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For a while they had been talking about one day shooting up the school, but it was just talk. All of a sudden, the week before the shooting Andrew said they should actually go through with the shooting, and from then on they started planning.
Born May 25, 1986 in
Craighead County, Arkansas near Jonesboro.
He was raised in a stable household living with both parents and visited his grandparents often.
He was raised around firearms and to be familiar with them, and at age six he was given his first gun.
http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/a-boy-killer-speaks/Content?oid=934386
Mitchell Johnson was a desperate child, seeking more attention than he was given and didn't get disciplined at home . When he visited his father in Minnesota, he was real hostile. Mitchell was caught molesting a 2-year-old girl in Minnesota and was charged for the incident in juvenile court. When he returned to Arkansas, his mother began taking him to see a psychologist, who concluded that it was probably an isolated incident. Mitchell started calling sex-talk lines and racked up hundred of dollars on the phone bill and his father threatened to move him back to Minnesota. It was a spiral downwards after that.
Their goal was to scare them, the say the weren't shooting at anyone in particular.
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10370&page=101
http://thecabin.net/stories/041508/loc_0415080012.shtml
Andrew and Mitchell were students at Westside Middle School, and became friends on the school bus they rode home on. They were known to bully other children, and talked about wanting to join the Bloods and smoke weed.
They hung out around the Texaco truck stop, a local hangout spot for teens in Jonesboro.
Teens there remember Mitchell speaking of "having a lot of killing to do," and classmates remember him threatening to kill his sixth-grader, ex-girlfriend, Candace Porter, because she ended their relationship.
Andrew was a troublesome six-grader at the school, and was regularly involved in fights and use profane language when talking to teachers.
Andrew was accused of killing his classmates cat with a BB gun, and after the shooting he approached Mitchell wanting to start a shooting spree at the school.
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/29/us/from-wild-talk-and-friendship-to-five-deaths-in-a-schoolyard.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
The night before the shooting Andrew and Mitchell loaded Mitchell's mother's van with camping supplies, snack foods, and seven weapons (two semi-automatic rifles, one bolt-action rifle and four handguns). The weapons were stolen from Golden's grandfather's house.
The day of the shooting the boys drove to the school. As they arrived the plan was for Andrew to pull the fire alarm while Mitchell took the guns to the woods outside the school. Andrew ran back to the woods, and as the teachers and students filed out they opened fire on them. They say they didn't plan to shot anyone in particular but scare them by shooing over their heads, some how while shooting their guns were lowered and hit people. They killed five; one teacher and four students, and wounded 10 others.
Andrew Golden was not a disciplinary problem at school, but around his neighborhood he was portrayed as something different. Neighbors say he was a menace; he cursed and yelled, threatened to shoot people with his BB gun, and He rode around with a sheathed hunting knife strapped to his leg and reportedly killed cats in his backyard, including one that he starved to death in a barrel. He killed more people than Mitchell.
Born August 11, 1984 in
Grand Meadow, Minnasota.
He moved to Jonesboro, Arkansas when he was seven with his mother and brother after his parentts divorced.
He mother soon remarried to an inmate at the prison she was working at. Mitchell had a good relationship ith his stepfather and brother.
He was involved in the youth choir at his church, and was know to be very quiet and respectful by other adults.