List of school-related attacks

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This is a list of school-related attacks. 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 (suicide).

The list is divided into three main chronological sections according to school age: primary, secondary, and post-secondary. Additionally, a list is provided detailing foiled school-related attack plots that resulted in a conviction.

Contents 1 Primary school incidents 2 Secondary school incidents 3 College and university school incidents 4 Foiled or exposed plots 5 See also 6 External links 7 References 7.1 Notes

[edit] Primary school incidents

Date	Location	Attacker(s)	Casualties[a]	Description
July 26, 1764	Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States	Four Lenape warriors	10–11 dead, 2 injured	Enoch Brown school massacre. On July 26, 1764, four Lenape American Indian warriors entered a log schoolhouse of white settlers in what is now Franklin County, Pennsylvania, near present-day Greencastle. Inside were the schoolmaster, Enoch Brown, and twelve young students. Brown pleaded with the warriors to spare the children before being shot and scalped. The warriors then began to tomahawk and scalp the children, killing nine or ten of them (reports vary). Two children who had been scalped survived.[1]
April 9, 1891	Newburgh, New York, United States	James Foster, 70	5 injured	70-year-old James Foster fired a shotgun at a group of male students in the playground of St. Mary's Parochial School, causing minor injuries to several of the students.[2]
October 6, 1902	Droyssig, Austria-Hungary	..., 40	4 dead, 3 injured	A schoolmaster killed three children and injured another three, when he suddenly drew a revolver from his desk and shot at his pupils, before he himself was lynched by infuriated villagers.[3]
October 9, 1902	Altona, Manitoba, Canada	Henry I. Toews, 33	2 dead, 5 injured	After meeting with the board of trustees for showing extreme malice towards some of his pupils, school teacher Henry Toews shot the three school trustees and three of their children, one of them fatally, before fleeing from the school ground and shooting himself in the head. He died of this wound on January 19, 1903.[4][5]
May 18, 1927	Bath, Michigan, United States	Andrew Kehoe, 55	45 dead, 58 injured	Bath School disaster. School board member Andrew Kehoe set up a series of explosions in the Bath elementary school. That morning he killed his wife and detonated a bomb inside the school. As people amassed outside, Kehoe detonated his shrapnel-filled vehicle outside the school, in which he took his own life. The bombings constituted the deadliest act of mass murder in a school in U.S. history.
October 10, 1956	Terrazzano, Italy	Arturo Santato, 23 Egidio Santato, 21	1 dead, 4 injured	Arturo Santato, a former inmate of an asylum in Aversa, and his brother Egidio went into a school in Terrazzano, near Milan, carrying guns, dynamite and acid and took 96 children and three teachers hostage for about six hours. They demanded 200 millon lire for the release of their hostages or they would kill them. Using the children as shields they fired shots at people outside the school, killing one person and injuring another three. The hostage crisis ended when one teacher tackled Egidio, grabbed a knife and stabbed him in the head. The attack distracted the brothers long enough to give police time to storm the classroom without endangering the childrens lives.[6][7]
September 15, 1959	Houston, Texas, United States	Paul Harold Orgeron, 49	6 dead, 19 injured	Poe Elementary School attack. The morning that Paul Orgeron's second-grade son is denied enrollment, he detonates an explosive on the school playground during recess, killing himself; his son, Dusty; a teacher; a custodian and two seven-year-old boys. The school principal and 18 students aged six to ten are injured, many seriously.
February 2, 1960	Hartford City, Indiana, United States	Leonard O. Redden, 44	3 dead	Principal Leonard Redden shot and killed two teachers with a shotgun at William Reed Elementary School in Hartford City, Indiana, before fleeing into a remote forest, where he committed suicide.[8][9]
June 11, 1964	Cologne, Germany	Walter Seifert, 42	11 dead, 22 injured	Cologne school massacre. Armed with an insecticide sprayer converted into a flamethrower, a lance, and a homemade mace, 42-year-old Walter Seifert entered the Katholische Volksschule in Cologne, Germany, and opened fire on female students playing in the courtyard. He then knocked in classroom windows with his mace and fired inside. Eight children and two teachers died, and twenty children and two teachers suffered injuries of severe burns. After taking a cyanide pill, Seifert died the following day, while in custody.
May 8, 1970	Avivim, Israel	Palestinian militants	12 dead, 25 injured	Avivim school bus massacre. Palestinian terrorists belonging to the Syrian-sponsored Saeka organization attacked the community school bus of Avivim, killing nine children and three adults and wounding 25 other people, by firing two bazooka shells at the bus.[10]
January 17, 1974	Chicago, Illinois, United States	Steven Guy, 14	1 dead, 3 injured	14-year-old Steven Guy, apparently angry about being transferred to a social adjustment center, entered Clara W. Barton Elementary School in Chicago with a revolver and a pistol and killed the principal and wounded three others before he was seized by a teacher when both his guns jammed.
May 15, 1974	Ma'alot, Israel	DFLP, PLO	26 children killed, 60+ wounded, 3 hostage takers killed	Ma'alot massacre. A group of DFLP militants took around 90 school children hostage on the 15. May, 1974, at "Netiv Meir", an elementary school in Ma'alot, a community in northern Israel. Before the deadline at 6:00 p.m., the school was stormed by Israeli special forces, who killed all the hostage-takers. 26 hostages had been killed.
January 29, 1979	San Diego, California, United States	Brenda Ann Spencer, 16	2 dead, 9 injured	Armed with a .22-rifle, 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer opened fire at Cleveland Elementary School, killing two adults and wounding eight children and one police officer. Spencer was later apprehended after a six-hour stand-off, and she was asked of her motive for the killing, to which she shrugged and infamously replied "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day."
February 24, 1984	Los Angeles, United States	Tyrone Mitchell, 28	2 dead, 13 injured	At 2:23 p.m. 28-year-old Tyrone Mitchell began shooting at students leaving 49th Street Elementary School in Los Angeles with a 12-gauge shotgun and a rifle from a second-floor window of a building across the street. He killed a 10-year-old girl and wounded 11 other children, as well as a schoolyard supervisor and a passer-by. When police finally stormed the building they found Mitchell's body, who had killed him with the shotgun. Mitchell had lost his parents, grandmother, brother and four sisters in the Jonestown massacre.[11][12][13]
May 16, 1986	Cokeville, Wyoming, United States	David Young Doris Young	2 dead, 79 injured	Cokeville Elementary School hostage crisis. David Young, and his wife Doris Young, took 167 children and adults hostage at Cokeville Elementary School. After a two-and-a-half hour standoff, a gasoline bomb the couple was carrying went off prematurely, injuring Doris Young while David Young was out of the room. Returning to the scene, David Young shot his wife, and then himself. All the hostages escaped, though 79 were later hospitalized with burns and injuries.
May 20, 1988	Winnetka, Illinois, United States	Laurie Dann, 30	2 dead, 6 injured	Laurie Dann walked into a second grade classroom at Hubbard Woods Elementary School carrying a pistol and two revolvers and began shooting children, killing eight-year-old Nicholas Corwin and wounding five others before fleeing. She entered a nearby house where she had shot and wounded a 20-year-old man before killing herself.
September 26, 1988	Greenwood, South Carolina, United States	James William Wilson, 19	2 dead, 9 injured	James Wilson, 19, took a .22-caliber pistol to Oakland Elementary School where he shot and killed two students and injured six other students and two teachers.[14][15][16]
January 17, 1989	Stockton, California, United States	Patrick Purdy, 24	6 dead, 30 injured	Stockton massacre. Patrick Purdy shot and killed five schoolchildren, and wounded 29 other schoolchildren and one teacher, before committing suicide at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, California.
November 10, 1993	Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina,	Serbian Military	9 dead	Three to four bombs were detonated by the Serbian military at school at Sarajevo. Several children and a teacher were killed in the attack, other children were wounded.
March 13, 1996	Dunblane, Scotland, United Kingdom	Thomas Hamilton, 44	18 dead, 10 injured	Dunblane massacre. Unemployed former shopkeeper and Scout leader Thomas Hamilton walked into Dunblane Primary School armed with two 9 mm pistols and two .357 Magnum revolvers. He killed sixteen children and a teacher, and wounded 10 others before committing suicide. The subsequent police investigation revealed that Hamilton had loaded the magazines for his Browning with an alternating combination of fully metal jacketed and hollow point ammunition. This event led to the banning of handguns in the UK with the Firearms (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1997.
July 8, 1996	Blakenhall, Wolverhampton, England, United Kingdom	Horrett Campbell, 33	7 injured	Horrett Campbell, a 33-year-old man with paranoid schizophrenia, invaded a Teddy Bears' Picnic being held at St Luke's Primary School and slashed three young children and four adults with a machete. Lisa Potts, a 20-year-old nursery nurse, was awarded the George Medal for saving children's lives despite suffering severe injuries.
October 10, 1996	Queensland, Australia	Paul Streeton	1 injured	Paul Streeton set six year old Tjandamurra O'Shane on fire in the playground of his school, burning over 70% of his body. The motive was apparently racism due to the boy's aboriginal background.
February 29, 2000	Mount Morris Township, Michigan	Dedrick Owens, 6	1 dead	Owens took a .32 caliber pistol to Buell Elementary School from his uncle's home and used it to shoot and kill 6-year-old Kayla Rolland.
February 2, 2001	Red Lion, Pennsylvania, United States	William Stankewicz, 55	13 injured	William Stankewicz entered North Hopewell Winterstown Elementary School and brutally slashed two teachers and a principal with a machete. He then subsequently wounded several children in a kindergarten classroom before being subdued by a faculty member. [17]
June 8, 2001	Ikeda, Osaka, Japan	Mamoru Takuma, 37	8 dead, 15 injured	Osaka school massacre. Armed with a kitchen knife, a 37-year-old former janitor Mamoru Takuma trespassed into Ikeda Elementary School attached to Osaka-Kyoiku University and stabbed school children and teachers. 8 children were killed and 15 wounded, among those were 13 children and two teachers.
June 1, 2004	Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan	Unidentified girl, 11	1 dead	Sasebo slashing. An 11-year-old student, identified only as "Girl A," killed a 12-year-old classmate, Satomi Mitarai, by slitting her throat at Okubo Elementary School.
September, 2004	Suzhou, People's Republic of China	Yang Guozhu, 41	28 injured	A man armed with a knife and homemade explosives attacked 28 children at a kindergarten. [18]
September 1, 2004	Beslan, North Ossetia, Russian Federation	Chechen terrorists,	At least 386 dead, including 31 hostage takers. Over 700 injured.	Beslan school hostage crisis . A group of pro-Chechen armed rebels took more than 1,200 school children and adults hostage on September 1, 2004, at School Number One (SNO) in the town of Beslan, North Ossetia. On the third day of the standoff, gunfire broke out between the hostage-takers and Russian security forces.
February 14, 2005	Neyagawa, Japan	..., 17	1 dead, 2 injured	A 17-year-old boy stabbed two teachers and a school nutritionist with a kitchen knife at his former elementary school, killing one of the teachers.[19]
December 10, 2005	Uji, Japan	Yu Hagino, 23	1 dead	23-year-old teacher Yu Hagino stabbed 12-year-old Sayano Horimoto to death at a cram school in Uji, following a verbal dispute. Yu was sentenced to 18 years in prison in March 2007.[20]
October 2, 2006	Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States	Charles Carl Roberts, 32	6 dead, 5 injured	Amish school shooting. A 32-year-old milk-tank truck driver took hostages and eventually killed five girls (aged 7–13) and then killed himself at West Nickel Mines School, a one-room Amish schoolhouse.
March 18, 2007	Sabayoi, Songkhla, Thailand	Insurgents, 3 dead, several injured	3 dead	Insurgents attacked Bamrungsart Pondok School with firearms. Three children were killed. It was reported that it was Muslim insurgents who had attacked this Muslim school.
June 13, 2007	Chiling, China	Su Qianxiao, 42	1 dead, 3 injured	A nine-year-old boy was killed when Su Qianxiao, a 42-year-old villager from Chiling, stabbed four children with a kitchen knife at Chiling Primary School. He was caught by locals before he could commit suicide by jumping off the school's roof.[21]
February 7, 2008	Portsmouth, Ohio, United States	William Michael Layne, 46	1 dead, 2 injured	Layne, the estranged husband of a teacher at Notre Dame Elementary School, stabbed a bystander on the street prior to entering the school. He then walked into his wife's fifth grade classroom where he shot and stabbed her. Layne later shot and killed himself after a stand-off with police at his home.
November 12, 2008	Kandahar, Afghanistan	Ten Afghan militants	15 injured	Militants in Afghanistan attacked three separate groups of students and teachers by squirting acid on them while they were walking to the Mirwais Mena Girls' School in Kandahar. Fifteen people were injured in the acid attack.[22] Ten people were later arrested in connection to the attack, several of which confessed.[23]
January 7, 2009	Budapest, Hungary	Unknown	2 dead, 1 injured	A principal and a teacher were killed by a security guard and an administrator at a private elementary school in the 21 district of Budapest at 6:40PM. The guard afterwards shot himself in the hand to support claims the deed was the act of an unknown masked gunman. The perpetrators had been fired by the principal on suspicion of embezzling.[24]
March 3, 2009	Mazhan, China	Xu Ximei, 40	2 dead, 4 injured	40-year-old Xu Ximei, an allegedly mentally disabled woman, stabbed two boys, aged 4 and 6, to death with a kitchen knife and injured another three children, as well as the 76-year-old grandmother of one of her victims at the primary school of Mazhan village in Guangdong province. She was later found lying in a classroom and arrested.[25]

