On 17 September 1999, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge in Phoenix, Arizona, sentenced Bobby Purcell to life in prison without the possibility of release. The teenager had been convicted in June of killing Renelyn Simmons, 15, and Andre Bradley, 16, when he fired his newly-purchased shotgun into a group of school students in Phoenix on 6 June 1998. Bobby Purcell was 16 at the time of the crime.
