Teacher shot at Notre Dame"update on Layne"
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Nothing, short of 1 door and a guard placed at it , can prevent someone from entering a school building. Guys , it isn't a prison. Various people have to free to come/go for order to be kept. There are deliveries/ tardy students. kids coming/going to recess. kids going to field trips , plus the fire issue , meaning that people need to be able to leave safely in case of a fire. MD
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Loop released from hospital
SWAT team members set up a perimeter around William Michael Layne's home on Argonne Road on Thursday. Police surrounded Layne in his home after her stabbed Stephanie Loop, 22, at an 11th Street residence and then went to Notre Dame Elementary School where he stabbed and shot his estranged wife in her classroom. Layne died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after police encircled his home. Loop was released from the hospital Saturday, and is recovering.
T.W. Allen/ Daily Times
Says she doesn't know why Layne attacked her
By G. SAM PIATT
PDT Staff Writer
Published:
Sunday, February 10, 2008 9:03 PM CST
Stephanie Loop said she still doesn't know why Michael Layne tried to kill her Thursday morning in a small parking lot behind her cousin's house on 11th St.
"I honestly don't know of any motive," she said. "He came at me with a big knife and started stabbing as soon as Chrissy and I got out of her car."
Loop, 22, who said she was stabbed seven times, not just twice as was first thought when she was taken away in an ambulance, was released from Grant Medical Center in Columbus Saturday morning. She talked about the stabbing Sunday by phone from the home of her father, Leon Loop, 1827 Jackson Ave.
She said she suffered from soreness and still was taking pain medication, but otherwise was recovering.
She cleaned house for the 56-year-old Layne and said that's what she was doing at his home on Argonne Road on Wednesday.
She said Layne brought out a gun and started cleaning it.
"I wondered why he was doing that," she said.
She said she was there "a couple of days before" and Layne kept saying, "I don't want you to go. I need someone to stay."
On Wednesday, too, he told here, "Why don't you just stay here with me tonight. I need somebody."
But she called the upstairs neighbor of her cousin, Chrissy Sheppard (misspelled in earlier newspaper accounts as Shepherd) and asked him to have her come and get her.
Sheppard, 24, said Sunday she picked up Loop, her cousin, about 9 p.m. Wednesday. She said Layne came out as she was getting in the car, but said very little.
Loop spent the night at Sheppard's home. Early the next morning, she drove Loop to a tattoo shop.
"I'm an artist," she said, "and I had drawn this design and we wanted to check on prices."
It was a little after 9 a.m. when they pulled into the parking space off the alley behind her house. Sheppard said Layne "came out of nowhere" and attacked her cousin with the knife.
"It was a big knife, an Army Bowie-type knife," she said. "The blade must have been six inches long."
Loop also described the knife as a big one, not a small pocket knife.
Sheppard grabbed Loop and pulled her up the back walkway. Both managed to get inside and Sheppard quickly locked the doors.
Layne apparently had other things on his mind than pursuit. It was only a few minutes later that he entered Notre Dame Elementary School a few blocks away, and made his way to the fifth-grade classroom of his estranged wife, Christi Layne. As students looked on, he fired several shots at her, one bullet glancing off her left cheekbone, and then attacked her with a knife, stabbing her 14 times.
Family members said she remained in Cabell Huntington (W.Va.) Hospital Sunday, recovering, but was not expected to be released for several more days.
Sheppard said Loop was not Michael Layne's girlfriend.
"She was his house cleaner. I have cleaned his house before, too, for money," she said.
Michael Layne shot and killed himself at his home later in the day Thursday.
G. SAM PIATT can be reached at (740) 353-3101, ext. 236.
SWAT team members set up a perimeter around William Michael Layne's home on Argonne Road on Thursday. Police surrounded Layne in his home after her stabbed Stephanie Loop, 22, at an 11th Street residence and then went to Notre Dame Elementary School where he stabbed and shot his estranged wife in her classroom. Layne died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after police encircled his home. Loop was released from the hospital Saturday, and is recovering.
