"School shooter"
On February 2, 1996 at age 14 Barry Loukaitis carried 2 pistols, over 70 rounds of
ammunition and a .30-.30
rifle to school. He shot 3 students and a teacher at a Frontier
Middle School in
Moses Lake,
Washington 180 miles east of
Seattle.
Two of the students, and the teacher died.
Loukaitis claims to have planned the shootings carefully, getting ideas from the book "Rage," written by Stephen King. The defense at
trial said the 1992 video for
Pearl Jam's "
Jeremy," in part, inspired 14-year-old Barry Loukaitis to act out like the troubled
youth of the song.
Loukaitis was
convicted of three counts of aggravated
first-degree murder, one count of
attempted murder and second degree
assault and 16 counts of
kidnapping, He was sentenced to two life sentences and 205 years in
prison without
parole.
Loukaitis's mother claimed at
trial to have talked in depth with her son about her plans to commit
suicide and detailed the history of
depression in both her side, and his father's side of the families.
Barry Loukaitis was on the drug
Ritalin at the time of the
school shooting.