Teens and Workplace Violence

On February 16, 2004 18 year old Cristian Ribeiro Giambrone, who would have graduated from Boston Latin Academy in 2004, was killed by a shoplifter at a CVS in Boston. Cristian took a fatal stab wound to the neck when he and his boss pursued the robber in a chase. Cristian's boss was also stabbed and suffered a non-fatal wound.

Homicide is one of the leading causes of work-related deaths in the country. In Massachusetts homicide was the third leading cause of occupational fatalities between 1991 and 1999.

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