[edit] Secondary school incidents

Date	Location	Attacker(s)	Casualties[a]	Description
May 6, 1940	South Pasadena, California, United States	Verlin Spencer, 38	5 dead, 2 injured	After being removed as principal of South Pasadena Junior High School, Verlin Spencer shot six school officials, five fatally, before attempting to commit suicide by shooting himself in the stomach. He was later sentenced to five consecutive life terms and stayed in prison until 1970, when he was released on parole.[26][27]
May 4, 1956	Prince George's County, Maryland, United States	Billy Ray Prevatte, 15	1 dead, 2 injured	15-year-old student Billy Prevatte fatally shot one teacher and injured two others at Maryland Park Junior High School in Prince George's County after he had been reprimanded from the school.[28]
February, 1968	Huế, Vietnam	Viet Cong	170 dead	Hue Massacre. The Gia Hoi High School massacre took place during the invasion of Huế during the Vietnam War by the Viet Cong. Afterward, 170 bodies were recovered from the Gia Hoi High School yard alone.
November 3, 1971	Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States	Michael O'Hearn, 22	1 dead, 1 injured	Michael O'Hearn barricaded himself in a storage tower of Carlsbad Mid-High School, in Carlsbad, New Mexico, for about two hours with two firearms. He fired about two dozen rounds at police officers, injuring one, before committing suicide.[29]
December 30, 1974	Olean, New York, United States	Anthony Barbaro, 17	3 dead, 11 injured	Olean High School shooting. 17-year-old student Anthony Barbaro indiscriminately shot at people on the street from windows at the third floor of the school building. Three people were killed and another 11 injured during the attack, before police managed to subdue him.[30]
May 28, 1975	Brampton, Ontario, Canada	Michael Slobodian, 16	3 dead, 13 injured	Centennial Secondary School shooting. Michael Slobodian, 16, killed a teacher and student and wounded 13 others at Brampton Centennial Secondary School in Brampton, Ont., before shooting himself.
October 27, 1975	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada	Robert Poulin, 18	3 dead, 5 injured	St. Pius X High School shooting. 18-year-old Robert Poulin opened fire on his class with a shotgun at St. Pius X High School, killing one and wounding five before turning the gun on himself. Poulin had raped and stabbed his 17-year-old friend Kim Rabot to death prior to the shooting.
March 19, 1982	Las Vegas, Nevada, United States	...	1 dead, 3 injured	Clarence Piggott, a 55-year-old psychology and sociology teacher, was shot to death and two students were wounded by a high school senior who was later wounded by the police. The teacher was shot in the heart shortly before classes began at 8:00 a.m. at Valley High School.[31]
January 20, 1983	St. Louis County, Missouri, United States	David F. Lawler, 14	2 dead, 1 injured	14-year old David F. Lawler brings two family owned pistols to school in a blue duffel bag and opens fire on two classmates at 11:55 a.m., killing one and injuring the other. He turns one of the guns on himself and takes his own life. See Parkway South Junior High School killings for more information.
January 21, 1985	Goddard, Kansas, United States,	James Kearbey, 14	1 dead, 3 injured	14-year old James Kearbey, a student at Goddard Middle School, arms himself with an M1-A semiautomatic rifle and a .357-caliber handgun and fatally shoots his principal and wounds three teachers. [32]
December 10, 1985	Portland, Connecticut, United States	Floyd Warmsley, 13	1 dead, 2 injured	13-year-old student Floyd Warmsley fatally shot a school custodian, wounded the principal and school secretary, and held a student hostage with a rifle at Portland Junior High School in Portland, Connecticut after he had been suspended for refusing to take off his hat while in school. He was arrested after his aunt convinced him to surrender.[33]
December 4, 1986	Lewistown, Montana, United States	Kristopher Hans, 14	1 dead, 3 injured	14-year old Kristofer Hans, angry over a failing grade, shoots and kills a substitute teacher for a French classroom, and then later wounded a vice principal and two students. [34]
March 2, 1987	Missouri, United States	Nathan Ferris, 12	2 dead	After constant teasing and humiliation about his weight, Nathan Ferris armed himself with a pistol and killed a fellow student after he bullied him in class. He then turned the gun on himself. [35]
December 16, 1988	Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States	Nicholas Elliott, 16	1 dead, 1 injured	Nicholas Elliott came to Atlantic Shores Christian School armed with a firearm an adult relative purchased for him. He shot two teachers, one fatally, before barging into a portable classroom full of students. The gun jammed and Elliott was tackled. When the teacher that tackled him demanded to know why, he said "They hate me. They make fun of me. They hit me." [36] [37]
January 24, 1989	Rauma, Finland	..., 14	2 dead	Two students were fatally shot by a 14-year old student at the Raumanmeri secondary school, in Rauma, Finland. The shooter had claimed to be a victim of bullying.[38]
September 21, 1990	Houston, Texas, United States	..., 16	1 dead	A 16-year-old girl fatally stabbed her classmate, 18-year-old Anthony Johnson, in the upper back with a hunting knife in a classroom at Jesse H. Jones High School, in Houston, Texas; Johnson later died at Ben Taub Hospital. The suspect was then placed in the Harris County Juvenile Probation Department. It was reported that the possible motive was the victim making an insulting comment about the suspect's clothing.[39][40]
November 14, 1991	Houston, Texas, United States	..., 16	1 injured	18-year-old Francisco Contreras was shot four times in his feet and leg outside the cafeteria of Milby High School, in Houston, Texas, by a 16-year-old student, who was arrested afterward.[41]
May 1, 1992	Olivehurst, California, United States	Eric Houston, 20	4 dead, 10 injured	Armed with a pistol, 20-year-old Eric Houston took hostages at his former high school, killing four people and wounding 10. His motive was his inability to find a good job due to the fact that he had failed a grade at school. He was given the death penalty for the shooting.
May 14, 1992	Napa, California, United States	John McMahan, 14	2 injured	Armed with a .357-caliber pistol, 14-year-old student John McMahan opened fire in a science classroom, wounding two.[42]
January 18, 1993	Grayson, Kentucky United States	Scott Pennington, 17	2 dead	Scott Pennington shot and killed teacher Deanna McDavid and custodian Marvin Hicks after entering McDavid's classroom at East Carter High School. Pennington was later found guilty of the murders and sentenced to life imprisonment. [3]
February 22, 1993	Los Angeles, California, United States	Robert Heard, 15	1 dead	15-year-old Robert Heard shot and killed 17-year-old Michael Shean Ensley in a corridor of Reseda High School.[43]
December 1, 1993	Wauwatosa, Wisconsin United States	Leonard McDowell, 21	1 dead	The 21-year-old former student at Wauwatosa West High School shot Associate Principal Dale Breitlow three times with a .44-cal. Taurus revolver in a second-floor hallway. McDowell was found guilty of the murder and sane at the time of the shooting. His life sentence was upheld by the state Court of Appeals in April, 1997. [44]
March 25, 1994	Cherokee County, Georgia, United States	Brian Head, 15	1 dead	15-year old Brian Head shot and killed himself during his high school economics class at Etowah High School. Head had been a longtime target for bullies because of his weight and thick glasses. His father, Bill, subsequently successfully lobbied for a law that criminalized bullying and required schools to alert parents of bullied children.
March 28, 1994	Acklam, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom	Stephen Wilkinson, 29	1 dead, 2 injured	Stephen Wilkinson burst in to a mathematics classroom at Hall Garth Community Arts College and stabbed three children, including 12 year old Nikki Conroy who later died from her injuries.[45]
May 26, 1994	Union, Kentucky, United States	Clay Shrout, 17	4 dead	Clay Shrout kills his mother, father, and two younger sisters before embarking a hostage situation in a trigonometry classroom.[46]
June 17, 1994	Holywood, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom	Garnet Bell, 46	6 injured	A former pupil bearing a grudge entered an assembly hall at Sullivan Upper School and used a flamethrower to attack students taking A-Level examinations. Six were injured; three seriously.
October 12, 1994	Greensboro, North Carolina, United States	Nicholas Atkinson, 16	1 dead, 1 injured	Nicholas Atkinson, a 16-year old Grimsley High School student, returned to campus after being suspended. He proceeded to shoot and wound the assistant principal with a 9 mm handgun before committing suicide.
November 7, 1994	Wickliffe, Ohio, United States	Keith A. Ledeger, 37	1 dead, 3 injured	Wickliffe Middle School shooting. 37-year-old Keith A. Ledeger, a former student, entered Wickliffe Middle School in Wickliffe, Ohio with a 12 gauge shotgun. He shot and killed a custodian and wounded the assistant principal, a teacher and a police officer before being arrested.[47]
September 22, 1995	Jaffna District, Sri Lanka	Sri Lankan Air Force	34 dead, many injured	Nagerkovil school bombing, was carried out by the Sri Lankan Air Force in which 34 (at least) people died, most of them were ethnic Tamil school children. [48]
October 12, 1995	South Carolina, United States	Toby R. Sincino, 16	2 dead, 1 injured	After being suspended for making an obscene gesture, 16-year-old Toby Sincino shot and injured a math teacher, then shooting and killing another math teacher before turning the gun on himself.[42]
November 15, 1995	Lynnville, Tennessee, United States	Jamie Rouse, 17	2 dead, 1 injured	The Richland High School shooting occurred when 17-year-old Jamie Rouse walked into the school and shot two teachers in the head, killing one, armed with a .22 Remington Viper. He then fired at the assistant football coach but hit a 14-year-old freshman in the neck, killing her. Stephen Abbott was also charged with criminal responsibility for driving Rouse to school knowing he was armed and intended to shoot up his school.
December 8, 1995	Maida Vale, London, England, United Kingdom	Learco Chindamo, 15	1 dead	Headmaster Philip Lawrence was stabbed to death outside the gates of his school by 15-year-old Learco Chindamo at St George's Roman Catholic Secondary School in Maida Vale, London.
February 2, 1996	Moses Lake, Washington, United States	Barry Loukaitis, 14	3 dead, 1 injured	Armed with a high-powered hunting rifle and two handguns, 14-year-old Barry Loukaitis killed his algebra teacher and two students before taking hostages. He also shot a girl in the arm, who he released during the hostage situation. The incident ended when a teacher burst into the room and tackled him. Loukaitis is now serving life in prison.
February 8, 1996	Menlo Park, California, United States	Douglas Bradley, 16	1 dead, 3 injured	16-year-old student Douglas Bradley drove his vehicle on the campus of Mid-Peninsula High School in Menlo Park, California, and fired at students with a .38-caliber revolver, hitting one in the leg with a bullet and causing injury to two others from shattered glass. Bradley then shot himself in the head, dying the next morning at Stanford University Medical Center.[49][50]
March 25, 1996	Patterson, Missouri, United States	Anthony Gene Rutherford, 18, Jonathan Moore, 15, Joseph Burris, 15	1 dead	One student had been shot and killed by an 18-year old and two 15-year old students in a rural Christian reform school.