T.W. Allen/ Daily Times
Says she doesn't know why Layne attacked her
By G. SAM PIATT
PDT Staff Writer
Published:
Sunday, February 10, 2008 9:03 PM CST
Stephanie Loop said she still doesn't know why Michael Layne tried to kill her Thursday morning in a small parking lot behind her cousin's house on 11th St.
"I honestly don't know of any motive," she said. "He came at me with a big knife and started stabbing as soon as Chrissy and I got out of her car."
Loop, 22, who said she was stabbed seven times, not just twice as was first thought when she was taken away in an ambulance, was released from Grant Medical Center in Columbus Saturday morning. She talked about the stabbing Sunday by phone from the home of her father, Leon Loop, 1827 Jackson Ave.
She said she suffered from soreness and still was taking pain medication, but otherwise was recovering.
She cleaned house for the 56-year-old Layne and said that's what she was doing at his home on Argonne Road on Wednesday.
She said Layne brought out a gun and started cleaning it.
"I wondered why he was doing that," she said.
She said she was there "a couple of days before" and Layne kept saying, "I don't want you to go. I need someone to stay."
On Wednesday, too, he told here, "Why don't you just stay here with me tonight. I need somebody."
But she called the upstairs neighbor of her cousin, Chrissy Sheppard (misspelled in earlier newspaper accounts as Shepherd) and asked him to have her come and get her.
Sheppard, 24, said Sunday she picked up Loop, her cousin, about 9 p.m. Wednesday. She said Layne came out as she was getting in the car, but said very little.
Loop spent the night at Sheppard's home. Early the next morning, she drove Loop to a tattoo shop.
"I'm an artist," she said, "and I had drawn this design and we wanted to check on prices."
It was a little after 9 a.m. when they pulled into the parking space off the alley behind her house. Sheppard said Layne "came out of nowhere" and attacked her cousin with the knife.
"It was a big knife, an Army Bowie-type knife," she said. "The blade must have been six inches long."
Loop also described the knife as a big one, not a small pocket knife.
Sheppard grabbed Loop and pulled her up the back walkway. Both managed to get inside and Sheppard quickly locked the doors.
Layne apparently had other things on his mind than pursuit. It was only a few minutes later that he entered Notre Dame Elementary School a few blocks away, and made his way to the fifth-grade classroom of his estranged wife, Christi Layne. As students looked on, he fired several shots at her, one bullet glancing off her left cheekbone, and then attacked her with a knife, stabbing her 14 times.
Family members said she remained in Cabell Huntington (W.Va.) Hospital Sunday, recovering, but was not expected to be released for several more days.
Sheppard said Loop was not Michael Layne's girlfriend.
"She was his house cleaner. I have cleaned his house before, too, for money," she said.
Michael Layne shot and killed himself at his home later in the day Thursday.
G. SAM PIATT can be reached at (740) 353-3101, ext. 236.
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one thing that does'nt add up is that Mr Layne was found in a building out back ---They were concentrating hard on the house ---ie --they had no clue where he was , is it possable they only discovered him out back after finding the house empty ??? The 1st people there were fired upon --Did no one realize the shots were not coming from the house , but a location out back ? MD
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BD--I heard that from channel 3 news minutes after they stormed the house . I'll go back and look at wsaz.com and try to verify what I heard/saw on channel 3. They reported he was found dead "out back in a storage type shed or building out back" But the news clearly showed the swat dudes approaching/ searching the house. MD
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I have intentionally kept quite on this matter until things settled down some. As a school administrator, an incident like this is something you worry about along with a tornado hitting with students at school. I will not go into any detail about safety percautions because too many people have access to this site. I will say that we practice safety procedures on a regular basis and we have a plan in place to follow. Last Thursday, our district put that plan in action as a safety percaution and we learned some things that we need to do better. We will continue to work to make sure our/your kids are as safe as possible when they walk into the school building.
