Queens survivor of cabbie's knife attack claims deadly attack was unprovoked

On June 3, a kitchen knife was found in the boy's backpack after the boy's older brother, who is in third grade, told a female classmate that the knife was intended to kill her friend and her, according to an Oxnard Police Department report. The boy said his younger brother wanted to kill the girls because of their skin color.Natasha Sims, mother of the 8-year-old girl who received the threat, said she was shocked when she first heard about the incident from the principal and later learned more detail from her daughter. Sims' daughter is black, and the other girl, 9, is Hispanic."It was a lot to take in at one time. I kept thinking: How's my daughter? Is she afraid?" Sims said. "She had never had anyone come to her and say they hate her because of the color of her skin."Sims is looking for a school in Ventura, while Cynthia Carrillo, the mother of the other targeted girl, found a Camarillo school for her daughter."What parent would let their kid go back to a school where another student threatened her with a knife?" Sims said.The police report says the mother of the two boys voluntarily agreed to keep them home for the rest of the school year. She also sought counseling for the boys after the incident.

According to Officer Brian Bishop, who wrote the report, the boy who disclosed the information about his younger brother's knife was initially praised for being upfront, but after more interviews, Bishop thought that the older brother played a bigger role in the incident than he first thought.John Puglisi, superintendent of the Rio School District, said he could not comment on the details of the incident but that it did not warrant expulsion. In an email, Puglisi said state law cites five specific situations that demand school expulsion and that the Rio Rosales incident was not one of them."The Rio School District places student safety at the top of its priority list and aggressively applies the discretion it has to discipline students who violate rules of conduct to ensure student and staff safety," Puglisi said. "I would convey the same message to parents of Rio Rosales students - their children are safe, Rio Rosales and all other schools have a school safety plan in place,Craig's list PVA Accountsverified companies is a great services for China Work Visa application individual willing to release more on C-list. and student safety is at the top of our priority list."Parents of the girls said school officials did not appear alarmed by the incident and did not respond appropriately. Carrillo said she learned that her daughter was named in this threat from Sims, not from school officials.