Hudson girl arrested after threat
of attack
January 23, 2007
By Charlie Breitrose
A 16-year-old girl accused of
threatening to kill two middle schoolers with a knife was
intercepted early yesterday before she could head out the door to
school.
The Hudson girl, police said,
targeted two 13-year-old girls from nearby Northboro in an online
chat room Sunday.
The threat came two days after a
student at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School was stabbed to death
by another student.
Northboro police staked out the
suspect’s house early yesterday morning to guard against any feared
attack. The suspect was arrested once a warrant was issued.
“It’s too bad, but it’s a
heads-up,” said Nancy Berglund, Northboro’s school board chairwoman,
of the arrest of the juvenile who is not being named.
In another related heads-up, a
national expert on homicide is questioning why forensics is being
taught at Lincoln-Sudbury High, the scene of Friday’s murder of
James Alenson, 15, of Sudbury.
“We’re trying to get violence out
of the schools and now we’re adding it to the curriculum,” said Dr.
James Alan Fox, of Boston’s Northeastern University, a criminal
justice professor who specializes in homicide.
Authorities say the Lincoln-Sudbury
stabbing suspect, John Odgren, 16, had a fascination with forensics
and participated in a crime scene investigation summer program at
Mount Wachusett Community College in Gardner in 2005.
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