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Calculated Shard: 99 (from laksa027)

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa099.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/03/usgunviolence.usa\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/03/usgunviolence.usa\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2000\/mar\/03\/usgunviolence.usa","crawl_time":1770982134,"first_indexed_time":0,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,theguardian!www,\/world\/2000\/mar\/03\/usgunviolence.usa s443","src_root_hash":"4161074618625082499","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Life of neglect that led to school shooting | US news | The Guardian","meta_descriptions":["Kayla Rolland was the victim of a six-year-old killer. The six-year-old killer was a victim of poor America"],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Delving into the squalid circumstances that led a six-year-old to gun down a girl in his class, the US public is experiencing an uncomfortable reminder of a forgotten underclass left behind by the country's much-vaunted economic miracle.\nWhile the US is enjoying its 108th month of continuous growth - driven by computer wizardry and Wall Street optimism - in Mount Morris, the scene of the crime, there is no evidence of this general sense of wellbeing.\nReporters who descended on the boy's house found a single-storey wooden building with the remains of a couple of cars jacked up outside, no glass in the windows, and blankets in place of curtains.\nThe boy (who has not been named for legal reasons) was left there with his elder brother and uncle about a fortnight ago when his mother, Tamarla Owens, was evicted from their house. Mrs Owens, a long-term drug addict, went to stay with friends. The boys' father, Dedric Owens, was in jail for burglary.\nAccording to neighbours in the working-class Michigan suburb, the shack was a crack-house - a 24-hour drug market, where crack cocaine was sold, or sometimes exchanged for guns. Dealers and addicts came and went, while the brothers had to fend for themselves.\nNot surprisingly, the six-year-old killer had a reputation as a troublemaker at nearby Buell elementary school. He got into fights and, according to his father, once stabbed a girl with a pencil. But nothing was done about him or for him. The boy told his father he hated his classmates and when Mr Owens heard there had been a shooting, he told police he had had a \"cold, sinking feeling\" that his son had been involved.\nIt was still not clear what sparked the playground squabble between the boy and Kayla Rolland, also aged six. When he had gone to school on Tuesday, the boy had thrust a gun with its three bullets, found under some blankets at his home, into his trouser pocket. He waited until the end of a lesson, when his class was lining up to leave the room, and pulled out the pistol, pointing it at one classmate and then whirling round, as if on a television cop show, firing a single bullet at Kayla. It hit her in the chest and she died less than an hour later. The boy then put the gun in his desk and walked to the school administrative office.\n\"As much as a six-year-old can, I think he realised that he had done something naughty, but I'm not sure that he understood the enormity of what had actually occurred ... and appeared to take this as some sort of [thing] that just kinda happens like on television,\" Arthur Busch, the county prosecutor, said as the boy sat drawing pictures under the eyes of social workers. \"He is a victim in many ways.\"\nHe appears to have been a victim of a litany of symptoms which keeps places like Mount Morris trapped. He was a victim of parental neglect, drugs, a society in which prison expenditure is growing fast while spending on schools and welfare programmes is being eroded. All that and the simple absence of money.\nIn 1989, the maverick documentary-maker Michael Moore made a film called Roger & Me, about the collapse of the car industry and the consequent death of Flint, the town of which Mount Morris is a dependent suburb.\nThe car manufacturers have since struggled back to their feet, with fewer workers and more robots, while hi-tech businesses and service industries have picked up the slack in employment.\nBut for many of those made redundant in the 1980s, with no access to retraining, it has not been so easy.\n\"When you put abject poverty together with easy access to guns, you have a recipe for this kind of violence,\" Mr Moore told a radio talk-show.\nProfound poverty in an era of plenty may have set the scene for the killing, but America's gun culture made Kayla's death inevitable.\nThe .32 pistol used in the killing had been stolen in December, and had been left lying around the house by a 19-year-old lodger, Jamelle James, who turned himself in on Wednesday and was yesterday charged with involuntary manslaughter.