Kip Kinkel, who killed his parents before going on a shooting rampage at his Oregon high school in 1998, killing two classmates and injuring 25 more, has given his first news interview.
SALEM, Ore. -- , telling HuffPost he feels “tremendous, tremendous shame and guilt.”
While he has not previously given interviews because he did not want to further traumatize his victims, he said, he also began to feel that his silence was preventing those offenders from getting a second chance. When he was caught at Thurston High School in Springfield with a stolen handgun he bought from another student on May 19, 1998,"My whole world blew up,” he said. “All the feelings of safety and security — of being able to take control over a threat — disappeared.”
He pleaded guilty — at the time, he did not want to accept his diagnosis and felt community pressure to resolve the case rather than plead not guilty by reason of insanity. He was sentenced to nearly 112 years after apologizing profusely. “Even now, more than 23 years later, I and many other survivors are still dealing with the fallout," Lynn said."We are all serving life sentences right alongside him.”
“Sentencing a juvenile to die in prison because they suffer from a mental illness is a violation of the Eighth Amendment,” his lawyers wrote.
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