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By STEVE PONA Sturgeon Creek Regional Second ary School in St. James-Assiniboia is settling back to normal after being rocked Thursday by a shotgun blast that killed a 16-year-old Grade 12 student in an early-morning class. The dead student, identified as Ken Maitland of 185 Danbury Bay, was de scribed by friends and classmates Thursday as a loner, but ‘likeable; everybody liked him; there was noth ing not to like about him.” Principal Dennis Stefanson said in an interview he was ‘upset and shocked by the whole thing” and con sidered Maitland ‘‘a good student. “You could almost say a very good student with “at least a B grade average. “The information we have is that it was a disagreement between two boys and that our school was in no way responsible. It took place in our school but it could just as easily have taken place on the street, in a playground or on a parking lot.' A former neighbor said Maitland “was a very good artist’ and a friend who asked not to be identified said he was studying to become a commer cial artist. “That's the only reason he went to that school,” the friend said “The people that go to that school in a general way hang out together. I s all cliquey. He didn't fit in. He fit in with us, but not with them. — Continued See MAITLAND page 4 Shooting victim Ken Maitland completed these works, featured in this year's school yearbook, The Schooner. KEN MAITLAND Shot in classroom
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Fri, Oct 20, 1978
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