State v. Hough

OPINION

RUSSELL A. ANDERSON, Justice

Armed with a .22-caliber semiautomatic rifle, respondent, 15-year-old Jan Michael Hough and three friends set out to “shake up the community” of Barnesville, Minnesota, on February 14, 1996. The group first went to Barnesville High School where they intended to shoot at the school building. When the school custodian appeared outside the school they decided instead to go to the high school principal’s .home. At about 10:45 p.m., Hough and the three others drove to the home of the Barnesville High School Princi’pal, Scott Staska. As they neared the Staska…