One of the teachers of slain schoolboy Lawrence King - the 15-year-old who was shot twice in the head for asking another male student to be his Valentine - has created shock and anger among activists for saying that she 'relates' to King's killer. The claims were made last night in Marta Cunningham's powerful new documentary Valentine Road, which aired on HBO and follows the dual stories of King - a flamboyant African-American with transgender issues, who would wear make-up and dresses - and Brandon McInerney, a 14-year-old from a troubled white home with a budding interest in no-Nazism. The day after King asked McInery to be his Valentine, McInery walked into their school in Oxnard, a small farming town in California, loaded with a pistol and murdered King in a computer lab.
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Lawrence King, known as Larry, was 15 when he was shot twice in the head at school by Brandon McInery, 14, who King asked to be his Valentine
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Emotional new documentary tells the story of how a small town rallied behind McInery, naming him the victim
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Teacher Shirley Brown, one of King's confidante's, says she 'could see herself in the same position'
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Juror says McInery was solving a 'terrible problem' because King was a cross-dresser
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