When he entered the school, he fatally shot Lydia Kaye Dew and Christina Menefee, his former girlfriend. Pearl High School assistant band director, Jeff Cannon, was standing five feet away from Dew when she was fatally shot. Woodham went on to wound seven others before leaving, intending to drive off campus and conduct another shooting at the nearby Pearl Junior High School. However, assistant principal Joel Myrick had retrieved a .45 pistol from the glove compartment of his truck and subdued Woodham inside his mother’s car.
Schools should not be “gun free zones.” Applying that designation only serves to provide murderous criminals with easy targets filled with defenseless adults and innocent children. This is one instance where an administrator broke the rules, and lives were saved as a result.
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