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STLCC Meramec Student Attack Suspect Has Previous Knife Incident

The teen charged with trying to choke a female student at the St. Louis Community College in Kirkwood earlier this year, reportedly held a knife to a middle school teacher's throat years earlier.

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According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jevon Mallory, the suspect charged with attacking a female student at St. Louis Community College at Meramec in April, was involved in a knife attack at a middle school five years earlier.

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As previously reported by Patch, the student from Chesterfield was inside a restroom in the Communications North building on the Kirkwood campus when police say Mallory came up behind her, grabbed her around her neck and pulled her to the floor.

The Post-Dispatch now reports that Mallory, held an 8-inch butcher knife to a teacher’s throat in the lunchroom at Ritenour Middle School just two weeks before of his 14th birthday, 

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