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Moses Lake, Washington (Junior High)
Two students and one teacher killed, one other wounded when 14-year-old Barry Loukaitis opened fire on his algebra class. -
Bethel High School in Bethel, Alaska
Evan Ramsey was 16 when he walked into his school pulled out a .12 gauge shotgun. He had already shot his first victim, popular student and athlete, when a teacher came to the scene and told him to put the gun down. Ramsey shot and killed the principle before surrending to poilice. He said his main point in bringing a shotgun to school was because he was going to kill himself. -
Columbine High School
Two students of Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, entered the school and killed thirteen, including a teacher, while wounding twenty-six. Seventeen-year-old Eric Harris and eighteen-year-old Dylan Klebold had planned their shooting rampage long in advance. The shooting spree ended with the two shooters committing suicide. This was the bloodiest episode in school violence in U.S. history. -
Santana High School in Santee, California
A ninth grade student described as "...a kid that was picked on a lot..." killed two students and wounded at least 13 others at Santana High School. The freshman boy, Charles Williams, was arrested. Witnesses say he was smiling when he emerged from a restroom in the school's social sciences building with a gun where he had shot and killed the 2 victims, just before injuring 13 others. -
New York, N.Y. at Martin Luther King Jr. High School
Two students were in serious conditions after being gunned down in the hallway of their Manhattan, New York public school. The shooting occurred on what would have been Dr. King’s 73rd birthday. One was shot in the back and the other in the buttocks by a suspected gunman that was an 18-year-old who had not been attending school. The shooting may have been gang-related. -
Rocori High School in Cold Spring, Minnesota
Two students were killed by John Jason McLaughlin, 15. Authorities say McLaughlin initially shot the two boys in a hallway outside the weight room with a .22-caliber pistol, one from a range of about 10 feet and the other from about 50 feet. Authorities refused to identify a motive. -
Campbell County Comprehensive High School in Jacksboro, Tennessee,
A 15 year old high school student, Kenneth Bartley Jr., opened fire one afternoon on a principal and two assistant principals, killing one of the men before a teacher wrestled his weapon away. The student suspect allegedly slipped a gun under a napkin and fired at the administrators in a common area. The judge sentenced Kenneth Bartley Jr. to 45 years in prison for the single count of second-degree murder and two counts of attempted second-degree murder. -
Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech)
Seung-Hui Cho who was a senior at Virginia Tech, killed 32 people in a matter of a couple of hours. After the shootings he went to a nearby post office where he mailed a package containing things he had written as well as some video to NBC News, and then went on to kill himself. -
Madison, Alabama (Junior High)
At Discovery Middle School, a ninth-grader was shot by another student during a class change. Hammad Memon pulled out a gun and shot Todd Brown in the head while walking the hallway. Brown later died at Huntsville Hospital. -
Episcopal High School- Jacksonville, FL
Shane Schumerth, a 28-year-old teacher at Episcopal High School, returned to the campus after being fired and shot and killed the headmistress, Dale Regan, with an assault rifle just before committing suicide. Police say Shane Schumerth walked onto campus with the rifle hidden in a guitar case.
