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FILE - Heath High School shooting suspect Michael Carneal is escorted out of the McCracken County Courthouse after his arraignment in Paducah, Ky., Jan. 15, 1998. Carneal was accused of opening fire inside a Kentucky high school, killing three classmates and wounding five others Dec. 1, 1997. . (Sam Upshaw Jr./Courier Journal via AP)
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When 14-year-old Michael Carneal opened fire on his fellow students during a before-school p…
The shooting happened in 1997, when Carneal was 14. Three students were killed.
Michael Carneal was a 14-year-old freshman on Dec. 1, 1997, when he fired a stolen pistol at a before-school prayer group in the lobby of Heath High School, near Paducah, Kentucky.