Kip Kinkel

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Kip Kinkel killed his parents and killed two students. He open fired at Thurston High School, killing two students and injuring twenty-five. Kinkel had a very tough childhood. His relationship with his father, friends and family played a big role in this horrible event. The day he killed his parents and open fired in the high school and day that will not be forgotten. This event injured many people, made many people upset, and gave many other young kids an idea about bringing violence to their own school.
Kip Kinkel was born on August 30, 1982 in Springfield, Oregon. Kip Kinkel and his family moved to Spain for one year in 1986, where he attend school and it was very difficult because his teacher did not speak English. When they returned to Springfield, he repeated the first grade once again because of his physical development. From first grade on, he continued to have problems learning and by third grade he had qualified for special education services. In fourth grade he was diagnosed with dyslexia from the family physician soon discovered that he had attention deficit disorder. They became very concerned about his interest in violence. The Kinkels’ had to disable there cable because they could no longer stop him from watching violent programs. Kip Kinkel was very competitive and had a very bad temper. When his sister moved to Hawaii and was no longer around to watch what he is doing, he began to hang around a new group of friends and was getting into major trouble. Him and those three friends were caught shoplifting, buying explosive building books on the internet, and testing those explosives.
At the end of his last two days of middle schools he was suspended for two days for karate kicking a classmate in the head because h...

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... Kinkel was a very kind young kid; but got in a lot of trouble with the group of kids that he hung out with, had a tough childhood, and close relationship with his father. Kip Kinkel was very close to his father and his friends. Unfortunately, he just chose the wrong group of friends to hang out with and they were a bad influence for him. Kinkel felt very bad when this happened because he embarrassed his family. Kip Kinkel made a huge mistake when he shot his parents and open fired at Thurston High School. Kinkel was a very smart kid who just made many mistakes. Kip Kinkel had a very troubled childhood also, since he had to see a doctor, and was diagnosed with many diseases and other disabilities.

Works Cited
"Chronology of Kip Kinkels Life." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 11 May 2014.
Hanes, Richard C. Crime and Punishment in America. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2005. Print.

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