The Brawl

Check out the Lakeland Ledger's Shoshana Walter(thanks, Barbara): LAKELAND -- The knife went in easy, deeper than Tarrod Russell expected.



He pulled it out and ran. Threw the knife, pumped his legs, flew through it all. The screaming kids, the school and the playground, the homes and trees and cars and bicycles.



Thirteen-year-old Kristian Marrero-Cassola staggered toward his home and collapsed on the ground, 10 feet from his apartment door. There was a towel, pressed against the wound. His 10-year-old brother and friends, calling his name.



An hour-and-a-half later, 14-year-old Tarrod was in handcuffs, charged with murder.