The shootings also exposed one of their growing fears: that at an increasingly young age,.
students seem to have easy access to deadly weapons and no qualms about using them. Robert.
T.M. Phillips, a psychiatrist who serves as medical director of Forensic Consultation Associates.
of Annapolis said that he was not familiar with the facts of the Jonesboro case. He did say that.
".in general, we're seeing in our society an ever-increasing outbreak of violence by juveniles and.
children."" .
Were these children acting out a fantasy they had seen or read about or played out in a.
video game somewhere? Had somehow become so emotionally disturbed that they could not.
distinguish fantasy from reality? While it might be somehow comforting to look for a simple.
cause such as mental illness or even an eerily similar scene from a recent movie, the truth is far.
more complex and troubling.
In a bloody and disturbingly familiar tragedy, a 15-year old freshman opened fire in a.
high school cafeteria, killing one person and injuring two dozen others a day after being expelled.
for bringing a gun to school. Ninety minutes after the shootings ended, sheriff deputies found the.
bodies of two adults, believed to be the boy's parents, at his home just outside the blue-collar.
suburb of Eugene, OR in the heart of central Oregon's logging country. Frantic parents raced to.
Thurston High School in Springfield as sobbing, dazed students, some of them bloodied during.
the rampage, staggered out of the 1350-pupil school. They told a story of sudden carnage that.
erupted when the freckled faced youth, identified by police authorities as Kipland P. Kinkel,.
leaped onto a table and began randomly firing into a crowd of 400 students. Jerry Smith, a police.
captain for the town of Springfield, said Kinkel parked a car outside the school shortly before.
8.am. And calmly walked inside carrying a .22-caliber rifle, a .22-caliber handgun and a Glock semi-automatic pistol.