\nIn a country whose homicide rate is nearly six times greater than Britain's, Mr Busch said yesterday: \"I hope that this prosecution sends a message to America that those guns you think make you safer, make our community more dangerous,\" he said yesterday.","attrs_markdown":"![](https:\/\/sb.scorecardresearch.com\/p?c1=2&c2=6035250&cv=2.0&cj=1&cs_ucfr=0&comscorekw=us-news)\n\n[Skip to main content](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2000\/mar\/03\/usgunviolence.usa#maincontent)[Skip to navigation](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2000\/mar\/03\/usgunviolence.usa#navigation)\n\n[Skip to navigation](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2000\/mar\/03\/usgunviolence.usa#navigation)\n\n[Print subscriptions](https:\/\/support.theguardian.com\/subscribe\/weekly?REFPVID=undefined&INTCMP=undefined&acquisitionData=%7B%22source%22%3A%22GUARDIAN_WEB%22%2C%22componentId%22%3A%22PrintSubscriptionsHeaderLink%22%2C%22componentType%22%3A%22ACQUISITIONS_HEADER%22%2C%22referrerUrl%22%3A%22%22%7D)\n\n[Search jobs](https:\/\/jobs.theguardian.com\/)\n\n[Sign in](https:\/\/profile.theguardian.com\/signin?INTCMP=DOTCOM_NEWHEADER_SIGNIN&ABCMP=ab-sign-in&componentEventParams=componentType%3Didentityauthentication%26componentId%3Dguardian_signin_header)\n\nEur\n\n- [Europe edition](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/preference\/edition\/eur)\n- [UK edition](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/preference\/edition\/uk)\n- [US edition](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/preference\/edition\/us)\n- [Australia edition](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/preference\/edition\/au)\n- [International edition](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/preference\/edition\/int)\n\n[The Guardian - 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The six-year-old killer was a victim of poor America\n\n[Julian Borger](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/julianborger) in Washington\n\nFri 3 Mar 2000 03.24 CET\n\n[Share](<mailto:?subject=Life of neglect that led to school shooting&body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2000\/mar\/03\/usgunviolence.usa?CMP=share_btn_url>)\n\n[Prefer the Guardian on Google](https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=theguardian.com)\n\nDelving into the squalid circumstances that led a six-year-old to gun down a girl in his class, the US public is experiencing an uncomfortable reminder of a forgotten underclass left behind by the country's much-vaunted economic miracle.\n\nWhile the US is enjoying its 108th month of continuous growth - driven by computer wizardry and Wall Street optimism - in Mount Morris, the scene of the crime, there is no evidence of this general sense of wellbeing.\n\nReporters who descended on the boy's house found a single-storey wooden building with the remains of a couple of cars jacked up outside, no glass in the windows, and blankets in place of curtains.\n\nThe boy (who has not been named for legal reasons) was left there with his elder brother and uncle about a fortnight ago when his mother, Tamarla Owens, was evicted from their house. Mrs Owens, a long-term drug addict, went to stay with friends. The boys' father, Dedric Owens, was in jail for burglary.\n\nAccording to neighbours in the working-class Michigan suburb, the shack was a crack-house - a 24-hour drug market, where crack cocaine was sold, or sometimes exchanged for guns. Dealers and addicts came and went, while the brothers had to fend for themselves.\n\nNot surprisingly, the six-year-old killer had a reputation as a troublemaker at nearby Buell elementary school. He got into fights and, according to his father, once stabbed a girl with a pencil. But nothing was done about him or for him. The boy told his father he hated his classmates and when Mr Owens heard there had been a shooting, he told police he had had a \"cold, sinking feeling\" that his son had been involved.\n\nIt was still not clear what sparked the playground squabble between the boy and Kayla Rolland, also aged six. When he had gone to school on Tuesday, the boy had thrust a gun with its three bullets, found under some blankets at his home, into his trouser pocket. He waited until the end of a lesson, when his class was lining up to leave the room, and pulled out the pistol, pointing it at one classmate and then whirling round, as if on a television cop show, firing a single bullet at Kayla. It hit her in the chest and she died less than an hour later. The boy then put the gun in his desk and walked to the school administrative office.\n\n\"As much as a six-year-old can, I think he realised that he had done something naughty, but I'm not sure that he understood the enormity of what had actually occurred ... and appeared to take this as some sort of \\[thing\\] that just kinda happens like on television,\" Arthur Busch, the county prosecutor, said as the boy sat drawing pictures under the eyes of social workers. \"He is a victim in many ways.