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March 24, 1998
Two students from Westside Middle School, located approximately two miles west of Jonesboro (Craighead County), carried out an armed ambush on teachers and students, resulting in five dead and ten others injured. The shooters, Andrew Golden and Mitchell Johnson, were arrested and prosecuted for the crime. The incident was one of two school shootings in Arkansas and one of several school shootings across the nation that adjusted school administrators’ and law enforcement officers’ concepts of school security and response plans for violent incidents at schools.