JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) -- One of the boys involved in last year's Jonesboro school shootings told an officer that the other shooter was mad at a teacher, according to an investigator's report.
The report by Craighead County Deputy Sheriff Terry McNatt was part of a case file on the shootings that was released last week by Deputy Prosecutor Mike Walden. Four students and a teacher died in the March 24 violence at Westside Middle School, and 10 other people were injured.McNatt said in his report that he heard one of the arresting officers ask Mitchell Johnson, then 13, and Andrew Golden, then 11, why they fired the shots.
"The suspect (Mitchell) said, 'Andrew was mad at a teacher," the report said.
Mitchell and Andrew were sentenced to be held until age 18 at the state Division of Youth Services for the attack.
There was no indication in McNatt's report of which teacher was the target of Andrew's anger.
Andrew was in the class of sixth-grade teacher Shannon Wright, who died in the shooting. But the case file included ballistics reports indicating that the bullet that killed her was fired by Mitchell.