\"\n\nHe appears to have been a victim of a litany of symptoms which keeps places like Mount Morris trapped. He was a victim of parental neglect, drugs, a society in which prison expenditure is growing fast while spending on schools and welfare programmes is being eroded. All that and the simple absence of money.\n\nIn 1989, the maverick documentary-maker Michael Moore made a film called Roger & Me, about the collapse of the car industry and the consequent death of Flint, the town of which Mount Morris is a dependent suburb.\n\nThe car manufacturers have since struggled back to their feet, with fewer workers and more robots, while hi-tech businesses and service industries have picked up the slack in employment.\n\nBut for many of those made redundant in the 1980s, with no access to retraining, it has not been so easy.\n\n\"When you put abject poverty together with easy access to guns, you have a recipe for this kind of violence,\" Mr Moore told a radio talk-show.\n\nProfound poverty in an era of plenty may have set the scene for the killing, but America's gun culture made Kayla's death inevitable.\n\nThe .32 pistol used in the killing had been stolen in December, and had been left lying around the house by a 19-year-old lodger, Jamelle James, who turned himself in on Wednesday and was yesterday charged with involuntary manslaughter.\n\nIn a country whose homicide rate is nearly six times greater than Britain's, Mr Busch said yesterday: \"I hope that this prosecution sends a message to America that those guns you think make you safer, make our community more dangerous,\" he said yesterday.\n\nExplore more on these topics\n\n- [US news](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-news)\n- [Gun crime](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gun-crime)\n\n[Share](<mailto:?subject=Life of neglect that led to school shooting&body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2000\/mar\/03\/usgunviolence.usa?CMP=share_btn_url>)\n\n[Reuse this content](https:\/\/syndication.theguardian.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fworld%2F2000%2Fmar%2F03%2Fusgunviolence.usa&type=article&internalpagecode=world\/2000\/mar\/03\/usgunviolence.usa \"Reuse this content\")\n\n## Most viewed\n## Most viewed\n\n- [World](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world)\n- [Europe](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/europe-news)\n- [US news](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news)\n- [Americas](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/americas)\n- [Asia](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/asia)\n- [Australia](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news)\n- [Middle East](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/middleeast)\n- [Africa](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/africa)\n- [Inequality](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/inequality)\n- [Global development](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development)\n\n- [News](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/)\n- [Opinion](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree)\n- [Sport](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport)\n- [Culture](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture)\n- [Lifestyle](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle)\n\nOriginal reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning\n\n[Sign up for our email](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2022\/sep\/20\/sign-up-for-the-first-edition-newsletter-our-free-news-email)\n\n- [About us](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/about)\n- [Help](https:\/\/manage.theguardian.com\/help-centre)\n- [Complaints & corrections](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/complaints-and-corrections)\n- [Contact us](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/help\/contact-us)\n- [Tip us off](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tips)\n- [SecureDrop](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/securedrop)\n- [Privacy policy](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/privacy)\n- [Cookie policy](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/cookies)\n- [Tax strategy](https:\/\/uploads.guim.co.uk\/2025\/09\/05\/Tax_strategy_for_the_year_ended_31_March_2025.pdf)\n- [Terms & conditions](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/help\/terms-of-service)\n\n- [All topics](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/index\/subjects\/a)\n- [All writers](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/index\/contributors)\n- [Newsletters](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?INTCMP=DOTCOM_FOOTER_NEWSLETTER_EUROPE)\n- [Digital newspaper