22 caliber rounds Kinkel had fired, students and teachers helping the victims didn’t know the extent of his injuries.Ī memorial stands in memory of those lost and wounded on the day of the shooting at Thurston High School 24 years ago. But given the lack of exit wounds from the.

“I got shot three times in the back and one time in the leg,” says Case, now 41 and living in Sudbury, Massachusetts. Two students were fatally wounded, and for a while, Case considered himself good as dead. The 15-year-old had murdered his parents in their Springfield, Oregon, home the night before, and opened fire shortly upon entering the school campus the next morning, dressed in a trench coat and armed with three firearms, a backpack of ammo, and a hunting knife. I guess that’s a good idea.”Ĭase was among 25 classmates wounded by student Kip Kinkel on May 21, 1998. “She was like, ‘Uh… maybe you should just stay there on the ground.’ I was like, ‘Yeeaah, OK. “I was trying to pull myself up to sit on the bench of the table and there was a girl next to me,” Case recalls.

Kip trajectory