LYLE, MINN.-Professor Menzo Francis, superintendent of the Lyle schools, was attacked by several of his pupils. He received no serious injuries but was cut and scratched on the face. Effie Johnson, the alleged ringleader of the children, is under arrest.

Lyle boy who killed teacher is paroled

By Conrad deFiebre
Southern Minnesota Correspondent

A boy convicted of the premeditated murder of his eighth-grade math teacher three years ago in Lyle, Minn., has been paroled from the Red Wing juvenile detention center.

The boy, now 17, is living with his parents elsewhere in Minnesota and attending college after earning his high school diploma a year early, a corrections official said Thursday.

Austin/Appeal of boy, 14, who killed teacher is delayed by late transcript

The appeal for a 14-year-old boy found delinquent in the shooting death of Lyle teacher Sharon Turnbull has been delayed.

The boy's attorney, Bruce Hanley, said he requested a continuance of the appeal hearing scheduled Tuesday because of a delay in receiving the trail transcript.

He said his brief is now due Oct. 1, after which the state will submit its response.

Turnbull, 33, was shot through a screen as she was sitting in the living room of her home Aug. 6, 1982.

14-year-old boy convicted in death of Lyle teacher

By Bill McAuliffe
Southern Minnesota Correspondent

Austin, Minn.
A 14-year-old boy was convicted Monday in the killing of Sharon Turnbull, the Lyle, Minn., school teacher who was shot to death as she sat in her living room watching television.

Olmsted County Judge Harold Krieger, who decided the matter without a jury, said the Lyle boy's confession was the most significant piece of evidence in the case.

Judge postpones verdict in Turnbull murder case

Announcement of a verdict in the murder case of Lyle, Minn., schoolteacher Sharon Turnbull has been postponed because of heavy snow in Southern Minnesota Wednesday.

Olmsted County Judge Harold Krieger was scheduled to announce his finding in the juvenile hearing today at the Mower County Courthouse in Austin, but the proceeding was delayed until 11 a.m. Monday.

Closing arguments presented in trial of boy accused of killing Lyle teacher

By Bill McAuliffe
Southern Minnesota Correspondent

Austin, Minn.
The attorney for the 14-year-old boy accused in the August shooting death of a Lyle, Minn., schoolteacher asked Wednesday for "a mandate that the perpetrator of this crime be found."

But the prosecutor argued that the boy was guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of 33-year-old Sharon Turnbull and urged the judge to find him delinquent.

Witness says other youth vowed to kill Turnbull

By Bill McAuliffe
Southern Minnesota Correspondent

Austin, Minn.
A schoolmate of the Lyle youth whose confession to the killing of schoolteacher Sharon Turnbull was rejected by investigators testified Tuesday that the youth had vowed last January to kill the teacher.

The witness was the last to be called by the defense in the murder hearing for a 14-year-old boy accused of killing Turnbull. Final arguments were scheduled this morning at Mower County Courthouse.

Parents of accused Lyle boy allege police manipulation

By Bill McAuliffe
Southern Minnesota Correspondent

Austin, Minn.
The parents of the 14-year-old Lyle, Minn., boy accused of killing a teacher testified Monday that investigators manipulated them into convincing their son to confess to the crime.

The parents testified after the defense began presenting its case as the murder hearing entered its second week at the Mower County Courthouse.

Sheriff describes youth's confession in Lyle teacher's death

By Bill McAuliffe
Southern Minnesota Correspondent

Austin, Minn.
A 14-year-old Lyle boy told authorities he shot Sharon Turnbull and then blacked out, according to testimony Thursday in the boy's murder hearing.

The confession, described in court by Mower County Sheriff Wayne Goodnature, was the second obtained by law-enforcement officials on Aug. 12, six days after the teacher was killed.

Another Lyle youth confessed to slaying

By Bill McAuliffe
Southern Minnesota Correspondent

Austin, Minn.
The 14-year-old charged in the shooting death of Lyle, Minn., school teacher Sharon Turnbull was not the first to confess to the crime, according to testimony in the youth's murder hearing Wednesday.

