Word: woodham
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Woodham was charged with the murders of his mother and two classmates, his hometown went into deep mourning, stunned at the rampage. But was it just the work of one man? Last week a second tale wrapped itself around the first, to the greater dismay of Pearl. Six friends of Woodham's were arrested on Oct. 7 on murder-conspiracy charges. Two of the suspects, Donald Brooks II, 17, and Marshall ("Grant") Boyette Jr., 18, were accused of plotting to murder Brooks' father, a local fire fighter. The police gave no reasons for that subplot, and after his father pleaded...
...Luke Woodham, 16, bookish and overweight, drove a white Chevy Corsica up to his high school. That was already a sign of trouble: the young man had poor vision and was driven to school every day by his mother. But three hours earlier that morning, Mary Ann Woodham, 50, had been stabbed to death with a butcher knife in the home she shared with her son. Luke Woodham walked into Pearl High's commons, an enclosure created by the school's buildings. He then took a .30-.30 rifle from beneath his blue trench coat and opened fire, wounding seven...
...shaken this small town, across the Pearl River from Jackson. Classmates were quick to note that many of the six teenagers, each now held on a $1 million bond, seemed normal enough. One of the six, Justin Sledge, provided some clues with a note from murder suspect Luke Woodham: "I am not insane. I am angry. I killed because people like me are mistreated every day. I did this to show society push us and we will push back." Another explanation might lie in the boredom of teen small-town life, says TIME Atlanta bureau chief Sylvester Monroe...