PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) - A Kentucky man who killed three students and injured five more in a school shooting a quarter century ago has a chance at par.
Michael Carneal’s parole hearing is scheduled to start on Monday with testimony from those injured in the shooting and close relatives of those who were killed.
Heath High shooter Michael Carneal's life sentence guaranteed an opportunity for parole after 25 years, the maximum sentence permissible at the time given his age.
When 14-year-old Michael Carneal opened fire on his fellow students during a before-school prayer meeting in 1997, school shootings were not yet a part of the national consciousness. The carnage that left three students dead and five more injured at Heath High School, near Paducah, Kentucky, ended w
“For him to have a chance at 39. People get married at 39. They have children,” one of the shooting's survivors, Missy Jenkins Smith, said. “It’s not right for him to possibly have a normal life that those three girls he killed will never have.”