May 7, 1997 A Long Island teen-ager was charged with two counts of attempted murder yesterday after he stabbed a classmate in the chest at Smithtown High School while shouting, ”I hate Jews,” the police said.
Gregory Rohr, 16, of Saint James, N.Y., was arrested at the school yesterday at about 9:15 A.M., after he knifed a 15-year-old classmate with whom he had had a previous dispute, Detective Sgt. Joseph Zito, the commanding officer of the Suffolk County Police Bias Crimes Bureau, said in a statement.
The victim, whom the police did not identify because of his age, was in satisfactory condition after receiving eight stitches to close the wound in his upper right chest, the police said.
Mr. Rohr was initially charged with assault and aggravated harassment, but the charges were increased to attempted murder last night after a police investigation revealed that he had intended to kill his victim and that he had attacked the same student on Monday in the school library, the police said.
”On May 5, 1997, Rohr attempted to blow up the same victim in the school library using a homemade Molotov cocktail-type device,” Detective Sgt. William Anderson of 4th Squad Detectives said in a statement released last night. Mr. Rohr is to be arraigned today in First District Court in Central Islip.
”The two students knew one another and there was some level of animosity between them,” the original police statement said. The police would not reveal the subject of the dispute between the students.
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