Another Shark Attack in Amity

The death of a 10-year-old boy, Alex B. Kinter marks the second tragic death in Amity this summer.  Kinter, was killed in a vicious and unprovoked shark attack at 2 p.m. on Monday at Village Beach.

Witnesses and beachgoers flocked from the water.  Parents gathered their children in horror as Kinter's mother, Mariob Kinter ran to the water's edge, only to find her son's raft, destroyed by a shark bite, washed into shore with her son's blood.

The boy's mother is currently being treated for shock at Amity General Hospital and is reported to be in fair condition.

Kinter's body has not been recovered, unlike the body of Christine Watson, which was found in the sand dunes Monday morning.  The police are now considering that the deaths are linked, and the murderer in both cases - a shark. 

Tragic Death in Amity

The body of seventeen-year-old girl Christine W. Watson was found mangled, washed up on the beach early Monday morning in Amity.

She went missing Sunday night and currently the cause of her tragic death is unknown and under investigation by The Amity Village Police Department.  Amity Village Police Chief Martin Brody found her,

"I thought she had been murdered," he said.

"How else would the body become so mangled?" Brody asked.

Watson, a senior at Amity High School was last seen alive around 11 p.m. leaving a beach party with another teen, a male identified as Christopher P. Hoggenbottam III, a former resident of the island.

Hoggenbottam told policethat Watson decided to go swimming and entered the water at a remote section of South Beach near South Beach Shoal bell buoy.

"The last time I saw her she was running into the water," Hoggenbottam said.

Hoggenbottam had only met Watson that night and remembers very little, but that she ran into the water naked.

Police report that she has been mauled by an attacker of unknown origin. There are currently no charges filed for the case and the possibility of murder is serious.

Amity Police have not ruled out the possibility that Watson's death may be the result of a shark attack, yet they are assured that residents and visitors of Amity are not in danger.

"I am afraid of the water," Brody said, before reassuring that it was simply due to his poor swimming ability. 

Her body has been transported to the coroner's office for an autopsy that has yet to be completed. 

French Connection Article Draft Lead

Four people were shot and killed after a dramatic chase and train hijacking in New York City on Sunday.

New York City Police Detective Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle shot and killed the assassin, Pierre Jeantot, 36, of Nice, France late that afternoon after he murdered four people in an attempt to kill Doyle himself.

Jeanot was allegedly working on behalf of a French drug kingpin whom Doyle and his partner, Buddy “Cloudy” Russo had been investigating. 

Jeanot was sent after Doyle as a sniper in an effort to alleviate police presence in a a heroin exchange between France, Turkey, and the United States.

Doyle was working undercover in the Narcotics division, dressed in casual street clothes as he walked, patrolling the New York City streets at the time of the first gun shot. 

Innocent people were everywhere, a child on a tricycle wheeled by before 63-year-old Betty B. Badluck of the Bronx took a bullet in the back and was shot dead.

Three shots were sounded.  Doyle rolled to the ground and retrieved his gun while screaming at the pedestrians to leave the woman who had been shot alone.

Saturday mornings may no longer be for cartoons and cereal, but for an extra session at Portsmouth High School. 

School Board member Tim Steele proposed a policy that would require students who have disciplinary problems to return to school for a special Saturday morning session.

The session would run from eight a.m. until noon several weekends during the year and according to Steele, would cost an additional $3,000 per year.

Peggy Bacon, a parent was against the idea and was concerned about the extra effort required to send her son to school on Saturday.

“Parents can whine all they want about this, but maybe it’s time parents in America were made to take a little responsibility for their kids,” said resident Bob Farley.

According to Steele this is an effort to reduce in-house suspensions which are now given to students caught smoking inside or outside of Portsmouth High School. 

In-house suspensions do not allow students to make up the class work they missed during that day.

Steele said the new program would mean that that the student would miss no class time. 

Steele also said smoking was the worst problem at Portsmouth High School.

“I just want to keep students from smoking in the high school bathrooms.  There are other problems, but smoking is by far the biggest one,” Steele said.

Bacon offered another point of view. 

“Parents are going to pay for it – in higher taxes as well as in ruined Saturdays,” said Bacon.

Lisa Gallagher, Portsmouth High School senior stood among four of her peers and spoke against the rule. 

“I don’t like this idea.  I think it’s just being done to make like easier for the faculty, so they don’t have to deal with the detentions during the week,” said Gallagher.