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CAMPUS SHOOTINGS IN THE UNITED STATES
(On campus or near the campus)
1991 to Current
(There have been 94 shootings on or near College and University campuses since Virginia Tech)
-November 20, 2014: A gunman shot three people before being killed in a hail of police bullets at Florida State
University. The police officers confronted the shooter on the steps of the library, ordered him to drop his weapon, and shot
him after he refused to do so and instead fired on them. More than 300 students scrambled for exits or ducked for cover
when the shooting began at Strozier Library.
-September 27, 2014: A 20-year-old Indiana State University (ISU) student was shot by another ISU on Saturday inside a
residence hall. The injuries were not fatal, and a full recovery is expected. The shooter was arrested on the following day.
-June 5, 2014: A lone gunman armed with a shotgun opened fire in a building at Seattle Pacific University, wounding
multiple people before a student subdued him with pepper spray as he tried to reload, police said. Four people were shot,
one dead, after the shooting. The shooter began firing a shotgun in the foyer or lobby of Otto Miller Hall and when he
paused to reload was taken down by a student guard, who pepper-sprayed him, Fowler said. Once on the ground, other
students piled on and kept the shooter pinned down until police arrived, he said.
-May 23, 2014: 22-year-old Elliot Rodger went on a stabbing and shooting rampage just outside the main campus of
the University of California, Santa Barbara. Some campus buildings were within the route of the shootings. The spree
began when Rodger stabbed to death three men in his apartment. Leaving the scene in his car, he drove to a sorority
house, where he shot four people outside, fatally wounding two female students. He drove to a nearby deli and shot to
death a male student who was inside. He then sped through Isla Vista, shooting at bystanders and striking four people with
his car. Rodger exchanged gunfire with police twice during the killing spree. The rampage ended when his car crashed
into a parked vehicle and came to a stop. Rodger committed suicide from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
-May 8, 2014: A person was shot on a student parking lot roof at Georgia Gwinnett College, receiving an injury. The
specific cause has not been identified
-May 5, 2014: An active shooter situation was reported at Paine College on Monday with one person reported to be shot.
The suspect was apparently apprehended and in custody. It was the second shooting incident to occur at the college
campus in two days.
-May 4, 2014: Two men fired shots inside a dormitory at Paine College on Sunday, injuring one student in the head.
Neither of the suspects were students at the college
-February 12, 2014: A male victim was shot in the back in a possible gang-related drive-by shooting near the University
of Southern California. The suspect fled into the University Campus. The victim was last reported in stable condition
before being transported to a local hospital
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-January 28, 2014: One student was shot in the leg in an apparent altercation over a gambling debt at Tennessee State
University. The incident occurred during the 2014 State of the Union address where President Obama mentioned the
importance of gun safety
-January 25, 2014: A man was shot and killed at Los Angeles Valley College. Two suspects were arrested in the fatal
shooting.
-January 24, 2014: A 20-year-old student was shot and killed at South Carolina State University. A 19-year-old was
arrested and charged with murder.
-January 21, 2014: A shooting has been reported at Purdue University, and the suspected gunman has been apprehended.
The shooting occurred in a basement classroom of the school’s electrical engineering building and the university sent a
text alert instructing everyone to shelter in place. The shelter-in-place order was lifted a short time later, except for the
electrical engineering building. Police say one male surrendered without incident after the shooting. Police later
announced that the victim in the shooting, a male student, has died. The shooting appears to have been planned and
possibly targeted.
-January 20, 2014: A student sitting in a car in the parking lot of Widener University’s athletic center was shot Monday
evening, and police are looking for the gunman. The victim was seriously wounded and remains in the hospital. Although
police believed the shooter fled to a nearby residential neighborhood, campus officials asked students to shelter in place
until this morning. A spokesman for the school says the shooting did not appear to be random
-November 2, 2013: A21 year old student was shot and wounded at North Carolina A& T State University. The victim
was hospitalized for serious but non-life threatening injuries. The university was temporarily locked down that night, and
the lockdown was lifted about half an hour later. No suspects are in custody.
