Boy knew killing was wrong
NZPA Columbus. Ohio A boy. aged 15. convicted of fatally stabbing a high school classmate, says he knows he did wrong, but “you got to kill to live in this world.” Robert Johnson was sentenced to the Ohio Department of Youth Services on a delinquency count of murder for the stabbing of Isiah Ike Speed, aged 15. in a hallway at Centennial High School. “I did wrong. I know I *’•” Johnson said after the
sentencing. However. Johnson said, he and other youths had been convinced they must carry weapons. “You got to kill to live in this world," he said. “If you do not get the other person, they are going to get you. You see all these killings, you hear about them. As soon as you step out the door, you get blown away." Johnson faces confinement for at least a year, and possibly until he is 21.
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Press, 7 January 1983, Page 14
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