Youth Violence On the morning of December 1, 1997, an informal prayer group was gathered in the lobby of Heath High School in western Kentucky. Just before the start of classes, Michael Carneal, a freshman at the school, opened fire in the lobby. The youth, wearing earplugs, pulled out a .22-caliber handgun at about 7:45 a.m. and opened fire, killing three girls and wounding five other students (“Student Kills Two”). Unfortunately, Michael Carneal’s actions represent a …showed first 75 words of 1737 total…

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