Mitchell Scott Johnson ( born August 11 , 1984 ) and Andrew Douglas Golden ( May 25 , 1986 – July 27 , 2019 ) were the 13 and 11-year-old perpetrators , respectively , of the massacre on March 24 , 1998 , at Westside Middle School in unincorporated Craighead County , Arkansas near the city of Jonesboro . Johnson and Golden fatally shot four students and a teacher with multiple weapons , and both were arrested when they attempted to flee the scene . Ten others were wounded . Golden and Johnson were convicted of five murders and ten assaults , and were imprisoned until each turned 21 years of age . After the Cleveland Elementary School shooting in Stockton , California , the massacre was the second deadliest non-college school shooting in contemporary U.S. history until the April 1999 Columbine High School massacre
Columbine High School massacre
Columbine High School massacre
Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden