Jouett asks forgiveness for deadly mass shooting in Clovis

by: Staff | newsweb@everythinglubbock.com

Posted: Feb 13, 2019 / 11:29 AM CST

Updated: Feb 13, 2019 / 10:25 PM CST

Nathaniel Ray Jouett asked for forgiveness as he spoke in court in Clovis on Wednesday morning.

Jouett previously pleaded guilty to 30 counts including two counts of first-degree murder for a mass shooting at the Clovis Carver Public Library on August 28, 2017. Other counts against him included child abuse, aggravated batter and assault with intent to commit a violent felony.

This week, a sentencing hearing was held. The judge said he will pronounce a sentence on Friday.

Two librarians, Wanda Walters and Kristina Carter, lost their lives. Four other gunshot victims were brought to University Medical Center in Lubbock for treatment.

Jouett was 16 at the time but prosecutors charged him as an adult. The maximum possible sentence would be life plus 96 years.

“I am sorry that I put you through this.” Jouett said in court. “I know sorry will never be enough to make up your loss and your pain, but I have no other way to express my feelings.”

“I wish more than anything, I could take those actions back,” Jouett said. “But I can’t.”

“There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think about each of you,” he said about the people who were in the library at the time of the shooting.

“I pray you find peace and you start to heal.”

“I am horrified by my actions and I take full responsibility,” he said.

Use this link or the video link below to see Jouett’s statement in court.