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Philip Kinkel 30 August 1982 (age 29) Springfield, Oregon United States 111 years in prison, without the possibility of parole Killings Date Location(s) Killed Injured Weapon(s) 20 21 May 1998 Springfield, Oregon United States 4 24[1] 9 mm Glock 19 pistol, sawn-off .22LR Ruger 10/22 rifle, .22LR Ruger MK II pistol

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Kipland Philip "Kip" Kinkel (born August 30, 1982) is an American spree killer. In May 1998, at the age of 15, he murdered his parents and engaged in a school shooting at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon that left two students dead and 22 others wounded.[1] He is serving a 111-year sentence, without the possibility of parole. [edit] Background Kinkel was born in Springfield, Oregon to William Kinkel and Faith Zuranski. He has an older sister, Kristin. His parents were both Spanish teachers. Faith Kinkel taught Spanish at Springfield High School, and Bill Kinkel taught at Lane Community College. The Kinkel family spent a sabbatical year in Spain when Kip was six, where he attended a non-English-speaking school. His family said that he struggled with the curriculum.[1] When Kinkel returned to Oregon, he attended Walterville Elementary School in Springfield. His teachers considered him immature and lacking physical and emotional development. Based on the recommendation of his teachers, [1] Kinkel's parents had him repeat the first grade. In the fourth grade, he was diagnosed with dyslexia and was placed in extensive special education classes. Kinkel had an interest in firearms and explosives from an early age. His father first denied this, and later enrolled him at gun safety courses, buying him a .22 caliber Long rifle and eventually a 9mm Glock handgun when Kip was 15. According to Kinkel, his [1] psychologist, Jeffrey Hicks, told Bill Kinkel to "let Kip have the guns, for it will be a good outlet." Events leading to shooting Expulsion On May 20, 1998, Kinkel was suspended pending an expulsion hearing from Thurston High School for being in possession of a loaded, stolen handgun. A friend, Korey Ewert, had stolen a pistol from Scott Keeney, the father of one of his friends, and arranged to sell the weapon to Kinkel the night before. Kinkel paid $110 for the Beretta .32 pistol loaded with a 9-round magazine, which he then placed in a paper bag and left in his locker. When Scott Keeney discovered he was missing a handgun, he reported it to the police and supplied the names of students he believed might have stolen the firearm. Kinkel's name was not on the list. The school became aware of his possible involvement and questioned him. When he was checked for weapons, he reportedly stated: "Look, I'm

gonna be square with you guys; the gun's in my locker." Kinkel was suspended pending an expulsion hearing from Thurston High School, and he and Ewert were arrested. Kinkel was released from police custody and driven home by his father. Murder of parents At home that afternoon, Bill Kinkel told Kip he would be sent to boarding school if he did not begin to cooperate. At 3:30 p.m., Kinkel retrieved his locked-up Sturm, Ruger rifle from his parents' bedroom, loaded it, and went to the kitchen, where he shot his father in the back of the head. He waited for his mother to come home. About 6:00 p.m., as she walked up the stairs from the garage, Kinkel told her that he loved her and shot her twice in the back of the head, three times in the face, and once in the heart. He later claimed he wanted to protect his parents from the embarrassment that his expulsion would have caused them.[2] Kinkel dragged his mother's body from the bottom of the stairs into the garage and dragged his father into the bathroom, where he locked the door. He placed a white sheet over each of the bodies. During the night, he also played the song "Liebestod" from the volume 2 soundtrack of Romeo + Juliet repeatedly. It was still playing when the police arrived at the residence[citation needed]. The shooting at Thurston High School On May 21, Kinkel drove his mother's Ford Explorer to the high school. He wore a trench coat to hide the five weapons he carried: 2 hunting knives, a 9 mm Glock 19 pistol, a Ruger .22 semi-automatic rifle, and a Ruger .22 pistol. He was carrying 1,127 rounds of ammunition.[3] He parked on North 61st Street, two blocks from the school, then walked to campus, entered the patio area and fired two shots, one fatally wounding Ben Walker and the other wounding Ryan Atteberry. Kinkel went to the cafeteria and, walking across it, fired the remaining 48 rounds from his rifle, wounding 24 students[4] and killing 16-year-old Mikael Nicholauson. Kinkel fired a total of 50 [3] rounds, accumulating 37 hits, and two fatalities. When Kinkel's rifle ran out of ammunition and he began to reload, wounded student Jacob Ryker tackled him, assisted by several other students. Kinkel drew the Glock and fired one shot before he was disarmed, injuring Ryker again as well as another student. The students restrained Kinkel until the police arrived and arrested him.[5] A total of seven students were involved in subduing and [6] disarming Kinkel. Nicholauson died at the scene; Walker died after being transported to the hospital and kept on life support until his parents arrived. The other students, including Ryker, were also taken to the hospital with a variety of wounds. Ryker had a perforated lung, but he made a full recovery. Trial and imprisonment At the police station, Kinkel lunged at officer Al Warthen with his knife, screaming, "Shoot me, kill me!" The officer repelled Kinkel with pepper spray. Kinkel later said that he wanted to trick the officer into shooting him, and that he had wanted to commit suicide after killing his parents but could not bring himself to do so. At his sentencing, the defense presented experts on mental health to show that the assailant was mentally ill. Jeffrey Hicks, the only psychologist who had treated Kinkel before the shootings, said that he was in satisfactory mental health. He had seen Kinkel for nine sessions, after which the boy's parents terminated the therapy. On September 24, 1999, three days before jury selection was set to begin, Kinkel pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder, foregoing the possibility of being acquitted by reason of insanity. In November 1999, Kinkel was sentenced to 111 years in prison without the possibility of parole. At sentencing, Kinkel apologized to the court for the murder of his parents and the shooting [7] spree. Appeal attempts

