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...Springfield students, clustering around the squat, gray-green high school building, look back, the signs seem all too clear. For his middle school yearbook, Kinkel was jokingly voted "most likely to start World War III." "He was really open about making bombs," confides T.J. Harty, 13. "Once he showed me a pipe bomb with a white fuse and said, 'I'm going to blow something up.'" Kip would brag about cutting up cats and squirrels and even claimed to have blown up a cow. Like many local teenagers, he hunted deer, with a rifle his father gave him last year...
...reportedly gave a presentation in speech class on how to build a pipe bomb, complete with illustrations. In a literature course, he was said to have read from a diary in which he mentioned plans to "kill everybody." Asked at a news conference whether officials should have reacted, Springfield school superintendent Jamon Kent noted that funding cuts have reduced the counselor-to-student ratio to roughly 1 to 700. '"What do kids see every day in the movies?" he asked. "If we detained every student who said, 'I'm going to kill someone,' we would have a large number...
...American kid," says urologist Dennis Ellison. "He had a caring mother and father. This was not a redneck family." By all accounts, Bill Kinkel, 60, who retired from Thurston High after 30 years of teaching Spanish, and Faith, 57, who was head of the language department at Springfield High School, were beloved by their students and cherished by a broad swath of friends. They took Kip and his older sister Kristin, 21, a university student in Honolulu, on skiing and hiking trips and vacations in Europe. Bill Kinkel took his son to basketball games and, when Kip insisted on getting...
...mourning in Springfield has not prevented second-guessing. Should the school have helped more? Should police have detained Kinkel when he was first caught with a gun? Officials insist they were following the law in releasing a juvenile with no criminal record to his parents. But Barry Krisberg, president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency in San Francisco, asks, "If detention was not called for, where is the counseling? A child bringing a gun to school needs help." Now Kinkel will be tried as an adult, although under Oregon law he is too young to be subject...
...This is not Springfield's problem; it is a societal problem," Mayor Bill Morrisette told a gathering last week, addressing his town's new fear. "We've spent lots to build new lockups, and we've taken the money out of school systems. We can deal with troubled youth. We must seize the moment...