Masters said he planned to lobby state legislators to create blended sentences, in which a youth is sentenced to juvenile prison until 18 or 21, then possibly transferred to adult prison. Lionel Tate s family rejected a plea bargain of three years in a juvenile prison, a year of house arrest and 10 years of probation. Brazill shot Grunow after the teacher, who stood in the doorway of his classroom, refused to let the student say goodbye to two girls inside. It was a few minutes before the start of summer break. The prosecution alleges Brazill deliberately killed Grunow because he was angry about a failing grade he was receiving from the teacher and because he was mad about being sent home, though it was a counselor who suspended him.
Defense attorneys say the teen didn t know about the failing grade.
They say he pointed the gun at Grunow and pulled the slide only to scare the teacher into letting him talk to the girls, but the cheap .25-caliber semiautomatic pistol went off unintentionally. Please read it.