In June 2007, Kinkel sought a new trial. He said that his previous attorneys should have taken the case to trial and used the insanity defense. Two psychiatrists testified that Kinkel exhibited signs of paranoid schizophrenia at the time of the shooting.[8] In August 2007, a Marion County judge denied him a new trial. Kinkel appealed, arguing among other things that he had had ineffective assistance of counsel during the trial proceedings. On January 12, 2011, the Oregon Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court judgment denying his motion for a new trial. Kinkel v. Lawhead, http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/A137866.htm (Or App, Jan. 12, 2011). Kinkel is incarcerated at the Oregon State Correctional Institution in Salem, Oregon. He received his GED while serving a portion of his life sentence at MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility in Woodburn, Oregon. On June 11, 2007, Kinkel, nearing his 25th birthday (maximum age to be held as a juvenile in Oregon), was transferred from the Oregon Youth Authority, MacLaren Correctional Facility, to the Oregon State Correctional Institution, Oregon Department of Corrections.[9] The Heritage High School shooting occurred May 20, 1999, at Heritage High School located in Conyers, Georgia. The gunman was 15-year-old, high school sophomore, Thomas Solomon, Jr. He shot six students in the school's common area before getting subdued. This shooting occurred one month after the Columbine High School massacre in Littleton, Colorado. Following the Columbine shooting, staff members sent a notice to the parents of the students at Heritage High stating that an attack of that magnitude was considered impossible at Heritage. The shooting

Shooting victims

1. Brian Barnhardt, age 16

2. Stephanie Laster, age 15

3. Jason Cheek, age 17

4. Cania Collins, age 15

5. Drake Hoy, age 18

6. Ryan Rosa, age 18

On the day of the shooting, Thomas Solomon stole a .22 caliber long rifle and a .357 caliber revolver from his stepfather's firearm cabinet. He concealed the rifle in the pant-leg of his baggy jeans and concealed the handgun in his backpack. Solomon arrived at Heritage High around 7:55 a.m. by school bus; the incident began at 8:03 a.m. Solomon entered the common area, brandished his rifle, and began indiscriminately firing at students, wounding six. While leaving through an exit door, he dropped the rifle and

extracted the handgun from his pack. Once outside, he placed the barrel of the handgun in his mouth in a suicidal gesture. needed] [citation needed] Before he fired the weapon, assistant principal Cecil Brinkley dissuaded Solomon from committing suicide.