archive](https:\/\/theguardian.newspapers.com\/)\n- [Bluesky](https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/theguardian.com)\n- [Facebook](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theguardian)\n- [Instagram](https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/guardian)\n- [LinkedIn](https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/theguardian)\n- [Threads](https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@guardian)\n- [TikTok](https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@guardian)\n- [YouTube](https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TheGuardian)\n\n- [Advertise with us](https:\/\/advertising.theguardian.com\/)\n- [Search UK jobs](https:\/\/jobs.theguardian.com\/)\n- [Tips](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tips)\n- [Accessibility settings](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/help\/accessibility-help)\n- [Work with us](https:\/\/workwithus.theguardian.com\/)\n\n[Back to top](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2000\/mar\/03\/usgunviolence.usa#top)\n\n© 2026 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved.\n\n(dcr)","attrs_readable_markdown":"Delving into the squalid circumstances that led a six-year-old to gun down a girl in his class, the US public is experiencing an uncomfortable reminder of a forgotten underclass left behind by the country's much-vaunted economic miracle.\n\nWhile the US is enjoying its 108th month of continuous growth - driven by computer wizardry and Wall Street optimism - in Mount Morris, the scene of the crime, there is no evidence of this general sense of wellbeing.\n\nReporters who descended on the boy's house found a single-storey wooden building with the remains of a couple of cars jacked up outside, no glass in the windows, and blankets in place of curtains.\n\nThe boy (who has not been named for legal reasons) was left there with his elder brother and uncle about a fortnight ago when his mother, Tamarla Owens, was evicted from their house. Mrs Owens, a long-term drug addict, went to stay with friends. The boys' father, Dedric Owens, was in jail for burglary.\n\nAccording to neighbours in the working-class Michigan suburb, the shack was a crack-house - a 24-hour drug market, where crack cocaine was sold, or sometimes exchanged for guns. Dealers and addicts came and went, while the brothers had to fend for themselves.\n\nNot surprisingly, the six-year-old killer had a reputation as a troublemaker at nearby Buell elementary school. He got into fights and, according to his father, once stabbed a girl with a pencil. But nothing was done about him or for him. The boy told his father he hated his classmates and when Mr Owens heard there had been a shooting, he told police he had had a \"cold, sinking feeling\" that his son had been involved.\n\nIt was still not clear what sparked the playground squabble between the boy and Kayla Rolland, also aged six. When he had gone to school on Tuesday, the boy had thrust a gun with its three bullets, found under some blankets at his home, into his trouser pocket. He waited until the end of a lesson, when his class was lining up to leave the room, and pulled out the pistol, pointing it at one classmate and then whirling round, as if on a television cop show, firing a single bullet at Kayla. It hit her in the chest and she died less than an hour later. The boy then put the gun in his desk and walked to the school administrative office.\n\n\"As much as a six-year-old can, I think he realised that he had done something naughty, but I'm not sure that he understood the enormity of what had actually occurred ... and appeared to take this as some sort of \\[thing\\] that just kinda happens like on television,\" Arthur Busch, the county prosecutor, said as the boy sat drawing pictures under the eyes of social workers. \"He is a victim in many ways.\"\n\nHe appears to have been a victim of a litany of symptoms which keeps places like Mount Morris trapped. He was a victim of parental neglect, drugs, a society in which prison expenditure is growing fast while spending on schools and welfare programmes is being eroded. All that and the simple absence of money.\n\nIn 1989, the maverick documentary-maker Michael Moore made a film called Roger & Me, about the collapse of the car industry and the consequent death of Flint, the town of which Mount Morris is a dependent suburb.\n\nThe car manufacturers have since struggled back to their feet, with fewer workers and more robots, while hi-tech businesses and service industries have picked up the slack in employment.\n\nBut for many of those made redundant in the 1980s, with no access to retraining, it has not been so easy.\n\n\"When you put abject poverty together with easy access to guns, you have a recipe for this kind of violence,\" Mr Moore told a radio talk-show.\n\nProfound poverty in an era of plenty may have set the scene for the killing, but America's gun culture made Kayla's death inevitable.\n\nThe .32 pistol used in the killing had been stolen in December, and had been left lying around the house by a 19-year-old lodger, Jamelle James, who turned himself in on Wednesday and was yesterday charged with involuntary manslaughter.\n\nIn a country whose homicide rate is nearly six times greater than Britain's, Mr Busch said yesterday: \"I hope that this prosecution sends a message to America that those guns you think make you safer, make our community more dangerous,\" he said yesterday.","meta_canonical":null}

