In the subsequent 18 years after Jonesboro, the Westside Middle School shooting was knocked down from being tied for second to being locked in a five-way tie for ninth deadliest shooting in the nation, the ABC News analysis concludes. The fact that it felt like part of a pattern is what made it much worse - a pattern but taken to an extreme, way beyond our imagination." "If you had had Columbine out of the blue, it would have been horrifying but it would have seemed unique. "There had been the lead up to and the growing anxiety in the country about these school shootings," Cullen told ABC News. Journalist Dave Cullen spent nearly 10 years writing a book about that shooting at Columbine High School, and said the Jonesboro shooting and others contributed to Columbine's resonance. Golden and Johnson didn't know it when they pulled their respective triggers, but little over a year later, a pair of teenage boys was going to open fire at their Colorado school in a horrific, deadly event that unfolded on live TV. Part of the reason it is not as well remembered today stems from a matter of timing, one expert says. Robert Cohen/The Commercial Appeal/Zuma Press, via Newscom Little has been reported about the lives of Golden and Johnson since they were released in the mid-2000s, but they seem to have one thing in common: neither apparently swore off guns after their time in juvenile detention. school shooting, Arkansas state law mandated that they be released on their 21st birthdays, with their records sealed. Not only that, but because Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden were minors at the time of the 1998 shooting – 13 and 11, respectively – when they killed five people in what was then the second-deadliest U.S. Several others were killed by police, and a few were taken into custody alive.īut only two are now out of prison, one of whom was arrested with a gun after his release, while the other has since applied for a concealed carry permit. schools, most of the killers turned the guns on themselves after killing classmates and teachers. If you go down the list of mass shootings at U.S. And Christopher Harper-Mercer in Roseburg. And so did Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold in Columbine.
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