Lists of school-related attacks

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The aftermath of the Dawson College shooting in Montreal, Quebec. Montreal has been home to three such sprees; the most of any city on the planet.

This is a list of school-related attacks. These are attacks that have occurred on school property or related primarily to school issues/events. A broad definition of the word attacks is used for this list so as to include public attacks on 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.

Primary school incidents

Date	Location	Attacker(s)	Number of Victims	Description
April 9, 1891	Newburgh, New York, United States	James Foster, 70	"several injured"	70 year old James Foster fires 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.
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 of the school. The bombings constituted the deadliest act of mass murder in a school in U.S. history.
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 homebuilt mace, 42-year-old Walter Seifert entered the Katholische Volksschule and opened fire on the girls playing in the courtyard. He then knocked in classroom windows with his mace and fired inside. Eight children and two teachers died, twenty children and two teachers survived with very severe burns. After taking a cyanide pill, Seifert died the following day, in custody.
May 15, 1974	Ma'alot, Israel	DFLP, PLO	26 children killed, 60+ wounded	Ma'alot massacre. A group of DFLP terrorists 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, whom managed to eliminate all terrorists. 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. She wounded eight children and one police officer and killed two adults. When the six-hour incident ended, 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."
January 20, 1983	Saint Louis, Missouri, United States	David F. Lawler, 14	2 dead, 1 injured	During a study hall period at Parkway South Junior High School, eighth grader David F. Lawler used two pistols to kill a fifteen-year-old classmate and severely wound another before turning the guns on himself. [25]
May 20, 1988	Winnetka, Illinois, United States	Laurie Dann, 30	2 dead, 6 injured	30-year-old 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 shot and wounded a 20-year-old man before killing herself.
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.
July 13, 1995	Bratunac, Yugoslavia,	Serbian Bratunac Brigade	80 dead	The Vuk Karadzic Elementary School was used as a concentration camp in the Yugoslav wars. Around 80 to 100 of those held there were shot at the school then later dumped at a nearby hill. This reportedly angered a local Serbian commander who had to clean up the mess at the school. This elementary school was also used as a torture site by the Serbian Militias.
March 13, 1996	Dunblane, Scotland, United Kingdom	Thomas Hamilton, 44	18 dead	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 small children and a teacher. 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, 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, angry of accusations of molesting his stepdaughters and a recent divorce of his wife, 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.
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 2 teachers.
June 1, 2004	Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan	Unidentified girl, 11	1 dead	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 in Sasebo, Nagasaki.
September, 2004	Suzhou, People's Republic of China	...	28 injured	A man armed with a knife and homemade explosives attacked 28 children at a kindergarten.
September 1, 2004	Beslan, North Ossetia, Russian Federation	Chechen rebels, Russian security forces	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.
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.

