Guns On Campus

  • University of Texas-Charles Whitman

    University of Texas-Charles Whitman
    UT Sniper Charles Whitman points a rifle from the observation deck of the University of Texas at Austin's Tower and begins shooting in a homicidal rampage that goes on for 96 minutes. Sixteen people were killed, and 31 others were wounded.
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    Campus Shootings

  • Kent State

    Kent State
    KSU Four students were killed and nine wounded by National Guard troops called in to quell anti-war protests on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio.
  • University of Iowa

    Lu Graduate student in physics from China,Gang Lu, 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 were killed, including four members of the physics department, two other people were wounded. Lu then shot himslef.
  • San Diego State

    Graduate engineering student Frederick Martin Davidson he pulls out a handgun and kills three professors, while defending his thesis.
  • University of Arkansas

    University of Arkansas graduate student James Easton Kelly after being dropped from a doctoral program after a decade of study shot John Locke, the English professor overseeing his coursework. He then took shot himself.
  • Appalachian School of Law

    Odighizuwa Graduate student Peter Odighizuwa, 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. Three others were wounded.
  • University of Arizona

    University of Arizona
    Flores University of Arizona Nursing College student and Gulf War veteran Robert Flores walks into an instructor's office and fatally shoots her.Minutes later, armed with five guns, he enters one of his nursing classrooms and kills two more of his instructors before fatally shooting himself.
  • Virginia Tech

    Virginia Tech
    VT Shooting Student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people and wounded many others on the Virginia Tech campus before committing suicide. The massacre is one of the deadliest shooting rampages by a single gunman in U.S. history.
  • University of Texas-Tooley

    University of Texas-Tooley
    <a href='http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/state/article/Gunshots-terrorize-UT-Austin-678658.php' >Tooley UT student Colton Tooley fires several rounds near the southwest edge of campus before entering the library and shooting himself.