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Three 16-Year-Olds Allegedly Plotted To Kill New Classmate Because He ‘Disrupted The Flow’ Of The Social Order

Hank Berrien

An alleged plan hatched by three 16-year-old Washington state high school students to murder an 18-year-old classmate who was new to the school and whom they felt “disrupted the flow” of the social order, was nipped in the bud when other students noticed one of the schemers wearing a red mask.

On November 15, according to the Benton County, Washington, Sheriff’s office, two students who were not part of the murder plot saw one of the alleged plotters wearing a red mask in the orchard behind the Ki-Be Red Apple Market. When they approached the masked young man, he fled into the orchard. School officials learned of the alleged plot to lure the 18-year-old behind the market at lunchtime and stab him; the next day one of the male suspects and a female accomplice were emergency-expelled from Kiona-Benton City High School. The officials were not aware of the other 16-year old male’s involvement until November 22.

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