The Heath High School shooting occurred at Heath High School in West Paducah, Kentucky, United States, on December 1, 1997. Fourteen-year-old Michael Carneal opened fire on a group of praying students, killing three and injuring five more.

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20 Years Ago, Oregon School Shooting Ended A Bloody Season

Kip Kinkel
Kip Kinkel
Born	Kipland Phillip Kinkel ; August 30, 1982 (age 36); Springfield, Oregon; United States
Parent(s)	William Kinkel (father); Faith Zuranski (mother) (both deceased)
Motive	Mental illness
Criminal penalty	111 years (without the possibility of parole)

Thurston High School shooting
Location	Springfield, Oregon; United States
Date	May 21, 1998; 7:55 am PST
Target	Kinkel's parents, students and staff at Thurston High School
Attack type	Spree shooting, school shooting, matricide, patricide
Weapons	9x19mm Glock 19 pistol; .22LR Ruger 10/22 rifle; .22LR Ruger MK II pistol; Two hunting knives;
Deaths	4 total (two at school; two at perpetrator's home)
Injuries	25
Perpetrators	Kipland Kinkel
Motive	Paranoid schizophrenia

Heath High School shooting
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Location	West Paducah, Kentucky, U.S.
Coordinates	37.0790°N 88.7944°W
Date	December 1, 1997; 7:45 AM (CST)
Attack type	School shooting, spree killing
Weapon	Ruger MK II .22-caliberpistol;
Deaths	3
Injuries	5
Perpetrator	Michael Carneal
Motive	Bullying and mental illness

May 22, 20185:42 PM ET

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Two girls holding flowers walk along the wall of Thurston High School, serving as a temporary memorial, two days after the shooting.

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Almost a year before the shooting at Columbine High School, a teenage boy wearing a trench coat walked into the Thurston High School cafeteria in Springfield, Ore. and began shooting at his fellow students.

The shooter that day, May 21, 1998, was 15-year-old Kipland Kinkel. He was armed with more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition, along with two pistols when he started firing his father's Ruger .22 caliber rifle.

Kinkel killed two students at Thurston and wounded 25 others. Later, police found Kinkel's parents' dead at home. He had shot them as well.

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It was the end of a string of four deadly school shootings from Jonesboro, Ark. to Pearl, Miss. that academic year. All told, the 1997-1998 academic year was one of the bloodiest for school shootings.

At the time, the string of shootings seemed a shocking anomaly. But that last shooting of the year at Thurston High, with its double-digit injuries, lent dark clarity to any question about whether America was facing something more persistent.

The day of the shooting

Jolene Leu was in the cafeteria that morning with friends when Kinkel started shooting.

"It was right before the bell to go to class," Leu, a junior at the time, recalled during an interview at a park just across the street from the high school. "Pretty much the entire table around me was shot."

Leu says she remembers feeling frantic. She was sitting next to her boyfriend at the time, who was shot."

Residents of Springfield, Ore., gather near the fence of Thurston High School the day after the May 21 shooting, holding signs including one that reads "Enough is enough. Bring God back to school."

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He had gotten shot in the side and it had come out his stomach," she says. "If I had been just a couple of inches closer it could've been my back and stomach, or worse. He shared a bullet with another friend. His bullet went through him and then got her in the leg under the table."

Both friends lived; their wounds made them part of the largest injury count in a school shooting for years.

Even now, Leu feels a sense of panic and guilt when she talks about that morning 20 years ago.

"I don't consider myself a survivor," she says. "I usually reserve that term for the ones that were actually shot. It's kind of hard for me to associate myself as a survivor because I don't have the physical scars that everybody else does. So I'm a witness to the tragedy."

Leu still lives in Springfield.

Standing outside Thurston High, she points to where rows of television news trucks lined the street 20 years ago. Flowers and signs of support filled the fence that borders the school grounds. She says despite the shooting, she loved her high school years.

Last fall, her daughter enrolled as a freshman at Thurston.

"It was hard because they do all of the registration and team sign ups and everything in the cafeteria. And it hadn't changed much," she says. "So having to go in there to sign her up for a class was tough and unnerving. I was watching every door."

Although mass school shootings have persisted and this year has seen a spike in casualties, the late 1990s were notably bloody years followed by a downward trend.

Larry Bentz, the Thurston High Principal in 1998, was headed to a meeting at the district office when the shooting happened. He immediately drove to the school when he heard the news.

"(I) slowly recognized the magnitude of the disaster because I started counting the ambulances passing me heading into town," Bentz says.

A new fear

At the time, the idea of a troubled young man bringing guns from home and firing them at school was something people were starting to voice worry about. Even so, to Bentz, Kinkel wasn't that guy.

"He was relatively popular," Bentz says. "His parents were popular people. But what we all did not know was that they all had a very dark family secret around his mental illness and the impact that it had had on their lives."

Kinkel was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. He later pleaded guilty to the shootings and was sentenced to nearly 112 years in prison, where he remains today.

