School Shooter

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- The Arkansas federal jury that
convicted a man on an obscure weapons charge yesterday apparently
was unaware that 10 years ago, he was involved in a deadly
schoolyard ambush.
Mitchell Johnson is now 23. He faces 10 years in prison and a
$250,000 fine when he is sentenced on a count of possessing a
firearm while being a drug user.
Johnson was arrested last year after police stopped his van and
said they found a bag of marijuana, a pistol and a shotgun.
In 1998, Johnson and schoolmate Andrew Golden opened fire as
students and teachers rushed out of a middle school in Jonesboro,
Arkansas, where Golden had pulled a fire alarm. Four students and a
teacher were killed.
Johnson was locked up until he turned 21, leaving prison with an
"adjudicated" record, meaning he could own firearms.
Government lawyers did not bring up Johnson's violent past in
the trial that ended yesterday.