When I was in High School, I attended the BOCES program at the Ken-Ton Center and I always remember the kids that were from Grand Island as being thugs and punks.
In today's age I still find it amazing that people are so "shocked" when this kind of violence happens outside the city.
Yes, we have violence in the city. Yet, there is violence in all of the surrounding suburbs, the media just potrays the city as the "evil".
The Town of Amherst has the Allendale Apartment projects in Eggertsville, the Town of Tonawanda has Sheridan-Parkside and the Lincoln Park area, and on...
These kids, and I'm not that old being just 26, but these kids today have no concept of confrontation without violence. I could not imagine shooting someone over a girl, I'd throw a few fists but that's it. Perhaps a few choice phrases and that'd be it.