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A Decade of School Shootings

  • Columbine Shooting

    Columbine Shooting
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    The shootings were carried out by Eric Harris, age 18, and Dylan Klebold, age 17. In less than 20 minutes they killed 12 fellow students and a teacher and wounded 21 others.
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    A Decade of School Shootings

  • Buell Elementary School Shooting

    Buell Elementary School Shooting
    More details about shooting Six-year-old Dedric Darnell Owens fatally shot classmate Kayla Renee Rolland in a stairwell before he was taken into police custody.
  • Santana High School Shooting

    Santana High School Shooting
    More details about shooting Charles Andrew "Andy" Williams fatally shot two students and thirteen others were wounded. Williams is currently serving life in prison without the possibility of parole for 50 years.
  • Red Lion Area Junior High School Shooting

    Red Lion Area Junior High School Shooting
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    14-year-old James Sheets fatally shot his school principal in the chest with a gun and then shot himself in the head
  • Southwood Middle School Shooting

    Southwood Middle School Shooting
    More details on shootingeighth-grader Jaime Rodrigo Gough was stabbed to death in a second-floor bathroom by classmate Michael Hernandez
  • Red Lake High School Massacre

    Red Lake High School Massacre
    More details about the shooting16-year-old Jeffrey Weise (Ojibwe) killed his grandfather and his grandfather's girlfriend. He then drove to Red Lake Senior High School where he shot and killed seven people, beginning with an unarmed security guard at the entrance, and wounded five others. The dead included a teacher and five students. He later committed suicide in a vacant classroom.
  • Georgetown Amish School Massacre

    Georgetown Amish School Massacre
    More details on shootingGunman Charles Carl Roberts IV took hostages and shot ten girls (aged 6–13), killing five, before committing suicide in the schoolhouse.[
  • Virginia Tech Massacre

    Virginia Tech Massacre
    More info on shooting and victimsSeung-Hui Cho, a senior at Virginia Tech, shot and killed 32 people and wounded 17 others before committing suicide. Another six people were injured escaping from classroom windows.
  • Northern Illinois University Shooting

    Northern Illinois University Shooting
    More details on shootingSteven Kazmierczak shot multiple people on the campus of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, killing five people and injuring another twenty-one, before committing suicide.
  • University of Alabama in Huntsville Shooting

    University of Alabama in Huntsville Shooting
    More details on shooting Amy Bishop Anderson, a biology professor, shot and killed three of her colleagues and wounded three others during a faculty meeting.
  • Oikos University Shooting

    Oikos University Shooting
    More details about shootingOne Goh shot to death seven students and wounding three others in a classroom at Oikos University, a small Christian college.
  • Sandy Hook School Massacre

    Sandy Hook School Massacre
    More details on shootingAdam Lanza,age 20, fatally shot twenty children and six adult staff members in a mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the village of Sandy Hook in Newtown, Connecticut. Before driving to the school, Lanza had shot and killed his mother Nancy at their Newtown home. As first responders arrived, he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.