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Six students were wounded during the shooting. One, 15-year-old Stephanie Laster, was in severe condition and underwent surgery at Grady Memorial Hospital after a bullet entered her hip and passed through her intestines. The remaining five, four boys and one girl, had far less serious wounds. Solomon was arrested and placed on suicide watch at a juvenile reformatory. The incident was jointly investigated by the GBI and the Rockdale County Sheriff's Office with assistance from other State and Federal agencies. Trial When the police searched Solomon's room, they discovered he had carefully planned the shooting.[citation needed] A note found under his bed made reference to the Columbine massacre and the Trench Coat Mafia, along with three pages of bomb recipes.[citation needed] [citation needed] The note read, "One big question I leave behind for you to find is why." The note was read by GBI Agent Gary Nicholson [citation needed] The note also read, "...but for the sake of my brothers and sisters during a juvenile court hearing for Thomas Solomon. related to the Trench Coat Mafia, those answers will have to remain out of the public eye."[citation needed] The backside of the note read, "I am laughing at the victims who are getting down on their knees screaming, Please, dear God, please don t let this crooked fuck murder me. "[citation needed] Teeunia Stroud, who ate lunch with Solomon everyday testified that he had brought bomb-making instructions to school after the Columbine massacre.[citation needed] Stroud stated, "He said that the kids at Columbine were aiming at certain people, and that slowed them down. He said that if he ever shot up Heritage High, he would shoot everybody and not aim. He [citation needed] said he would even shoot me, but I didn t pay any attention to him." Eddy Regnier, who taught psychiatry at Harvard University, and was hired by defense attorneys to examine Solomon, said needed] "He heard voices telling him to do Solomon had suicidal thoughts and was believed to hear voices giving him commands.[citation [citation needed] strange things, but they were robotic voices, not human voices", said Dr. Regnier. "On the one side is this really nice guy, but on the other side is a kid harboring angry feelings, who had made two suicide attempts, who spent his time thinking of death. needed] Solomon talked about shooting He s bringing guns to school. He s talking to friends, and what are they talking about?"[citation people at school and showed off the guns his stepfather kept in his basement. Thomas Solomon faced 10 charges against him: six counts of aggravated assault, two counts of possession of a firearm on school property, and two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm. Aug. 11, 1999, the judge ruled that Solomon was to be tried as an adult. On Oct. 2, 2000, T.J. Solomon entered two pleas of guilty but mentally ill. On Nov. 9, 2000, Solomon was sentenced to 40 years in prison and 65 years of probation. Solomon's attorney, Ed Garland said "I'm very sad; I'm very disappointed T.J. will not be provided treatment for his mental illness,"[ after the sentence was announced. Motives One possible motive for the shooting was the separation from his girlfriend. Some of Solomon's friends spoke of his resentment of Jason Cheek, a popular boy two years older who was advanced in three sports. Cheek had teased Solomon, they said, but it was unclear if Cheek was a primary target. Cheek, who was shot twice in the leg denied taunting Solomon. "He really picked on T.J. just because T.J. was so quiet", says another friend of Solomon's. "You know, like being quiet made him weird in the eyes of that little clique of theirs." Solomon took the teasing hard, and even though he had friends, he seemed to become convinced that he was destined to be the campus pariah, "and that idea kept building inside him until he picked up a gun", says Stacey Singleton. To make matters worse, the kids say, Solomon believed his girlfriend had recently turned her charms on Jason, of all people. T.J. and the girl had bickered recently, and he thought the relationship had ended. Her friends say she denies they had broken up. Solomon had become increasingly uninterested in school, and the day before the shootings, he got in a fiery argument with two classmates during fourth-period study hall; it ended when Solomon said he would "blow up this classroom". That same day, T.J. told one of his friends he had no reason to live. Aftermath On January 30, 2001, T.J Solomon, was found unconscious in his jail cell at Arrendal State Prison. He had passed out after taking an antidepressant called Elavil, which was not prescribed to him. Drug experts say Elavil is sometimes taken recreationally by people who hope it will enhance their mood. Randall Tackett, a pharmacy professor at the University of Georgia, said the drug might have reacted with another medication Solomon might have been taking. The police treated it as an attempted suicide. On August 17, 2001, Solomon's sentence was commuted to 20 years. He remains on suicide watch at Arrendal. He will be eligible for parole in 2017, when he is 33 years old.
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Charles Andrew "Andy" Williams (born February 8, 1986) is an American who, as a teenager perpetrated the shooting at Santana High School on March 5, 2001. In the shooting two students were killed and thirteen others were wounded. Williams is currently serving life in prison without the possibility of parole for 50 years.

