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
Mitchell Scott Johnson
Andrew Douglas Golden (later Drew Douglas Grant)
Defender
Shannon Dawn Wright
Motive
Revenge, anger
Verdict
Guilty on all counts
Convictions
Capital murder (5 counts)
Attempted murder (10 counts)
Illegal firearm possession (7 counts)
Sentence
Imprisonment until the age of 21
Johnson released after 7 years and 4 months in prison
Golden released after 9 years and 2 months in prison
Litigation
Families of victims awarded $150 million in wrongful death lawsuit against Johnson and Golden
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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^Meghan Keneally (March 22, 2018). "March for Our Lives falls on 20th anniversary of deadly Jonesboro school shooting". ABC News. Retrieved April 22, 2019.
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