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Families of victims awarded $150 million in wrongful death lawsuit against Johnson and Golden. The 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. [ 1 ] 13-year-old Mitchell Johnson and 11-year-old Andrew ...
The FBI were requested by the Jonesboro Police Department to investigate the death. [6] The local NAACP sponsored a vigil. [7] There were several protests in Jonesboro due to many not believing the police explanation of Carter's death. [1] On August 20, 2012, the Arkansas State Crime Lab ruled the death as a suicide. [1]
The West Memphis Three are three freed men convicted as teenagers in 1994 of the 1993 murders of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, United States. Damien Echols was sentenced to death, Jessie Misskelley Jr. to life imprisonment plus two 20-year sentences, and Jason Baldwin to life imprisonment. During the trial, the prosecution asserted that ...
Officers were dispatched to the 600 block of Burke in Jonesboro shortly before 5 a.m. Sunday, and found “multiple gunshot wound victims at the scene,” the Jonesboro Police Department said.
Officers found multiple gunshot victims when they arrived at the scene near Jonesboro's downtown area around 5 a.m., Jonesboro police said in a Facebook post. ... several injured in early morning ...
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills is a 1996 American documentary film directed, produced and edited by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky about the trials of the West Memphis Three, three teenage youths accused of the May 1993 murders and sexual mutilation of three prepubescent boys as a part of an alleged satanic ritual in West Memphis, Arkansas.
Ronald Gene Simmons Sr. (July 15, 1940 – June 25, 1990) was an American mass murderer who killed 16 people over a week-long period in Arkansas in 1987 and wounded several others. A retired military serviceman, Simmons murdered fourteen members of his family, including a daughter he had sexually abused and the child he had fathered with her ...
August 23, 1987. (1987-08-23) (aged 17) Alexander, Arkansas, US. Around 4:00am on August 23, 1987, the bodies of 16-year-old Don Henry and 17-year-old Kevin Ives were hit by a freight train in the town of Alexander, Arkansas, United States, as they were lying on the tracks. The locomotive engineer engaged the brakes while blowing the horn, but ...