Students pass by a makeshift memorial honoring fifteen-year-old Lawrence King which lies beneath the flagpole at E.O. Green School Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008. (Phil McCarten / Associated Press)
Rosario Salinas comforts her 13-year-old daughter, Jocelyn, after a 15-year-old boy was shot at E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard. Jocelyn is a friend of the victim.
Parents line up outside the fence at E.O. Green Junior High to pick up their children. Many waited for hours. One parent, Alan Sweeney, said the school needed tighter security: “It’s too open.” He wanted to know how a gun was brought onto the Oxnard campus.