Dan, no it is not a prison. We have to do what we think is best for the entire school building/district. Our doors are locked because some people are crazy and want to hurt others. All doors, by State Fire Codes have to
be able to open out so people can get out of the buildings in case of an emergency. If you are a parent of a student, you worry about your child and his/her safety. Teachers worry about their classroom full of kids. As an administrator, I have 850+ kids in my building that me and the other principal have to worry about. IF something happens, I want parents to know that we will do EVERYTHING we can as a district to protect them to the best of our ability. That is the reason we practice fire drills, tornado drills, and building shutdowns.
We are praying for you ND!
Dan, no it is not a prison. We have to do what we think is best for the entire school building/district. Our doors are locked because some people are crazy and want to hurt others. All doors, by State Fire Codes have to
be able to open out so people can get out of the buildings in case of an emergency. If you are a parent of a student, you worry about your child and his/her safety. Teachers worry about their classroom full of kids. As an administrator, I have 850+ kids in my building that me and the other principal have to worry about. IF something happens, I want parents to know that we will do EVERYTHING we can as a district to protect them to the best of our ability. That is the reason we practice fire drills, tornado drills, and building shutdowns.
We are praying for you ND!
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alabama mike wrote:I have intentionally kept quite on this matter until things settled down some. As a school administrator, an incident like this is something you worry about along with a tornado hitting with students at school. I will not go into any detail about safety percautions because too many people have access to this site. I will say that we practice safety procedures on a regular basis and we have a plan in place to follow. Last Thursday, our district put that plan in action as a safety percaution and we learned some things that we need to do better. We will continue to work to make sure our/your kids are as safe as possible when they walk into the school building.
Dan, no it is not a prison. We have to do what we think is best for the entire school building/district. Our doors are locked because some people are crazy and want to hurt others. All doors, by State Fire Codes have to
be able to open out so people can get out of the buildings in case of an emergency. If you are a parent of a student, you worry about your child and his/her safety. Teachers worry about their classroom full of kids. As an administrator, I have 850+ kids in my building that me and the other principal have to worry about. IF something happens, I want parents to know that we will do EVERYTHING we can as a district to protect them to the best of our ability. That is the reason we practice fire drills, tornado drills, and building shutdowns.
We are praying for you ND!
I think we shuold take all percautions possibel when it comes to our kids.
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School door unlocked by sensor allowed entry in teacher stabbing
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 6:09 AM
Associated Press
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio—A man who police say stabbed his estranged wife in front of her fifth-grade class entered the building after a student inside walked by a motion sensor that unlocked a door, the school's principal said.
The building's security system worked as designed, and it was only a coincidence that William Michael Layne was able to enter, Principal Kay Kern told the Portsmouth Daily Times. She said the motion sensors are part of a fire safety system.
Layne was in the school Thursday for only two minutes, she said.
Just before he arrived at Notre Dame Elementary School, Layne, 56, stabbed a woman in an alley behind her home, police said. He then stabbed his schoolteacher wife, and after a three-hour standoff with police at his home, he apparently shot and killed himself, authorities said.
Christi Layne, 53, who had left her husband and had filed for divorce Jan. 25, remained at Cabell Huntington Hospital in Huntington, W.Va., this morning, a nursing supervisor said.
Stephanie Loop, 22, who was attacked a few blocks from the school, was released from Grant Medical Center in Columbus on Saturday, the Daily Times reported. Loop's cousin, Chrissy Shepherd, has said that Layne considered Loop his girlfriend.
Students returned to the Roman Catholic school yesterday for the first day of classes since the attack, with counseling services provided for students, teachers and parents. Kern said most children attended, with about three calling in sick.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 6:09 AM
Associated Press
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio—A man who police say stabbed his estranged wife in front of her fifth-grade class entered the building after a student inside walked by a motion sensor that unlocked a door, the school's principal said.