Early years Williams was born at Frederick Memorial Hospital in Frederick, Maryland to Charles Jeffery and Linda Williams. He was born about two weeks premature and was delivered by Caesarean section. His brother Michael was born in 1981. He lived with his parents and brother in an apartment in Frederick the first eight months of his life, before moving to the Fort Detrick area. His mother was a soldier in the United States Army, and was stationed at the Army Medical Research & Material Command Center in Fort Detrick before being assigned to the Middle East in June 1989. Andy's parents separated that Christmas and divorced in 1990. Williams was raised by his father and his brother was raised by their mother. He seldom saw his mother after the separation. Williams later moved with his father to Hagerstown in 1991, before returning to Frederick one year later. He attended Brunswick public schools, including Brunswick Middle School. In August 1999, Charles' father wanted a change of scenery and moved with his son to Twentynine Palms, California. Charles lived near his paternal grandparents in Twentynine Palms, before he would settle in Santee, California the following summer. In February 2001, less than one week before his 15th birthday, Williams had learned that one of his best friends from Twentynine Palms was killed in a bus accident. High school Williams attended Santana High School in Santee, where he was bullied by fellow students.[1] He began to spend time with a crowd of skateboarders. Williams was accepted within this peer group; however, at times these individuals also bullied him. Williams spoke on two occasions of his plan to "commit a Columbine" at Santana High School, but no reports were ever made of these threats to the school.[2] The first occasion was a week before the shooting, the second during the weekend prior to March 5. Before the shooting, Williams had two skateboards stolen from him. He took his father's Arminius .22 caliber revolver from the locked gun cabinet in their apartment.[3] After his arrest, he told investigators that he was "tired of being bullied." On the way to juvenile hall, Williams said that he did it because he was dared to by his friends. The shooting On Monday, March 5, 2001 at 9:20 a.m., Williams entered a boys' bathroom at Santana High School and fatally shot a freshman. He then left the bathroom and began firing the revolver indiscriminately at other students, killing another. According to one witness, Williams repeatedly walked out of the bathroom, fired shots, then went back into the bathroom. The scene soon turned chaotic as students and teachers ducked or scrambled to safety. Williams reloaded his revolver at least once. A student teacher and campus security supervisor Peter Ruiz walked into the bathroom to try to stop Williams, but Williams aimed the revolver at Ruiz shooting him five times. As the student and supervisor walked out, Williams fired and hit Ruiz in the back. Two off-duty police officers who were visiting the school were alerted to the shooting; however, they were at different ends of the school. One of them approached the bathroom and called for backup. Police officers quickly arrived and charged the bathroom; they discovered Williams kneeling on the floor with the weapon in his hands. He told officers that he was by himself.[4] Williams surrendered and was taken into custody. The two students that were killed were 14-year-old Bryan Zuckor and 17-year-old Randy Gordon.[5] Eleven students and two school supervisors suffered gunshot wounds and were treated at either University of California, San Diego Medical Center or Children's Hospital. The San Diego SWAT team was called to "assess and clear" the scene of the shooting.[1]

Linkin Park Following the shooting, friends of Williams said on NBC's Today that Williams was a huge fan of the rock band Linkin Park. The Today host then read the lyrics "'Cause I'm one step closer to the edge, and I'm about to break" from "One Step Closer", one of Williams's favorite tracks on the band's album Hybrid Theory. (Also, in a note to his father attempting to explain his actions, Williams wrote, "I tried so hard and got so far, but in the end, it doesn't even matter," from the song "In the End.")[6] The supposed connection between the shooting spree and Linkin Park was subsequently widely reported in the media. In an official statement, Linkin Park stated that "Like everybody else, we are extremely saddened by these events and our hearts go out to the families and friends of the victims". They denied responsibility, commenting that the type of music a murderer listens to has no relation to the reasoning behind his actions. "You might as well say, it's because he ate mayonnaise that day", frontman Chester Bennington commented. Bennington also stated that "There's not enough attention paid to the problems of sensitive young men in our society."[7] Imprisonment On June 20, 2002, Williams pleaded guilty to all charges against him in an effort to avoid trial.[8] On August 15, 2002, a California judge sentenced Williams, as an adult, to 50-years to life in prison, and ordered him to serve his time in the Youth Offender Program at CCI, Tehachapi (since closed) until his 18th birthday, at which time he would be transferred to adult prison. Williams was given credit for the 529 days that he had served in juvenile hall, fined $10,000.00 and ordered to pay restitution to the Victims Restitution Fund. At his sentencing, Williams apologized and expressed remorse for his actions. On March 1, 2004, he was transferred to an adult prison. Currently there are grass-root efforts to have Williams' sentence reduced. His supporters argue that the judge was too harsh in sentencing Williams as an adult and did not take into consideration Williams' age at the time of his offense. They would like to see Williams get a retrial, but as a juvenile, which would have meant confinement by the California Youth Authority until age 25. The California State Attorney General's office handled a total of six appeals filed by Williams supporters, four to the Court of Appeals and two to the California State Supreme Court. The district court denied his petition in September 2010 and the case is now on appeal to the 9th Circuit, according to the California Attorney General's Office.[9] Williams is currently incarcerated at Ironwood State Prison in Blythe, a 640-acre facility with some 3,895 inmates, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Web site.[9] (NOTA BENE: there is conflicting data at "Rehabilitation Website" as to current incarceration location: one datum shows Calipatria age 24 - admission date of 2006; another shows Ironwood - age 25 - admission date of 2002)[10]. He will be eligible for parole in 2052. He will be 66 then.
The Pearl High School shooting was a school shooting that took place on October 1, 1997 at Pearl High School in Pearl, Mississippi. The gunman, 16-year-old Luke Woodham (born February 5, 1981), killed two students and injured seven others at his high school. Before the shooting at Pearl High School began, Woodham stabbed and bludgeoned his mother to death in his home. [edit] Details The incident began on the morning of October 1, 1997 when Luke Woodham fatally stabbed and bludgeoned his sleeping mother, Mary Woodham. At his trial, Woodham claimed that he could not remember killing his mother. Woodham drove his mother's car to Pearl High School. Wearing an orange jumpsuit and a trenchcoat,[1] he made no attempt to hide his rifle. When he entered the school, he fatally shot Lydia Kaye Dew and Christina Menefee, his former girlfriend. Pearl High School assistant band director, Jeff Cannon, was standing five feet away from Dew when she was fatally shot. Woodham went on to wound seven others before leaving, intending to drive off campus and conduct another shooting at the nearby Pearl Junior High School. However, assistant principal Joel Myrick had retrieved a .45 pistol from the glove compartment of his truck and subdued Woodham inside his mother's car. Then Myrick demanded "Why did you shoot my kids?" to which Woodham replied, "Life has wronged me, [2] sir."

