School Violence

  • Bath School Disaster

    Bath School Disaster
    link This massacre killed 38 school children, two teachers, four adults, and then himself. At least 58 people were injured. This was the deadliest act of mass murder that happened in a school in U.S. history. The bomber was the school board treasurer. He did this because he was upset about property taxes got raised because they were going to build a new school building and he blamed them for his own finanical hardships.
  • Jonesboro Ark Shooting

    Jonesboro Ark Shooting
    link Mitchell Johnson, 10, and Andrew Golden, 8, take seven guns to school near Jonesboro, Ark. They pull the fire alarm and start shooting as everyone exits the school, killing four students and one teacher as well as injuring nine others.
  • Columbine Massacre

    Columbine Massacre
    Two high schoolers, Dylan Kiebold and Eric Harris shot many people during the middle of their school day. They were planning to kill hundreds of their peers. They were planning to kill them with guns, knives, and bombs. They killed 12 students and 1 teacher and they both killed themsleves. 21 were injured that day, and they still don't know why they did this.
  • Virgina Tech Shooting

    Virgina Tech Shooting
    linkA gunman opened fire in a Virginia Tech dorm and then, two hours later, shot up a classroom building across campus Monday, killing 32 people in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history. The gunman committed suicide, bringing the death toll to 33.
  • Red Lake High School Massacre

    Red Lake High School Massacre
    linkAt Red Lake Senior High School in Minnesota, 16-year-old student Jeff Weise opened fire, killing five fellow students, a teacher and a security guard. Prior to the rampage, he had shot his grandfather and his grandfather’s girlfriend. It later became apparent that Weise had visited neo-Nazi Web sites prior to the shooting.
  • Hillsborough Shooting

    Hillsborough Shooting
    A high school student kills his father and then injures two students when he opens fire at his high school. Guns and bombs are found in his car. It is later discovered that the student had e-mailed Columbine High School's principal telling him that it was time for the world to remember what happened at Columbine.
  • Chardon High School Shooting

    Chardon High School Shooting
    T.J. Lane was the shooter. He killed 3 people and he wonded 2 of them. No one knows exactly why he did what he did. Everyone was in the cafeteria early one morning eating breakfast and then all of a sudden he just started to shoot. There's a video of a one of the students and a cafeteria worker that recounts the day of the shooting.
    http://www.cleveland.com/chardon-shooting/index.ssf/2012/04/chardon_high_school_cafeteria.html