-June 7, 2013: Six people, including the shooter died and four others were wounded at or near the campus of Santa
Monica College when a lone gunman opened fire on the school campus library after shooting at several cars and a city bus
at separate crime scenes. The gunman, John Zawahri, was fatally wounded by responding police officers. Among the dead
were the shooter's father and brother, both of whom died inside a house that was set on fire a mile or so from the Santa
Monica College campus.
-April 19, 2013: A police officer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (Officer Collier) was fatally shot on
campus by the Boston Marathon bombings suspects.
-April 15, 2013: Three Grambling State University students were shot Monday night during a fight outside one of the
campus dormitories but none has life-threatening injuries, a school spokesman said.
-April 12, 2013: A man shot two women at a mall branch of a community college New River Community College in
Christiansburg, VA in Virginia Friday before he was subdued by police, a city official said.
-March 20, 2013: A 19-year-old student at Shaw University was charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent
to kill in connection with a shooting on a street next to the campus. The shooting happened about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday
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at South Person and Worth streets, police said. The person who was shot was hit in the leg and had no life-threatening
injuries, they said. South Person Street borders the Shaw campus on the east.
-March 19, 2013: Authorities are crediting the University of Central Florida Police Department’s (UCFPD) quick
response to a student’s 911 call with thwarting a student’s sinister plan to attack other students in his residence hall. The
student’s roommate, who was holed up in a bathroom, called campus police after the 30-year-old suspect pointed a gun at
him. While the roommate contacted authorities, the student pulled a fire alarm to get other students out in the open, so he
could shoot them in the seven-story dorm where he lived. (Shooting prevented but planned).
-March 18, 2013: At the University of Central Florida, 30-year-old student James Oliver Seevakumaran pulled a fire
alarm went off at the Tower 1 dormitory. According to plans he had written, Seevakumaran intended to attract a large
amount of people inside the building to gather and shoot them. He then pointed a handgun at his roommate and threatened
to shoot him inside their dormitory room. Seevakumaran released his roommate who ran into a bathroom to call 911.
Seevakumaran then fatally shot himself in the head. Authorities found an assault weapon, a couple hundred rounds of
ammunition and four homemade bombs inside his backpack
-February 26, 2013: Police searched for a gunman who fatally shot a 19-year-old student at a residence hall at Coastal
Carolina University (CCU) on Tuesday, February 26, 2013. After shooting sophomore Anthony Liddell just before 7:30
p.m. at University Place, an apartment-style dormitory that houses nearly 2,000 students, the suspect fled the scene in a
vehicle. CCU Campus Police responded to the scene immediately, and school officials issued E-mail and text alerts about
the incident and locked down residence halls overnight.
-January 22, 2013: Between the Library and Academic Building outside of Lone Star College–North Harris, two men got
into an argument and one of the men pulled out a gun and shot the other man, a student, injuring him. A maintenance man
suffered a gunshot wound to the leg. The gunman accidentally shot himself in the leg. After the shooting, the gunman fled
into the woods and was arrested hours later. The charges against the initial suspect were dropped and another man was
arrested.
-January 16, 2013: A 17 year old boy was shot to death in a parking lot of Cjicago State University. The shooting
happened after a high school basketball games were being held on the university campus, and the boy was a spectator at
the event. Police arrested two people after the shooting and recovered a weapon.
-January 15, 2013: The alleged gunman who shot a financial adviser in the chest at the Stevens Institute of Business and
Arts on Tuesday has been identified at 34-year-old student and convicted felon Sean Johnson. After shooting the victim,
the suspect went into a stairwell and shot himself when he was approached by police. The victim, Greg Elsenrath, was on
the phone when Johnson allegedly shot him. The motive for the shooting appears to be a dispute about financial aid.
