COURT DOCUMENTS

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Court documents have been released detailing the interactions between accused bullies Ashley Longe, Flannery Mullins and Sharon Chanon Velazquez in the suicide case of student Phoebe Prince.

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Selections from the documents appear below.

Commonwealth v. Sharon Chanon Velazquez

• On Wednesday, January 13, 2010, Mrs. Prince told a confidant that she was accused by other girls at school of "taking away" another girl's (Flannery Mullins's) boyfriend; that she (Ms. Prince) was being targeted by peers and that accusations at school escalated to making threats of harming her. On January 13th, Ms. Prince explained school "has been close to intolerable lately."

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• An initial examination of Ms. Prince's cellular telephone was conducted by investigators who were able to determine that several text messages were exchanged between Ms. Prince and an identified telephone number approximately two (2) hours prior to her death. Investigators subsequently learned, through witness interviews, that Ms. Prince had exchanged text messages with a friend during the afternoon of her death. The texts focused around the verbally abusive incidents Ms. Prince had been subjected to by Sean Mulveyhill, Kayla Narey and Ashley Longe earlier on the date of her death and her despair at the on-going taunting to which she was subjected.

• One incident took place outside a classroom at South Hadley High School A witness stated, in a written statement to investigators, that he "saw Sharon Chanon Velazquez going off on Ms. Prince". He reported that Sharon Chanon Velazquez was calling Ms. Prince a "stupid bitch and other names...". The witness went on to report that he went over to the defendant and asked her to stop yelling at Ms. Prince because he "felt it was the right thing to do when he stopped Ms. Velazquez." The student said that he was "aware that Ms. Prince was called names and targeted by students in the school." In addition, this witness reported that, at another time, as he was leaving class, he heard Flannery Mullins and Sharon Chanon Velazquez talking about Ms. Prince. The witness told investigators that Sharon Chanon Velazquez told Flannery Mullins that she (the defendant) would punch Ms. Prince in the face.

• Investigation revealed that another incident took place in the cafeteria at South Hadley High School approximately one (1) week prior to Ms. Prince's death. A witness to this incident reported that the defendant, approached Ms. Prince while she sat at a lunch table.... During this reported incident, Sharon Chanon Velazquez was observed yelling at Ms. Prince about Flannery Mullins and calling her (Ms. Prince) names. The witness reported that the defendant "was calling Ms. Prince a 'ho' the whole time." She reportedly told Ms. Prince to stay away from Flannery Mullins's "man". As Sharon Chanon Velazquez was leaving the lunch room, she was right near the teachers. The defendant started yelling the "f" word and was still calling Ms. Prince a "ho". Ms. Prince asked the defendant not to call her that. Ms. Prince told the defendant that she (Ms. Prince) was done with her (the defendant) and asked the defendant to leave her alone.

• On that same date, the defendant approached Ms. Prince as she (Ms. Prince) sat alone in a classroom awaiting the start of her Latin Class. According to a written statement... by a faculty member at South Hadley High School, she observed the defendant come into the classroom, prior to its assembly, "with an attitude" and approached Ms. Prince. She reported that the defendant started pointing at Ms. Prince. The witness could not hear what the defendant said to Ms. Prince, but she observed Ms. Prince get visibly upset. Another student came into the classroom and escorted the defendant from the classroom. The witness comforted Ms. Prince as she wept. As the class began to assemble Ms. Prince collected herself. The witness reported the incident to school administrators that same day. The defendant served one day suspension for the incident.

• Another student at South Hadley High School, told investigators that on the day following Ms. Prince's death she heard the defendant talking about "how she (Sharon) wasn't the only person that caused Phoebe's death and that she didn't care that she was dead."

Commonwealth v. Ashley Longe

• Witnesses have reported that Phoebe Prince was in the library with friends on January 14, 2010. Sean Mulveyhill, Kayla Narey and the defendant were in the library at the same time.... According to one student , the defendant "was standing next to another table screaming at [Ms. Prince] from across the library." This student told investigators that he definitely heard the defendant call Ms. Prince an "Irish whore". This student described the defendant as "taunting" Ms. Prince, or saying things to her from across the library, on and off for the five minutes that he and another male student were in the library. The defendant intentionally directed comments toward Ms. Prince, so as to malign, among other things, Ms. Prince's national origin; specifically, Ms. Prince's Irish heritage.... Sean Mulveyhill and Kayla Narey were present throughout these incidents and investigation revealed that they partook, with the defendant, in penning similar derogatory comments about Ms. Prince... on the library sign in sheet...

• A witness reported that, upon leaving school, the defendant left the school parking lot in a friend's car. Ms. Prince had already left school grounds and was walking home on Newton Street, on the same side of the road as the high school. As the vehicle in which the defendant was riding passed Ms. Prince, the defendant took an empty energy drink can, called Monster Drink, that was inside the vehicle and threw it at Ms. Prince. According to the witness, she remembered hearing the can hit the ground, but did not know if it hit Ms. Prince. The witness reported that as the defendant threw the can at Phoebe, that she (the defendant) said something degrading to her like "Whore." The defendant started laughing and reported that Ms. Prince was crying as she walked home.

Commonwealth v. Flannery Mullins

• One witness told investigators that she had spoken with Ms. Prince and learned that the defendant, Flannery Mullins, had told other students that she (the defendant) was going to "beat Phoebe up" and that she (Ms. Prince) "needed to watch out at break after second block..." This witness also stated that, on one occasion, Ms. Prince, went to school administrators because she "was scared and wanted to go home." The witness reported that Ms. Prince returned to class and told her that no action was going to be taking/nothing happened and that "she was still going to get beat up."

• Investigators learned, during this investigation, that on January 7, 2010, Ms. Prince spoke with a school administrator about the defendant's threatened attack. Investigators learned of an incident in physical education class, approximately one week prior to Ms. Prince's death, involving the defendant that had been reported to a school administrator. According to one witness, he heard the defendant talking to other girls before class about how, "she [Ms. Prince] should get her ass kicked." The defendant, herself, later asked the witness, if he heard what she said earlier. The defendant further stated that "freshman Phoebe girl was trying to get with my boyfriend", and that she (the defendant) was "so pissed." Another witness reported to investigators that she learned from Ms. Prince, while in English class, that the defendant threatened to beat her (Ms. Prince) up. According to the witness, she had already heard the information as it was "spreading around fast" at the school and noted that "Phoebe was really upset about it..." The witness told investigators that Ms. Prince told her that "she was not a tough girl" and that she did not want to fight the defendant as she would not know what to do. The witness said that Ms. Prince asked her what she should do and the witness recalled telling Ms. Prince to stay with friends and to avoid the defendant.