A gay teen is taunted at his junior high school. He pushes back by 'flirting.' Next, gunfire.
By Paul Pringle and Catherine Saillant, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers March 8, 2008
For teens living in a shelter for abused and neglected children, school can provide a daily dose of normalcy, a place to fit in, a chance to be just another kid.It didn't turn out that way for Lawrence King.
According to the few students who befriended him, Larry, 15 years old and openly gay, found no refuge from his tormentors at E.O. Green Junior High School.Not in the classroom, the quad, the cafeteria. Not from the day he enrolled at the Oxnard school until the moment he was shot to death in a computer lab, just after Larry's usual morning van ride from the shelter a town away.
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