Jonesboro Westside school shooter dies in car crash. Killed 5 at age 11, released age 21
The 33-year-old had spent nine years in a juvenile prison for carrying out the mass shooting at Jonesboro Westside Middle School with fellow student Mitchell Johnson, who was then 13, on March 24, 1998.
At the time, it was one of the deadliest U.S. school shooting in modern history. The shooting at Colorado’s Columbine High School, which left 15 people dead ― including the two gunmen ― took place a year later. Prior to the Westside Middle School shooting, two other school shootings ― the Stockton, California, schoolyard shooting in 1989 and the University of Iowa shooting in 1991 ― each left six dead, including the shooters.
Both Golden and Johnson were tried as juveniles and found guilty of five counts of murder and ordered to be held until they turned 21. After their release, they were referred to as the only two mass school shooters who were alive and walking free.
Both went on to have additional brushes with the law over firearms, however.
In 2008, a little more than a year after his release, Golden was caught applying for a firearm in Arkansas using his since-changed legal name, Drew Douglas Grant. The application was denied after his fingerprints used in a background check revealed his criminal past, which forbade him from owning or possessing a firearm. Arkansas State Police also accused him of lying about his address on his application.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/crash-kills-school-shooter-andrew-golden_n_5d3dfd05e4b0ef792e0e1db6
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INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, AR — One of the 1998 Jonesboro Arkansas school rampage shooters has died in a car accident.
Andrew Golden had been living in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri under the name Drew Grant.
He was 11 years old at the time of the shooting which killed five and injured 10. He was released from prison on his 21st birthday in 2007.
The car crash happened late Saturday night near Cave City, Arkansas.
The Arkansas State Police report says 59-year-old Daniel Petty drove across the road and hit Golden/Grant head-on. ASP says Petty died in the crash.
ASP also says 59-year-old Kathy Tanner was in the car with Petty and was injured.
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Police say 29-year-old Stephanie Grant and a small child were in the car with Golden/Grant.
Tanner, Grant, and the child were all taken to a medical center for their injuries.
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Golden, who changed his name to Drew Grant, was 11 when he helped carry out what was then one of the deadliest U.S. school shootings.
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