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Kip Kinkel
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witness, Thurston High School
shooting victims took the chance
to tell Kinkel exactly what they
thought of him. Almost every vic
tim asked that Kinkel be given a
maximum sentence. Kinkel lis
tened attentively to the victims’
statements and looked at them
when asked.
“I was shot at school, the one
place I’m supposed to be safe,”
said Elizabeth McKenzie, who
was shot in the left thigh. “I am
not a victim, I am a survivor, and I
am a person.”
McKenzie said the choice
Kinkel made to enter the cafeteria
and embark on the shooting spree
on May 21, 1998, took away the
choices of all the victims.
“I didn’t deserve it. No one de
serves to go through what we
have gone through,” she said.
Teresa Miltonberger, who was
shot in the forehead, said if she
were the judge she would not let
Kinkel out of prison. She ad
dressed her comments to Kinkel
and said, “Murdering people is
not going to get you anywhere. It
doesn’t work like that.”
She asked Kinkel to think
about the victims’ families’ feel
ings. Miltonberger’s father, Bill,
said Kinkel put his family
through “hell on earth.” He said
his daughter’s physical scars are
covered, but the emotional scars
are not so well hidden.
“The community is forever
changed,” he said.
Jake and Josh Ryker, two of the
boys who tackled Kinkel in the
Thurston cafeteria and thereby
ended the shooting spree, also of
fered statements in court, both di
rectly addressing Kinkel.
“I don’t care if you’re sick, in
sane, crazy ... I don’t care,” Jake
Ryker said. “I think life in prison
is too good for you.”
He continued, “I think the vic
tims should get to do to you what
you did to them ... You don’t de
serve to live, you don’t deserve to
breathe ... I can’t stand here and
look at you without wanting to
kill you.”
But Josh Ryker did not echo his
brother’s sentiments. He instead
said he wants Kinkel to stay alive
for a long time to remember all
the faces and suffering of the vic
tims.
“What you did to me and all
my friends you can never take
back,” he said.
Amber Ramsey, who has
known Kinkel since the fourth
grade, was shot in the right hip.
She said Kinkel always had a
temper, even when he was
younger, and he was voted the
“most likely person to start World
Warm.”
She said she wants Kinkel to
“sit and think about what he has
done to us every day.” Ramsey
said she believes everyone should
be forgiven, but it will take her a
long time to forgive Kinkel for his
actions.
Kyle Howes, who suffered a
broken tibia and lacerated thigh
during the shootings, said he is
not angry with Kinkel and doesn’t
hate him. He said Kinkel needs to
have hope that his sanity and
clarity of life will return.
“I can and really do forgive you,”
he said. “I feel sorry for you. May
God have mercy on your soul.”
Springfield Police Detective
Alan Worthen also spoke for the
prosecution. Kinkel attempted to
stab Worthen after he was arrest
ed. He said there are many face
less and nameless victims of the
shooting and that Kinkel’s behav
ior has affected many lives in the
community.
“He should never walk free in
society again,” Worthen said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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