Secondary school incidents

Date	Location	Attacker(s)	Number of Victims	Description
September 18, 1941	Stalino, Ukraine	NKVD	370 dead	Chartsysk Massacre. The Soviet NKVD ambushed children being evacuated from the F.S.U. Trade and Craft School in Stalino. These children were machine-gunned to death and thrown in a nearby ravine. Their bodies were discovered later by members of the Soviet Army.
May 4, 1956	Maryland, United States	Billy Prevatte, 13	3 injured	After being suspended for brandishing a knife at school, Billy Ray Prevatte arms himself with a .22 caliber-rifle and shoots an English teacher, a gym classroom instructor and a shop teacher, leaving them in wounded conditions.
February, 1968	Hue, Vietnam	Viet Cong	170 dead	Hue Massacre. The Gia Hoi High School massacre took place during the invasion of Hue during the Vietnam War by the Viet Cong. Afterwards 170 bodies were recovered from the Gia Hoi High School yard alone.
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 incident. A book was written on the incident called Rape Of A Normal Mind.
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 a M1-A semiautomatic rifle and a .357-caliber handgun and fatally shoots his principal and wounds three teachers.
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.
January 24, 1987	Rauma, Finland	..., 14	2 dead	Two students had been fatally shot by a 14-year old at the Raumanmeri school in Rauma. It had remained the only notable fatal school shooting in Finland until the Jokela school shooting.
March 2, 1987	Missouri, United States	Nathan Ferris	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.
January 8, 1991	Richardson, Texas, United States	Jeremy Wade Delle, 15	1 dead	Jeremy Wade Delle brought a .357 magnum to Richardson High School and committed suicide in front of his class of about 30 students. This incident inspired Pearl Jam's song Jeremy. [26] [27]
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. The 1994 film Hostage High is directly based on the shooting.
May 14, 1992	Napa, California, United States	John McMahan, 14	2 injured	Armed with a .22 Magnum, 14-year old John McMahan opens fire in a science classroom, wounding two.
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. [28]
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.
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.
May 26, 1994	Union, Kentucky, United States	Clay Shrout, 17	4 dead	Clay Shrout kills his family with a .380-caliber pistol and briefly held his trigonometry class hostage.
June 17, 1994	Holywood, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom	Garnet Bell	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 and shot and wounded the assistant principal with a 9mm handgun before committing suicide.
October 12, 1995	South Carolina, United States	Toby Sincino, 16	2 dead, 1 injured	After being suspended for making an obscene gesture, 16-year old Toby Sincino shoots and wounds a math teacher, then shooting and killing another math teacher before turning the gun on himself.
October 30, 1995	Richmond, Virginia, United States	Edward Earl Spellman, 18	4 injured	18-year old Edward Earl Spellman opened fire at his high school, wounding four students.
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	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.
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.
September 25, 1996	DeKalb County, Georgia, United States	David Dubose Jr., 16	1 dead	16-year old David Dubose Jr. fatally shot a teacher on school campus.
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.
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 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	13 dead, 24 injured	Columbine High School Massacre. Two teenage students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, carried out a shooting rampage, killing 12 students and a teacher, as well as wounding 24 others, before committing suicide. 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 Columbine and the first Canadian school shooting in over 10 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; one seriously.
November 19, 1999	Deming, New Mexico, United States	Victor Cordova, Jr., 12	1 dead	12-year old Victor Cordova Jr. 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 his father's 9mm 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.
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 [29].
March 10, 2000	Houston, Texas, United States	Darrel Ingram, 19	2 dead	Two female students had been killed by 19-year old Dareel Ingram while leaving a dance sponsored by Beach High School.
March 16, 2000	Brannenburg, Bavaria, Germany	..., 16	1 dead, 1 injured	A 16-year old student fatally shot a teacher and then turned the handgun on himself but survived, and has been in a coma ever since.
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.
March 5, 2001	Santee, California, United States	Charles Andrew Williams, 15	2 dead, 13 injured	Armed with .22 revolver, 15-year-old Charles Andrew Williams opened fire in a boy's bathroom at Santana High School, killing two students. He then exited the bathroom and shot at nearby students, wounding 13. Shortly afterwards he retreated back into the toilets where he surrendered to police.
