WERE LIFE-THREATENING.

LIVE IN TIMES SQUARE, ANDREA

GRYMES, CBS 2 NEWS.

NEW AT NOON, SENTENCING

DAY FOR THE NEW ROCHELLE HIGH

SCHOOL STUDENT WHO STABBED AND

KILLED A CLASSMATE.

THE CRIME SHOCKED THE CITY AND

THE REPERCUSSIONS CONTINUE TO

ROCK THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

CBS 2'S TONY AIELLO IS LIVE

OUTSIDE THE COURTHOUSE IN

WHITE PLAINS WITH MORE.

TONY.

Reporter: JESSICA, THE

JUDGE HONORED THE PLEA DEAL

AND SENTENCED Z'INAH BROWN TO

17 YEARS IN PRISON.

SHE CAME FROM HOMELESSNESS AND

THE JUDGE SAYS NOTHING EXCUSES

HER STALKING AND STABBING TO

DEATH VALAREE SCHWAB IN 2018.

THE KILLER SAID NOTHING AND

SHOWED MOW EMOTION DURING

COMMENTS FROM THE VICTIM'S

SISTER, SHE SHOWED NO EMOTION.

Z'INAH BROWN I HOPE YOU

FIGURE OUT TO BEAR YOUR BURDEN

BECAUSE OURS IS HEAVY EACH

DAY.

Reporter: SHE STABBED 16-

YEAR-OLD VALERIE TO DEATH IN

THE HIGH SCHOOL ON A SCHOOLDAY

DURING AN HOUR LONG OFF CAMPUS

DISPUTE BETWEEN TWO GROUPS OF

STUDENTS.

EARLY ON SCHWAB PEPPER SPRAYED

ON OF BROWN'S FRIENDS.

BROWN STABBED HER TO DEATH.

STANDING NEXT TO THEIR FATHER,

CHRIS, BRITTNEY SCHWAB SPOKE

OF THE FAMILY'S ENDURING PAIN.

YOUR SUDDEN SENSELESS ACT

OF VIOLENCE STOLE HER LIFE

YOUNG AND NONE OF US ARE EVER

UNDERSTAND WHY.

WE NEVER THOUGHT WE WOULD BE

THINKING ABOUT VALERIE AS A

MEMORY BUT TODAY WE DO.

THE JUDGE CALLED BROWN'S

ATTACK ON HER HIGH SCHOOL

CLASSMATE INEXPLICABLE AND

UNFORGIVABLE.

HE SENTENCED HER TO 17 YEARS

IN PRISON.

BROWN'S LAWYER AND FAMILY LEFT

COURT WITHOUT COMMENT.

THE FATAL STABBING WAS ONE OF

A SERIES OF VIOLENT EVENTS

INVOLVING NEW ROCHELLE HIGH

SCHOOL STUDENTS THAT SHOOK THE

COMMUNITY GENERATING DEEP

CONCERNS THAT CONTRIBUTED TO