Kipland "Kip" Philip Kinkle ( born Kipland Philip "Kip" Kinkel , born August 30, 1982 ) is an American criminal who killed his parents at the age of fifteen on May 20, 1998 , and the next day set up a massacre at a Springfield school , Oregon , by shooting two students and injuring 24. Currently in prison, sentenced to 111 years in prison without the right to parole.
| Kipland Philip Kinkle | |
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| English Kip kinkel | |
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| Birth name | Kipland Philip Kinkel |
| Date of Birth | August 30, 1982 (age 36) |
| Place of Birth | Springfield , Oregon , USA |
| Citizenship |  USA |
| The killings | |
| Number of victims | four |
| Number of survivors | 24 |
| Kill period | May 20-21, 1998 |
| The main region of the killings | Springfield , Oregon , USA |
| Way to kill | execution |
| Weapon | self-loading rifle Ruger 10/22 , Glock 19 , Ruger Mk II , knife |
| Motive | mental disorder |
| Date of arrest | May 21, 1998 |
| Punishment | 111 years in prison without the right to parole |
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Biography
Early life
Kip Kinkle was born in Springfield with Bill Kinkle and Faye Zuranski. His parents were teachers of Spanish (Fay taught at Springfield High School, Bill taught at Lane Community College). Kip had an older sister, Christine. When Kip was 6 years old, his family went to Spain for a whole year, where Kip went to a non-English language school, which is why, according to his parents, he resisted the educational process. Returning to Oregon, Kinkle enrolled in Waterville Elementary School in Springfield. There, the teachers considered Kip underdeveloped physically and emotionally, and on their advice, the parents made Kip have to go through the first-class program again. In the fourth grade he was diagnosed with dyslexia and transferred to a special class. He was a fan of Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson ; Manson’s song “ The Reflecting God ” was his favorite.
Kip periodically had problems with the law. He was arrested in late 1996 for stealing CDs in a store. On January 4, 1997, he was again arrested for throwing stones with his friends at cars driving along the highway. After Kip’s second arrest, he was checked by a psychiatrist who diagnosed the boy with clinical depression .
Kinkle has been fond of firearms and explosives since childhood. Father, on the advice of psychologist Jeffrey Hicks, presented a fifteen-year-old Kip with a 22-caliber rifle and a 9-mm pistol.
Weapon Purchase
Kip's friend Corey Evert stole the gun from his father, Scott Keeney, one of his friends, and agreed to sell the weapon to Kinkle at night. Kinkle paid $ 110 for a Beretta 92 pistol and an additional 9 rounds. Kinkle put his weapons in a paper bag, which he hid in a school locker. When Kini found out about the loss, he made a list of suspects, which did not indicate Kip's name. However, Kinkle soon came under suspicion and was interrogated, in which he said: "I am going to be frank with you guys: the gun is in my locker." An hour later, he and Evert were arrested. Kinkle was released as he began to work with the police and was taken home. However, he still, like Evert, was expelled from school.
Killing Parents
On May 20, 1998, Kinkle was expelled from school. At home, his father told him that he would be sent to a boarding school if he did not recover.
At 15:30 Kip pulled out his rifle, hidden in his parents' room, loaded it, went into the kitchen and shot his father. At 18:00 mother returned. When she got up from the garage, Kinkle told her that he loved her, and shot her - twice in the back of the head, three times in the face and once in the heart. He later claimed that he wanted to protect his parents from the difficulties they might have because of his expulsion from school.
Kinkle put his mother’s body in the garage and his father’s body in the bathroom. All night he listened to the same song from the movie Romeo + Juliet .
School Slaughter
On May 21, 1998, Kinkle came to school on his mother's Ford. He put on a long raincoat to conceal a weapon: a hunting knife, a self-loading rifle and two pistols: a 9-mm Glock 19 and Ruger Mk II 22 caliber. Also with him he had about 1,400 rounds of weapons. He parked two blocks from the school, and walked to the entrance. Entering the building, Kinkle immediately opened fire from a rifle and killed a student of Ben Walker, and also wounded his friend Ryan Atbury. Then Kip Kinkle ran into the school cafeteria and opened indiscriminate shooting at the students who had lunch. The fire killed 16-year-old Michael Nicholoson and injured 23 more people. After releasing all 48 cartridges left in the store, 37 of which fell into students, Kinkle began to reload the rifle. The wounded Jacob Riker intercepted his hand, but the killer managed to free his hand and, taking out Glock, fired a shot at Riker. Kinkle tried to hide, but another student grabbed his leg. In total, 7 students from the school piled on Kip, who held him until the police arrived.
Proceedings and court
At the police station, Kipland behaved inappropriately and rushed at the police officer with a cry of “Shoot me!”. The officer used pepper spray and fought off Kip. The latter later admitted that he was not going to shoot at school and wanted to commit suicide immediately after the murder of his parents, but could not force himself to do so. Although psychiatrists stated that at the time of the murders the defendant had a slight mental disorder, but nevertheless he was aware of his actions.
On September 24, 1999, Kip Kinkle pleaded guilty to the intentional killing of four people and the infliction of grievous bodily harm to another 24 people, as well as to the illegal carrying of firearms. This allowed him to avoid the death penalty.
On November 11, 1999, Kinkle was sentenced to 111 years in prison without the right to parole. Following the sentencing, Kinkle apologized to the court for the murders of his parents and school students.
In June 2007, Kipland appealed, and his lawyer stated that he had schizophrenia and needed treatment, but the court upheld the sentence in August of that year.
On January 12, 2011, the next petition for review was rejected [1] .
On June 11, 2007 Kipland was transferred from the MacLaren Correctional Facility prison to the Oregon Department of Corrections, the highest-security prison, where he is currently serving his sentence. In 2007, he was even visited by representatives of a local newspaper to whom he was interviewed.
Most people are against liberation, believing that when released, the offender will be dangerous.
Notes
- ↑ IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF OREGON Archived November 19, 2011 on the Wayback Machine