Show e mrr pf r FT" T-- T" TTTrm w The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday March 26 1996 — Page 5 Teacher ‘saw the bullet coming’ JONESBORO Ark (AP) — Unfazed by the bloodbath around her si screaming schoolchildren fell to the ground in a spray of gunfire English teacher Shannon Wright stepped in front of little Emma Pittman and took a bullet for the sixth-grad-er Emma was unharmed but the shooting rampage cost four girls and the Westside Middle School teacher their lives Emma lived Police say the killers included fire alarm then cut them down in ' ' V I ’ i v APphoto Dennis and Pat Qoidsn parents of Andrew Qoldsn bn of the young boys arrested Tueortay for ttw school shootings In Jonesboro Ark leave the Cralgheed County Sheriffs Department and Detention Center on JONESBORO Ark (AP) — There are two suspects in the bloody rampage at Westside Middle School Or are there four? ' Thire is Mitchell Johnson 13 who pulled chain out for girls and went to church when Ms merits didn't There is Andrew Golden 11 attentive gun-safe- ty puter-gam- e student and avid com-player Then there is Mitchell the would-b- e gang member and Andrew an " little thug whobraggedof wanting to use his: hunting rifle on fellow studcntsThe boys stand accused of donqiqg camouflage from head to toe and cutting down classmates and teachen in a evil-actin- g” well-plann- ed kill zone in the courtyard outside Westside Middle School “That was not the boy” Terry Woodard Said of Mitchell his stepson “That was totally out of context for Mm I donrt know what happened I wish I did" “I thought when they were talking about the camouflage clothes he must have more cam-- o the' inside thaii whld the outaidV JaafeeaKelt4b pastor’s wift who taught Mitchell at the Bono wejjgouitfiee - dri Revival Tabernacle said Wednes- day "He seemed like such a neat yrrungman:” y Authorities say that "neat young man" may have masterminded the ambush during a fake fire drill allegedly angry at being dumped by his girlfriend The pair skipped school Tuesday and Mitchell took his stepfathers van without permission state police said To hear people describe Mitchell he might have been two separate boys Melinda Henson 13 consid- ered Mitchell who’d moved from Minnesota in the last couple wars on of her better friends She remembers him holding chairs for her and other girls at church She says he talked about heelrertiaH nOWf gUM “He was always a really good friend to me” the seventh-gradsaid “I mean I could teD him er anything and he wouldn't say anything to anybody” But in almost the same breath she said her friend also spoke about wanting “to hurt people” and claimed to be part of a “He always baa some red on'evem day because in thTBloodGmig” she sakt Anttotf MMday something bizarre ''? “He said Tomorrow you all find out if you live or die”’ she said “And I said ‘What’s that cousin The English teacher was shot in the chest and abdomen She died later at a hospital “I think Mrs Wright saw that bullet coming” Emma told The Jonesboro Sun "She grabbed me by the shoulders and pushed me out of the way She got hit and - : the tMgh Her cousin Natalie “The thing that stood out the most was his conduct” Mrs Holt said “He was one you never had to call down say ‘Get quiet let’s don’t do that’ You never had to do Mitch that way He was always so polite so well-ma- mother Susan "My heart just goes out" to Mrs Wright's family Mrs Pittman said "I feel she needs a hero award for saving our child I want her family to know how grateful and thankful we are because she didn't t think of herself she thought of these chil- Ore!l H ? presents ? 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