Empire Falls | Historical Context
Violence in Schools
In December 1997, a high school freshman in West Paducah, Kentucky, killed three students and injured five others when he fired about a dozen shots at the members of an informal prayer group. In a 2001 interview on www.randomhouse.com, Russo says it was this school shooting that first got him thinking about school violence and its causes. Just a few months later, in March 1998, two boys aged thirteen and eleven killed four students and one teacher and wounded ten others at a middle school in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Then in April 1999, at Columbine...
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