School violence around the world
Oct. 2, 2006: Charles Carl Roberts, 32, took 10 girls hostage in an Amish
school in Nickel Mines, Pa., killing five of them before killing himself.
Sept. 29, 2006: Eric Hainstock, 15, took two guns into his Cazenovia, Wi.,
school and fatally shot the principal before being captured and arrested.
Sept. 27, 2006: Duane Morrison, 53, took six girls hostage at Platte Canyon
High School in Bailey, Co., molesting them and holding them for hours
before fatally shooting one girl and then himself.
Nov. 8, 2005: Assistant principal Ken Bruce was killed and two other
administrators seriously wounded when Kenny Bartley, a 15-year-old
student, opened fire in a Jacksboro, Tennessee high school.
Aug. 24, 2006: Christopher Williams, 27, went to Essex Elementary School
in Vermont and, when he could not find his ex-girlfriend - a teacher, he shot
and killed one teacher and wounded another. Earlier, he had killed the exgirlfriend's mother. He attemtped suicide but survived and was arrested.
Mar 21, 2005: Jeff Weise, 16, shot to death his grandfather and his
grandfather's girlfriend and then went to his high school in Red Lake,
Minnesota, where he killed a security guard, a teacher, and five students, and
wounded seven others, before killing himself.
Nov. 24, 2004: James Lewerke, a 15-year-old student at Valparaiso High
School in northern Indiana, pulled two large knives out of his pants and
stabbed seven of his classmates. None of the injuries was life-threatening.
May 7, 2004: Four teenagers leaving a charity basketball game at their
Randallstown, Maryland, high school were wounded, one critically, in a
drive-by shooting. Among the suspects was a 17-year-old student at the
school who had been involved in an earlier incident over a girl.
Apr. 3, 2004: A shot was fired from a passing car through the glass front
door of the Accelerated Learnin and Transition Academy in Houston. About
200 students were in the school at the time but no one was injured.
Feb. 11, 2004: Ten-year-old Faheem Thomas-Childs was shot in the face
outside T.M. Peirce Elementary School in Philadelphia. He died six days
after the shooting. He was caught in a shootout between two rival gangs. The
gun battle unleashed nearly 100 shots in the area as children were arriving at
the school. A school crossing guard was also injured. Two men were
arrested for the shooting.
Feb. 2, 2004: 17-year-old James Richardson was shot to death in Ballou
Senior High School in Washington D.C. during second period. The shooting
resulted from a confrontation with another student who was arrested.
Jan. 13, 2004: Following an argument, a 19-year-old entered Northern High
School in Detroit and shot Aaron Wilson, 18, six times in the leg. Neither
teen was a student at the school.
Nov. 14, 2003: A 15-year-old student accidently fired a handgun outside the
East Mecklenburg High School (North Carolina) cafeteria injuring two
students.
Oct. 30, 2003: 16-year-old Devin Fowlkes was shot to death in front of
Anacostia Senior High School in Washington D.C. as he left a homecoming
dance along with a crowd of students. Another student was slightly injured.
A 15-year-old, who said he was aiming at someone else, was arrested and
charged with murder.
Sept. 26, 2003: A 13-year-old boy fired a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun into
the ceiling of a Cleveland County, North Carolina, middle school. He also
fired one shot into the closed door of a classroom filled with students. No
one was injured.
Sept. 24, 2003: Aaron Rollins, 17, was killed and Seth Bartell, 14, was
critically wounded when 15-year-old John Jason McLaughlin walked out of
a locker room at Rocori High School in Cold Spring, Minn., and shot them
with a .22-caliber gun he had in his gym bag. Bartell died Oct. 10.
Apr. 24, 2003: In Red Lion, Pa., 14-year old James Sheets shot and killed
his middle school principal Eugene Segro in a crowded school cafeteria and
then killed himself.
Apr. 14, 2003: Gunmen armed with an AK-47 rifle and a handgun opened
fire in the packed gymnasium of John McDonogh Senior High School in
New Orleans. Jonathan Williams, 15, was killed and three girls were
wounded in a spray of bullets. It was thought to be a revenge killing for an
earlier murder. A loaded handgun was found on the victim. Four suspects
were arrested.
April 29, 2002 - 17-year-old Dragoslav Petkovic opened fire with a handgun
shortly after noon at his high school in Vlasenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina,
killing one teacher and wounding another before taking his own life.
Apr. 26, 2002 - 19-year-old Robert Steinhaeuser, who had been expelled
from Johann Gutenberg high school in Erfurt, Germany, returned to the
school and shot to death 13 teachers, two students and a police officer before
killing himself.
Feb. 19, 2002 - A 22-year-old gunman in Munich, Germany, killed his
former boss and a foreman at the company that fired him, then went to a
high school in a Munich suburb, where he shot the school's headmaster
when he was unable to find the teacher he was after. He then shot another
teacher in the face and set off homemade bombs before killing himself.
Jan. 15, 2002: Two students at Martin Luther King Jr. High School in
Manhattan, were seriously wounded when a teenager opened fire at the
school.
