{"id":92873,"date":"2016-04-08T11:42:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T19:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=92873"},"modified":"2016-04-08T15:05:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T23:05:07","slug":"voice-of-hope-suspected-of-murdering-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=92873","title":{"rendered":"Voice Of Hope Suspected Of Murdering Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CfjfKapW8AMO7o4.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-92906\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CfjfKapW8AMO7o4-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"CfjfKapW8AMO7o4\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-92906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CfjfKapW8AMO7o4-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CfjfKapW8AMO7o4.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/grade-point\/wp\/2016\/04\/08\/report-suspect-arrested-in-slaying-of-university-of-texas-dance-student\/\">Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Police arrest 17-year-old in slaying of first-year University of Texas student<\/p>\n<p>Police have arrested a 17-year-old suspect in the slaying of a University of Texas dance student, law enforcement officials said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said at a news conference that Meechaiel Criner has been booked into the county jail on a first-degree murder charge in the slaying of Haruka Weiser, a first-year student from Portland, Ore. Weiser, 18, was last seen Sunday night leaving the university\u2019s drama building en route to her dorm, police said. Roommates reported her missing the next morning.<\/p>\n<p>Weiser\u2019s body was found on campus Tuesday in Waller Creek by the university\u2019s alumni center, a short walk from the drama building.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/crinerpolice.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-92876\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/crinerpolice-291x300.jpg\" alt=\"crinerpolice\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-92876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/crinerpolice-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/crinerpolice.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A December 2014 issue of a student publication, the Tiger Times, of Texas High School in Texarkana, Tex., contains an article about Criner headlined \u201cVoice of hope.\u201d The article, on page 12 and accompanied by a photograph of Criner, says the teenager was the victim of schoolyard taunts at an early age because of a \u201cthick, African-like\u201d accent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been bullied almost my whole life,\u201d Criner was quoted as saying. \u201cIn elementary school, I would come home crying almost every day. It was because of my accent, you see. People couldn\u2019t understand me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Criner told the Tiger Times that he had spent several months in foster care and later lived with a grandmother. The article portrays Criner as a victim of violence and bullying who wants to work to help others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like to stand up for people,\u201d Criner was quoted as saying. \u201cI like to help others. \u2026 What I want to leave behind is my name \u2013 I want them to know who Meechaiel Criner is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post: Police arrest 17-year-old in slaying of first-year University of Texas student Police have arrested a 17-year-old suspect in the slaying of a University of Texas dance student, law enforcement officials said Friday. Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=92873\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacks","category-crime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92873"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92907,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92873\/revisions\/92907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}