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Ky. Shooter Was 'Mad at World'
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- In newly public documents, Michael Carneal said he felt angry, afraid and ''mad at the world'' when he opened fire on a student prayer group.
The comments, published today in The Courier-Journal, are from a deposition taken in a civil lawsuit brought by the families of the three girls slain in the December 1997 shooting at Heath High School. Five other students were injured.
The newspaper obtained copies of the 500-page deposition from an attorney involved in the suit.
Carneal, who was 14 at the time of the shooting, pleaded guilty but mentally ill to murder and was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years. He is being held at a state juvenile detention center.
In the 13-hour deposition taken in February, Carneal was asked what he was afraid of, and he replied: ''Ridicule, not having friends, rejection, people under my bed, people in vents, trees falling down and hitting my house, burglars, getting beat up.''
Asked what he thought during the shooting Carneal replied: ''I don't remember.'' But he also said he felt ''crappy'' when he killed a former friend, Nicole Hadley, 14.
Carneal, now 16, has never given a motive for the shooting and did not specifically give one in the deposition. He said he made up his mind to shoot students 30-45 days earlier, but didn't remember why.
Carneal said he could not maintain social relationships years before the shootings and said he felt his friends or family were plotting against him for some reason.
Until recently, Carneal said, he had not talked about the shootings with his family.
In an earlier psychiatric evaluation, Carneal told questioners he did not have a problem with the students in the prayer group but said his friends didn't like them. He said he was envious of their popularity and their friendships and felt rejected by them.
Carneal has written two letters to Melissa Jenkins, one of his victims who was left paralyzed. The contents of the letters have not been revealed.
Since incarcerated, Carneal has grown from 5-foot-2 to 6-foot-1 and now weighs 245 pounds. He said he plans to finish high school, then take college correspondent courses.
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Ky. Shooter Was 'Mad at World'
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- In newly public documents, Michael Carneal said he felt angry, afraid and ''mad at the world'' when he opened fire on a student prayer group.
The comments, published today in The Courier-Journal, are from a deposition taken in a civil lawsuit brought by the families of the three girls slain in the December 1997 shooting at Heath High School. Five other students were injured.
The newspaper obtained copies of the 500-page deposition from an attorney involved in the suit.
Carneal, who was 14 at the time of the shooting, pleaded guilty but mentally ill to murder and was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years. He is being held at a state juvenile detention center.
In the 13-hour deposition taken in February, Carneal was asked what he was afraid of, and he replied: ''Ridicule, not having friends, rejection, people under my bed, people in vents, trees falling down and hitting my house, burglars, getting beat up.''
Asked what he thought during the shooting Carneal replied: ''I don't remember.'' But he also said he felt ''crappy'' when he killed a former friend, Nicole Hadley, 14.
Carneal, now 16, has never given a motive for the shooting and did not specifically give one in the deposition. He said he made up his mind to shoot students 30-45 days earlier, but didn't remember why.
Carneal said he could not maintain social relationships years before the shootings and said he felt his friends or family were plotting against him for some reason.
Until recently, Carneal said, he had not talked about the shootings with his family.
In an earlier psychiatric evaluation, Carneal told questioners he did not have a problem with the students in the prayer group but said his friends didn't like them. He said he was envious of their popularity and their friendships and felt rejected by them.
Carneal has written two letters to Melissa Jenkins, one of his victims who was left paralyzed. The contents of the letters have not been revealed.
Since incarcerated, Carneal has grown from 5-foot-2 to 6-foot-1 and now weighs 245 pounds. He said he plans to finish high school, then take college correspondent courses.
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