering Warren Fitzgerald classmate competent to stand trial

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

LIVE: More testimony in deadly Warren high school stabbing case

Teen accused of fatally stabbing classmate

 

[Ozoner]

Teen sentenced to 27-60 years in prison after stabbing classmate to death during fight in Warren

Hopefully she'll die in prison.