February 19, 1997	Bethel, Alaska, United States	Evan Ramsey, 16	2 dead, 2 injured	Armed with a pump-action 12 gauge shotgun, Evan Ramsey killed a student and the principal of Bethel High School, and wounded two others. He is now serving a 210 year sentence.
March 30, 1997	Asbahi township, Yemen	Mohammad Ahman al-Nazari, 48	6 dead, 13 injured	Sana'a school shooting. Mohammad Ahman al-Nazari, 48, conducted a massacre at Tala'i Private School in the Asbahi township. Armed with an illegaly obtained Kalashnikov assault rifle he waited for the headmistress and killed her by shooting her in the head. After killing a cafeteria worker and injuring a bus driver who came to help he entered the school building and walked from classroom to classroom, shooting indiscriminately at teachers and students. Subsequently he went to nearby Musa Bin Nusayr School where he continued his rampage, that left a total of six people dead and 12 others wounded, before he himself was injured and arrested.[51]
October 1, 1997	Pearl, Mississippi, United States	Luke Woodham, 16	3 dead, 7 injured	Student 16-year-old Luke Woodham stabbed and beat his mother to death, then took a .30-30 lever-action deer hunting rifle to Pearl High School where he shot into a crowd of students, killing his ex-girlfriend Christina Menefee and her friend Lydia Kay Dew and wounded seven other students. The incident was ended when Vice Principal Joel Myrick took his personal .45 Colt handgun out of his vehicle and brandished it at Luke Woodham. Woodham later claimed that he did not remember killing his mother.
December 2, 1997	West Paducah, Kentucky, United States	Michael Carneal, 14	3 dead, 5 injured	A 14-year old high school freshman opened fire on a prayer circle at his school killing three students and injuring five.
December 15, 1997	Stamps, Arkansas, United States	Joseph Todd, 14	2 injured	14-year old Joseph Todd launched a sniper attack at his school that left two students wounded.
March 24, 1998	Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States	Mitchell Johnson, 13 Andrew Golden, 11	5 dead, 10 injured	Jonesboro massacre. 13-year-old Mitchell Johnson and 11-year-old Andrew Golden set off the fire alarm in their Jonesboro school and then, from the woods, open fire on classmates and teachers as they flee the building. Four female students and a teacher are killed, with nine other students and a teacher being wounded in the incident.
April 24, 1998	Edinboro, Pennsylvania, United States	Andrew Wurst, 14	1 dead, 3 injured	14-year-old Andrew J. Wurst went to the school graduation dance where he shot and killed a popular science teacher. He subsequently opened fire on more students, wounding another teacher and two classmates before he ran out of ammunition.
May 19, 1998	Fayetteville, Tennessee, United States	Jacob Davis, 18	1 dead	Three days before graduation, 18-year-old Jacob Davis shoots and kills a 17-year old student in the parking lot of his school after a dispute regarding his girlfriend.
May 21, 1998	Springfield, Oregon, United States	Kip Kinkel, 15	4 dead, 25 injured	Kip Kinkel opened fire with a .22 rifle at Thurston Senior High School, killing 2 students and wounding 25 before being tackled by a wounded student. His parents were later found at home, murdered by Kinkel. He is now serving 111 years in prison without parole.
April 20, 1999	Jefferson County, Colorado, United States	Eric Harris, 18 Dylan Klebold, 17	15 dead, 25 injured	Columbine High School massacre. Two teenage students, Eric Harris -- carrying a carbine rifle and a sawed-off pump-action shotgun -- and Dylan Klebold -- carrying a TEC-9 pistol and a sawed-off 12 gauge double-barreled shotgun -- shot and killed 12 students and 1 teacher, and injuring twenty-one other students and a teacher. Two more students and a teacher were injured escaping. Both were armed with numerous pipe bombs, napalm, knives, and other homemade explosives. They caused $15 million worth of damage to the school, which had to be renovated. Two propane time-bombs (which only one partially detonated) were set in the school cafeteria. Ten of the 12 students killed were shot at nearly point-blank range while hiding under tables in the school library in seven minutes by the two shooters. After their rampage, Harris and Klebold died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head. Both are believed to have committed suicide simultaneously and both bodies were found in the back of the library together. Columbine is located in the Columbine CDP of Jefferson County, near the cities of Denver and Littleton.
April 28, 1999	Taber, Alberta, Canada	Todd Cameron Smith, 14	1 dead, 1 injured	W. R. Myers High School shooting. In both the first school shooting since the Columbine shootings and the first Canadian school shooting in over seven years, Todd Cameron Smith brought a sawn-off .22 rifle to W.R Myers High School and shot two students, killing one.
May 20, 1999	Conyers, Georgia, United States	T.J. Solomon, 15	6 injured	15-year old T.J. Solomon, armed with a .22-caliber rifle and a handgun, opened fire at Heritage High School, wounding six students.
October 20, 1999	Houston, Texas, United States	Estanislao Balderas, 14	1 dead	Balderas stabbed a 13-year-old boy named Samuel Avila in the head with a screwdriver in a fight at Deady Middle School. Samuel Avila died. Balderas was arrested and prosecuted.
November 19, 1999	Deming, New Mexico, United States	Victor Cordova, Jr., 12	1 dead	12-year old Victor Cordova Jr. dressed in camouflage and shot and killed 13-year old Araceli Tena. Tena died a day later from sustained wounds in life support.
December 6, 1999	Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, United States	Seth Trickey, 13	4 injured	13-year old Seth Trickey armed himself with a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun and opened fire of 15 rounds at Fort Gibson Middle School, injuring four classmates.
December 7, 1999	Veghel, Netherlands	Ali D., 17	5 injured	17-year old Ali D., of Kurdish origin, shot and injured five people at a school. He claimed he wanted to avenge the family honour by shooting his sister's boyfriend, who he believed had brought the family honour to disgrace. The boyfriend, three other students and a teacher were injured in the shooting. Ali D. was sentenced to five years in prison, his father was sentenced to eight years.
March 16, 2000	Brannenburg, Bavaria, Germany	..., 16	1 dead, 1 injured	A 16-year-old student fatally shot a teacher and then shot himself in an unsuccessful suicide attempt, and has been in a coma ever since.[52]
May 26, 2000	Lake Worth, Florida, United States	Nate Brazill, 13	1 dead	One teacher, Barry Grunow, had been shot and killed at Lake Worth Middle School by 13-year old Nate Brazill with .25-caliber semiautomatic pistol on the last day of classes. Brazill was convicted of the murder and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison.
January 18, 2001	Bromma, Stockholm, Sweden	..., 17 ..., 19	1 dead	A 16-year-old student was shot to death in a toilet facility of the Bromma Gymnasium, in Stockholm, Sweden. Two other students, ages 17 and 19, were charged with the murder.[53]
March 5, 2001	Santee, California, United States	Charles Andrew Williams, 15	2 dead, 13 injured	Armed with a .22-caliber revolver, 15-year-old Charles Andrew Williams opened fire in a male toilet facility at Santana High School in Santee, California, killing one student. Then exiting the restroom, Williams fired indiscriminately at nearby students, killing another student and wounding 13. Shortly afterward he retreated back into the restroom, where he surrendered to police. In June 2002, Williams was sentenced to 50 years in prison.
March 22, 2001	El Cajon, California, United States	Jason Hoffman, 18	5 injured	18-year-old student Jason Hoffman opened fire with a handgun and shotgun at Granite Hills High School, in El Cajon, California, wounding three students and two teachers.
March 26, 2001	Machakos, Kenya	Felix Mambo Ngumbao, 16, and Davies Otieno Onyango, 17	67 dead, 19 injured	Two students set fire to a dormitory at Kyanguli Secondary School located in Machakos, 30 miles southeast of Nairobi, after the final exam results were annulled and payment of their outstanding school fees was demanded. 67 people perished in the flames and another 19 were injured, including one of the perpetrators.[54][55]
March 30, 2001	Gary, Indiana, United States	Donald Ray Burt Jr., 17	1 dead	Donald Ray Burt Jr., a 17-year-old expelled student, shot and killed 16-year-old student Neal Boyd III in the parking lot of Lew Wallace High School, in Gary, Indiana.
November 12, 2001	Caro, Michigan, United States	Chris Buschbacher, 17	1 dead	17-year old Chris Buschbacher, armed with a .22-caliber rifle and a 20-gauge shotgun, took one teacher and one student hostage at the Caro Learning Center before killing himself.
January 15, 2002	New York, New York, United States	Vincent Rodriguez, 17	2 injured	17-year-old Vincent Rodriguez shot and wounded two students at Martin Luther King, Jr. High School in Manhattan, New York City, with a .380-caliber semi-automatic pistol. The possible motive was that the victims had harassed Rodriguez's girlfriend.[56][57]
April 26, 2002	Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany	Robert Steinhäuser, 19	17 dead, 7 injured	Erfurt massacre. 19-year-old Robert Steinhäuser, who was permanently expelled from school in October 2001, entered the Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt and shot 13 teachers, two students and a police officer. He then committed suicide.
April 30, 2002	Vlasenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina	Dragoslav Petkovic, 17	2 dead, 1 injured	17-year old Dragoslav Petkovic shot and killed his history teacher outside the school. He then made his way into the building where he shot and seriously injured another teacher. Petkovic then committed suicide inside the classroom with thirty students present.[58]
January 26, 2003	Suixi county, China	Chen Peiquan, 35	4 dead, 3 injured	Chen Peiquan, an English teacher with a history of mental problems, stabbed six students and a teacher in a dormitory at Yang Gan Middle School, killing four of them. He was arrested after fleeing to the roof of the building.[59][60]
April 14, 2003	New Orleans, Louisiana, United States	Steven Williams, James Tate[4]	1 dead, 4 injured	John McDonogh High School shooting. 15-year-old Jonathan Williams, a student and football player, was fatally shot while sitting on the bleachers in the gymnasium of John McDonogh Senior High School, by two men armed with an AK-47 assault rifle and a handgun. The two gunmen fired at least 18 rounds from their weapons, shattering Williams' face, and injuring three girls.
April 24, 2003	Red Lion, Pennsylvania, United States	James Sheets, 14	2 dead	Red Lion Area Junior High School shooting. 14-year-old student James Sheets, armed with .44 and .357-caliber revolvers and a .22-caliber pistol, shot and killed Principal Eugene Segro and then committed suicide in the school cafeteria of Red Lion Area Junior High School, in Red Lion, Pennsylvania.[61][62][63]
June 6, 2003	Amphoe Pak Phanang, Thailand	Anatcha Boonkwan, 17	2 dead, 4 injured	Two students were killed and another four injured at Pak Phanang school, when Anatcha Boonkwan shot at them with a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol he had stolen from his father. The shooting apparently was triggered by an argument he had with one of his victims, the day before.
