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Five years later, bloody day not forgotten.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
PASCAGOULA, Miss. _ Tim Jones will never forget the images he saw on Oct. 1, 1997, the day Luke Woodham shocked the nation when he walked into Pearl High School and started shooting his fellow classmates.
"The first thing we thought was it was a gang shooting in the parking lot," said Jones, the lead prosecutor in the Woodham case. "As we got there we realized what had happened. (Woodham) picked his target and continued to shoot."
It's been five years since Woodham killed two students and wounded seven others during the first school shooting spree in a series across the nation.
Jones, now an assistant district attorney in Jackson, George and Greene counties, said last week he hadn't thought about the Pearl shooting spree in a couple of years. But memories of that day came back to Jones as he talked about his role in convicting Woodham of killing 16-year-old Christina Menefee and 17-year-old Lydia Dew and wounding other students.
Jones, then 31, was there when Woodham was apprehended moments after the shooting.
The day started out a typical one, Jones said.
Jones and his boss, then Rankin County District Attorney John Kitchens, were drinking coffee in their office shortly before 8 a.m. when they heard about the shooting.
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