Teen Pleads Guilty in School Shootings
From Times Wire Reports
A teenager who opened fire on a high school prayer circle, killing three fellow students, pleaded guilty but mentally ill and will spend at least 25 years in prison. Michael Adam Carneal, 15, acknowledged carrying out the attack last Dec. 1 at Heath High School in West Paducah, Ky. Five other people were wounded in the rampage. Judge Jeff Hines accepted the plea on the condition that Carneal get the maximum term--life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years--at his sentencing Dec. 16.
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