Jonesboro massacre (original) (raw)
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.
Shooters
- Andrew Golden
- Mitchell Johnson
Victims, Deceased
- Natalie Brooks
- Paige Ann Herring
- Stephanie Johnson
- Brittheny R. Varner
- Shannon Wright (Teacher)