A journalist tries to uncover the circumstances that led to a shocking episode of violence in this drama from director James Bruce. Leonard Grey (Brett Davern) was a troubled seventeen-year-old who one day went on a shooting spree, injuring several students at his high school and killing one before he took his own life. A reporter for the Los Angeles Times is assigned to research and write an investigative piece about Grey. The journalist studies interviews conducted by the police with the boy's friends and family as well as conducting several of her own as she tries to understand what turned a seemingly ordinary youngster into a killer. She finds an especially intriguing subject in Cameron Porter (Evan Ross), Leonard's best friend, who may have been involved in the shootings through he carefully refuses to incriminate himself. Also featuring Melora Walters and Harold Perrineau, Case 219 was based on the novel Shooter by Walter Dean Myers, and was an award winner at the 2010 Honolulu Film Festival.
by Mark Deming
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