Article: BOYS `CONVICTED' IN SCHOOLYARD SLAUGHTER.(News)

Just before a judge remanded 14-year-old Mitchell Johnson and 12-year-old Andrew Golden into juvenile detention for a school shooting spree that killed a teacher and four little girls, the older boy offered a courtroom filled with their relatives a childlike excuse.

He said he did not mean to do it.

``I thought we were going to shoot over their heads,'' said the quavering, trembling Mitchell, who pleaded guilty yesterday in an adjudication hearing - the juvenile court equivalent of a trial - in the Craighead County Courthouse. ``We didn't think anybody was going to get hurt.''

Andrew, who was 11 on March 24, the day he and Mitchell used a false ...

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