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Boilerpipe Text	Delving into the squalid circumstances that led a six-year-old to gun down a girl in his class, the US public is experiencing an uncomfortable reminder of a forgotten underclass left behind by the country's much-vaunted economic miracle. While the US is enjoying its 108th month of continuous growth - driven by computer wizardry and Wall Street optimism - in Mount Morris, the scene of the crime, there is no evidence of this general sense of wellbeing. Reporters who descended on the boy's house found a single-storey wooden building with the remains of a couple of cars jacked up outside, no glass in the windows, and blankets in place of curtains. The boy (who has not been named for legal reasons) was left there with his elder brother and uncle about a fortnight ago when his mother, Tamarla Owens, was evicted from their house. Mrs Owens, a long-term drug addict, went to stay with friends. The boys' father, Dedric Owens, was in jail for burglary. According to neighbours in the working-class Michigan suburb, the shack was a crack-house - a 24-hour drug market, where crack cocaine was sold, or sometimes exchanged for guns. Dealers and addicts came and went, while the brothers had to fend for themselves. Not surprisingly, the six-year-old killer had a reputation as a troublemaker at nearby Buell elementary school. He got into fights and, according to his father, once stabbed a girl with a pencil. But nothing was done about him or for him. The boy told his father he hated his classmates and when Mr Owens heard there had been a shooting, he told police he had had a "cold, sinking feeling" that his son had been involved. It was still not clear what sparked the playground squabble between the boy and Kayla Rolland, also aged six. When he had gone to school on Tuesday, the boy had thrust a gun with its three bullets, found under some blankets at his home, into his trouser pocket. He waited until the end of a lesson, when his class was lining up to leave the room, and pulled out the pistol, pointing it at one classmate and then whirling round, as if on a television cop show, firing a single bullet at Kayla. It hit her in the chest and she died less than an hour later. The boy then put the gun in his desk and walked to the school administrative office. "As much as a six-year-old can, I think he realised that he had done something naughty, but I'm not sure that he understood the enormity of what had actually occurred ... and appeared to take this as some sort of [thing] that just kinda happens like on television," Arthur Busch, the county prosecutor, said as the boy sat drawing pictures under the eyes of social workers. "He is a victim in many ways." He appears to have been a victim of a litany of symptoms which keeps places like Mount Morris trapped. He was a victim of parental neglect, drugs, a society in which prison expenditure is growing fast while spending on schools and welfare programmes is being eroded. All that and the simple absence of money. In 1989, the maverick documentary-maker Michael Moore made a film called Roger & Me, about the collapse of the car industry and the consequent death of Flint, the town of which Mount Morris is a dependent suburb. The car manufacturers have since struggled back to their feet, with fewer workers and more robots, while hi-tech businesses and service industries have picked up the slack in employment. But for many of those made redundant in the 1980s, with no access to retraining, it has not been so easy. "When you put abject poverty together with easy access to guns, you have a recipe for this kind of violence," Mr Moore told a radio talk-show. Profound poverty in an era of plenty may have set the scene for the killing, but America's gun culture made Kayla's death inevitable. The .32 pistol used in the killing had been stolen in December, and had been left lying around the house by a 19-year-old lodger, Jamelle James, who turned himself in on Wednesday and was yesterday charged with involuntary manslaughter. In a country whose homicide rate is nearly six times greater than Britain's, Mr Busch said yesterday: "I hope that this prosecution sends a message to America that those guns you think make you safer, make our community more dangerous," he said yesterday.
