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Ex-principal held without bond after fatal rampage
If he was a former teacher, they'd still be referring to him as "teacher" instead of "ex-teacher"
Former Tampa Bay area middle-school principal Anthony Giancola, 45, is being held without bond after a violent rampage that left two dead and a trail of destruction in its wake, according to the Associated Press. Giancola is charged in the fatal stabbings, as well as with ramming a building with his car and assaulting a married couple with a hammer.
Giancola, who was fired from his job as principal of Van Buren Middle School in Tampa in 2007 when he bought $20 of crack cocaine from an undercover police officer, was taken into custody Friday night, bloody and incoherent. Officers believe that he was intoxicated.
“You’ll be very proud of me, I just killed 10 drug dealers,” he told his mother after his arrest.
The violent spree began Friday morning, shortly before 10:45 a.m., when Giancola barged into a home for the hearing impaired in tiny Lealman, Florida, about 20 miles west of Tampa, and began stabbing people at random. 27-year-old Justin Lee Vand died at the scene and Mary Anne Allis, 59, died from her wounds at a nearby hospital. Also injured were Danielle Whitney Gilbert, 25, and Janice Denise Rhoden, 44.
more . . . http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/23/ex-principal-held-without-bond-after-fatal-rampage/#.T-YY1HWwKiw
Giancola, who was fired from his job as principal of Van Buren Middle School in Tampa in 2007 when he bought $20 of crack cocaine from an undercover police officer, was taken into custody Friday night, bloody and incoherent. Officers believe that he was intoxicated.
“You’ll be very proud of me, I just killed 10 drug dealers,” he told his mother after his arrest.
The violent spree began Friday morning, shortly before 10:45 a.m., when Giancola barged into a home for the hearing impaired in tiny Lealman, Florida, about 20 miles west of Tampa, and began stabbing people at random. 27-year-old Justin Lee Vand died at the scene and Mary Anne Allis, 59, died from her wounds at a nearby hospital. Also injured were Danielle Whitney Gilbert, 25, and Janice Denise Rhoden, 44.
more . . . http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/23/ex-principal-held-without-bond-after-fatal-rampage/#.T-YY1HWwKiw
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