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Revision as of 05:31, 28 December 2007
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Parkway South Junior High School shooting | |
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Location | 760 Woods Mill Road, West St. Louis County, Missouri, USA |
Date | January 20, 1983 approximately 11:55 a.m. (CST) |
Target | Students and faculty at Parkway South Junior High School, now known as Parkway South Middle School |
Attack type | School shooting, murder, suicide attack |
Weapons | Unidentified pistols (2) |
Deaths | 2 |
Injured | 1 |
Perpetrators | David F. Lawler |
In St. Louis County, Missouri, United States, on Thursday, January 20, 1983, Parkway South Junior High School (this facility is currently known as Parkway South Middle School) eighth-grader David F. Lawler shot two of his classmates then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide[1]. Randall Kroger, 15, was shot in the chest and died at 12:28 p.m. and 15-year-old Greg Saffo (Palmer) was injured in the shooting and sent to a local hospital.
Lawler brought two family-owned pistols to the school in a blue duffel bag. He had received the ammunition for the shooting as a Christmas present[2].
According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
"Police believe the shootings may have been spurred by a remark Palmer had made to another youth concerning Lawler's older brother, Ken. [...] Tim Palmer, 16, Greg's brother, said Greg had told him that he had called Ken a derogatory name for a sissy. But Tim Palmer said that although his brother disliked Ken, he had barely known David Lawler."[2]
External links
References
- ^ "8th Grader Kills Youth, Then Himself at School," The New York Times. [1]
- ^ a b Karen L. Koman & Phyllis Brasch, "A Funeral, Agony for Families Follow Parkway School Shooting," St. Louis Post-Dispatch. January 23, 1983 Sunday Fast Mail Edition, via LexisNexis (subscription required)
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