By Jane Prendergast
The Cincinnati Enquirer

NORTH COLLEGE HILL - Six counselors and psychologists met at North College Hill High School Thursday morning to help students who wanted to talk about a student shot and killed this week.

School officials made the grief plan Wednesday after learning that Dionta Lamar Brown, 16, was fatally shot in the face Tuesday.

Superintendent Gary Gellert said the school called all the district's counselors together to make sure there were enough in case students were upset about the sophomore's slaying.

Brown is the youngest homicide victim in Cincinnati since September 2003, when 7-year-old Javontay Williams was accidentally shot by an 8-year-old friend.

Excluding three children police say were shaken to death in 2003, the next-youngest homicide victim before Brown was Arick Hudson, 16. Hudson was shot to death by a 13-year-old boy in February 2003 on Beekman Street.Authorities have not arrested anyone in Brown's death. Police said he was shot in an apartment in the 1600 block of Summit Road, Roselawn. A woman alerted police to the shooting when she went to the District 4 police station and told them someone in her apartment might be dead.

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