"He's a smart guy, he's got a high I.Q.," says Dennis Balske, one of Kinkel's attorneys. "But when he wasn't medicated, which he wasn't back then, his thinking was anything but normal. By definition his illness caused him to think in a way that led him only in one direction."

Kinkel is working to get a new trial that could allow him to leave his Oregon prison cell and go to the state's mental hospital. After the U.S. Supreme Court decided in 2012 that juveniles could not be issued life sentences, Kinkel's legal team appealed on those grounds—an appeal he lost this month.

"Everybody, I think, thinks he is some kind of a monster, when in fact he was a severely mentally ill youngster," Balske says.

Echoes of a dark day

Students walk hand-in-hand to Thurston High School in Springfield, Ore. on May 26, 1998, the first day of classes after the May 21 shooting.

Don Ryan/AP

Bentz has the dubious distinction of having led two schools through shootings and their aftermaths. In 2007 he was principal of an alternative high school in suburban Portland when the building was shot up by a student. No one was killed but a few were injured by broken glass.

"It wasn't until later that evening that the adrenaline sagged and then you're thinking, 'oh my God, twice in a career,'" he says.

Less than a year after the shooting at Thurston High, 12 students and one teacher were killed at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. As with Springfield, mass shootings in Littleton, in Newtown, Conn., in Parkland Fla. and most recently in Santa Fe, Texas have given these towns an unwanted spot on the map.

A memorial to students killed in the Thurston High School shooting on May 21, 1998.

Conrad Wilson/OPB

Bentz says he doesn't have any advice for preventing school shootings, but over the years, he says, he's tried to help people respond to them "in order to minimize the pain."

Twenty years later, he says he'll remember the shooting at Thurston the same way he does every year.

"By myself," Bentz says. "I sit and I think and remember the smell of the blood in the cafeteria at midnight. And then I turn around and remember those kids who came back to that school the next week and who fought their way towards as normal of life as they could hope to have."

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Thurston High School shooting

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The Thurston High School shooting took place on May 21, 1998. Expelled student Kip Kinkel first murdered his parents before engaging in a school shooting at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon that left two students, Ben Walker and Mikael Nickolauson, dead and 25 others wounded.^[1] Kinkel is currently serving a 111-year sentence without the possibility of parole.

Events leading to shooting[edit]

Expulsion[edit]

On May 20, 1998, 15-year-old Kinkel was suspended pending an expulsion hearing from Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, for being in possession of a loaded, stolen handgun. A friend of Kinkel had stolen a pistol from the father of one of his friends and arranged to sell the weapon to Kinkel the night before. Kinkel paid $110 for the Beretta Model 90 .32-caliber pistol loaded with a nine-round magazine, which he then placed in a paper bag and left in his locker. When the father 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, and he and his friend were arrested. Kinkel was released from police custody and driven home by his father.

Murder of parents[edit]

At home that afternoon, Kinkel was told by his father that he would be sent to military school if he did not improve his behavior.^[2] According to Kinkel's taped confession, at about 3:00 p.m., his father was seated at the kitchen counter drinking coffee. Kinkel retrieved his Ruger .22-caliber semi-automatic rifle from his bedroom and ammunition from his parents' bedroom. He then went to the kitchen and shot his father once in the back of the head, then dragged his body into the bathroom and covered it with a sheet.^[1] Kinkel further stated that his mother arrived home at about 6:30 p.m., and that he met her in the garage, told her he loved her, then shot her twice in the back of the head, three times in the face, and once in the heart. He then dragged her body across the floor and covered it with a sheet.^[1]

Throughout the next morning, Kinkel repeatedly played a recording of "Liebestod", the final dramatic aria from Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde, on the family's sound system.^{[citation needed]} The recording was featured in the 1996 film Romeo + Juliet, and included on the compact disc (CD) of the film's soundtrack. When police arrived at the house, they found "opera music" from the soundtrack playing loudly with the CD player set to continuous play.^[1] In a note Kinkel left on a coffee table in the living room, he described his motive for killing his parents thus: "I just got two felonies on my record. My parents can't take that! It would destroy them. The embarrassment would be too much for them. They couldn't live with themselves." But as the note continues, he attempts to describe his mental state: "My head just doesn't work right. God damn these VOICES inside my head. ... I have to kill people. I don't know why. ... I have no other choice."^[3]

Shooting[edit]

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: two hunting knives, his rifle, a 9x19mm Glock 19 pistol, and a .22-caliber Ruger MK II pistol. He was carrying 1,127 rounds of ammunition.^[4]

Kinkel parked on North 61st Street, two blocks from the school, then jogged to the campus, entered the patio area and fired two shots, one fatally wounding Ben Walker and the other wounding Ryan Atteberry. He went to the cafeteria and, walking across it, fired the remaining 48 rounds from his rifle, wounding 24 students^[5] and fatally wounding 17-year-old Mikael Nickolauson. Kinkel fired a total of 50 rounds, 37 of which struck students, and killed two.^[4]

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 from his belt and fired one shot before he was disarmed, injuring Ryker again as well as another student. He yelled at the students, "Just kill me!" The students restrained Kinkel until the police arrived and arrested him.^[6] A total of seven students were involved in subduing and disarming Kinkel.^[7] In custody, Kinkel retrieved a knife that was secured on his leg and attacked a police officer, begging to be fatally shot. The officer subdued him with pepper spray.