July 2, 2003	Coburg, Bavaria, Germany	Florian K., 16	1 dead, 1 injured	A 16-year-old student, identified only as Florian K., fired at his teacher in his classroom, in a comprehensive school in Coburg, Germany. A second female teacher who struggled with the weapon was shot in the thigh and injured. K. then turned a second gun on himself and committed suicide.
September 24, 2003	Cold Spring, Minnesota, United States	Jason McLaughlin, 15	2 dead	Rocori High School shooting. 15-year-old Jason McLaughlin shot Aaron Rollins and Seth Bartell at Rocori High School with a .22- caliber pistol. Rollins died the same day; Bartell died October 10 of injuries sustained in the attack.[64]
January 13, 2004	Den Haag, The Netherlands	Murat Demir, 17	1 dead	Murat Demir shot Hans van Wieren, a 49-year-old teacher and vice principal at Stevincollege, also called Terra College by some. Van Wieren was taken to the hospital and died on January 13 in the evening as a result of his gun shot wound.
February 2, 2004	Washington, D.C., United States	Thomas J. Boykin, 19	1 dead	19 year old Thomas J. Boykin fatally shot 17 year old James Richardson at Ballou Senior High School. Boykin was later acquitted on the charge of murder. [65]
February 3, 2004	Palmetto Bay, Florida, United States	Michael Hernandez, 14	1 dead	14-year old Michael Hernandez stabbed and slit the throat of a 14-year-old classmate, Jaime Rodrigo Gough, while in a restroom at Southwood Middle School. Hernandez was tried as an adult, and sentenced to life in prison without parole. A search of his home revealed he had concocted plans to murder several classmates and his older sister. His journal revealed he was obsessed with perfection and Christianity, and admired Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.
May 24, 2004	Salt Lake City, Utah, United States	Federico Cervantes-Lavelle, 52	2 dead	Just after 6:00 A.M. on May 24, 2004, Federico Cervantes-Lavelle shot and killed his estranged wife, Marisela Lavelle, as she arrived at work at West High School in Salt Lake City. Cervantes-Lavelle then committed suicide.
September 28, 2004	Carmen de Patagones, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina	Rafael Solich, 15	4 dead, 5 injured	Armed with his father's 9 mm pistol, a 15-year-old student opened fire on his classmates during a flag-hoisting at Islas Malvinas Middle School Number Two in Carmen de Patagones, Argentina, killing four students and wounding 5 others.[66][67]
November 26, 2004	Ruzhou, China	Yan Yanming, 21	8 dead, 4 injured	With no apparent motive, an intruder stabbed eight students to death and injured four others at Ruzhou's Number Two High School in the sixth such incident in China in a four month period. [68]
March 2, 2005	Cumberland City, Tennessee, United States	Jason Clinard, 14	1 dead	14-year old Jason Clinard shot and killed school bus driver Joyce Gregory, who had been carrying a bus of approximately 24 students. [69]
March 21, 2005	Red Lake, Minnesota, United States	Jeffrey Weise, 16	10 dead, 12+ injured	Red Lake High School massacre. Jeffrey Weise, a student at Red Lake High School in Red Lake, Minnesota, killed his grandfather and his girlfriend before killing seven more people, comprising of five students, a teacher and an unarmed security guard. The attack concluded when Weise exchanged fire with police, and then retreated to a classroom where he fatally shot himself.
June 10, 2005	Hikari, Yamaguchi, Japan	..., 18	58 injured	An 18-year old student, whose name was not disclosed, threw a homemade bomb into a classroom at Hikari Senior High School, injuring 58 people, most of them slightly. The perpetrator later told police that the attack was directed against a group of students who had teased him for his shyness.[70]
November 8, 2005	Jacksboro, Tennessee, United States	Kenneth Bartley, Jr., 14	1 dead, 2 injured	After being confronted about bringing a gun on school property, 14-year old Kenneth Bartley opened fire on three school administrators at Campbell County High School, killing assistant principal Ken Bruce and critically wounding the principal and another assistant principal. The shooting was not premeditated.
January 13, 2006	Longwood, Florida, Florida, United States	Christopher David Penley, 15	1 dead	15-year-old Christopher Penley held his classroom at Milwee Middle School, in Longwood, Florida, Florida, gunpoint and holed himself in a restroom alcove, holding law enforcement at bay. He was eventually shot by a SWAT member, after raising the weapon at an officer. The weapon was a pellet gun.[71]
February 23, 2006	Roseburg, Oregon, United States	Vincent Wayne Leodoro, 14	1 injured	14-year-old Vincent Leodoro shot 16-year-old fellow student Joseph Monti in the back four times with a 10mm semi-automatic pistol, critically injuring him, in the courtyard of Roseburg High School in Roseburg, Oregon.
March 14, 2006	Reno, Nevada, United States	James Scott Newman, 14	2 injured	Pine Middle School shooting. 14-year-old student James Newman brought a .38-caliber revolver to Pine Middle School in Reno, Nevada, and shot and injured two students at random in the school's hallway before being restrained by a physical education teacher.[72][73] Newman was charged as a juvenile for two counts of battery with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to house arrest and 200 hours of community service.[74]
August 30, 2006	Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States	Alvaro Rafael Castillo, 19	1 dead, 2 injured	19-year-old Alvaro Rafael Castillo opened fire at Orange High School with a rifle and shotgun, shooting eight times and wounding two students. Officers ordered him to stop firing and he immediately complied. Castillo killed his father with a firearm before driving to school in a van. In the van police officers found ammunition, pipe bombs, and other weapons. Castillo will be charged with first-degree murder in the death of his father while charges for the school shooting are pending.
September 27, 2006	Bailey, Colorado, United States	Duane Morrison, 53	2 dead, 6 injured	A gunman, later identified as 53-year-old Duane Morrison of Denver, took six female students hostage at Platte Canyon High School. After sexually assaulting some of them, he released four of the hostages. When 16-year-old Emily Keyes tried to run away, Morrison shot her in the back of the head before killing himself. Keyes was flown to St. Anthony Central Hospital in Denver, where she died a short time later.
September 29, 2006	Cazenovia, Wisconsin, United States	Eric Hainstock, 15	1 dead	Eric Hainstock, 15, a freshman at Weston High School, brought a shotgun and a handgun to school and confronted the principal. The shotgun was wrestled away from him, but in a struggle over the handgun Hainstock shot the principal, who died later of his wounds. Hainstock had complained that the principal and teachers had failed to stop homophobic bullying directed at him. He also had recently received discipline for bringing tobacco to school and throwing a stapler at a teacher. Hainstock suffered from long term ADHD and abusive treatment at home. He was tried as an adult and sentenced to life in prison.
October 9, 2006	Joplin, Missouri, United States	Thomas White, 13	no injuries	A 13-year-old student fired a cheap imitation AK-47 inside his middle school after confronting two others students and his principal. The student was wearing a mask and had pointed the gun at the principal, the assistant superintendent and two students. After firing a shot into the ceiling and breaking a water pipe, the student's gun jammed when he attempted to fire additional shots. The student was then confronted by police officers and taken into custody. Officers also found a note in the student's backpack indicating that he had placed an explosive in the school (which has 700 students). No one was injured in the incident.
November 20, 2006	Emsdetten, Germany	Sebastian Bosse, 18	1 dead, 37 injured	An 18-year-old former student entered the Geschwister Scholl school in western Germany with two sawed off shotguns and a set of explosive devices. The rampage started when Bosse shot and wounded six people with the two sawed off shotguns. Police stormed the building, and the shooter released several smoke bombs as he retreated to the third floor, which caused injuries to people inside the school and police officers due to smoke inhalation. The suspect had then took his own life.
January 3, 2007	Tacoma, Washington, United States	Douglas S. Chanthabouly, 18	1 dead	18-year-old Douglas S. Chanthabouly shot 17-year-old Samnang Kok to death in one of the school's hallways due to a personal disagreement.
January 19, 2007	Sudbury, Massachusetts, United States	John Odgren, 16	1 dead	15-year-old James Alenson was stabbed to death with a knife in a high school washroom in the East House section by 16-year old John Odgren.
March 7, 2007	Midland, Michigan, United States	David Turner, 17	1 dead, 1 injured	17-year old David Turner shot and critically wounded 17-year old Jessica Forsyth four times outside Herbert Henry Dow High School before killing himself in the parking lot.
March 17, 2007	Sabayoi, Thailand	...	3 dead, 7 injured	A number of attackers threw explosives and fired numerous bullets at an Islamic school killing 3 teens and injured 7 others who were sleeping.[75]
April 10, 2007	Gresham, Oregon, United States	Chad Escobedo, 15	10 injured	High school freshman Chad Escobedo shoots the windows out of two classrooms from outside Springwater Trail High School injuring ten students with shrapnel and broken glass, two of which required stitches. His motive was to shoot at a class in which he was enrolled, unhappy that the instructor had called his parents; the classrooms he hit, however, were not his intended target [76].
April 18, 2007	Huntersville, North Carolina, United States	Josh Emerson Cook, 16	1 dead	A 16-year-old threatened two students in the parking lot at North Mecklenberg High School with a gun, and shortly afterwards, had shot himself at a local gas station when confronted by police.[77] Four Charlotte-Mecklenberg schools went on lockdown.
May 15, 2007	Maoming, China	Wu Jianguo, 17	2 dead, 4 injured	17-year-old Wu Jianguo stabbed six classmates with a knife at Dianbai County No. 3 Middle School, killing two of them.[78]
May 23, 2007	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Two juveniles, cannot be identifed by Canada's Youth Criminal Justice Act.	1 dead	15-year-old Jordan Manners was fatally shot near an indoor pool on the campus of C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute in Toronto, Ontario. Two juveniles were arrested in connection with the shooting, and cannot be identified under Canada's Youth Criminal Justice Act.
September 11, 2007	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Unknown	1 dead	Dineshkumar Murugiah, a 16-year-old student, was fatally stabbed in an alleyway siding Winston Churchill Collegiate Institute, in the Scarborough part of Toronto, Ontario. Murugiah was on lunch break during the stabbing, which occurred around 12:05 p.m. local time.[79][80] No suspects were ever sought in the stabbing.
September 28, 2007	Oroville, California, United States	Greg Dean Wright, 17	no injuries	17-year-old student Greg Wright held twenty-seven students and a teacher hostage in a classroom at Las Plumas High School, in Oroville, California, for about two hours before surrendering to law enforcement;[81] all but three of the hostages were released an hour within. Several shots were fired towards the air from Wright's weapon, a .22-caliber semi-automatic handgun, during the crisis.[82][83] Wright was tried and convicted in adult court on charges of false imprisonment and firearms offenses and was sentenced to 22 years in prison in January 2008.[84][85][86]
