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An Oxnard junior high student who was shot in the head by a classmate earlier this week was declared brain dead Wednesday, and the 14-year-old male suspect now faces a first-degree murder charge, authorities said.

Lawrence King, 15, was declared brain dead by two neurosurgeons about 2 p.m. at St. John's Regional Medical Center in Oxnard, said Craig Stevens, senior deputy Ventura County medical examiner. King's body remains on a ventilator for possible organ donation, he said. He was shot early Tuesday in a classroom at E.O. Green Junior High School.

Police have not determined a motive in the slaying but said it appeared to stem from a personal dispute between King and the suspect.

Keith and Totten declined to elaborate.

But several students at the south Oxnard campus said King and his alleged assailant had a falling out stemming from King's sexual orientation.

The teenager sometimes wore feminine clothing and makeup, and proclaimed he was gay, students said.

"He would come to school in high-heeled boots, makeup, jewelry and painted nails -- the whole thing," said Michael Sweeney, 13, an eighth-grader. "That was freaking the guys out."
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Sad sad thing.. Two wasted lives....

Sad, yes. But I'm also wondering if the victim was part of the Goth movement, and that the disagreement was part his orientation/part his 'gothiness'.

Because I've seen Goth kids, where you can't tell the boys from the girls to begin with, because the clothing style can be somewhat 'feminine' for both or 'masculine' for both. The clothing style really doesn't speak to sexual orientation. Then add in the makeup and nail paint that goth's like...Not to mention, some people automatically assume there's something 'wrong' with a kid that goes goth to begin with.

Then add onto that IF the victim was bi-sexual or homosexual...

Either way, the victim shouldn't have been bullied or killed over what he wore or didn't wear period. Even not including what others might have though his orientation was...

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