Mistrial denied in teacher's slaying

By Bill McAuliffe
Southern Minnesota Correspondent

Austin, Minn.
The murder hearing for a 14-year-old youth accessed in the shooting death of Lyle, Minn., schoolteacher Sharon Turnbull was recessed for a day Tuesday after a defense motion to declare a mistrial was denied.

Authorities didn't know teacher shot until 12 hours later

By Bill McAuliffe
Southern Minnesota Correspondent

Austin, Minn.
Investigators did not discover that Sharon Turnbull had been shot to death until 12 hours after neighbors found her body, testimony revealed Monday.

The testimony came during the first day of the first-degree-murder trial of a 14-year-old youth charged with shooting her in her home in Lyle, Minn., in August.

Turnbull, 31, a teacher, was shot while sitting on her living room floor, sewing and watching television.

Judge postpones trial of boy accused in teacher's death

Associated Press

Austin, Minn.
The trial of a 14-year-old boy charged in the shooting death of Lyle, Minn., teacher Sharon Turnbull has been postponed until Dec. 20.

The trial was to have begun Dec. 13 in Austin juvenile court, but Judge Harold Krieger rescheduled it because of late briefs filed by attorneys. The boy was a pupil of the 33-year-old teacher, who was shot in her house last August.

Dec. 13 trial set in teacher's death
Associated Press

Austin, Minn.
A 14-year-old boy accused in the shooting death of a Lyle, Minn., teacher, will go on trial Dec. 13 in Mower County District Court in Austin.

The boy will stand trial as a juvenile. Juvenile court proceedings normally are closed to the public, but Judge Harold Krieger ruled last week that the news media would be allowed to cover the trial, under certain restrictions.

Lyle boy's slaying trial to be open to media

By Staff Writer

The juvenile court trial of a Lyle, Minn., boy accused of killing his former teacher will be open to the press, Judge Harold G. Krieger of Rochester said Tuesday.

Krieger said news media representatives must agree not to disclose the boy's name, physical characteristics, relatives, addresses, family history or any other fact that could directly or indirectly identify him or his family. The judge also warned that photographs, tape recordings and sketches are not be made during the trial.

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Six months after slaying of teacher, life in Lyle goes on

By Bill McAuliffe
Southern Minnesota Correspondent

Lyle, Minn.
Lyle was busy Friday afternoon.

ARKANSAS WOMAN, 80, BAGS STATE BANDED DUCK

An Arkansas woman, duck hunting on her 80th birthday, shot a mallard duck banded by Lyle, Minn., Future Farmers of America.

Mrs. Beullah Wallace of Gillette, Ark., shot the drake Jan. 8 on her 80th birthday. The duck had been banded by Dennis Helgeson, a Lyle High School junior last summer.

Helgeson received the bird as a day-old mallard in the state FFA banding program. He reared the breed for seven weeks before they were placed in a Mower County slough.

Killed in Action-Army Specialist 5 Roy F. Maas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Maas, Lyle, Minn., was killed in Vietnam April 18, one day after his 22nd birthday anniversary.

Maas, a 1966 graduate of Lyle High School, entered the service in July 1966 and had been in Vietnam since Dec. 1, 1968.

GI From Lyle
Is Vietnam
War Casualty

Army Specialist 5 Roy F. Maas, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Maas, Lyle, Minn., was killed in action in Vietnam Friday, according to the Defense Department.

Maas was a gunner in a tank that was a hit by enemy fire, his parents were informed. He had been in Vietnam since Dec. 1, 1968.

He was graduated from Lyle High School in 1966 and both he and his brother, Lyle, 23, enlisted July 28, 1966. They took their basic training together and also were together at mechanics school in Maryland before being separated.

SP5 Roy Mass
of Lyle killed in
Vietnam action

A 22-year-old Lyle, Minn., soldier was killed in Vietnam Friday, the Defense Department reported Tuesday.

He was identified as Army Specialist 5 Roy F. Maas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Maas of Lyle.

He had observed his 22nd birthday the day before he was killed in action.

A 1966 graduate of Lyle High School, he entered the service in July of that year and had been in Vietnam since Dec. 1, 1968.