Nov. 13, 2001: Chris Buschbacher, 17, went to the Caro (Mich.) Learning
Center armed with a .22-caliber rifle and a 20-gauge shotgun, taking a
student and a teacher hostage. During a three-hour standoff, he fired two
shots. The hostages were eventually released but Buschbacher, who was
reportedly despondent over a breakup with his girlfriend, shot himself as
police prepared to enter the building.
June 8, 2001 - Mamoru Takuma forced his way into Ikeda Elementary
School in Osaka, Japan, stabbed to death eight students and injured 13
others. Takuma, who had a long history of mental illness, pleaded guilty to
the crimes.
Mar. 30, 2001: Neal Boyd IV, 16, was shot to death outside Lew Wallace
High School in Gary, Ind., where he was a student. 17-year-old Donald R.
Burt Jr. was arrested, convicted and sentenced to 57 years in prison.
Mar. 22, 2001: Four students and two teachers were wounded at Granite
Hills High School in El Cajon, Ca. None of the injuries were lifethreatening. One of the wounded students, 18-year-old Jason Hoffman, was
the alleged assailant. The shooting took place in a San Diego suburb just
seven miles from the March 5th high school shooting.
Mar. 7, 2001: An 8th-grade girl shot a 13-year-old classmate during lunch
at Bishop Neumann Junior-Senior High School in Williamsport, Pa. The
suspect was arrested and the injuries were not considered life-threatening.
Mar 26, 2001 - An arson fire at the Kyanguli Secondary school in Kenya
killed 67 students. Two students were charged
with murder.
Mar. 5, 2001: 15-year-old Charles Andrew
Williams was arrested for killing two classmates,
and wounding 13 other people, at Santana High
School in Santee, Calif. In August 2002, he
received a 50-year to life sentence.
Feb. 2, 2001: Two students and a teachers were
reportedly grazed by gunfire at Osborn High
School in Detroit. The victims were not
seriously hurt, and no suspect was caught.
Jan. 17, 2001: Juan Matthews, 17, died after
being shot three times while standing in front of
Lake Clifton Eastern High School in Baltimore.
Unidentified students
console each other
after a shooting at
Santana High School
in Santee, Calif. (AP
Photo)
Oct. 24, 2000: An armed teen-ager briefly held a classroom full of children
and a teacher hostage at Pioneer Elementary School in Glendale, Ariz.,
before surrendering to authorities. There were no injuries.
Sept. 26, 2000: A 13-year-old and a 15-year-old were critically wounded
when they shot each other with the same gun. The shootings occured during
a fight at Woodson Middle School in New Orleans, La. The gun had been
slipped through a fence to one of the students by a 13-year-old who had been
expelled from the school.
July 17, 2000: In Renton, Wash., near Seattle, a
13-year-old boy was charged with shooting a
handgun into the ceiling of the school cafeteria.
More than 100 students were in the cafeteria at
the time, but no one was injured. The boy, later
identified as Josh Warnock, fled and was taken
into custody at the home of his grandparents the
following day
May 26, 2000: In Lake Worth, Fla., 13-year-old
honor student Nathaniel Brazill shot a teacher in
Josh Warnock is
taken into custody. the face, killing him. Police said the seventhgrader had been sent home for throwing water
(AP Photo)
balloons and returned to the school with a
handgun he found in his grandfather's dresser
Mar. 10, 2000:19-year-old Stacy Smalls and 16-year-old Ramone Kimble
died from gunshot wounds they suffered as they were leaving a dance
honoring the Savannah, Ga. Beach High School girls basketball state
championship team. Darrell Ingram, 19, was arrested and charged with
murder and aggravated assault.
Feb. 29, 2000: A first-grade boy at Buell Elementary School in
Mount Morris Township, Mich., fatally shot classmate Kayla
Rolland, 6, after the two children had a verbal spat. He took the
.32-caliber handgun from his uncle's home, where he was living.
Dec. 6, 1999: Seth Trickey, 13, fired at least 15-rounds at Fort
Gibson Middle School in Fort Gibson, Okla., wounding four
classmates. He was convicted on seven assault charges.
Kayla
Rolland
Nov. 19, 1999: A 13-year-old girl was shot in the head in school at Deming,
New Mexico. She died the next day. 12-year-old Victor Cordova Jr. pleaded
guilty to the shooting.
May 20, 1999: T.J. Solomon, 15, opened fire at Heritage High School in
Conyers, Ga., wounding six students. Solomon pleaded guilty but mentally
ill and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
Apr. 28, 1999: A 14-year-old who had been bullied by his classmates,
opened fire at W.R., Myers high school in Taber, Alberta, Canada, killing a
17-year-old student and wounding another student. The boy, who was
obsessed with the Columbine shootings, pleaded guilty to murder and
attempted murder and, in November 2000, was sentenced to three-years in
jail.
Apr. 20, 1999: Columbine High School students
Dylan Klebold, 17, and Eric Harris, 18, went on
a shooting rampage, killing 12 of their
classmates and one teacher, a Hoosier native, in
Littleton, Colo. Klebold and Harris then kill
themselves. The massacre was the bloodiest
school shooting in U.S. history.
