On October 1, 1997, 16-year-old Christina Michelle Menefee, a student at Pearl High School in Pearl, Mississippi, was fatally shot by her ex-boyfriend, 16-year-old Luke Woodham. The attack began before classes started when Woodham entered the school armed with a rifle and opened fire; Menefee was his first target. Woodham also killed 17-year-old student Lydia Kaye Dew and wounded seven other students before the school’s assistant principal, Joel Myrick, retrieved a handgun from his vehicle and subdued Woodham until police arrived.

Investigators later determined Woodham had also murdered his mother, Mary Ann Woodham, earlier that day. Woodham was charged as an adult with three counts of murder and seven counts of aggravated assault, convicted on all counts, and received three life sentences plus 140 years for the aggravated assaults. The investigation reported the involvement of a group of students described as practicing occult activities; Grant Boyette, identified as the alleged leader, was charged with accessory to murder, later pleaded guilty to conspiracy, and received a boot camp–style rehabilitation term followed by five years supervised probation.

Does anyone have memories of Christina, or information about the student group mentioned, that could shed more light on what happened that morning?