Benjamin Allen Ben Walker was 16 when he was killed on May 21, 1998, in the Thurston High School cafeteria in Springfield, Oregon. The attack came one day after the shooter, 15-year-old Kip Kinkel, had murdered his parents, Bill and Faith Kinkel, at their home. Ben Walker and classmate Mikael Nickolauson were fatally shot; more than two dozen other students were wounded.

Kip Kinkel was identified, arrested, and charged in the killings. Medical personnel at nearby Sacred Heart Hospital treated over twenty students who had been shot; many lives were saved but the community was deeply affected. Memorials including the Thurston Wall have been created to remember the victims and the response to the tragedy.

Does anyone have memories of Ben Walker, or information about that day that could help preserve the record of what happened?