The building's security system worked as designed, and it was only a coincidence that William Michael Layne was able to enter, Principal Kay Kern told the Portsmouth Daily Times. She said the motion sensors are part of a fire safety system.
Layne was in the school Thursday for only two minutes, she said.
Just before he arrived at Notre Dame Elementary School, Layne, 56, stabbed a woman in an alley behind her home, police said. He then stabbed his schoolteacher wife, and after a three-hour standoff with police at his home, he apparently shot and killed himself, authorities said.
Christi Layne, 53, who had left her husband and had filed for divorce Jan. 25, remained at Cabell Huntington Hospital in Huntington, W.Va., this morning, a nursing supervisor said.
Stephanie Loop, 22, who was attacked a few blocks from the school, was released from Grant Medical Center in Columbus on Saturday, the Daily Times reported. Loop's cousin, Chrissy Shepherd, has said that Layne considered Loop his girlfriend.
Students returned to the Roman Catholic school yesterday for the first day of classes since the attack, with counseling services provided for students, teachers and parents. Kern said most children attended, with about three calling in sick.
Layne's condition updated
Doctor reports on teacher's recovery
By FRANK LEWIS
PDT Staff Writer
Published:
Thursday, February 14, 2008 10:51 PM CST
Christi Layne, a Notre Dame Elementary schoolteacher who was shot and stabbed by her estranged husband in front of her class on Feb. 7, is slowly improving at St. Mary's Hospital in Huntington, W. Va.
Layne has given permission to one of her attending physicians to release the details of her injuries, surgeries and prognosis for the future.
Dr. Blaine Nease, a Portsmouth resident who works as a surgeon at Cabell Huntington Hospital in Huntington, said he was on duty the day Layne was brought in, suffering multiple injuries.
"I'm a surgeon at Cabell, and I just happened to be there that day and helped the other surgeons who happened to be involved in her care," he said.
Nease said he is happy with her recovery process considering all of the injuries she suffered in the attack.
"She is doing very well. She's completely with it. She's talking, and all things considered, I think she's doing quite well," he said.
Nease said Layne appreciates the concern of Scioto County citizens and the tri-state area, and described in detail all of the injuries she suffered.
"Christi was stabbed 14 times. She was stabbed in the chest, in the abdomen, in the arms and in her right leg," he said. "She was shot with a small-caliber handgun one time in the left side of her face. It broke her cheekbone, and then came out next to her ear."
Nease said there had been some misinformation about the gunshot, with sources saying she was shot twice because the bullet left two holes, one in the cheek and the other in the ear area.
"She also received injury to her liver. She was stabbed in the liver and in the diaphragm, which is the muscle that separates the chest from the belly," he said. "She had an injury to a main artery in her right arm, to a branch of a main artery in her right arm, and that's where she lost so much blood from."
Nease said there was bleeding from all of the stab wounds, but the primary blood loss came from the wound to her right arm.
"All of those things were fixed. Her liver did not need to be operated on. It was OK, but her diaphragm was repaired," Nease said. "And she had to have tubes in both sides of her chest to drain air from the stab wounds."
He said Layne also suffered damage to important nerves in her right arm and her right leg, and she was taken from Cabell Huntington to St. Mary's Hospital, in Huntington, on Wednesday, because the neurosurgeon who was to operate on her operates at St. Mary's.
"The nerves have been repaired. Hopefully in the next two to three days, she'll be back at Southern Ohio Medical Center in the rehab area," Nease said. "She will need rehabilitation to get back the good function from her nerve injuries."
Nease also said Layne is in good spirits.
"More so than you would think. I don't know that I would be taking things as well as she has," he said.
Nease said the public needs to know many of the injuries Layne suffered could have been fatal.
"She is an incredibly lucky and blessed woman," he said.
Nease cautioned there are stages one must go through after such a devastating experience.
"There are stages of grief that you go through. I'm sure she will go through those stages," he said. "But she's in good spirits. She has a wonderful family that is there every day, and of everyone in the community. She is handling it completely appropriately, better than one would expect."
