The Murder of Kayla Rolland - May 12 2022

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

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🗓️ 12 May 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Our New Website: https://morningcupofmurder.com/ May 12th: Kayla Rolland Born (1993) It has become a sad fact that, in the world we currently live in, nowhere seems totally safe. Especially not the schools we send our children to. On May 12th 1993 a young girl was born who would only be given 6 years on this planet before having her life cut tragically short by an incredibly young classmate who seemed to be screaming for help. MERCH IS OUT NOW! https://www.bonfire.com/store/morningcupofmurder/ Join the Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange local true crime story you want to share, or you just want to say hi? Email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer Morning Cup of Murder is Edited and Produced by Dillon Biemesderfer Follow Dillon on instagram: @dungeonsanddillons Information for this episode collected from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Kayla_Rolland, https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2020/02/first-grader-kayla-rolland-was-fatally-shot-at-school-20-years-ago-heres-how-it-happened.html, https://www.mlive.com/news/2020/02/20-years-after-kayla-rolland-the-fatal-first-grade-shooting-that-sparked-a-national-gun-debate.html, https://murderpedia.org/male.O/o/owens-dedrick.htm, https://www.abc12.com/content/news/20-Years-Later-Revisiting-the-Buell-Elementary-School-shooting-568359981.html, https://nbc25news.com/news/local/remembering-kayla-rolland-the-beecher-school-tragedy-20-years-later, http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,40342,00.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There were two more murders, 15 miles away.
0:02.6	When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.
0:06.0	We have a weird homicide.
0:08.8	A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...
0:12.9	It has become a sad fact that, in the world we currently live in, nowhere seems totally safe,
0:20.6	especially not the schools that we send
0:22.5	our children to. On May 12, 1993, a young girl was born who would only be given six years
0:28.5	on this planet before having her life cut tragically short by an incredibly young classmate
0:33.6	who seemed to be screaming for help. So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled,
0:39.4	sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.
0:46.3	On February 29, 2000, a first grade student at Buell Elementary School in Mount Morse Township, Michigan,
0:53.7	just six years old,
0:55.4	walked over to a fellow student, Kayla Rowland, born May 12, 1993, while the teacher lined them
1:01.5	up for a trip to the library. He, without missing a beat, pulled out the 32-calibre semi-automatic
1:07.9	handgun that he had taken to school, and, in the presence of their
1:11.5	teacher and 22 other students, aimed his weapon and shot the six-year-old girl. The last words
1:18.4	Kayla heard before the bullet pierced her arm was the boy telling her, I don't like you. According to a
1:24.9	witness, the young girl stood up and said, I'm going to die before falling to the ground.
1:30.7	The bullet traveled through her arm and into her chest, piercing a vital artery and major organs along the way.
1:38.3	Upon being rushed to the hospital, Kayla entered cardiac arrest and was pronounced dead at 10.29 a.m. At the time of her murder,
1:46.7	she was the youngest victim of a school shooting in the United States, a title that was
1:51.9	maintained until the Sandy Hook shooting 12 years later. During the chaos that immediately followed
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