-January 15, 2013: A 21-year-old man has been charged with two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder
following a shooting Tuesday in the Hazard Community and Technical College parking lot that left two dead and one in
critical condition. Police arrested Dalton Stidham after he turned himself in for fatally shooting Caitlin Cornett, 20, and
Jackie Cornett, 53. Stidham also shot Taylor Cornett, a juvenile, who is currently receiving treatment at UK Hospital,
reports WKYT.com. Another person was also taken into custody; however, it is believed that Stidham is the only shooter.
Police say the shooting was a domestic situation, and was not connected to the college.
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-January 22, 2013: Three people were shot at Lone Star Community College and one other individual required medical
attention as a result of the shooting. The incident happened after 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday in a courtyard between an
academic building and the library. Two persons of interest have been detained, including Carlton Berry, 22, who was
charged late Tuesday with aggravated assault. Possibly one of them was on the loose but then went to the hospital for
treatment. The shooting resulted from a dispute between Berry and another male. Berry remains in the hospital.
-August 13, 2012: A Texas constable and two others were fatally shot when a gunman opened fire while serving eviction
papers at a residence near the Texas A&M University campus on Monday afternoon. The university issued alerts about a
shooter near its campus football stadium telling residents and students to avoid the area, the Associated Press reports.
(NOT ON CAMPUS).
-May 28, 2012: A person got shot around midnight just off campus on Broad Street at Virginia Commonwealth
University. One person was shot and suffered minor injuries.
-April 25, 2012: A University of Puget Sound spokeswoman says an apparent car prowler pulled a gun and fired a shot at
two campus security officers but no one was injured. The security officers were responding to a report of a suspicious man
in a parking lot behind several university-owned houses.
-April 24, 2012: There was a shooting in the parking lot of ITT Technical Institute in West Phoenix. A woman has been
shot and wounded. It happened about 8:20 p.m. at the college, located at 95th Ave and McDowell.
-April 20, 2012: Three victims of a shooting at an apartment near Kirkwood Community College last Friday are all
expected to live. (NOT ON CAMPUS).
-April 18, 2012: Two people were shot, one fatally, during a 4:15 pm confrontation on 2nd Avenue between the Virginia
State University dorms and the university's credit union.
-April 13, 2012: Gunfire shattered the window of the BMW near the University of Southern California campus just after
midnight, striking two Chinese graduate students inside. The driver was able to make it from the car, through the rain, to a
house where he pounded on the door pleading for help. The two victims were dead by the time they got to the hospital
Wednesday morning as police spread out looking for a killer suspected of bungling a carjacking. Police said the shooting
occurred around 1 a.m. and may have been a robbery or a carjacking attempt. Witnesses said the car was in the roadway,
not at the curb, at the time of the shooting.
-April 2, 2012: Five people were killed and several hurt in a shooting at Oikos University in East Oakland. Police would
not confirm the total number of casualties from the shooting, but said that a suspect was in custody and had been arrested
at Alameda's South Shore Center. The shooting happened about 10:23 a.m. in a classroom at the University, when the
suspect came in and fired multiple shots. Pastor Jong Kim, who founded the school about 10 years ago, said the shooter
had previously been a nursing student at Oikos but was no longer enrolled. He was unsure whether the shooter had been
expelled or dropped out voluntarily. Kim did not see the shooting but heard about 30 gunshots. "I stayed in my office," he
said, imitating the sound of rapid shots.
-March 29, 2012: Three people were shot and wounded in a vehicle near Eastern Michigan University during an apparent
attempted narcotics sale. (NOT ON CAMPUS).
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-March 8, 2012: A gunman opened fire inside a psychiatric clinic at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The AP
reported two people were dead and at least seven others were wounded. A spokesman for the medical center said the
gunman is among the dead.