Nease was complimentary of all of the care Layne received, "not only to have received the great care, initially at SOMC, then to come here, everything just went perfect.
"From SOMC over to here, she's doing awesome. She received excellent care from SOMC, and they evaluated her appropriately, and sent her to the trauma center, and everything went great there. So I think the whole effort from the scene to SOMC to Cabell could not have gone better."
FRANK LEWIS can be reached at (740) 353-3101, ext. 232.
Doctor reports on teacher's recovery
By FRANK LEWIS
PDT Staff Writer
Published:
Thursday, February 14, 2008 10:51 PM CST
Christi Layne, a Notre Dame Elementary schoolteacher who was shot and stabbed by her estranged husband in front of her class on Feb. 7, is slowly improving at St. Mary's Hospital in Huntington, W. Va.
Layne has given permission to one of her attending physicians to release the details of her injuries, surgeries and prognosis for the future.
Dr. Blaine Nease, a Portsmouth resident who works as a surgeon at Cabell Huntington Hospital in Huntington, said he was on duty the day Layne was brought in, suffering multiple injuries.
"I'm a surgeon at Cabell, and I just happened to be there that day and helped the other surgeons who happened to be involved in her care," he said.
Nease said he is happy with her recovery process considering all of the injuries she suffered in the attack.
"She is doing very well. She's completely with it. She's talking, and all things considered, I think she's doing quite well," he said.
Nease said Layne appreciates the concern of Scioto County citizens and the tri-state area, and described in detail all of the injuries she suffered.
"Christi was stabbed 14 times. She was stabbed in the chest, in the abdomen, in the arms and in her right leg," he said. "She was shot with a small-caliber handgun one time in the left side of her face. It broke her cheekbone, and then came out next to her ear."
Nease said there had been some misinformation about the gunshot, with sources saying she was shot twice because the bullet left two holes, one in the cheek and the other in the ear area.
"She also received injury to her liver. She was stabbed in the liver and in the diaphragm, which is the muscle that separates the chest from the belly," he said. "She had an injury to a main artery in her right arm, to a branch of a main artery in her right arm, and that's where she lost so much blood from."
Nease said there was bleeding from all of the stab wounds, but the primary blood loss came from the wound to her right arm.
"All of those things were fixed. Her liver did not need to be operated on. It was OK, but her diaphragm was repaired," Nease said. "And she had to have tubes in both sides of her chest to drain air from the stab wounds."
He said Layne also suffered damage to important nerves in her right arm and her right leg, and she was taken from Cabell Huntington to St. Mary's Hospital, in Huntington, on Wednesday, because the neurosurgeon who was to operate on her operates at St. Mary's.
"The nerves have been repaired. Hopefully in the next two to three days, she'll be back at Southern Ohio Medical Center in the rehab area," Nease said. "She will need rehabilitation to get back the good function from her nerve injuries."
Nease also said Layne is in good spirits.
"More so than you would think. I don't know that I would be taking things as well as she has," he said.
Nease said the public needs to know many of the injuries Layne suffered could have been fatal.
"She is an incredibly lucky and blessed woman," he said.
Nease cautioned there are stages one must go through after such a devastating experience.
"There are stages of grief that you go through. I'm sure she will go through those stages," he said. "But she's in good spirits. She has a wonderful family that is there every day, and of everyone in the community. She is handling it completely appropriately, better than one would expect."
Nease was complimentary of all of the care Layne received, "not only to have received the great care, initially at SOMC, then to come here, everything just went perfect.
"From SOMC over to here, she's doing awesome. She received excellent care from SOMC, and they evaluated her appropriately, and sent her to the trauma center, and everything went great there. So I think the whole effort from the scene to SOMC to Cabell could not have gone better."
FRANK LEWIS can be reached at (740) 353-3101, ext. 232.
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I saw on Channel 10 news a brief interview with the young lady he stabbed first they reported she was his housekeeper.
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