In re Billy D. CA4/1

STATEMENT OF FACTS

In February 2012, Billy and Christopher G. (Christopher) were both students at a

La Mesa middle school. The morning of February 24, Christopher talked to Billy, to say

that he was upset because he heard Billy had been saying rude things about him, such as

All further statutory references are to the Penal Code unless otherwise indicated. 2 name calling and criticizing his choice in music. Billy did not seem interested in sorting

things out, as Christopher was requesting.

Later that day, a crowd formed in the boys' gym class while Billy was telling them

that he would use a knife on Christopher if Christopher tried to fight with him, such as if

Christopher used a police baton that he supposedly had. Christopher's friend "Chris" told

him that Billy had a knife in his backpack. Christopher was notified by "some other

students that I didn't know" that Billy was going to try to stab him after school, while

Christopher was on his way home. Christopher·felt worried, defenseless and scared of

being hurt by Billy, so he asked his brother to pick him up from school for the next week

or two, to avoid Billy, and he also changed his walking…