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Student council collect dresses for foster care

Written by Morgan Walko

Student Council heldΒ their first formal dress drive on the week of March 16. They acceptedΒ dresses from whoever wasΒ interested in donating.

They acceptedΒ old, gently used formal dresses. The school wasΒ mainly interested in homecoming and prom dresses that will no longer be worn.

A rack wasΒ placed outside of the front office. Students hung their dresses on the rack at any time for the whole week.

Dresses of any size wereΒ accepted throughout the week. The dresses should not have any rips, tears or problems of any sort. They neededΒ to be suitable for other people to wear at formal dances.

The donated dresses will be used for a good cause. They will be donated to girls in foster care. These girls are not able to afford a formal dress for school dances.

Student Council hopes to collect many dresses for the girls. Since they are not usually able to have formal dresses, they want to be able to have a wide variety for them to choose from.

Student Council will collect all of the dresses and send them to the children in foster care at the end of the week.

Shootings in Pennsylvania hospitalize three people

By Jurnee Starts Β 

An incident occurred where three people were shot in Monroeville Mall, Pennsylvania. The shooter, Tarod Thornhill, said to have targeted one of the three victims, ChiefΒ  Douglas Cole told ABC News. One man was targeted and the other two were bystanders.

The victims were taken to Forbes Hospital Feb. 8. The hospital was told to be on lock down until Thornhill was found.

Thornhill immediately fled the scene. Detectives traced his location with social media. He had been charged as an adult with aggravated assault, attempted homicide and reckless endangerment, Allegheny County Police told NBC News.

Police found Thornhill at a home, where his 16-year-old girlfriend lives with her mother and siblings.

The target Davon Jones, 20, is in fair condition. Mary Singleton, 47, is also in fair condition. While Thomas Singleton, 53, the husband of Mary, is in critical condition.

Several fights broke loose after the incident, which caused local officials and mall administration to plan to increased security so that a problem like that would not occur again. The mall went on lock down after the shooting.

According to the Pennsylvania code of conduct, any type of weapon is banned from the mall. It reads, β€œCarrying or displaying weapons of any kind except those carried by certified law enforcement officers in the performance ofΒ  their duties.”

This has been the third incident within three years that has occurred in Monroeville Mall.

A robbery occurred at Harbor Freight Tools which is in the mall. A week before, more than 1,000 teenagersΒ  and young adults swarmed into a mob in which multiple fights broke out.

Officials announced a new policy, which will require people under 18 to be accompanied by an adult on weekend evenings.

Thornhill was arrested for a gun violation in October 2011, an exact date was not given. Then, in 2014, he was accused of a second gun violation.

Thornhill’s life may be a cause of his problems since he has been in and out of foster homes when he was young.