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Wednesday is day three of a federal hearing for convicted Kentucky school shooter Michael Carneal. And while we wait for the outcome of that hearing, LEX 18 has obtained letters that carneal wrote in jail talking about the day he opened fire at his Paducah high school, killing three students and injuring five others.

The letters came from the owner of a controversial website, www.serialkillersink.net, who plans to sell the letters for profit. The letters, dated March 2009, come from the Kentucky State Reformatory in LaGrange. They are a hand written, first-person account of the day Carneal opened fire on a prayer group at Heath High School in Paducah.

Carneal writes, "The people who got shot that day, I all knew. They were all decent people. The actual shooting only lasted a short bit. When I got arrested, I had five guns. The handgun was a .22. I think i had two double-barrel 12 gauges and two .22's. I wasn't targeting anyone. I don't remember what happened very well."

Carneal's hearing this week stems from his request for a new trial, saying he was mentally unstable when he admitted the crime.

The mother of one of the victims says she's sick of the excuses. "You never get over it and you don't get a do over," said Sabrina Steger. "Our little girls and the people that were injured that day whether they were injured physically or mentally because of what all they had to go through because of seeing all that, they don't get a do over."

On Monday, a clinical psychologist testified Carneal didn't gain enough control over his mental illness until May 2004, therefore wasn't capable of making legal decisions.