Westside Middle School Shooting

When

24 Mar 1998

Kind

Shooting

Killed

5

Coordinates

35.86° N, 90.81° W

Description

1998 school shooting

Injured

10

1998 mass shooting in Jonesboro, Arkansas, US

The 1998 Westside Middle School shooting was a mass shooting that occurred on March 24, 1998, at Westside Middle School in unincorporated Craighead County, Arkansas, near the city of Jonesboro. Thirteen-year-old Mitchell Johnson and eleven-year-old Andrew Golden opened fire on the school, shooting and killing five people and wounding ten others. Both were arrested when they attempted to flee the scene.

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