On May 21, 1998, Benjamin Allen “Ben” Walker, a 16-year-old student, tragically lost his life in the Thurston High School shooting in Springfield, Oregon. This devastating event occurred just a day after the perpetrator, Kip Kinkel, had murdered his own parents, Bill and Faith Kinkel, in their home.
Kip Kinkel, who was 15 years old at the time, carried out the school shooting in the cafeteria of Thurston High School. Ben Walker and another student, Mikael Nickolauson, were fatally sho
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