1998 Westside Middle School shooting
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On March 24, 1998, a school shooting occurred at Westside Middle School in unincorporated Craighead County, Arkansas near the city of Jonesboro.[1] Perpetrators Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, fatally shot four students and a teacher with multiple weapons, and both were arrested when they attempted to flee the scene. Ten others were wounded. Golden and Johnson were convicted of five murders and ten assaults, and were imprisoned until each turned 21 years of age. After the 1992 Lindhurst High School shooting that killed four people in Olivehurst, California, the massacre was the deadliest non-college school shooting[2] in contemporary U.S. history until the April 1999 Columbine High School massacre. As of 2024, it is currently the deadliest middle school shooting in U.S. history.
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Location | Craighead County (Jonesboro street address), Arkansas, U.S. |
Coordinates | 35.8569°N 90.8058°W / 35.8569; -90.8058 |
Date | March 24, 1998; 26 years ago (March 24, 1998) c. 12:40 p.m. (Central Time) |
Target | Students and staff at Westside Middle School |
Attack type | School shooting, mass shooting, mass murder |
Weapons | Several rifles, revolvers, and pistols |
Deaths | 5 |
Injured | 10 |
Perpetrators |
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Defender | Shannon Dawn Wright |
Motive | Revenge, anger |
Verdict | Guilty on all counts |
Convictions |
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Sentence | Imprisonment until the age of 21
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Litigation | Families of victims awarded $150 million in wrongful death lawsuit against Johnson and Golden |