Thurston High School student Kip Kinkel, 15, pictured in May 1998. Kinkel, now 38, is serving a de facto life sentence at the Oregon State Correctional Institution. When he was caught at Thurston High School in Springfield with a stolen handgun he bought from another student on May 19, 1998, "My whole world blew up," he said. Photo / AP"I feel tremendous, tremendous shame and guilt for what I did," he told HuffPost. He also said he cried when he learned about the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, afraid that he had inspired it.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 13, 2021 01:30 UTC