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...didn't look real good," says Gretchen Woodard of her 13-year-old son, Mitchell Johnson. She had just seen him at the Craighead County Detention Center in Arkansas, where he and his partner, Andrew Golden, 11, are in solitary confinement, awaiting an April 29 court hearing into the Jonesboro massacre. For now, though, Gretchen is thinking about smaller matters. Her son is "thin, sallow and dehydrated, with very dry, cracked lips," she says. "I begged him to drink." But Mitch, she says, is not taken with the prison's beverage selection: tap water, milk and, on a good...
...Jonesboro, the finger-pointing continues. Gretchen Woodard, mother of 13-year-old accused killer Mitchell Johnson, tells TIME this week that her son was not the instigator of the sniper shooting that left four of his classmates and one of his teachers dead. ?Mitch told me he never meant to hurt anybody and he didn?t take specific aim,? Woodard told TIME reporter Sylvester Monroe. ?We don?t need to paint a rosy picture of Mitch. He knew right from wrong...
...Instead, Woodard says her son places the blame for the shooting squarely on Andrew Golden, his 11-year-old fellow suspect. That?s despite more evidence that the two boys barely knew each other -- far from being cousins, as originally reported, the pair were seen together only in their assigned school bus seating. Woodard?s claim also runs counter to the accusation of Doug Golden, Andrew?s grandfather -- who says Mitch was the one responsible for stealing his guns. The two families may squabble over whose child took the lead, but only the Arkansas juvenile court can untangle the truth...
...Westside Middle School is closed again Friday, as what was supposed to be a teacher-training day is devoted to the funerals of two of the 12-year-old victims of the attack. On Thursday, the pupils wrote a letter to Monty Woodard, Mitchell?s stepbrother, saying they still liked him and wanted him to return to school. But his father Terry refused. ?I?ve been around this town,? he said. ?These people don?t forgive...
...Miss Evers' Boys Alfre Woodard starred in this HBO drama about the scandalous Tuskegee study of syphilis in which black subjects were not given treatment. The script was intelligent; Woodard exquisitely captured the conflicting motivations of her character, a nurse involved in the study; and Laurence Fishburne played her lover with rough charm and wisdom. The film justly served a terrible event...