A Long Island school superintendent warned parents to check what their children wear after a student’s shirt was taken and burned on his way to school. According to a letter posted on the school district’s website, a boy was approached by a vehicle full of people who told the student to hand over the blue shirt he was wearing. The passengers in the vehicle demanded the student hand over his blue shirt; they set it on fire and threw the shirt back out the auto window after the student turned it over.
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A Brentwood Freshman Center student was walking to his bus stop Wednesday morning when a red auto pulled up alongside him, according to Superintendent Levi McIntyre. “We also ask that children not wear clothing that could be considered to be gang-affiliated”.
Police-some armed with shovels-are searching the site of an abandoned hospital, Pilgrim State Hospital on Crooked Hill Road. The murders of 16-year-old Kayla Cuevas and 15-year-old Nisa Mickens along with finding the remains of 19-year-old Oscar Acosta has sent shock waves through this community.
Four bodies have been found in a wooded area in Brentwood, Long Island in a week, and police combed the area on Thursday looking for others.
“We are scouring that area because we found two skeletal remains in that general area and we’re going to do our due diligence”, said Suffolk County Police Commissioner Timothy Sini, ABC7 NY reported. Dozens of officers descended upon the grounds of the Thursday.
“In light of this and recent events, the District continues to work in partnership with the Suffolk County Police Department towards ensuring the safety of all students”, the letter from McIntyre said. “We’re getting more and more people to join”. This is our home.
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“Sini also said that police will also be starting a new initiative at the Brentwood elementary schools called Change, a program to prevent kids from joining gangs”.
