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Three suspects face psychiatric evaluations

Judge orders pretrial assessments for Taheri-Azar, others.

Updated: Feb. 23, 2008 4:19 AM | Full story

Trial set in attack at school after killing

A May trial date has been set for a former Orange High School student accused of shooting his father to death before heading to his former high school and attempting to execute an attack.

Updated: Oct. 31, 2007 6:17 AM | Full story

Castillo won't be executed

The DA won't seek the death penalty against a teenage shooting suspect.

Updated: May. 24, 2007 2:42 AM | Full story

Castillo computers off limits

Deputies lacked probable cause to seize two computers from the home of a Hillsborough teen accused of shooting his father to death and firing shots at his old high school last year, a judge ruled Monday.

Updated: Apr. 3, 2007 6:41 AM | Full story

Teen could face death penalty

Alvaro Rafael Castillo is charged with killing his father, then trying a Columbine-type attack.

Updated: Dec. 13, 2006 2:52 AM | Full story

Teen indicted in Orange school shooting

An Orange County grand jury Monday indicted the Hillsborough teenager who is accused of killing his father and then opening fire in the Orange High School parking lot.

Updated: Oct. 31, 2006 2:30 AM | Full story

Privacy issue can nullify gun laws

Despite alarming behavior known to law enforcement, mental health professionals and the courts, Alvaro Castillo twice walked into a Mebane gun shop and -- legally -- made purchases.

Updated: Oct. 16, 2006 5:52 AM | Full story

Road to gun ownership

State law puts local sheriffs in charge of issuing permits for handguns and pistols but not shotguns and rifles.

Updated: Oct. 16, 2006 3:10 AM | Full story

School hails two who helped stop gunman

Driver's ed teacher Barry "Russ" LeBlanc and his co-worker, student resource officer Deputy London Ivey, confronted and disarmed a man who shot at Orange High School.

Updated: Sep. 25, 2006 6:26 AM | Full story

Traditional values of journalism guide new media decisions

Sill:On the eve of the Labor Day weekend, I opened my desk drawer to store an unusual possession: the videotaped confession of a 19-year-old accused of murder.

Updated: Sep. 10, 2006 3:30 AM | Full story

Castillo's interests were known

Investigators knew in April that a teenager now accused of killing his father before opening fire outside Orange High School was fascinated with school shootings, according to a high-school acquaintance who received a video from him saying he was going to kill himself.

Updated: Sep. 7, 2006 5:51 AM | Full story

Don't blame films

Guns don't kill people. Arnold Schwarzenegger chasing down a camouflaged alien in the jungle kills people. I sincerely hope you haven't come to this conclusion after hearing about Alvaro Castillo, the 19-year-old who confessed that he killed his father, then fired shots at Orange High School last week.

Updated: Sep. 6, 2006 5:13 AM | Full story

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