October 10, 2007	Cleveland, Ohio, United States	Asa H. Coon, 14	1 dead, 4 injured	SuccessTech Academy shooting. 14-year-old student Asa Coon, reportedly upset about a school suspension, went on a shooting spree at SuccessTech Academy, an alternative high school in Cleveland, Ohio, wounding two students and two teachers. He then fatally shot himself in a classroom.[87][88][89]
October 11, 2007	Amsterdam, Netherlands	Hüseyin P., 14	1 dead	A 14-year-old student, identified only as Hüseyin P., stabbed 16-year-old classmate Youssef Mokhtari to death at a school in the Slotervaart borough of Amsterdam, Netherlands. The victim had reportedly made a joke about the surname of the perpetrator.[90]
November 7, 2007	Tuusula, Finland	Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18	9 dead, 1 injured	Jokela school shooting. 18-year-old student Pekka-Eric Auvinen opened fire with a .22-caliber semi-automatic SIG Mosquito pistol at Jokela High School, in Tuusula, Finland. Six students, the school principal, and the school nurse were killed. The forty-minute attack ended when Auvinen shot himself in the head, later dying that evening at a Helsinki hospital.
December 11, 2007	Gurgaon, Haryana, India	Akash Vadav, 14; Vikas Yadav, 13	1 dead	14-year-old student Abhishek Tyagi was shot five times at the Euro International School, in Gurgaon, India. Two other students, 14-year-old Akash Vadav and 13-year-old Vikas Yadav, were charged in connection with the shooting.[91]
December 21, 2007	Union City, California, United States	Unknown	1 dead	Vernon Matthew Eddins, a 14-year-old student of James Logan High School, was shot to death at the doorstep of Barnard-White Middle School, in Union City, California.[63][92] Police issued that the shooting was prompted by an argument escalating between Latino and African-American groups of teenagers. No suspects were ever sought.[93][94]
January 8, 2008	Lower Alsace Township, Pennsylvania, United States	Ian Chimenko, 13	3 injured	13-year-old student Ian Chimenko stabbed three of his classmates in a clasroom at Antietam Middle-Senior High School, in Lower Alsace, Pennsylvania. Chimenko held faculty members at bay with a blowtorch before being subdued.
January 29, 2008	Mannar District, Sri Lanka	LTTE	17 dead, 14 injured	Madhu school bus bombing. An accidental explosion of a claymore mine planted by the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam), a Sri Lankan militant organization, targeting the armed forces, resulted in the deaths of 17 civilians, including 11 children on a school bus in the Mannar District. Sri Lanka is engaged in a war against LTTE, known for attacking and killing innocent civilians in many occasions throughout a period of more than 30 years of its' operation.[95]
February 12, 2008	Oxnard, California, United States	Brandon David McInerney, 14	1 dead	15-year-old Lawrence Fobes King was shot in the head twice by 14-year-old classmate Brandon McInerney in the E.O. Green Junior High School computer lab in Oxnard, California.[96] King was transported to St. John's Regional Medical Center in Oxnard under serious condition. Examiners declared King brain dead the following day.[97] It was suspected that the motivation of the shooting was McInerney suspecting King was gay, in which a hate crime charge was filed.[98]
February 25, 2008	Leizhou, Guangdong, China	Chen Wenzhen	3 dead, 4 injured	Chen Wenzhen, a school drop-out with mental illness, attacked six students with a knife at Leizhou No. 2 Middle School, in Leizhou, China, killing two of them. He then committed suicide by stabbing himself in the abdomen and jumping out of a window in the fifth floor.[99]
August 19, 2008	Krugersdorp, Gauteng, South Africa	Morné Harmse, 18	1 dead, 3 injured	Nic Diederichs Technical High School slashing. One student was killed and another student and two campus groundskeepers were wounded at Nic Diederichs Technical High School, in Krugersdorp, South Africa, after 18-year-old matrics student Morné Harmse had slashed them with a samurai sword.[100][101]
August 21, 2008	Cheonan, South Chungcheong, South Korea	Lee	1 dead	A 38-year-old school repairman, identified only as Lee, stabbed to death his boss, Kang, inside an administrative office at a high school in Cheonan, South Korea.[102]
August 21, 2008	Knoxville, Tennessee, United States	Jamar Siler, 15	1 dead	15-year-old Ryan McDonald was shot to death by 15-year-old fellow student Jamar Siler in the cafeteria of Central High School, in Knoxville, Tennessee.[103]
September 16, 2008	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Mark Deicsics, 18; Jermaine Williams, 16; two unidentified 16-year-old juveniles	1 injured	A 16-year-old student received a gunshot wound to the chest in the parking lot of the Bendale Business and Technical Institute, in Scarborough, Toronto, after a handgun was accidentally discharged during a botched robbery attempt involving several people. The victim was transported to Sunnybrook Hospital in critical condition, where he underwent emergency surgery.[104][105] Police arrested four suspects, including the victim and two other juveniles.[106]
October 31, 2008	Stockton Springs, Maine, United States	Randall Hofland, 55	no injuries	Eleven fifth-grade students were taken hostage in a classroom at Stockton Springs Elementary School, in Stockton Springs, Maine. The hostage situation ended within 30 minutes when the gunman surrendered to a state trooper. The hostage taker, 55-year-old Randall Hofland, was wanted by authorities for pointing a handgun at an officer during a traffic stop and then fleeing.[107][108]
November 12, 2008	Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States	Teah Wimberly, 15	1 dead	15-year-old student Amanda Collette was shot to death by her 15-year-old classmate, Teah Wimberly, in a hallway of Dillard High School, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.[109] The shooter was arraigned on the charge of first-degree murder.[110]
November 24, 2008	Cabaret, Haiti	..., 16	1 dead	A 16-year-old shot and killed a 13-year-old classmate in Cabaret, Haiti, before fleeing the scene.[111]
January 9, 2009	Chicago, Illinois, United States	Georgio Dukes, 18	5 injured	Five male teenagers leaving a basketball game held on the campus of Dunbar Vocational Career Academy, in the South Side area of Chicago, Illinois, received gunshot wounds after shots were fired from a passing vehicle. All five victims were sent to Chicago area hospitals, three of whom were treated for serious injuries.[112][113] Police arrested 18-year-old Georgio Dukes a week after the shooting on five counts of aggravated battery with a firearm. Police determined that the attack was gang-related.[114][115]
January 15, 2009	San Francisco, California, United States	..., 14	1 injured	A 14-year-old female student was struck eight times with a pair of scissors in a classroom at Marina Middle School, in San Francisco, California, by another 14-year-old female classmate. The victim suffered wounds to the head, arms, chest, and back and was treated at a local hospital.[116] The attacker was arraigned on charges of attempted murder and assault.[117]
March 3, 2009	Auckland, New Zealand	..., 17	1 injured	David Warren, a teacher at Avondale College, was stabbed in the back while writing on a whiteboard by a 17-year-old Korean exchange student studying at the school. Warren was transported to hospital with non-lifethreatening injuries.[118]
March 6, 2009	Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States	Terrance Donnell Johnson, Jr., 19	1 injured	A 15-year-old male was struck in the foot with a bullet at a parking lot of Westover High School, in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The shooting occurred when 19-year-old Terrance Donnell Johnson, Jr. fired several shots from a handgun at his opponents during a fashion show held at the school.[119]
March 11, 2009	Winnenden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany	Tim Kretschmer, 17	16 dead, 9 injured	Winnenden school shooting. 17-year-old graduate student Tim Kretschmer opened fire with a semi-automatic 9mm Beretta pistol in two classrooms at the Albertville-Realschule, in Winnenden, Germany, killing nine students and one teacher; another two teachers were shot to death in a hallway by Kretschmer as he fled the school. Kretschmer then killed a bystander outside a nearby psychiatric hospital, and fled by vehicle to Wendlingen, a neighboring town, where he killed two bystanders at a car dealership and instigated a gun-battle with police. Kretschmer committed suicide during the exchange of gunfire.[120][121][122]
March 30, 2009	Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	..., 17; ..., 19	1 dead	17-year-old student Nhlanhla Buthelezi died from stab wounds to the chest and back outside a classroom of Amakholwa High School, near Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. The two assailants, a 17-year-old student and his 19-year-old cousin, fled the school.[123]
April 29, 2009	Portmore, St. Catherine, Jamaica	..., 15	1 injured	The Dean of Discipline of Ascot High School, in Portmore, Jamaica, was stabbed in the neck while inside his office by a 15-year-old student at the school. The dean was treated at a local hospital and released.[124]
May 11, 2009	Sankt Augustin, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany	Tanja Otto, 16	1 injured	A 16-year-old student, Tanja Otto, entered the Albert Einstein gymnasium (high school), in Sankt Augustin, Germany, carrying knives, incendiary explosives, gunpowder, a flamethrower, and an air-powered pistol. Otto attempted to torch the school but was confronted by another student in the girls' restroom, who Otto then slashed in the hand. The victim's thumb was severed and she was treated a local hospital.[125][126][127] Otto subsequently fled the school, and was apprehended several hours later by police.[128]
May 18, 2009	Larose, Lousiana, United States	Justin Paul Doucet, 15	1 dead	Justin Doucet, a 15-year-old eighth grade student, fired one shot from a .25-caliber semi-automatic pistol above a teacher's head inside her classroom at Larose-Cut Off Middle School, in Larose, Louisiana, and then entered a restroom next door and shot himself through the chin.[129][130] Doucet was lifted by air to Terrebonne General Medical Center where he died five days later from head wounds.[131]
June 15, 2009	San Francisco, California, United States	Jacquez Tucker, 18; Unknown shooter	3 injured	Three people, including two students, were injured after several shots were fired into a crowd as a summer school class was just released at International Studies Academy High School, in San Francisco, California. The shooting occurred a block away from the campus.[132] Police arrested an 18-year-old as an accessory in the shooting. The gunman is currently at large.[133]
June 17, 2009	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	..., 16 ..., 17	5 injured	Four students and a teacher suffered stab wounds after a fight at St. Joseph Secondary School, a Catholic high school in Mississauga, Ontario. Two of the injured students were transported to Credit Valley Hospital with severe stab wounds.[134] A 16-year-old and a 17-year-old, both students, were later arrested and charged with attempted murder.[135]
June 24, 2009	Parkersburg, Iowa, United States	Mark Becker, 24	1 dead	Mark Becker entered Aplington-Parkersburg High School in Parkersburg, Iowa and shot football coach Ed Thomas in the school’s weight room. Thomas was airlifted to Covenant Medical Center in Waterloo where he died of his wounds. Becker was arrested and charged with first-degree murder.[136]

