Thurston Shooter Kip Kinkel Transferred to Oregon State Prison

Oregon Department of Corrections places him at Oregon State Correctional Institution in Salem.

Kip Kinkel Photo: Oregon Department of Corrections

(SALEM, Ore.) - On May 20th, 1998, the nation reeled over the news that a student Kipland "Kip" Kinkel killed his parents, two of his classmates at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, and shot and wounded 25 of his other classmates before he was subdued by fellow students including Jake Ryker, who had himself been shot.

Originally sentenced as an adult, Kinkel was initially committed to the custody of the Department of Corrections and placed in the physical custody of the Oregon Youth Authority on November 10th, 1999. He was assigned to the Secure Intensive Treatment Program at MacLaren for the duration of his stay with OYA.

24-year old Kipland Philip Kinkel was transferred today to Oregon State Correctional Institution (OSCI) in Salem from the MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility in Woodburn.

Corrections officials say the transfer process "was uneventful." He was received at OSCI at 10:30 AM.

His parents, William and Faith Kinkel, were both Spanish teachers at local high schools. On May 21st, 1998, Kinkel arrived at class at Thurston, murdering 2 of his classmates, Ben Walker and Mikael Nicklauson, and injuring 25. Kinkel had brought three weapons to the high school, a .22 caliber rifle, a .22 caliber handgun, and a 9mm Glock semi-automatic pistol. His case has become one of the standard case studies in profiling students who bring guns to school for purposes of murder, a prelude to the Columbine High School massacre.

By state law, the Oregon Youth Authority may only have custody of youthful offenders who are less than 25 years old. Kinkel was transferred in anticipation of his 25th birthday on August 30th.

Kinkel, who was convicted of multiple counts of murder and attempted murder with a firearm, received a 111-year prison sentence in Lane County on November 2nd, 1999. His earliest release date is in January 2110.

Kinkel is said to have adjusted well to incarceration at MacLaren, where he was engaged in both treatment and education.

Officials say he will initially be housed in OSCI's general population.

Over the next 30 days, he will undergo a battery of assessments and evaluations designed to create a corrections plan that determines the course of his incarceration. DOC and OYA collaborated to determine the most appropriate housing assignment for Kinkel and to make the transfer as seamless as possible.

OSCI is a medium-security state prison located three miles east of Salem. The 895-bed facility provides housing and confinement for males serving sentences for felony convictions from all counties of Oregon.

The prison traditionally houses the Department´s younger inmates, including those waived to adult prison from juvenile facilities.

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From an unbiased point of view, it is not hard to (blindly) see where Kip was coming from. No, his actions are NOT being excused, but it further proves that our "modern and sophisticated" society is not working. America is on the freefall, and these things are the warning shots that should be allerting us. Kip is a sad loss of human life, regardless of his actions. Watching the documentary was accurate proof of what we, as a society, are not doing right, to bring up decent, respectable, rational and rational children who are genuinely loved and nurtured in a positive atmosphere. He was bullied by his parents to be something he was not, the near grestest infraction a parent can inflict. You don't teach cats to bark and dogs to meow. Still unbiased, it would be an interesting thing to find out who Kip really is in his heart, to find out what he was born to be, not what his parents and his surroundings "wanted" him to be. He's a good case to wake the rest of us up to raise up children to grow to be what they are wired to be. As the movie "Chariots Of Fire" stated, "you cannot put in what God has left out." Keep this in mind!

So I'm actually learning about this kid in my College Sociology class believe it or not. I just often wonder why kids decide death or destruction is the only way out. It's so tragic, and his sister is so blessed she wasn't near where it happened or she too could have been a victim along with her parents. I'm doing research on it to find out more about him, but the more I find out the more heart breaking it gets. I hope he finds the help he needs, his parents were good people they never deserved that.

you people are a bunch of ballicks you obviously do not know the story if you are saying poor guy

i seen the PBS special on him, they should air it again. very interesting that kids are coming up as a different type of person.

almost all of you are f*&^%g idiots. he got what he deserved so get over it. it should teach you a lesson not to do anything stupid!!

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He still has that dumb Opie Taylor look on his face after all these years. Don't drop the soap Kip!

damn .. i dont' see why kiddz go around shoot'in ppl. fo' no freak'in reason!wen dey sure as hell kno dat wen dey git caught dey r juss gonna end up in prison wit nuth'in 2 look fo'ward 2 in life but da next meal at meal tyme in PRISON! damn i wish he wasn't so mentally ill 2 kno dat .. shyt now he has 2 live wit da factda t he kill'd hiz parent'z fo' da rest of hiz life!! i think dat shold b enough punishment fo' wun person 2 take .. n i do hope he really feel'z bad bout wut he did ..(but den again dat'z juss how i feel bout da whole matta .. well i qot'z ta qo ... pce .. =]

that suck go milan!(soccer)

wow that weird

That sucks

yeah poor guy =[

poor guy =[

he is fugglyy.. haha

mental hospital

yea well i feel sorry for him i think he they shoud take him outta prison and put him in a mentle hosptle wear he can get the help he needs

wow he looks the same but older and bulkier and balder, poor guy what a waste of life he should just kill himself what an idiot, but still if eric and dylan had of lived this too would have been their fate, sad so very sad..

Poor kid. Not surprised though. Not surprised about all the other school shootings. Kids are sick of the xxx they have to deal with at school and maybe the kid got sick of all the xxx and the fact that his parents were "teachers" made them likely part of what caused him to do what he did. If the guns weren't available he'd probably have self destructed with drugs or all the other ways kids deal with misery of school. I'm sure a lot of kids cheer the school shooters on. Having gone through 12 years of hell with a system that looked the other way when I was harassed and bullied, the way my life has turned out am still bitter from the xxx I had to deal with all alone daily, can wish the same thing could have happened to the bullies and the administration and "teachers". Without these bullies and evil "teachers" my life would have been a lot better. Now am still dealing with "post tramatic" I you will. There are a lot of adults that feel the same I'm sure, from having had gone through the same xxx background.

I remember this well. He was a high school student, not an enemy. He shocked everyone. There was never any doubt that he had mental issues, and of course they continue today. I pity his soul, and also his poor living sister, who was luckily living out of state at the time, or she might have been one of the victims as well.

so I am comforted he's receiving such state care provided by the taxpaying public this slimebag tried to wipe out. Therepy?!,Education?!, God Damn!, am I losing my senses? there is a war on with decent people being blown to peices on the hour, and the state wants to take care of this ..,what is he?, what " redeeming" value does he exemplify? They ship off the innocent to their death and destruction and they keep this mutant. Jesus give me strength!

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