-February 3, 2012: Authorities on Friday afternoon were responding to a shooting of two Muncie Police Department
officers near the Ball State University campus, and the suspect in the shooting has died. MPD officers Steve Baugh and
Brent Brown were injured in the shooting, and both taken to IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital. Brown was shot in his
bullet-proof vest and also suffered cuts to his face from glass, and he was seen standing and talking to investigators at the
scene. He later was placed on a stretcher by paramedics. Baugh suffered bullet wounds in the facial area. Neither officer
was believed to have life-threatening injuries. (NOT ON CAMPUS).
-January 31, 2012: Dakota State University officials were cautious the following morning but classes continued as
scheduled following a shooting the night before south of the Madison campus. A Madison man was shot at his home on
N.W. 5th St. near Memorial Park on Tuesday at approximately 7:30 p.m. (NOT ON CAMPUS).
-January 12, 2012: A University of South Alabama student was shot and killed in a private residence across the street
from the campus. He was found with an apparent gunshot wound to the chest in the carport next to his residence. Three
suspects were arrested.
-December 8, 2011: A police officer at Virginia Tech Police Department. Law enforcement searched the campus for
four hours looking for the perpetrator following the shooting. A second person was found to have been shot in an adjacent
parking lot and it is believed to be the perpetrator.
-November 23, 2011: A Markham man has been charged with fatally shooting a Northern Illinois University student
during an off-campus party early this morning, authorities said. Police say Chaz Thrailkill, 19, got into an argument with
Steven Agee Jr., 22, shortly after 2 a.m. at an apartment complex in the 800 block of Edgebrook Drive. "Words were
exchanged between the victim and the suspect. During that exchange, the victim was shot," DeKalb Police Chief Bill
Feithen told a news conference. (NOT ON CAMPUS).
-November 21, 2011: BEREA, Ky. — Berea College in central Kentucky was put on lockdown as authorities searched
for a suspect in a shooting nearby that killed one person and left another injured. Berea Police Capt. Ken Clark said
police in the Louisville area took a 27-year-old man into custody after a brief standoff Monday. Charges are pending.
Clark said officers were dispatched at 7:12 a.m. Monday to an apartment near Berea College and found one person dead
and another injured. Their names were not immediately released. Clark said police believe an altercation late Sunday at
the residence is connected to the shooting. Berea College spokesman Tim Jordan said the school was locked down as a
precautionary measure. (NOT ON CAMPUS).
-November 15, 2011: A student at the University of California, Berkley was seen with a gun on campus and entered a
computer laboratory, where he was confronted by police. He pointed a gun at responding officers and they shot and killed
him.
-November 15, 2011: Memphis police investigated a shooting where two people were injured, one extremely critically,
just off The University of Memphis campus. Police responded to the shooting at Spottswood Avenue and Minor Road at
9:46 p.m. The condition of the other victim was unknown. (NOT ON CAMPUS).
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-November 13, 2011: Three people, including two from Chicago's suburbs and one Illinois football player, were shot at a
party near the University of Illinois campus. The incident occurred at 3 a.m. at a residence in the 1000 block of South
Lincoln Avenue. Police said an individual "fired several rounds from a handgun into a crowded patio area" and that three
people were hurt. The shooter then fled the scene. (NOT ON CAMPUS).
-November 7, 2011: Police at Elizabeth City State University say they shot a former student who was carrying an assault
rifle on campus. The subject carried an AK-47 assault weapon and aimed it at campus police officers. Officers shot
Gardner once and wounded him, but he ran into the woods. Working with Elizabeth City police, campus police located
Gardner in the woods with the help of tracking dogs. Gardner was taken to the hospital for medical treatment.
-November 3, 2011: A Phoenix man fired a handgun into the air (in their direction) after pointing the gun at a person who
was with a group of volleyball players at Arizona State University's West campus. It was described as a drive-by shooting
that took place when a male and four juveniles were driving around the campus, near 47th Avenue and Thunderbird Road,
and they threatened seven students playing a pickup volleyball game.
