THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, March 14, 1995 TAG: 9503140344
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B9 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: PORTSMOUTH LENGTH: Short : 30 lines
Shaun Woodhouse, the 17-year-old accused of stabbing a fellow student on a Churchland High School bus, pleaded guilty to that crime Monday.
Woodhouse faces up to 20 years in prison for the malicious wounding that sent Terrance Taylor, 18, to the hospital for a week with a punctured lung.
Woodhouse will be sentenced May 18.
On Nov. 21, 1994, Taylor boarded his school bus in the 6200 block of Dunkirk St. about 7 a.m. and was making his way down the aisle when Woodhouse's younger brother punched Taylor in the face and wrestled him into a headlock. Shaun Woodhouse then stabbed Taylor.
Taylor has said he exchanged no words with the brothers that day but had seen two earlier incidents involving them - one in which friends of his robbed Shaun Woodhouse and another in which they beat up Woodhouse's younger brother.
Woodhouse's younger brother was committed to the Department of Youth and Family Services for an indefinite time for his part in the attack.
KEYWORDS: STABBING ASSAULT INJURIES ARREST
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