March 7, 2001	Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States	Emily Bush, 14	1 injured	14-year old Emily Bush opened fire in her Catholic school cafeteria, wounding one female student.
March 22, 2001	San Diego, California, United States	Jason Hoffman, 18	5 injured	18-year old Jason Hoffman opened fire with his handgun and shotgun at Granite Hills High School, wounding a teacher and four students. While awaiting trial, Hoffman committed suicide by hanging which led to a lawsuit filed by his parents regarding the neglection of the prison.
March 30, 2001	Gary, Indiana, United States	Donald R. Burt, 17	1 dead	Expelled 17-year old student Donald R. Burt, Jr. shoots and kills 16-year old Neal Boyd III in the parking lot of Lew Wallace High School.
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	...	2 injured	A teenager critically wounded two students at Martin Luther King Jr. High School.
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 24, 2003	Red Lion, York County, Pennsylvania, United States	James Sheets, 14	2 dead	The Red Lion Area Junior High School Murder/Suicide was committed when 14-year-old James Sheets fatally shot his school principal in his middle school cafeteria and later committed suicide by shooting himself with a second handgun.
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 pistol. Rollins died the same day; Bartell died October 10 of injuries sustained in the attack.
January 13, 2004	Den Haag, The Netherlands	Murat Demir, 16	1 dead	Murat Demir shot Hans van Wieren, a 49-year-old teacher and vice principal at Terra College. 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.
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 admired Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.
September 28, 2004	Carmen de Patagones, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina	..., 15	3 dead, 5 injured	Armed with his father's 9mm pistol, a 15-year-old boy opened fire on his classmates during a flag-hoisting, killing 3 students and wounding 5 others.
November 26, 2004	Ruzhou, China	...	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.
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 24 students.
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, Beltrami County, Minnesota, killed his grandfather and his girlfriend before killing seven more people at the school including a teacher and a security guard. Weise then took his own life.
November 8, 2005	Jacksboro, Tennessee, United States	Kenneth Bartley, Jr., 15	1 dead, 2 injured	After being confronted of possessing a gun on school property, 15-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, United States	Chris Penley, 15	1 dead	15 year old Chris Penley brought a handgun to Milwee Middle School, and held his class hostage for a short time before eventually being fatally shot in a bathroom by police. It was soon discovered that the gun was actually a pellet gun, causing controversy over whether his death was justified.
March 14, 2006	Reno, Nevada, United States	James Newman, 14	2 injured	The Pine Middle School shooting occurred when 14-year-old James Newman brought his father's revolver to Pine Middle School and wounded two students. He was sentenced to house arrest and community service, which outraged several members of the public when he was not sentenced to prison.
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 8, 2006	Paris, France	..., 16	2 injured	A 16-year-old boy shoots with a shotgun in his school wounding a teacher and a student.
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 2, 2006	Las Vegas, Nevada, United States	...	no injuries	An ex-student of Mojave High School went on campus with a gun, his motive unknown at the time. Students recognized him as not being a student anymore and notified school police immediately. The suspect ran from the school and ditched his gun behind a church close to Mojave. Mojave, as well as 3 middle schools and one elementary school were placed on lockdown while police searched for him.
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, saying, "please don't make me do this". 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.
October 17, 2006	Fort Bend County, Texas, United States	Michael Priest, 16	1 dead	A Seven Lakes High School student committed suicide outside the cafeteria. The school was forced into lockdown for about two hours while the school officials fielded concerns of worried parents, who found out via texting of Seven Lakes students. No other students were hurt, nor did the teen plan on hurting any other student. Though he was not pronounced dead immediately, he was declared DOA as soon as his parents were notified.