-October 30, 2011: At 2:57 a.m., officers at Indiana University responded to a report of a man firing a weapon in the air
outside the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity house. A male, not a house member, was waiting on a ride and he became irritated
while waiting and pulled out a gun, pointing it at a fraternity member. He then began to wave the gun in the air. The
incident started at the conclusion of a fraternity Halloween party as visitors were leaving the house. While the fraternity
members were fleeing back inside the house, they heard gunfire.
October 21, 2011: A University of Arkansas Little Rock student is hospitalized in stable condition after being shot in the
abdomen. The shooting occurred in the parking lot of City Market about two miles from campus. The victim told police
that he and a friend went to the parking lot to buy marijuana from a man known to him as Marcus. A man got in the back
seat and attempted to rob the two and a fight ensued and the victim was shot. (NOT ON CAMPUS).
-September 27, 2011: West Allis Police report a 17-year-old was shot Tuesday night in West Allis near the Milwaukee
Area Technical College campus. He was later pronounced dead at the hospital. (NOT ON CAMPUS).
-September 21, 2011: Several shots were fired on campus at the Sports Center spreading fear among the students at
Victoria College. A non student pulled out a weapon after an altercation between him and a student. He pointed a gun at
the student and then started shooting the gun in the air.
-September 8, 2011: Shooting on Lane College (TN) campus where an altercation ensued and two men were separated by
others. One made threats and left, returning about 10 minutes later on foot and armed with a handgun. He re-approached
the other man and attempted to strike him with the gun. The victim ran and suspect fired multiple times. The victim
suffered a gunshot wound to the back of the left thigh and a grazing wound to the right foot.
-September 5, 2011: Philadelphia police have announced the arrest of a suspect in connection with the early morning
robbery attempt and shooting of a Temple University student. The off-campus incident occurred in the 2300 block of
North 12th Street, north of Dauphin Street early Monday morning. According to sources, two Temple students were
approached by a group of young males who demanded money just after about 2 a.m. When the teenager attempted to rob
the two students, one of the Temple students, identified as 21-year-old Rob Eells, a native of Doylestown, pulled a
licensed gun and there was an exchange of gunfire. One of the suspects, a 15-year-old, and Eells were shot. (NOT ON
CAMPUS).
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-September 4, 2011: Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois. security found at an academic building of Dominican
University’s Main Campus, two windows and a tree damaged due to gunfire. The incident occurred overnight when the
building was closed. No one was in the building at the time. No one was injured and there are no suspects at this time.
-September 4, 2011: Two University of Southern California students were shot early Sunday morning outside of a party
at an apartment complex at 1241 West 37th Place. A male undergraduate student was shot in the chest and a female
graduate student was shot in the hand and suffered a bloody finger. The shooting occurred when a resident of the
apartment complex accused the suspect of having stolen a pair of expensive headphones from him. The victims attempted
to help settle the altercation between the resident and the suspect. (NOT ON CAMPUS).
-August 31, 2011: A University of Montana student who shot another student in the hand on campus Monday evening is
facing a misdemeanor charge for the incident.
-August 22, 2011: Police say a shooting at the University of Nevada, Reno within nine hours of a separate but similar
incident near campus prompted a four-hour lockdown of dormitories. Campus police chief Adam Garcia says a man who
is not a student suffered a gunshot wound to the leg after he was shot Saturday night near the Fleischmann Building.
-July 11, 2011: A female was murdered in the parking lot adjacent to Dominican University Priory Campus in River
Forest, Illinois. Two suspects were immediately apprehended and charged. A third suspect was later arrested and charged
with her murder.
-June 11, 2011: Two students were shot in a house that is a few blocks off of the campus of Old Dominion University,
where they lived with several other people. The shooting left one student dead and another injured.
-May 12, 2011: Law enforcement personnel are looking for a man who was carrying an AK-47 assault rifle on the
Missouri University of Science and Technology campus. He was apprehended several days later, and was shot during the
apprehension.
-May 12, 2011: Three people were killed in a burst of gunfire at a San Jose State University parking garage in an apparent
double murder-suicide.
