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It's not just here

Hit lists aren't unique to the Guilford County Schools. A number of school districts in eastern North Carolina have been dealing with threatening letters, according to a story in today's Raleigh News & Observer.

The first hit list was found Nov. 19 at West Hoke Middle in Raeford -- more than a week before the infamous hit list at Northwest Middle in Greensboro. The letter said that 17 students and three teachers would die.

A similar hit list was found at Hawley Middle School in Granville County on Nov. 29.

That same day, a student at Apex High School near Raleigh was caught handing out a violent homemade comic strip entitled "School Yard Rampage." School officials searched the boy's bookbag and found list of the student's "Top 10 serial killers."

On Dec. 3 - the same day hit lists were found at Northwest High School, Jamestown Middle and Mendenhall Middle here in Guilford County - a threatening letter was found in a girl's bathroom at Rosewood High School in Wayne County, about 50 miles southeast of Raleigh. A second hit list was found in Granville County, this time at an elementary school.

And on Monday, a threatening note was found in Wayne County's Rosewood Middle.

Here's a sincere hope that this disturbing trend will come to an end soon.

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Harvey Nicholson said:

I've read a copy of the NorthWest Middle School Hit List. It sounded real to me. There has been a lot of racial problems at the middle and high school. What makes the NW Middle hit list so significant,is the racial unbalance. Out of 1350 student and faculty members. 49 are African- Americans. The children and parents have a right to be in fear. They have not caught the person who wrote the letter. The parents feel like the sheriff department is draging their feet on this. Rockingham County had know problem in finding the ones who were responsible for writng a hit list.
Maybe the Rockingham Sheriff Department takes these things more seriously. Maybe the Guilford County Sheriff Department knowes who it is, but the person may be athlete or a child of prominent parents. All I know is that it is taking to long to find this terrorist.

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