State officials announced Friday that Bowling Brook Preparatory Academy School will close March 9 in the aftermath of the death of a Baltimore City teenager who lived there.

“We?re charged with protecting and treating our children ? we had no option but to remove the remaining children,” said Donald DeVore, secretary of the Department of Juvenile Services.

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