-April 16, 2011: Several people were shot and police had to break up several melees after large crowds reportedly
rampaged just off the Rutgers University campus on Friday night. The incidents occurred in conjunction with Rutgersfest,
which is a large school-sponsored event on the Busch campus of the university. The daylong series of concerts is held
every year. 40,000 to 50,000 people attended the event. Four people were shot in separate incidents and one person was
knocked unconscious with a bottle. One of the shooting victims was a 17 year old boy. In another shooting, a male was hit
once in each leg. Another man, 19, was shot in the buttocks. None of the victims are students. All the injuries were
believed to be non-life threatening and police have not made any arrests.
-April 6, 2011: One person was killed and three others, including a woman in her 90s and a 4-year-old child, were injured
Wednesday in a shooting on the campus of Southern Union Community College in Opelika, Alabama, police said. All the
victims are members of the same family, police said. Suspect Thomas Franklin May III, 34, was arrested without incident
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about three hours after the shooting, after he approached a television crew on campus, Capt. Allan Elkins of the Opelika
Police Department said.
-February 14, 2011: Police at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro arrested a student at the school
following a shooting on campus this morning. The incident happened in a courtyard between the Business and Aerospace
Building and Keathley University Center at about 11:30 a.m. Murfreesboro police said the shooting stemmed from
argument between MTSU junior Justin Macklin and non-student Austin Morrow during which Macklin produced a
semiautomatic handgun and shot Morrow.
-February 6, 2011: Two men angry over a dispute at a Youngstown State University fraternity house party left the
gathering and returned early Sunday, spraying bullets into a crowd and killing a Youngstown State University student
who was trying to separate two groups, authorities said. Eleven other people were injured, including a 17-year-old with a
critical head wound.
-November 24, 2010: At 9 p.m. on November 24 at the Dutch Brother's Coffee Shop at 2115 Franklin near University of
Oregon Campus, an employee (a prior UO student) of the shop was robbed at gunpoint. There was an exchange of gunfire
as the employee defended himself, and one of the suspects was shot and killed by the employee. The second suspect fled
the scene.
-September 28, 2010: A student opened fire on the University of Texas campus in Austin before killing himself. He fired
shots from an AK-47 outside the Perry-Castaneda Library in the southwest part of the campus, near MLK Boulevard.
Campus police then followed the 19 year-old sophomore to the sixth floor building, where he shot and killed himself.
-September 24, 2010: Shooting involving Seton Hall University student. An off-campus party attended mostly by
students ended with the death of Seton Hall sophomore and several others shot and wounded. An uninvited guest crashed
the party and when confronted, a fight broke out. He returned a short time later with a gun and began shooting. (NOT ON
CAMPUS).
-September 8, 2010: A non student from out of town was shot as he ran away from an attempted robbery by two non
students (one of whom had invited him to party with her). This occurred in a parking lot on the Colorado State University
campus in Fort Collins, CO. The male that was shot had a minor injury to his arm. After investigation the male shooter
was apprehended and charged with attempted murder and attempted robbery.
-April 18, 2010: A Frostburg State University student is accused of shooting two fellow students, one of them fatally,
with a shotgun after a fight that began at an off-campus party. A suspect has been charged with first-degree murder and
first-degree attempted murder. He is accused of firing two rounds from a 12-gauge shotgun, striking two of his fellow
students in the abdomen. One victim was killed and one survived. (NOT ON CAMPUS).
-March 13, 2010: The incident occurred at about 1 a.m. outside Duke University Hospital's main entrance on Erwin Road
and Fulton Street. The shooting resulted from an “altercation” between the man and the two DUPD officers.
-March 9, 2010: A custodial employee at Ohio State University (OSU), suspected of shooting two co-workers in the
university’s maintenance building Tuesday, has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. One of the victims was
pronounced dead at the scene.
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-February 16, 2010: Three University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) employees were killed and three were wounded
in an on-campus shooting Feb. 12. Five of the victims were faculty members and one was a staff member.
