Jonesboro massacre

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The Jonesboro massacre occurred on Tuesday, March 24, 1998.

Four students and a teacher were killed by two armed middle school boys in Jonesboro, Arkansas.

Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, pulled a school fire alarm and fired into the crowd as people filed out of the Westside Middle School, killing the five girls and women 5 and wounding 10. In August 1998, they were both sentenced to confinement until they reached the age of 21, the maximum under Arkansas law.

Contents 1 Shooters 2 Victims, Deceased 3 See Also 4 External Links 4.1 References

Shooters

• Andrew Golden
• Mitchell Johnson

Victims, Deceased

• Natalie Brooks
• Paige Ann Herring
• Stephanie Johnson
• Brittheny R. Varner
• Shannon Wright (Teacher)

See Also

• School massacres

External Links

• CNN Article about shooting

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Jonesboro_massacre" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonesboro_massacre, used under the GNU Free Documentation License