[edit] College and university school incidents

Date	Location	Attacker(s)	Casualties	Description
June 4, 1930	Cambridge, United Kingdom	Douglas Newton Potts, 19	3 dead	Student Douglas Potts shot dead Dr. Alexander Wollaston and Detective Sergeant Willis at King's College before committing suicide [137]
December 12, 1935	New York City, United States	Victor Koussow, 52	3 dead, 1 injured	Victor Koussow, a Russian laboratory worker at the School of Dental and Oral Surgery, shot dead Prof. Arthur Taylor Rowe, Prof. Paul B. Wiberg, and wounded Dr. William H. Crawford at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, before committing suicide.[138]
June 4, 1936	Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States	Wesley Crow	2 dead	Wesley Crow shot and killed his Lehigh University English instructor, C. Wesley Phy. Crow went to Phy's office and demanded that Mr. Phy change his grade to a passing mark. Crow committed suicide after shooting Phy. [139]
November 13, 1949	Columbus, Ohio, United States	James Heer	1 dead	Ohio State University freshman James Heer of Euclid, Ohio grabbed a .45 caliber handgun from the room of a Delta Tau Delta fraternity brother and shot and killed Jack McKeown, 21, of Norwood, Ohio, an Ohio State senior and fraternity brother. [140]
May 15, 1954	Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States	...	1 dead, 2 injured	Putnam Davis Jr. was shot and killed during a fraternity house carnival at the Phi Delta Theta house at the University of North Carolina. William Joyner and Allen Long were shot and wounded during the exchange of gunfire in their fraternity bedroom. The incident took place after an all-night beer party. Mr. Long reported to the police that, while the three were drinking beer at 7 a.m., Davis pulled out a gun and started shooting with a gun he had obtained from the car of a former roommate. [141]
August 1, 1966	Austin, Texas, United States	Charles Whitman, 25	18 dead, 31 injured	University of Texas Clock Tower shootings. After killing his wife and mother, Charles Whitman pointed a rifle from the observation deck of the University of Texas at Austin's Tower and began shooting for 96 minutes. He killed fifteen people and wounded 31 others before being shot dead by police. David Gunby was wounded in the shooting but died 35 years later after ceasing kidney dialysis treatments stemming from the shooting.
January 17, 1969	Los Angeles, California, United States	Claude Hubert, 21	2 dead	Two student members of the Black Panther Party, Alprentice Carter and John Huggins, were fatally shot during a student meeting inside Campbell Hall at the University of California, Los Angeles. The motive of the shooting regarded who would own the school's African American Studies Center. [142] The shooter, Claude Hubert, was never to be found but three other men were arrested in connection with the shooting.[143]
May 4, 1970	Kent, Ohio, United States	Ohio Army National Guard	4 dead, 10 injured	Ohio Army National Guard open fire on student protesters at Kent State University during an anti-Vietnam rally, killing 4 and wounding 10. See Kent State University shootings for more information.
May 14-15, 1970	Jackson, Mississippi, United States	Jackson Police Department and Mississippi Highway Patrol	2 dead, 12 injured	Jackson State killings. Police kill two and injure twelve students during student demonstrations against the Vietnam War.
February 19, 1976	Los Angeles, United States	Neil Jordan Liebeskind, 18	1 dead, 8 injured	During a test Neil Liebeskind, a student at a Los Angeles computer school, opened fire at his fellow students with a shotgun, killing one of them and wounding several others. When trying to escape, he was apprehended by Howard Barnes, a security guard working with a television crew filming nearby. When he was told to drop his gun, Liebeskind fired a shot at Barnes, hitting him in the thigh. Barnes returned fire and hit the gunman twice in the chest, leaving him critcally wounded. The shooting was apparently sparked, because of a dispute between Liebeskind and another student.[144][145][146][147]
July 12, 1976	Fullerton, California, United States	Edward Charles Allaway, 37	7 dead, 2 injured	California State University, Fullerton library massacre. A custodian opens fire on his fellow workers in the California State University, Fullerton library, killing seven and injuring two.
August 18, 1978	Stanford, California, United States	Theodore Streleski, 42	1 dead	Theodore Streleski murdered his mathematics professor, Karel deLeeuw at Stanford University by bludgeoning him with a ball-peen hammer. He was also found with a hit list containing deLeeuw's name.
December, 1979	Seattle, Washington, United States	Roger Cutsinger, 21	1 dead	Roger Cutsinger, 21, fatally shot his roommate and lover, Larry Duerkson, hoping to collect $500,000 from Duerkson's life insurance policy in which Cutsinger was named beneficiary. Duerkson, a University of Washington library employee, was walking between Parrington Hall and the Henry Art Gallery when Cutsinger shot him. Cutsinger was later convicted of first-degree murder.[148]
April 5, 1982	Hot Springs, Arkansas, United States	Kelvin Love	2 dead	Kelvin Love, a student at Garland County Community College, killed an instructor and another student.
December 17, 1983	Ithaca, New York, United States	Su Yong Kim	2 dead	Non-student Su Yong Kim enters the Low Rise 7 dormitory and kills Cornell University freshmen Young Hee Suh and Erin Nieswand with a rifle. [149]
August 12, 1985	New York City, United States	Van Anthony Hull, 29	1 dead, 4 injured	Student Van Hull shot one person dead, injured another four at the New York City Technical College and kept police at bay for about an hour, before being taken into custody. The shooting was apparently related to a dispute over financial aid.[150]
July, 1989	Seattle, Washington, United States	Azizolla Mazooni	2 dead	Azizolla Mazooni shot and killed his ex-girlfriend, Marjan Mohseninia, and her friend, Abraham Sharif-Kashani, in the University of Washington parking lot. Mazooni had hired a private detective to locate Mohseninia, who was a summer student at the university. Mazooni was later convicted on two counts of second-degree murder.
December 6, 1989	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	Marc Lépine, 25	15 dead, 14 injured	École Polytechnique massacre. Marc Lépine took a hunting rifle into École Polytechnique de Montréal, killed 14 women, wounded four men and ten women before committing suicide. It remains to this day the worst mass killing in Canadian history.
November 1, 1991	Iowa City, Iowa, United States	Gang Lu, 28	6 dead, 1 injured	After his dissertation did not win a certain academic award, Ph.D. physics student Gang Lu shot six people before committing suicide. Five were killed, including three professors. A student employee was paralyzed.
August 24, 1992	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	Valery Fabrikant, 52	4 dead	Former professor Dr. Valery Fabrikant killed four colleagues at Montreal's Concordia University.
December 14, 1992	Great Barrington, Massachusetts, United States	Wayne Lo, 18	2 dead, 4 injured	Armed with an SKS carbine, 18-year-old Simon's Rock College of Bard student Wayne Lo killed a professor and a student and wounded several others. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.
April 4, 1994	Aarhus, Denmark	Flemming Nielsen, 35	3 dead, 2 injured	A 35-year old student at Aarhus University entered the cafeteria of his University armed with a shotgun. He shot and killed two female students and wounded two others. Soon afterwards he went to the men's room where he committed suicide.
January 26, 1995	Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States	Wendell Williamson	2 dead, 2 injured	Wendell Williamson, a law student and schizophrenic, opened fire on Franklin Street with an M1 rifle, killing two and injuring two others, including a Chapel Hill police officer.
August 15, 1996	San Diego, California, United States	Frederick M. Davidson, 36	3 dead	San Diego State University shooting. Frederick M. Davidson, shot Dr. Chen Liang, Dr. Constantinos Lyrintzis, and Dr. D. Preston Lowrey during a meeting at which he was to defend his master's thesis. He pleaded guilty to three counts of murder and is serving a life term in state prison [151].
September 17, 1996	University Park, Pennsylvania, United States	Jillian Robbins, 19	1 dead, 1 injured	Hetzel Union Building shooting. 19 year old Jillian Robbins opened fire on students walking to classes at The Pennsylvania State University, killing one student and wounding another.
October 16, 1996	West Lafayette, Indiana, United States	Jarrod Allen Eskew, 19	2 dead	On October 15, 1996 Jay Severson, 27 a Wiley Hall counselor at Purdue University caught Jarrod Allen Eskew, 19 of Crawfordsville, Indiana cutting cocaine in his dorm room. Severson called the Purdue Police Department but when they arrived Eskew had fled. Eskew returned the next day at 2:50 pm with a sawed off 12-gauge shotgun while under the influence of both marijuana and cocaine. Eskew went to Severson's Wiley Hall dorm room and fatally shot Severson in the head. He then barricaded himself in his third floor dorm room. A janitor found the body a short time later. SWAT and police took up positions around Wiley Hall. Police evacuated Wiley Hall, attempted to negotiate, fired tear gas, and stormed the room to find Eskew had taken his own life with the shotgun. [152][153]
July 10, 1999	Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria	Black Axe Confraternity	8 dead, 11 injured	Obafemi Awolowo University massacre. An organized death squad of 30 members of the Black Axe Confraternity orchestrated a series of shootings and murders which took place against students of Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria . It resulted in the deaths of eight people and injuring of 11, all of them students at OAU.
August 3, 1999	Latrobe University, Melbourne, Australia	Jonathon Brett Horrocks, 38	1 dead, 1 injured	La Trobe University shooting. The shooting took place at 11:05 am when a man walked into the Eagle Bar on the La Trobe Bundoora campus armed with a .38 caliber revolver and shot and wounded a young woman before shooting bar manager Leon Capraro, killing him instantly. He then attempted to shoot at others but was restrained by patrons until police came and arrested him.
June 28, 2000	Seattle, Washington, United States	Jian Chen, 42	2 dead	Jian Chen entered the University of Washington Medical Center around 3:45 PM and went to the office of his former supervisor, 57-year-old Dr. Rodger Haggitt. Chen closed the door to Haggett's office and pulled out a gun and killed Haggett. Chen then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide.
May 18, 2001	Pierce County, Washington, United States	Donald D. Cowan, 55	2 dead	Donald D. Cowan walked onto the Pacific Lutheran University campus armed with a 9mm handgun and a .22 caliber handgun, and then shot and killed music professor James D. Holloway, who was standing outside a residence hall, and then killed himself after leaving a 16-page suicide note behind.
January 16, 2002	Grundy, Virginia United States	Peter Odighizuwa, 43	3 dead, 3 injured	Appalachian School of Law shooting. Peter Odighizuwa, a 43-year-old Nigerian national in the U.S. on a student visa and former student, shot and killed the dean, a professor, and a student at the Appalachian School of Law, in Grundy, Virginia; three other students were wounded. The attack was ended after Odighizuwa had run out of ammunition and when students subdued the shooter. The fact that two of those who subdued the shooter had firearms has been used to argue the benefit of carrying firearms in preventing violent crime. Odighizuwa was sentenced to multiple life terms in prison. The school later settled a lawsuit by some of the surviving victims and their families brought over the school's failure to take action earlier, when the student had shown signs of psychosis and had made threats.
October 21, 2002	Melbourne, Australia	Huan Xiang	2 dead, 5 injured	Monash University shooting. Huan Xiang, a commerce student at the university, armed with five loaded handguns, opened fire in a tutorial room. Two students, William Wu and Steven Chan, were killed and five others seriously wounded. Xiang was found not guilty of murder due to mental illness, and was ordered to be sent to a psychiatric hospital.
