Michael Carneal was 14 when he opened fire on his classmates during a before-school prayer meeting near Paducah, Kentucky, in December 1997.
Three students were killed and five more injured in a shooting that ended when Carneal put down his weapon and the principal walked him to the school office.
“Twenty-five years seemed like so long, so far away,” Missy Jenkins Smith told the AP about her memory at the time of the sentencing. “I would think, ‘It’s been 10 years. How many more years?’ At the 20-year anniversary memorial, I thought, ‘It’s coming up.’”Jenkins Smith visited Carneal in jail in 2007 and she said he apologized and she forgave him. But she doesn’t want Carneal to go free.
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