-February 5, 2010: Temple University. On Wednesday, February 3, Temple students and neighborhood residents could
hear rounds of gunshots being fired in the direct perimeter of Temple’s campus. On 18th and Montgomery, an armed
robbery of three intruders took place at around 6 p.m. As police went to break up the home invasion, the intruders began
shooting at the police outside, who then returned fire.
-January 25, 2010: A University of Minnesota student was shot in his abdomen outside of his residence hall and treated
for non-life threatening. Although the shooting victim was not robbed, just prior to the shooting the two suspects also
robbed two other students across the street. Neither suspect was affiliated with the University and it appeared they came
to the campus solely to commit crimes. One suspect was charged and convicted in the robbery case.
-December 8, 2009: There was a shooting incident at the Woodbridge Campus of Northern Virginia Community College
(NOVA) that occurred today at approximately 2:40 p.m. At this time, there are no injuries reported from the incident.
-November 20, 2009: A vehicle occupied by four individuals, two white males in the front seat and two white females in
the rear seat, drove through the Coral Gables Campus in Florida around the Hecht-Stanford Dining Hall/ Wellness Center
areas and fired a BB gun multiple times from a rolled down window. No one was injured.
-September 3, 2009- Spelman College. A Spelman College student was killed and a Clark-Atlanta student wounded
during a shooting early Thursday on the Clark-Atlanta campus.
-September 3, 2009: Police arrested three young men and charged them with attempted murder after a shooting at a
Skyline Junior college in California left an 18-year-old wounded. The shooting erupted during a fight in a parking lot. One
victim was injured in the incident.
-July 25, 2009: Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton went into lockdown mode early Wednesday morning
after two shots were fired at about 1.15am at a party in the University Village Apartments. One person was injured.
-July 23, 2009: Gunfire erupted at and near the campus of the Texas Southern University (TSU) in Houston. It happened
just before 9 p.m. local time when shots were fired from a car near the Trae Day concert at the TSU campus. The event
had just ended when the incident began. Dozens of gunshots rang out. The spokeswoman confirmed that a total of six
people had been shot. All six were in serious but stable condition and their injuries are not life-threatening.
-May 19, 2009: An unidentified youth was shot at 5 pm local time at Harvard University. The incident took place at the
entrance of the Kirkland House dormitory. One victim was injured.
-May 6, 2009: Wesleyan University in Connecticut. A student was shot to death in a University owned bookstore off
campus. The university’s Website said the gunman, who is still at large, had no connection to Wesleyan but had written
threats in his journals about “Wesleyan and/or its Jewish students,” according to the local police. (NOT ON CAMPUS)
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-April 10, 2009: Two people were shot and killed Friday at Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn, Michigan, in
what police believe was a murder-suicide, an official said. A man and woman were found dead in a classroom building on
the campus.
-April 2, 2009: Radford University in Radford, Virginia. A shooting of a student occurred near the campus. The
unidentified student was shot in a residence on Calhoun Street just off campus grounds. (NOT ON CAMPUS)
-October 26, 2008: The University of Central Arkansas Police Department received a call at 9:19 p.m. reporting shots
fired. At the same time, a UCA police officer heard the shots and responded immediately. The incident occurred outdoors
between Arkansas Hall and the Snow Fine Arts Center. One victim, a UCA student, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Two other injured victims were transported to Conway Regional Medical Center. One of those victims, also a UCA
student, died at the hospital. The other victim, who was not a UCA student, was treated and eventually released from the
hospital.
-June 17, 2008: Temple University. A 19-year-old woman was in critical condition today after she was shot during a
domestic dispute last night near the Temple University campus. (NOT ON CAMPUS)
-Feb. 14, 2008: A former graduate student at Northern Illinois University in Dekalb opens fire in a lecture hall, killing
five students and wounding 17 others. He then commits suicide.