November 20, 2006	Emsdetten, Germany	Bastian B, 18	1 dead, 27 injured	An 18-year-old former student entered the Geschwister Scholl school in western Germany with 2 sawed off shotguns and an explosive device, and injured a teacher, 9 students, the school janitor, and 16 police officers. Police stormed the building, and the shooter released several smoke bombs as he retreated to the third floor, which caused most of the police injuries due to smoke inhalation. The suspect apparently killed himself, although it was unclear why he didn't detonate the pipe bombs strapped to his chest. Police later found a suicide note on the man's website explaining he was "generally frustrated" and didn't see a reason to live. The site also contained pictures of the man brandishing various types of rifles. He had been scheduled to appear in court on November 21, 2006, on an unrelated charge of carrying a handgun in public.
December 12, 2006	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States	Shane Halligan, 16	1 dead	16-year old Shane Halligan went to his school armed with an AK-47 and fatally shot himself after firing in the hallways to alert others to back away.
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. The suspect had been identified as 16-year old John Odgren.
February 8, 2007	Prineville, Oregon United States	Marc Hollingsworth, 18	1 dead	An 18-year-old male high school student committed suicide with a gunshot wound to the head in the high school's parking lot. He was found by a student around 2:30pm.
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 7, 2007	Greenville, Texas, United States	Joey Horn, 16	1 dead,	A 16-year-old male high school student fatally shot himself while in the band hallway area of the school around 7:15am.
March 18, 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.
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 .
April 18, 2007	Huntersville, North Carolina, United States	Josh Emerson Cook, 16	1 dead	A 16-year-old threatened students in the parking lot at North Mecklenberg High School with a gun and shot himself at a local gas station when confronted by police. Four Charlotte-Mecklenberg schools went on lockdown.
May 4, 2007	El Maton, Texas United States	Allison Camacho, 15	1 dead	A female 15-year-old student at Tidehaven High School fatally shot herself in the school's restroom. Her body was found by another student from her band class after she did not return.
May 23, 2007	Toronto, Canada	Unknown	1 dead	C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute shooting. A 15-year-old boy was shot at high school C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute, in Toronto, Ontario. Police have confirmed the death of the boy.
September 28 2007	Oroville, California, United States	Greg Wright, 17	no injuries	A 17-year old student held three girls hostage at Las Plumas High School for nearly an hour after releasing twenty-seven other students and an instructor in a band room. The gunman allegedly fired numerous gunshots through the ceilings while the three girls were in his custody. When police arrived, the gunman peacefully surrendered and was arrested under charges of attempted murder, false imprisonment, possession of a gun on school campus and discharging a gun.
October 7 2007	Crandon, Wisconsin, United States	Tyler Peterson, 20	7 dead, 1 injured	At an off-campus homecoming party, a 20-year-old full-time deputy in the Forest County Sheriff's Department, who was also a part-time officer at the Crandon Police Department, murdered six people students and recent graduates of Crandon High School (ages 14 to 20) after a dispute. Peterson was initially believed to have been killed by a police sniper, but it was later reported that he may have committed suicide by multiple gunshots.
October 10 2007	Cleveland, Ohio, United States	Asa H. Coon, 14	1 dead, 5 injured	A 14-year-old student, reportedly upset about a suspension, went on a shooting spree in SuccessTech Academy and wounded two to four people before his death. It is believed that the gunman committed suicide. [30] [31]
October 11 2007	Amsterdam, Netherlands	Hüseyin P., 14	1 dead	A 14-year-old student, identified only as Hüseyin P., stabs 16-year old classmate Youssef Mokhtari to death at a school in the Slotervaart borough of Amsterdam. The victim had reportedly made a joke about the surname of the perpetrator. [32]
October 17, 1989	Mokane, Missouri, United States	unreleased information	1 injured	An 11-year-old student at South Callaway Middle School in Mokane leaves school property and travels to a nearby farm, stealing three guns and eventually shoots at a school administrator off-campus while the school remained in lock-down for approximately 40 minutes. [33]
November 7 2007	Tuusula, Finland	Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18	9 dead, 13 injured	Jokela school shooting. An 18-year old man opened fire a high school in Jokela killing 8 people including the school's principal using a SIG Mosquito .22 calibre pistol. It was one of the first notable shootings in Finland. Auvinen has been pronounced dead at a hospital after trying to take his own life. According to some sources, the shooting was a planned one and the shooter posted a video on YouTube about his intentions.