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The six-year-old killer was a victim of poor America [Julian Borger](https://www.theguardian.com/profile/julianborger) in Washington Fri 3 Mar 2000 03.24 CET [Share](<mailto:?subject=Life of neglect that led to school shooting&body=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/03/usgunviolence.usa?CMP=share_btn_url>) [Prefer the Guardian on Google](https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=theguardian.com) Delving into the squalid circumstances that led a six-year-old to gun down a girl in his class, the US public is experiencing an uncomfortable reminder of a forgotten underclass left behind by the country's much-vaunted economic miracle. While the US is enjoying its 108th month of continuous growth - driven by computer wizardry and Wall Street optimism - in Mount Morris, the scene of the crime, there is no evidence of this general sense of wellbeing. Reporters who descended on the boy's house found a single-storey wooden building with the remains of a couple of cars jacked up outside, no glass in the windows, and blankets in place of curtains. The boy (who has not been named for legal reasons) was left there with his elder brother and uncle about a fortnight ago when his mother, Tamarla Owens, was evicted from their house. Mrs Owens, a long-term drug addict, went to stay with friends. The boys' father, Dedric Owens, was in jail for burglary. According to neighbours in the working-class Michigan suburb, the shack was a crack-house - a 24-hour drug market, where crack cocaine was sold, or sometimes exchanged for guns. Dealers and addicts came and went, while the brothers had to fend for themselves. Not surprisingly, the six-year-old killer had a reputation as a troublemaker at nearby Buell elementary school. He got into fights and, according to his father, once stabbed a girl with a pencil. But nothing was done about him or for him. The boy told his father he hated his classmates and when Mr Owens heard there had been a shooting, he told police he had had a "cold, sinking feeling" that his son had been involved. It was still not clear what sparked the playground squabble between the boy and Kayla Rolland, also aged six. When he had gone to school on Tuesday, the boy had thrust a gun with its three bullets, found under some blankets at his home, into his trouser pocket. He waited until the end of a lesson, when his class was lining up to leave the room, and pulled out the pistol, pointing it at one classmate and then whirling round, as if on a television cop show, firing a single bullet at Kayla. It hit her in the chest and she died less than an hour later. The boy then put the gun in his desk and walked to the school administrative office. "As much as a six-year-old can, I think he realised that he had done something naughty, but I'm not sure that he understood the enormity of what had actually occurred ... and appeared to take this as some sort of \[thing\] that just kinda happens like on television," Arthur Busch, the county prosecutor, said as the boy sat drawing pictures under the eyes of social workers. "He is a victim in many ways." He appears to have been a victim of a litany of symptoms which keeps places like Mount Morris trapped. He was a victim of parental neglect, drugs, a society in which prison expenditure is growing fast while spending on schools and welfare programmes is being eroded. All that and the simple absence of money. In 1989, the maverick documentary-maker Michael Moore made a film called Roger & Me, about the collapse of the car industry and the consequent death of Flint, the town of which Mount Morris is a dependent suburb. The car manufacturers have since struggled back to their feet, with fewer workers and more robots, while hi-tech businesses and service industries have picked up the slack in employment. But for many of those made redundant in the 1980s, with no access to retraining, it has not been so easy. "When you put abject poverty together with easy access to guns, you have a recipe for this kind of violence," Mr Moore told a radio talk-show. Profound poverty in an era of plenty may have set the scene for the killing, but America's gun culture made Kayla's death inevitable. The .32 pistol used in the killing had been stolen in December, and had been left lying around the house by a 19-year-old lodger, Jamelle James, who turned himself in on Wednesday and was yesterday charged with involuntary manslaughter. In a country whose homicide rate is nearly six times greater than Britain's, Mr Busch said yesterday: "I hope that this prosecution sends a message to America that those guns you think make you safer, make our community more dangerous," he said yesterday. 