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Hanging noose at Md. school leads to hate crime charges

WASHINGTON — The two young men previously charged with sneaking onto the roof of have now been charged with hate crimes.

Charles Prout, 19 and John Havermann, 19, trespassing, disorderly conduct and disturbing school operations.

Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney Wes Adams has now added two misdemeanor hate counts to each suspect’s charges.

Earlier, police had told ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½ that no note was left at the scene, as they investigated a

In a statement, Adams said the hate crime counts were added “after evaluating the sufficiency of the underlying evidence regarding the noose.”

On May 11, a teacher spotted the noose, which was immediately taken down by a custodian.

Neal Augenstein

Neal Augenstein has been a general assignment reporter with ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½ since 1997. He says he looks forward to coming to work every day, even though that means waking up at 3:30 a.m.

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