College and University school incidents

Date	Location	Attacker(s)	Number of Victims	Description
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.
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, a Ohio State senior and fraternity brother.
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 7am, Davis pulled out a gun and started shooting with a gun he had obtained from the car of a former roommate.
August 1, 1966	Austin, Texas, United States	Charles Whitman	16 dead, 31 injured	Charles Whitman pointed a rifle from the observation deck of the University of Texas at Austin's Tower and began shooting in a homicidal rampage that went on for 96 minutes. Sixteen people were killed, 31 wounded.
May 4, 1970	Kent, Ohio, United States	Ohio National Guard	4 dead, 10 injured	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	Police	2 dead, 12 injured	Jackson State killings. Police kill two and injure twelve students during Vietnam War riots.
July 12, 1976	Fullerton, California, United States	Edward Charles Allaway	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	San Francisco, California, United States	Theodore Streleski	1 dead	Theodore Streleski murdered his mathematician 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.
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. [34]
December 6, 1989	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	Marc Lépine	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 massacre in Canadian history.
November 1, 1991	Iowa City, Iowa, United States	Gang Lu	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	4 dead	Former professor Dr. Valery Fabrikant went on a shooting rampage at Montreal's Concordia University killing four. Was the second school shooting to happen in Montreal.
December 14, 1992	Great Barrington, Massachusetts, United States	Wayne Lo, 18	2 dead, "several" injured	Armed with a 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	..., 35	3 dead, 2 injured	A 35-year old student at Aarhus University entered the cafeteria of his University around 11 AM 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 M-1 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	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. [35]
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.
August 3, 1999	Latrobe University, Melbourne, Australia	Jonathon Brett Horrocks	1 dead, 1 injured	La Trobe University shooting. The incident took place at 11:05 am when a man walked into the Eagle Bar on the La Trobe Bundoora campus armed with a .38-calibre 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.
January 16, 2002	Grundy, Virginia, United States	Peter Odighizuwa, 43	3 dead, 3 injured	Appalachian School of Law shooting. 43-year-old Appalachian School of Law student Peter Odighizuwa shot and killed the Law School Dean, Contracts Professor and another student; three others were wounded . The incident was ended when two students with personal firearms subdued the shooter. He was sentenced to multiple life terms in prison. Peter 'O' was a Nigerian student attending the school on a student visa. The school later settled a lawsuit by some of the surviving victims and their families brought over the schools failure to take action when the student showed signs of psychosis and made threats.
October 21, 2002	Melbourne, Australia	Huan Xiang	2 dead, "others" wounded	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 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	Three nursing professors were shot dead at the University of Arizona by a student failing the nursing program. Robert J. Flores, Jr., 41, shot and killed Robin Rogers, 50, Barbara Monroe, 45, and Cheryl McGaffic, 44 before turning the gun on himself. Two of the teachers were shot in a classroom and the gunman allowed the students to leave before killing himself.
May 9, 2003	Cleveland, Ohio, United States	Biswanath Halder, 62	1 dead, 2 injured	Biswanath Halder, a 62-year-old man, opened fire with an automatic weapon on his former school, Case Western Reserve University. He killed one student, seriously wounded two others, and kept over 90 people hiding for their lives for seven hours. After vigorous and bullet-ridden gun battles with school police and SWAT officers, Halder surrendered and was sentenced to life in prison.
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. The shootings occurred at about 2 p.m.[36].
September 13, 2006	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	Kimveer Gill	2 dead, 19 injured	Dawson College shooting. On September 13, 2006 at Dawson College, a CEGEP in Westmount near downtown Montreal. The perpetrator, Kimveer 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. The Dawson incident was the third fatal school shooting in the city.
September 17, 2006	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States	...	5 injured	Shots are fired outside Duquesne University's Vickroy Hall 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 1 individual and 2 students.
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 second ending his own. Griego was aware that Rowan was tracking her down and had alerted the authorities as well as co-workers to be on the lookout but nothing was done, raising questions about the UWPD and campus security. [37]
April 16, 2007	Blacksburg, Virginia, United States	Seung-Hui Cho, 23	33 dead, 25 injured	The Virginia Tech massacre was the single most deadly civilian gunfire incident in American higher education history. It occurred at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Thirty-two people were killed by gunman Seung-Hui Cho in two separate locations, about two hours apart: West Ambler Johnston Hall, where two were shot dead, and Norris Hall, where the remaining 30 were shot in an attack lasting nine minutes. The gunman then took his own life. Police reported that 25 others were injured, some in the Norris Hall shooting, others when they jumped from second-story windows to escape.
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.[38]
July 3 to July 10, 2007	Islamabad, Pakistan	Numerous students and soldiers	Figures have not been released; 20 deaths and over a hundred injuries reported, some claim hundreds and possibly more than a thousand died	Pro-Taliban students barricaded themselves in the Lal Masjid (Red Mosque), a mosque that is attached to a religious school for women (the Jamia Hafsa madrasah) and a male madrasah. The Pakistani government sieged the mosque for a week, having numerous gun battles in heavy, room-to-room fighting until the all the defenders were killed, captured, or had surrendered. [39]
August 4, 2007	Newark, New Jersey, United States	Jose Carranza, 28 and two 15-year old unidentified boys	3 dead, 1 wounded	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.
September 21, 2007	Dover, Delaware, United States	Loyer D. Braden, 18	2 injured	Delaware State University shooting - an 18-year old student of Delaware State University opens fire of four to six rounds and wounds two 17-year old students, one injured seriously. The student was arrested two days later after escaping and was charged with attempted murder, assault and reckless endangerment. [40]

Foiled or exposed plots

Date	Location	Description
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. [41] In October, 2002, DeGuzman was sentenced to seven years in state prison.
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	3 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.

See also

• List of massacres
• School shooting
• School violence

External links

• School Deaths and School Shootings: 2006-2007
• Violence in school: a few orientations for a worldwide scientific debate, Eric Debarbieux, International Journal on Violence and Schools, Volume 1, May 2006