Killer's mom sues high school
Birmingham, Ala.: "Felicia Reynolds, the mother of former Hoover High School student Ricky Reynolds, has filed a $5 million claim against the city of Hoover, saying her son would not have fatally stabbed classmate Sean Joyner had her pleas for help been heeded. Ricky Reynolds is in a Louisiana prison serving a 20-year manslaughter sentence for the November 2002 incident at the high school."
UAB's Chamber Singers happened to be performing at Hoover High School on the morning the murder occurred. We couldn't figure out why they wouldn't let us leave--or even go to the bathroom, if I remember correctly. Sometimes, bad things happen. And sometimes, a choir is near them.
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I remember that day...scary
That was a day I don't think many of us students will ever forget. Ricky the clean cut, nice guy was forced to protect his self and, I know personally the torch and pain he went through, and I tell you this much.
He was not the first to bring a knife to school, Hoover has so many hidden secrets and i know that we as student must get together and really support our fellow classmate. Sean bullied a lot of us, Just think about this how many students was at his funeral vs. the amount of students who was standing in line to visit Ricky in Jail.
We all wrote Ricky telling him we would be there for him, well now is the time. All of us that are now being bullied rally support so that the adults in our lives listen to us and address our fears. We lost to students a good one and a bad one, and no one still know the anwsers. Did our school resource officers do their jobs?? Did our Principal? and Parents. What if it is true Mrs. Reynolds called Mrs. Joyner, and she did nothing?? that's something to think about.
The clean cut murderer.
Ricky had his fair share of problems.
He taunted his fair share of students also. He killed someone...he is in jail. Thats it.
Ricky was not a murderer. He was defending himself from a known psychotic piece of shit that had been torturing several of us since middle school. Sean bullied me and several others, and constantly threatened to hurt me or the people I loved, and his threats were always laughed off. I knew both Ricky and Sean. Ricky was a gentle poetic soul and Sean was mean spirited asshole who decided if he didn't like your face he was gonna make your life hell. Ricky was pushed to his limit and he should have gotten off those charges. All of us who knew Sean knew he was garbage. He didn't deserve to die but he probably wouldn't have been put into that position if he hadn't constantly been mean spirited thug to so many people.
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