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Heath High School shooter Michael Carneal was 14 (left), when he was escorted out of the McCracken County Courthouse after his arraignment in Paducah, Ky., Jan. 15, 1998. Carneal was sentenced to life and is now 39 and up for parole (right). Images courtesy Associated Press and the Kentucky Department of Corrections.
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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.
The hearings that began last week were his first opportunity for parole and he will not get another chance to get out of prison.
