School Violence

"I honestly believed that if you shoot somebody, that they would get back up," Ramsey told ABC News in a recent interview at the Arizona prison where he is serving a 210-year sentence. It's hard to accept, he admits, but Ramsey said his naivete left him unable to grasp that firing a gun in the real world is different from firing one in a video game: "I didn't realize that you shoot somebody, they die."

"If somebody had said something," he insisted, "my crime wouldn't have happened."

But the work of prevention should start well before plans for violence take hold, said Pollock. Ramsey, like most shooters, was bullied, and until teachers and counselors deal seriously with bullying and other problems by creating "an emotional connection" with students, Pollock said, schools will suffer from the violence of "a meaner, more vicious society."

Reports say over 20 people knew of Ramsey's plan to shoot up the school, and two actually helped him. One, named James Randall, taught him how to use a shotgun, and the other told Ramsey of the infamy that would come. Reports say one student even brought a camera to school on the day.

"I honestly believed that if you shoot somebody, that they would get back up," he said.

Crutcher also must stay on a strict treatment regimen of medicine and therapy, wear a monitoring device around his ankle and keep away from the victim -- a freshman girl whom he said he didn't know. The plea deal was partly based on a determination that Crutcher had a previously undiagnosed mental illness, Collins said.

Chief Deputy Prosecutor Shane Wilkinson told The Associated Press the investigation by the Benton County Sheriff's Office found "there was absolutely nothing to his claims, period."

Educators should have moved aggressively to quell rising tensions between the two boys, which began when King openly flirted with McInerney, said Deputy Public Defender William Quest.

Instead, administrators were so intent on nurturing King as he explored his sexuality, allowing him to come to school wearing feminine makeup and accessories, that they downplayed the turmoil that his behavior was causing on campus, Quest said.

Jonesboro school shooter Mitchell Johnson claims he’s being picked on by inmates and staff while in the Benton County jail.

Johnson said he’s been physically assaulted by inmates and staff, according to McElveen, and Johnson believes the abuse is because of his role in the Jonesboro school shootings.

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