Dylan Klebold - Eric
June 15, 1998: A male teacher and a female
Harris
guidance counselor were shot in a hallway at a
Richmond, Va., high school. Neither was seriously injured.
May 21, 1998: Two students were killed and more than 20
other people wounded when Kip Kinkel, 15, opened fire at
Thurston High School's cafeteria in Springfield, Ore. Earlier
that day, he killed his parents. He had been expelled the day
before for bringing a gun to school.
May 21, 1998: Miles Fox,15, died from a self-inflicted
gunshot wound to the head in Onalaska, Wash. Earlier in the
Kip Kinkle day, he boarded a high school bus with a gun in hand, ordered
his girlfriend off the bus and took her to his home, where he
shot himself.
May 21, 1998: A 15-year-old girl was shot and wounded at a suburban
Houston, Tx., high school when a gun in the backpack of a 17-year-old boy
discharged.
May 19, 1998: Three days before graduation, 18-year-old honor student
Jacob Davis allegedly opened fire in a parking lot at Lincoln County High
School in Fayetteville, Tenn., killing a classmate who was dating his exgirlfriend.
Apr. 28, 1998: Two teen-age boys were shot to death and a third was
wounded as they played basketball at a Pomona, Calif., elementary school
hours after classes had ended. An unidentified 14-year-old boy was charged.
Apr. 24, 1998: A 48-year-old science teacher was shot to death in front of
students at a graduation dance in Edinboro, Pa. Andrew Wurst, a 14-year-old
student at James W. Parker Middle School, was charged. The killer was later
described as depressed, alienated and a boy who never smiled.
Mar. 24, 1998: Four girls and a teacher were shot to death
and 10 others wounded during a false fire alarm at Westside
Middle School in Jonesboro, Ark. Two boys, Andrew Golden,
11, and Mitchell Johnson, 13, were accused of setting off the
alarm and then opening fire from a nearby woods.
Andrew
Golden
Dec. 1, 1997: Three students were killed and five others
wounded as they took part in a prayer circle in a hallway at
Heath High School in West Paducah, Ky. Michael Carneal,
14, described as emotionally immature, plead guilty but
mentally ill and was sentenced to life.. One of the wounded
girls was paralyzed.
Oct. 1, 1997: 16-year-old outcast Luke Woodham of Pearl,
Miss., was sentenced to life in prison for killing his mother,
then going to Pearl High School and shooting nine students.
Two students died, including the suspect's ex-girlfriend.
Mitchell
Johnson
March 30, 1997: Mohammad Ahmad al-Naziri, 48, armed with an assault
rifle, opened fire on hundreds of students at two school in Sanaa, Yemen.
Six children and two others died. He was sentenced to death and executed by
firing squad one week after the incident.
Feb. 19, 1997: 16-year-old Evan Ramsey opened fire with a shotgun in a
common area at a Bethel, Alaska, high school, killing the principal and a
student and wounding two others. Ramsey was sentenced to two 99-year
prison terms.
Mar. 13, 1996: Thomas Hamilton, 43, dressed in black
and wearing earmuffs to protect himself from the noise,
entered an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, and
sprayed 105 bullets into the gym striking 29 people before
killing himself. Sixteen five and 6-year-olds and a teacher
died.
Feb. 2, 1996: 14-year-old Barry Loukaitis walked into
algebra class with a hunting rifle in his trenchcoat and
opened fire, killing the teacher and two students. A third
student was injured during the shooting at a junior high
school in Moses Lake, Wash.
Jan. 18, 1993: Scott Pennington, 17, walked into Deanna
McDavid's English class at East Carter High School in
Grayson, Ky., and shot her in the head. He then shot
janitor Marvin Hicks. Pennington was sentenced to life
without parole
Thomas
Hamilton
killed 17
people, and
then himself,
at a Scotland
elementary
school. (AP
Photo)
May 1, 1992: Eric Houston, 20, killed four people and wounded 10 in a
seige at his former high school in Olivehurst, Ca. The attack was said to be
in retaliation for a failing grade. Houston was convicted and sentenced to
death.
Jan. 17, 1989: Patrick Purdy, 26, armed with an AK-47 assault rifle, opened
fire on a playground at a Stockton, Ca., elementary school. Five children
died and 29 children and one teacher were wounded before Purdy killed
himself.
Sept. 26, 1988: James Wilson, 19, opened fire in a Greenwood, S.C.
elementary school. He shot seven students and two teachers. Two 8-year-old
girls died.
May 20, 1988: Laurie Dann, 30, shot six students at a Winnetka, Ill.,
elementary school, killing one second-grader. She then shot a man in a
nearby house before committing suicide.
Jan. 21, 1985: James Alan Kearbey, 14, armed with a M1-A semiautomatic
rifle and a .357-caliber handgun, killed the principal and wounded two
teachers and a student at his Goddard (Kansas) Junior high school. He
pleaded no contest and served seven years in a state youth facility.
Jan. 29, 1979: Brenda Spencer, 16, opened fire with a .22-caliber rifle at an
elementary school across the street from her San Diego, Ca., home. She
killed two people and wounded seven because she "didn't like Mondays".
She is in prison.
Source: News Reports