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Readable Markdown	Delving into the squalid circumstances that led a six-year-old to gun down a girl in his class, the US public is experiencing an uncomfortable reminder of a forgotten underclass left behind by the country's much-vaunted economic miracle. While the US is enjoying its 108th month of continuous growth - driven by computer wizardry and Wall Street optimism - in Mount Morris, the scene of the crime, there is no evidence of this general sense of wellbeing. Reporters who descended on the boy's house found a single-storey wooden building with the remains of a couple of cars jacked up outside, no glass in the windows, and blankets in place of curtains. The boy (who has not been named for legal reasons) was left there with his elder brother and uncle about a fortnight ago when his mother, Tamarla Owens, was evicted from their house. Mrs Owens, a long-term drug addict, went to stay with friends. The boys' father, Dedric Owens, was in jail for burglary. According to neighbours in the working-class Michigan suburb, the shack was a crack-house - a 24-hour drug market, where crack cocaine was sold, or sometimes exchanged for guns. Dealers and addicts came and went, while the brothers had to fend for themselves. Not surprisingly, the six-year-old killer had a reputation as a troublemaker at nearby Buell elementary school. He got into fights and, according to his father, once stabbed a girl with a pencil. But nothing was done about him or for him. The boy told his father he hated his classmates and when Mr Owens heard there had been a shooting, he told police he had had a "cold, sinking feeling" that his son had been involved. It was still not clear what sparked the playground squabble between the boy and Kayla Rolland, also aged six. When he had gone to school on Tuesday, the boy had thrust a gun with its three bullets, found under some blankets at his home, into his trouser pocket. He waited until the end of a lesson, when his class was lining up to leave the room, and pulled out the pistol, pointing it at one classmate and then whirling round, as if on a television cop show, firing a single bullet at Kayla. It hit her in the chest and she died less than an hour later. The boy then put the gun in his desk and walked to the school administrative office. "As much as a six-year-old can, I think he realised that he had done something naughty, but I'm not sure that he understood the enormity of what had actually occurred ... and appeared to take this as some sort of \[thing\] that just kinda happens like on television," Arthur Busch, the county prosecutor, said as the boy sat drawing pictures under the eyes of social workers. "He is a victim in many ways." He appears to have been a victim of a litany of symptoms which keeps places like Mount Morris trapped. He was a victim of parental neglect, drugs, a society in which prison expenditure is growing fast while spending on schools and welfare programmes is being eroded. All that and the simple absence of money. In 1989, the maverick documentary-maker Michael Moore made a film called Roger & Me, about the collapse of the car industry and the consequent death of Flint, the town of which Mount Morris is a dependent suburb. The car manufacturers have since struggled back to their feet, with fewer workers and more robots, while hi-tech businesses and service industries have picked up the slack in employment. But for many of those made redundant in the 1980s, with no access to retraining, it has not been so easy. "When you put abject poverty together with easy access to guns, you have a recipe for this kind of violence," Mr Moore told a radio talk-show. Profound poverty in an era of plenty may have set the scene for the killing, but America's gun culture made Kayla's death inevitable. The .32 pistol used in the killing had been stolen in December, and had been left lying around the house by a 19-year-old lodger, Jamelle James, who turned himself in on Wednesday and was yesterday charged with involuntary manslaughter. In a country whose homicide rate is nearly six times greater than Britain's, Mr Busch said yesterday: "I hope that this prosecution sends a message to America that those guns you think make you safer, make our community more dangerous," he said yesterday.
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