-Feb. 8, 2008: Latina Williams, 23, opens fire during an emergency medical technology class at Louisiana Technical
College in Baton Rouge, killing Karsheika Graves and Taneshia Butler. She then kills herself.
-Dec. 13, 2007: Two Ph.D. students from India are found shot to death in a home invasion at an apartment on the campus
of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
-December 9, 2007: A man armed with an assault rifle and two pistols, entered the foyer of the New Life Church in
Colorado Springs and fatally shot two and wounded three others before being shot and wounded by a former sworn
Colorado police officer and a church member acting as security. The subject then took his own life. Rampart Range
Campus of Pikes Peak College (PPCC) shares a parking lot with the church and the lot separates the two campuses.
Campus police were the first on the scene.
-Oct. 1, 2007: University of Memphis football player Taylor Bradford, 21, who had been rumored to have won more than
US$3,000 at a casino, is fatally shot on campus in a botched robbery. Four men are later charged in the slaying, including
one student.
-Sept. 21, 2007: Two students are wounded at a late-night shooting at a campus dining hall at Delaware State University
in Dover. Shalita K. Middleton, 17, dies Oct. 23 from her injuries. A student is charged in the shooting.
-April 16, 2007: Cho Seung-Hui, 23, fatally shoots 32 people in a dorm and a classroom at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg,
Virginia then kills himself in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
-April 2, 2007: A 26-year-old researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle is shot to death in her office by her
ex-boyfriend. Jonathan Rowan, 41, then kills himself.
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-September 17, 2006: Two teenagers who had attended a dance on campus at Duquesne University exchanged words
with a Duquesne basketball player and his teammates after the event. As the group turned to leave, the visitors began
firing 9mm semi-automatic and a .38 revolver at their targets, seriously wounding three and injuring two others.
-September, 13, 2006: The Dawson College shooting occurred at Dawson College, a CEGEP in Westmount near
downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The perpetrator, Kimveer Gill, began shooting outside the de Maisonneuve
Boulevard entrance to the school, and moved towards the atrium by the cafeteria on the main floor. One victim died at the
scene, while another 19 were injured, eight of whom were listed in critical condition with six requiring surgery. The
shooter later committed suicide by shooting himself in the head, after being shot in the arm by police
-September 2, 2006: Douglas W. Pennington, 49, kills himself and his two sons, Logan P. Pennington, 26, and Benjamin
M. Pennington, 24, during a visit to the campus of Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
-September 24, 2004: On Friday, Sept. 24, 2004, Officer James L. Davis, Jr. was killed in the line of duty by a subject
who grabbed his weapon off of his holster and shot him. Davis was investigating a report of a suspicious person outside of
the Hinkle Fieldhouse on the Butler University campus.
-October 28, 2002: University of Arizona. A student shot and killed three female professors and then himself.
-January 16, 2002: Graduate student Peter Odighizuwa, 42, recently dismissed from Virginia's Appalachian School of
Law, returns to campus and kills the dean, a professor and a student before being tackled by students. The attack also
wounds three female students.
-August 28, 2000: James Easton Kelly, 36, a University of Arkansas graduate student recently dropped from a doctoral
program after a decade of study, and John Locke, 67, the English professor overseeing his coursework, are shot to death in
an apparent murder-suicide.
-August 15, 1996: Frederick Martin Davidson, 36, a graduate engineering student at San Diego State, is defending his
thesis before a faculty committee when he pulls out a handgun and kills three professors.
-November 1, 1991: Gang Lu, 28, a graduate student in physics from China, reportedly upset because he was passed over
for an academic honor, opens fire in two buildings on the University of Iowa campus. Five University of Iowa employees
are killed, including four members of the Physics Department; two other people are wounded. The student fatally shoots
himself.
There is also a list of attacks related to post-secondary schools on Wikipedia. These are attacks that have occurred on
school property or related primarily to school issues or events. A broad definition of the word attacks is used for this list
so as to include public attacks or one's self http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_attacks_related_to_postsecondary_schools
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