Minutes before he started the shooting, he gave the following message to a friend : I am not insane, I am angry. I killed because people like me are mistreated every day. I did this to show society, push us and we will push back. ... All throughout my life, I was ridiculed, always beaten, always hated. Can you, society, truly blame me for what I do? Yes, you will. ... It was not a cry for attention, it was not a cry for help. It was a scream in sheer agony saying that if you can't pry your eyes open, if I can't do it through pacifism, if I can't show you through the displaying of intelligence, then I will do it with a bullet.

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[edit] Religious involvement On October 8, 1997 Grant Boyette, Delbert Shaw, Donald Brooks, Wesley Brownell, Daniel Thompson and Justin Sledge were arrested in suspicion of conspiring with Woodham to commit the shooting. During his trial, Woodham claimed to have gotten ideas of committing the murders by being involved with a Satanic cult. Woodham admitted to being a Satanist, and claimed that his friend Grant Boyette invited Woodham to join a Satanic group known as "The Kroth." He claimed that Boyette told him that he had "potential to do something great." Woodham said that Boyette promised him that he could get his ex-girlfriend back or get even through black magic.[4] After his conviction Woodham converted to Christianity, and said the following in a letter[5] written to evangelical minister David Wilkerson: David, I receive your sermons through the mail. I am one of the school shooters. I m the one they blame for starting it all off. On October 1, 1997, I went into Pearl High School and killed two students and wounded seven. I also killed my mother before this. After I came to jail I got saved. If there is any way that I can help your ministry, I would love to. Maybe I could give you my testimony. I ll do anything to help. I look forward to your sermons each month There were separate trials for the murder of Woodham's mother and the school shooting. Woodham's lawyer argued at both trials that Woodham was insane at the time of the killings. Jurors rejected Woodham's insanity defense at his first trial for the murder of his mother, and he was sentenced to life in prison on June 5, 1998. His second trial took place on June 12, and he was found guilty of two counts of murder and seven counts of attempted murder, with the jurors once again rejecting the insanity defense. He was given two life sentences for the murders and seven 20-year sentences for his attempted murder convictions.[6] He is currently serving three life terms plus an additional 140 years in prison. He will be eligible for parole in 2046, when he is 65 years old. Conspiracy charges were filed against Delbert Shaw, Donald Brooks, Wesley Brownell, Daniel Thompson, Grant Boyette and Justin Sledge, accusing them of taking part in a conspiracy to assist Woodham in the murders. However, the charges against Shaw, Brooks, and Brownell were dropped by Judge Robert Goza "at the request of District Attorney John Kitchens, who said Mississippi's conspiracy law would make proving the accusations difficult."[7] The case of Daniel Thompson was transferred to youth court [7] because he was 15 years old at the time. Less than three days after his last conviction,[8] Woodham was removed from the Forrest County Jail in Hattiesburg.[9] On June 15, 1998,[10] Woodham entered the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) system in the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility (CMCF) in Rankin County.[8] While at CMCF Woodham underwent evaluation so he could be assigned to a permanent facility. Several [9] weeks later, he was moved into the Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP) in Sunflower County. As of 2010 Woodham is incarcerated [10] in Unit 29 of MSP as MDOC #R4682. His location last changed on June 17, 2010. Grant Boyette and Justin Sledge still faced two counts each of being an accessory to commit murder.[7] Boyette was convicted and sentenced to the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman boot camp for six months and five years of supervised probation, while Justin Sledge was sentenced to serve four months in reform school.