Nickolauson 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. He received the Boy Scouts of America Honor Medal with Crossed Palms for his heroism on the day of the attack.^[8]

Perpetrator[edit]

Kipland Philip Kinkel (born August 30, 1982 in Springfield, Oregon), is the second child of William Kinkel and Faith Zuranski. He has an older sister. His parents were both Spanish teachers. Faith taught Spanish at Springfield High School, and William taught at Thurston High School and Lane Community College.^[9]

There was a widespread history of serious mental illnesses in both sides of the family. The parents concealed this from psychologists.^[10]

According to all accounts, Kinkel's parents were loving and supportive. His sister was a gifted student. The Kinkel family spent a sabbatical year in Spain when Kip was six, where he attended a Spanish-speaking kindergarten. Kinkel reportedly attended in an "unnormal" way, and his family said that he struggled with the curriculum.^[1] When Kinkel returned to Oregon, he attended elementary school in the small community of Walterville, about five miles east of Springfield. His teachers considered him immature and lacking physical and emotional development. Based on the recommendation of his teachers, Kinkel's parents had him repeat the first grade.^[1] In the repeat, he was diagnosed with dyslexia, which became worse, and he was placed in extensive special education classes by the beginning of second grade.

Kinkel had an interest in firearms and explosives from an early age. His father initially discouraged this, but later enrolled him at gun safety courses, buying him a .22 caliber long rifle and eventually a 9mm Glock handgun at the age of 15.^[1]

Classmates described Kinkel as strange and morbid. Others characterized him as psychotic or schizoid, and as someone who enjoyed listening to rock bands such as Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine and Marilyn Manson.^[11]^[12]^[13] He constantly talked about committing acts of violence, telling friends that he wanted to join the U.S. Army after graduation to find out what it was like to kill someone. When asked about a family trip to Disneyland, he commented that he wanted to "punch Mickey Mouse in the nose".^[14] He once gave a "how to" speech in bomb-making to his speech class and set off "stink bombs" in the lockers of classmates. Kinkel studied William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet in his English class and related with the protagonists, and became enamored with the 1996 modernized film adaptation, which featured heavy use of firearms.

Kinkel's parents enrolled him in anger management and had him evaluated by psychologists. Shortly before being murdered, Kinkel's father confided to a friend that he was "terrified" and had run out of options to help his son.^{[citation needed]}

Kinkel exhibited signs of paranoid schizophrenia, the full extent of which became apparent only after his trial. The youth had gone to great lengths to hide any symptoms due to a fear of being labelled abnormal or mentally retarded. His doctors later said that Kinkel had told them of hearing voices in his head from the age of 12; he eventually suffered from hallucinations and paranoid delusions — including the belief that the government had implanted a computer chip in his brain.^[15] Kinkel described three voices: "Voice A," who commanded Kinkel to commit violent acts, "Voice B," who repeated insulting and depressive statements at the expense of Kinkel, and "Voice C," who constantly echoed what A and B said. Kinkel claimed that he felt punished by God for being subjected to these voices, and that it was Voice A who instigated the killing of his father, mother, and the subsequent attack at Thurston High School.^[16]

Trial and imprisonment[edit]

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 die by 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 and treated him for major depression. The boy's parents terminated the therapy because Kinkel was responding well to treatment and ceased to show symptoms of depression.^[17]

On September 24, 1999, three days before jury selection was set to begin, Kinkel pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder, forgoing 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 spree.^[5]

Appeals[edit]

In June 2007, Kinkel sought a new trial, saying 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.^[15] 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.^[18] Kinkel has appealed his sentence in both federal and state courts. In federal court he claimed his guilty plea should not have been accepted without a prior mental health evaluation. In state court, Kinkel challenged the validity of the virtual life sentence he was given, citing Miller v. Alabama. Shortly before he was to go to trial, Kinkel abandoned an insanity defense and accepted a plea deal to serve 25 years for shooting his parents, William Kinkel, 59, and Faith Kinkel, 57, and two Thurston High School students Mikael Nickolauson, 17, and Ben Walker, 16. But the deal also allowed a Lane County judge to tack on 40 months for each of the 26 attempted murder counts Kinkel faced for wounding the other students and lunging at an officer with a knife once in custody which added up to 111 years in prison.^[19] However a pending measure 11 reform bill could possibly reduce his sentence or even have him automatically released if passed.^[20]

Kinkel is incarcerated at the Oregon State Correctional Institution in Salem. He received his GED while serving a portion of his life sentence at MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility in Woodburn. On June 11, 2007, Kinkel, nearing his 25th birthday (the 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.^[21]

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