Eleven year old school shooter ANDREW GOLDEN
Posted on 07/29/2019 12:10:39 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Drew Grant, 33, who had legally changed his name from Andrew Golden, died Saturday night when his Honda CRV collided head-on with a Chevrolet Tahoe on Highway 167, about 100 miles north of Little Rock Ark., local TV-station KAIT reported.
The driver of the second vehicle, 59-year-old Daniel Petty was also killed in the crash and three other people, including two adults and a child, were injured and taken to hospitals, State Police said. Cops didn’t say what vehicle they were in, how badly they were hurt or who was responsible for the crash.
Arkansas State Police spokesman Bill Sadler said law enforcement is working under the premise that Grant and Golden are “one in the same.”
On March 24, 1998, Golden and his then-13-year-old friend Mitchell Johnson set off a fire alarm at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro Ark., and shot at people as they evacuated.
Killed were two 12-year-olds, Paige Herring and Stephanie Johnson, 11-year-olds Brittney Varner and Natalie Brooks and a teacher, Shannon Wright.
The baby-faced shooters were tried as juveniles — meaning their court records were sealed — and were expected to stay in custody until they turned 21, in accordance with Arkansas law at the time.
Golden was released in 2007 and eventually moved to Jackson, Missouri. Johnson was set free in 2005.
In 2017, victims’ families were awarded $150 million in damages by a Craighead County Courthouse judge.
Relatives of the slain teacher, Mitch and Zane Wright, said they felt conflicted about news of Goldens’
death.
“The news of Andrew Golden’s death today fills our family with mixed emotions as I’m sure it does with the other families and students of the Westside shooting. Mostly sadness,” they said in a statement to the station. “To his family, we are so sorry for your loss.”
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Eleven year old school shooter ANDREW GOLDEN
Should have been executed.
[Should have been executed.]
its hard to feel sympathy when 4 little girls are shot dead, so I won’t even pretend....
I’ve noticed in retrospective stories like these, the victims photos are almost never shown. I congratulate your post because the victims should be remembered.
Exactly.
My first thought was why was he out, living a life?
Back in the ‘90’s and before this happened, this kid was supposed to be the future. If he wasn’t in detention at the time, he could’ve been a hero in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
I remember when those two punks murdered those girls. No sympathy from me for what happened to this one.
I kept reading and READING AGAIN the first few lines because the guy was so young and they were saying he was a killer 20 plus years ago!!!!
Then I realized, this guy probably killed people as a kid.
SMH Why was he out?!!
Head on collision. I wonder if he was committing suicide taking another life with him.
The driver of the other vehicle drifted into his lane, and both were killed, plus three others injured. Delayed justice for the punk, nonetheless.
9 years behind bars?!
Life wouldn’t have been as easy as a few years in jail and a ‘legal name change’ for those animals if they had killed one of my kids. I would have found them, watched them, and then dealt with them.
Just glad that I never had to consider something like that.
Almost sounds like the plot of another Final Destination movie. It would have taken almost as long for a death sentence to be carried out anyhow. RIP for all others involved.
Andrew Golden’s carcass should have been maggot food 20 years ago.
What is the history of the other driver?
Karma.
All females? Golly jeepers, what a surprise!
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