Word: craighead
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...didn't look real good," says Gretchen Woodard of her 13-year-old son, Mitchell Johnson. She had just seen him at the Craighead County Detention Center in Arkansas, where he and his partner, Andrew Golden, 11, are in solitary confinement, awaiting an April 29 court hearing into the Jonesboro massacre. For now, though, Gretchen is thinking about smaller matters. Her son is "thin, sallow and dehydrated, with very dry, cracked lips," she says. "I begged him to drink." But Mitch, she says, is not taken with the prison's beverage selection: tap water, milk and, on a good...
...boys down as they were heading toward their getaway van. They offered only slight resistance, and the police easily disarmed them of nine guns (another gun was found on the ground). Said Officer Terry McNatt, "They didn't say anything." They stayed silent for the entire drive to the Craighead County sheriff's office...
JONESBORO: Inside the juvenile section of Craighead County jail on Thursday, 13-year-old Mitchell Johnson studied his Bible and 11-year-old Andrew Golden cried for his mother. Outside, the Jonesboro school-shooting suspects? families began the impossible task of interpreting their children?s actions for the media. ?I don?t have an explanation for any of this,? said Scott Johnson, the divorced father of Mitchell who now lives in Minnesota, on NBC Nightly News. But he added: ?My son is not a monster...
...motive? According to the Jonesboro Sun, friends say the 13-year-old warned them he "had a lot of killing to do" after being jilted by a girlfriend. But as Craighead County Sheriff Dale Haas said, "There's no explanation in my opinion why an 11-year-old or 13-year-old would do something like this. It breaks my heart." Haas says the boys were heavily armed and lying in wait in nearby woods when the alarm was pulled inside the school. When apprehended, they were running in the direction of a white van loaded with guns and ammunition...
Meanwhile, his rivals nervously shift their feet, twitch their fingers, rub gold crucifixes, amulets and talismans. Grace Craighead of Philadelphia quivers with stage fright. "I'm soooo nervous," she says. "This is my first tournament." Adrenaline is boiling, shoulders are hunched, fingers poised to punch the two keys that will spin the slot-machine wheels to winning numbers and bars, or losing spaces...