October 28, 2002	Tucson, Arizona, United States	Robert Flores, 41	4 dead	Robert J. Flores, Jr., 40, a failing nursing student and ex-Gulf War veteran, had shot and killed three professors before turning the gun onto himself and committing suicide. One professor was shot in her office, and two others were shot in a classroom.
May 9, 2003	Cleveland, Ohio, United States	Biswanath Halder, 62	1 dead, 2 injured	Biswanath Halder, a former student of Case Western Reserve University, opened fire with an automatic firearm on campus, killing one student and wounding two others. After vigorous and bullet-ridden gun battles with school police and SWAT officers, Halder surrendered.
September 13, 2003	Nanning, China	...	8 injured	A female student, who was suspended for one year after trying to commit suicide, stabbed eight classmates in a dormitory at Guangxi Teachers' College. Three of the victims were critically injured.[154][155]
Feb. 13-15, 2004	Kunming, China	Ma Jiajue, 23	4 dead	Biochemistry student Ma Jiajue stabbed four other students to death in a dormitory at Yunnan University. He was found guilty of the crime and executed on June 17, 2004.[156]
August 4, 2004	Beijing, China	Xu Heping, 51	1 dead, 17 injured	Xu Heping, a 51-year-old doorman with a history of mental illness, stabbed several students and teachers in Beijing University's Number One Hospital, killing a child and wounding 17 others, 14 of whom were children.
September 3, 2006	Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States	Douglas W. Pennington, 49	3 dead	Douglas W. Pennington, 49, killed his sons Logan P. Pennington, 26, and Benjamin M. Pennington, 24, during a visit to the campus at Shepherd University before shooting and killing himself. [157].
September 13, 2006	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	Kimveer Gill, 25	2 dead, 19 injured	Dawson College shooting. Kimveer Gill had opened fire at Dawson College, a CEGEP in Westmount near downtown Montreal. 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 later in the next day due to her serious injuries at the hospital, while another 19 were injured, eight of whom were listed in critical condition with six requiring surgery. The gunman later committed suicide by shooting himself in the head, after being shot in the arm by police.
September 17, 2006	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States	...	5 injured	Shots were fired outside the campus of Duquesne University, in [Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, after a dance party sponsored by the Black Student Union which several non-students were attending. Five members of the Duquesne Dukes basketball team were injured during the shooting including one who sustained critical injuries after an argument between one individual and two students.
January 25, 2007	Beirut, Lebanon	Pro-government attackers	4 dead, approximately 200 wounded	Four people were shot dead in clashes between pro- and anti-government activists on Thursday and about 200 were hurt in the violence that flared after a scuffle between students at the Beirut Arab University.
April 2, 2007	Seattle, Washington, United States	Jonathan Rowan, 41	2 dead	Rowan entered Gould Hall on the University of Washington's Seattle Campus and headed to the fourth floor where he entered the office of his ex-girlfriend Rebecca Griego, 26, a program coordinator for the College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Rowan fired two shots, the first taking Griego's life and the taking his own life. [158].
April 16, 2007	Blacksburg, Virginia, United States	Seung-Hui Cho, 23	33 dead, 23 injured	Virginia Tech massacre. Thirty-two people (27 students and five faculty members) were killed by Seung-Hui Cho, a 23-year-old senior English major, on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in two separate locations, about two hours apart: West Ambler Johnston Hall dormitory, where two were shot dead, and Norris Hall, where the remaining 30 were shot in an attack lasting nine minutes. Cho committed suicide in a classroom after law enforcement officers breached the main entrance doors of Norris Hall, which Cho had chained shut. Police reported that 25 others were injured, some in the Norris Hall shooting, while others when they jumped from second-story windows to escape.[159][160] The attack is the deadliest peacetime shooting incident by a single gunman in United States history, on or off a school campus.[161]
May 8, 2007	Bundoora, Victoria Australia	Sarah Jean Cheney, 23	1 injured	Sarah Jean Cheney stabbed Jemma Clancy, a 27-year-old behavioral science student, three times with a steak knife. The incident occurred in the Borchardt library at the Bundoora campus of La Trobe University. Sarah Jean Cheney did not know Jemma Clancy personally and expressed that she just desired to kill someone. Jemma Clancy was taken to hospital in a serious but stable condition.[5]
July 3 – July 11, 2007	Islamabad, Pakistan	hundreds of Islamic militant students	154 dead, ~44 injured	Lal Masjid siege. Pro-Taliban students barricaded themselves in the Lal Masjid mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan. The mosque is attached to a religious school for women (the Jamia Hafsa madrasah) and a male madrasah. The Pakistani government sieged the mosque for 8 days, having numerous gun battles in heavy, room-to-room fighting until all the defenders were killed, captured, or had surrendered.[162][163]
August 4, 2007	Newark, New Jersey, United States	José Carranza, 28, and two 15-year old unidentified boys	3 dead, 1 wounded	Known as the Newark Schoolyard Killings, three Delaware State University students were forced to kneel against an elementary school wall and were shot execution-style by 28-year old Jose Carranza and two 15-year old juveniles. A fourth student was found with gunshot wounds to her head.[164]
September 21, 2007	Dover, Delaware, United States	Loyer D. Braden, 18	1 dead, 1 injured	An 18-year old Delaware State University student shot two 17-year old female students; one shooting victim, 17-year old Shalita Middleton, died from injuries sustained in the shootings 32 days later while in the hospital.
September 30, 2007	Memphis, Tennessee, United States	Devin Jefferson, 20; DaeShawn Tate, 21; Victor Trezevant, 21; Courtney Washington, 22	1 dead	A University of Memphis football player, 21-year-old Taylor Bradford, was fatally shot on campus in what was believed to be a targeted attack. Bradford was shot near his campus apartment. He then got into his car and drove a short distance before crashing into a tree where police found him dead from the gunshot wound. Bradford was rumored to have won more than $3,000 at a nearby casino the night before, which Four suspects were charged, with Jefferson being credited as the primary conspirator.
February 8, 2008	Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States	Latina Williams, 23	3 dead	Latina Williams, a 23-year-old nursing student, opened fire of six rounds with a .357-caliber revolver in a second-floor classroom at Louisiana Technical College, in Baton Rouge, before committing suicide. The two victims were classmates Karsheika Graves and Taneshia Butler, who were both fatally shot.[165]
February 14, 2008	DeKalb, Illinois, United States	Steven Phillip Kazmierczak, 27	6 dead, 18 injured	Northern Illinois University shooting. 27-year-old former student Steven Kazmierczak opened fire with a shotgun and three semi-automatic handguns at Cole Hall on the campus of Northern Illinois University, in DeKalb, killing five students and wounding 17 other students and the class instructor. Kazmierczak then fatally shot himself.[166][167][168]
March 6, 2008	Jerusalem, Israel	Alaa Abu Dhein, 26	9 dead, 11 injured	Mercaz HaRav massacre. Alaa Abu Dhein, a 26-year-old Palestinian, fired approximately 600 bullets from an AK-47 assault rifle at the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, a religious school in the Kiryat Moshe neighborhood in Jerusalem, Israel.[169] Eight students were killed and a further eleven were wounded. The attack ended about twenty minutes later when the gunman was shot to death by a part-time student and an officer of the Israel Defense Forces.[170]
September 23, 2008	Kauhajoki, Finland	Matti Juhani Saari, 22	11 dead, 1 injured	Kauhajoki school shooting. 22-year-old culinary arts student Matti Saari opened fire at the Kauhajoki School of Hospitality of Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences, in Kauhajoki, Finland, using a semi-automatic .22-caliber Walther P22 pistol. Nine students and a teacher died in the shooting, and their bodies along with school property inside the building were set ablaze. Saari then shot himself in the head, later dying at Tampere University Hospital.[171][172] It was the second school shooting to have occurred in Finland in less than a year, with the first one being the Jokela High School shooting in November 2007.[173]
October 27, 2008	Conway, Arkansas, United States	Kawin Brockman, 19; Kelcey Perry, 19; Mario Toney, 20, and Brandon Wade, 20	2 dead, 1 injured	2008 University of Central Arkansas shootings. A shooting took place on the campus of University of Central Arkansas, in Conway, outside the Arkansas Hall dormitory. Two students—Ryan Henderson, 18, and Chavares Block, 19—were both fatally shot. A third person, a 19-year-old campus visitor, was shot and wounded in the leg.[174]
January 21, 2009	Blacksburg, Virginia, United States	Haiyang Zhu, 25	1 dead	Yang Xin, a 22-year-old graduate student from Beijing, China, was decapitated with a kitchen knife by fellow student Zhu Haiyang, in a cafe on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). It is the second murder to have occurred on campus since April 2007, in which a 23-year-old student killed 32 people before committing suicide.[175]
February 7, 2009	Houston, Texas, United States	Jeremy Lee Pierce, 32	1 dead	Jeremy Lee Pierce, a 32-year-old student at University of Houston, fatally shot Joe Tall, a 47-year-old homeless man, on the campus bus stop. Pierce has been charged with murder.[176]
April 2, 2009	Radford, Virginia, United States	Phillip Eugene Beale Sr., 42; ...	1 dead	Phillip Beale and another unidentified individual murdered a drug dealer on the campus of Radford University after getting into an argument with him. Radford police arrested Beale and are seeking to identify his accomplice.[177]
April 9, 2009	Agios Ioannis Rentis, Athens, Greece	Dimitris Patmanidis, 19	1 dead, 3 injured	OAED Vocational College shooting. Dimitris Patmanidis, a 19-year-old car electronics student at the Manpower Employment Organisation of Greece (OAED), a vocational college in the Agios Ioannis Rentis suburb of Athens, Greece, walked onto campus armed with two pistols and a knife. Patmanidis shot an 18-year-old student on a staircase three times; he was carried to Nikaia General Hospital with serious injuries. Patmanidis then confronted two pedestrians alerted by the gunfire, and shot both of them, and then fled to a park where he committed suicide.[178] The incident of a school shooting is one of the first to ever occur in Greece.[179][180]
April 10, 2009	Dearborn, Michigan, United States	Anthony Powell, 28	2 dead	28-year-old Anthony Powell fatally shot his classmate, 20-year-old Asia McGowan, before committing suicide on the campus of Henry Ford Community College.[181]
April 26, 2009	Hampton, Virginia, United States	Odane Maye, 18	3 injured	Odane Maye, an 18-year-old former student, entered Hampton University, in eastern Virginia, while armed with three handguns. Maye stalked a pizza delivery man, who he then shot while entering Harkness Hall dormitory. Maye then entered the dormitory and shot its' manager, and then shot himself in an unsuccessful suicide attempt;[182][183] both victims survived. Maye was arrested three days later after being hospitalized and was arraigned the next day on seven counts—aggravated malicious wounding and various firearms offenses.[184][185]
April 28, 2009	Richmond, Virginia, United States	...	2 injured	Early on the morning of April 28, two students at Virginia Union University were stabbed. Police say the suspect, whose name has not been released, is not a VUU student.[186]
April 30, 2009	Baku, Azerbaijan	Farda Gadirov, 29	13 dead, 10 injured	Azerbaijan State Oil Academy shootings. Farda Gadirov, a 29-year-old Georgian citizen, opened fire with a Makarov PM semi-automatic pistol at the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy, in Baku. Seven students and five faculty members died, another 10 were injured. Gadirov committed suicide after the attack.[187]

