Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many of the adults with his choirboy gentility. "Yes, sir" was the way he addressed the men, and he was wont to say "Ma'am" when he held out a chair for a lady. He'd been raised right, most folks thought. Only two weeks ago, says Perry, Mitchell Johnson joined up with another youth group to sing and minister at a nursing home...
Among the debris discovered by authorities in the wake of last week's rampage was Mitchell Johnson's hunter-education card. It was all part of fitting in. "Everybody at Westside knows how to shoot a gun," says seventh-grader Michelle Wagner. And of the gun lovers at school, few were as proficient and prominent as Andrew Golden. Despite his tender age, he had a reputation among his classmates for being "mean-spirited." Even though he was only 11 years old, Drew seemed to embody a toughness that Mitchell was looking for. On Royale Drive, where Golden's parents live...
...Mitch Johnson's parents, meanwhile, seemed to be collapsing under the weight of guilt. Mitchell's father Scott, a long-haul trucker, told CBS News, "As hard as it is for me to say that, my son is guilty." His ex-wife Gretchen spoke on ABC's 20/20 of the anguish in Jonesboro, saying, "There's just no words from any of us or anything anyone can do that will ever make that right again." She met with Perry, her son's spiritual adviser, for succor, telling him that she couldn't erase the images "of the children hurting...
Back in Minnesota, Buster Johnson reruns his grandson's childhood in his head--rewinding again and again in search of an answer. "I've been trying to think and think, and I can't come up with anything that makes sense," he says. During Mitchell's visits, he often hung out with Buster at his Spring Valley-area meat-processing plant, displaying no untoward fascination with the instruments at hand. "I felt comfortable with him there," says Buster. "He would trim hamburger, but he was never reckless with knives." He does not believe that his son Scott's long-distance...
...operation reversed so that they could have Drew. That child is the center of their world." Pat and her husband worked long hours to provide for the boy. His grandfather Doug Golden insists that "Drew understood law and order." He believes his grandson wasn't close to Mitchell Johnson. "Did this kid threaten him or intimidate him," he wonders out loud, "like maybe he was victimized?" After all, he notes, "this kid had made threats at school and pulled a knife," referring to reports about Mitch. "The sad part is that no one listened." In a statement from the family...