He said she was mean and gave him too much work, and was nice to everyone but him. Johnson's menace was not limited to schoolmates and teachers. He had a shotgun and was shooting towards the house. Bonham said Johnson had a companion, another boy about the same age, but he couldn't tell who the child was. Candace Porter, who is in stable condition after being wounded in the attack, told Johnson she didn't want to date him, and the boy took the rebuff very hard.
Family members paint a different picture of the teen.
She said a few days earlier he had gone with a church group to sing at a nursing home. He went from that to a massacre. I don't have no answers. . . . Mitchell will pay for the rest of his life. Friends in Jonesboro recall him singing in the church choir and holding doors open for girls.