[edit] Foiled or exposed plots

Date	Location	Description
October 12, 1992	Lincoln, Nebraska, United States	A 43-year old graduate student, Arthur McElroy, walked into an actuarial science class at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and attempted to open fire on about 20 students with a .30-caliber, M-1 carbine. As students reacted by hitting the floor and pulling desks over their heads in anticipation, the gun jammed, and McElroy was apprehended. A court later found McElroy insane. He was taken to the Lincoln Regional Center's Forensic Mental Services unit in December 1992 and is still there as of 2009.[188][189][190]
May, 1999	Port Huron, Michigan, United States	A 12-year-old, 13-year-old and two 14-year-olds, all boys, planned to outdo Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold at Holland Woods Middle School. They planned to hold up a gun store for guns and then attack the school. Once there, they would proceed to rape some of the girls and shoot as many as 154 targets which they had drawn up on a list. They had even stolen a building plan from the custodian's office but they were all caught within a day of a classmate's report to an assistant principal. [191]
January 30, 2001	Cupertino, California, United States	De Anza College student Al DeGuzman planned a Columbine style school shooting at the school. An employee at a Longs Drugs store developed pictures of DeGuzman posing with his guns and homemade bombs. She and a coworker called police. DeGuzman was arrested when he returned for his photos. Police found Deguzman's bedroom stacked from top to bottom with sophisticated handmade bombs and a map of De Anza College, marked with locations where bombs would be placed. [6] In October, 2002, DeGuzman was sentenced to seven years in state prison.[192] He later committed suicide by hanging himself in his jail cell.
February 14, 2001	Elmira, New York, United States	Jeremy Getman, 18, planned a school attack at Southside High School but it was foiled after students told a teacher that he was carrying weapons. He carried 14 pipe bombs, three smaller bombs, a propane tank, a sawed-off shotgun, and a .22 caliber pistol into the school by a duffel bag and also a book bag full of ammunition. On December 17, 2001, he was sentenced to 8 1/2 years. [193]
September, 2004	Clinton Township, Michigan, United States	In an Internet chat with a friend, Chippewa Valley High School student Andrew Osantowski revealed his plans for a Columbine-style massacre at the school. The friend alerted police, who found a number of stolen weapons, including an AK-47, and Nazi paraphernalia in Osantowski's house. A neighbor who allegedly coached the teenager in making bombs was also arrested. Osantowski was later found guilty of terrorism and felony firearm violations.
March 2, 2006	Muscatine, Iowa, United States	On March 1, 2006, Muscatine High School student, Joseph Titus, was arrested at his parents’ home after he sent a message to a friend on the internet that said he planned to bring a bomb to school. Law-enforcement officials found materials that could be used to make a bomb in the young man’s home. No violent acts were committed, but the teen was sentenced to a prison term.
March, 2007	Sydney, NSW, Australia	Three 15-year old boys were arrested at Ambarvale High School after one of the boys had told the school counselor that himself and 2 boys were going commit a Columbine-style massacre. Police later found that the 3 boys had been planning the attacks and had made maps and plans on Bebo. The 3 boys are yet to be sentenced.[citation needed]
October 11, 2007	Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, United States	14-year-old Dillon Cossey was arrested at his home in Plymouth Meeting after a friend told police about his plan to carry out a Columbine style attack on Plymouth Whitemarsh High School. After a police-conducted search of the Cossey residence, officers found a 9 mm Hi-Point Carbine(which he named "Reb" in honor of Eric Harris), a .22 rifle, a .22 pistol, over 30 airsoft guns, a dozen knives and swords, 7 pipe bombs (4 which were live), a copy of The Anarchist Cookbook, and a DVD copy of Duck! The Carbine High Massacre. Even on Cossey's MySpace page, he discussed his admiration for the bank robbers of the North Hollywood shootout as well as for Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the Columbine gunmen. In his trial, Cossey confessed that he was going to carry out his shooting to kill the people who humiliated him for being obese. It was later found that he also had contact with Pekka-Eric Auvinen, the perpetrator of the Jokela school shooting, though Cossey apparently had no knowledge of Auvinen's plans. Cossey is currently serving time in juvenile detention and is expected to be released at the age of 21. His mother, Michelle Cossey, faced charges for purchasing the weapons and other charges regarding the welfare of her son.[194][195][196]
November 28, 2007	LaGrange, New York, United States	State police arrested two 16-year-old Poughquag students - Patrick Quigley and Joseph Saia – and a 15-year-old student after investigating a threat posted on a MySpace page. The three teens were charged with fourth-degree conspiracy, a felony. The Web page described events to take place at Arlington High School on April 20, 2010, the 11th anniversary of the attack on Columbine High School, police said. [197]
June 4, 2008	Mishawaka, Indiana, United States	A 16-year old boy was arrested after notebook retrieved from his locker at Penn High School stated "I wanna break the current shooting record. I wanna get instant recognition." He and a 33 year old possible accomplice, Lee Billi, were charged with conspiracy. Trials Pending.[198][199]
March 11, 2009	Drexel Hill, PA, United States	An eighth grade student who attended St. Andrew School in Drexel Hill was arrested after a fellow pupil he attempted to recruit for an attack tipped off authorities. The suspect was then pulled from class and later arrested. Shortly after, two airsoft pistols were found in his backpack, one of them looking very much like a real gun. The plan of the 13-year-old student was to force the school in lock down and shoot anybody who tried to escape. He is charged with terroristic threats and reckless endangerment and is currently held in juvenille detention. He is also charged with brugrlary for stealing $370 from another school in Drexel Hill on the previous weekend. It is noted that the suspect has a history of mental illness.[200]

[edit] See also

• School shooting
• School violence

[edit] External links

• School-Related Deaths, School Shootings, & School Violence Incidents: 2000-2001, National School Safety and Security Services
• School-Related Deaths, School Shootings, & School Violence Incidents: 2002-2003, National School Safety and Security Services
• School-Related Deaths, School Shootings, & School Violence Incidents: 2004-2005, National School Safety and Security Services
• School-Related Deaths, School Shootings, & School Violence Incidents: 2006-2007, National School Safety and Security Services
• School-Related Deaths, School Shootings, & School Violence Incidents: 2007-2008, National School Safety and Security Services
• School-Related Deaths, School Shootings, & School Violence Incidents: 2008-2009, National School Safety and Security Services

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[edit] Notes

• ^ a: Including death or injury of attacker(s), when applicable.