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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/events. A broad definition of the word attacks is used for this list so as to include public attacks on one's self (suicide).

This list is extremely incomplete. It is very recent. Heavily oriented to the United States of America. Heavily oriented to firearms. A complete listing, world wide for the last (arbitrary) 100 years, each school having one incident each 20 years, including all incidents (guns, knives, bare hands, etc.) it is estimated there should be approximately 500 million entries.

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[1] Description
April 9, 1891 Newburgh, New York,

United States

James Foster, 70 5 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. [2]
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.
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.
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, who 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, 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."
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.
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 Karadžić 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, 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. [3]
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 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

... 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, 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.
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.

Secondary school incidents

Date Location Attacker(s) Number of Victims Description
February, 1968 Huế,

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 shooting.
March 19, 1982 Las Vegas, Nevada,

United States

... 1 dead, 2 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 A.M. at Valley High School.[4]
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. [5]
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. [6]
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. [7]
January 24, 1989 Rauma,

Finland

..., 14 2 dead Two students were fatally shot by a 14-year old student at the Raumanmeri secondary school. The shooter had claimed to be a victim of bullying.
November 14, 1991 Houston, Texas,

United States

? 1 injured 18-year old Francisco Contreras received four gunshot wounds in his feet and leg outside of the cafeteria at Milby High School. Police arrested a 16-year old "disturbed freshman."[8]
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. [8]
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. [9]
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 mother, father, and two younger sisters before embarking a hostage situation in a trigonometry classroom.[10]
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. [11]
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.
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.
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.[12]
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,

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 the Columbine shootings 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. [13]
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 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 [9].
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.[14]
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. [15]


January 18, 2001 Bromma, Stockholm,

Sweden

..., 17

..., 19

1 dead A 16-year-old student was shot dead in the toilets of the Bromma Gymnasium (high school). Two students, ages 17 and 19, were suspected of the murder.
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 male toilet facility 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 22, 2001 San Diego, California,

United States

Jason Hoffman, 18 5 injured 18-year-old Jason Hoffman opened fire with a handgun and shotgun at Granite Hills High School, wounding two teachers and three students before being shot and wounded by a police officer. While awaiting trial, Hoffman committed suicide in prison by hanging. [16]
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

Vincent Rodriguez, 17 2 injured Rodriquez shot and wounded two students at Martin Luther King Jr. High School using a .380-caliber handgun, supposedly because the victims had harassed his girlfriend.[17][18]
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 14, 2003 New Orleans, Louisiana,

United States

Steven Williams,
James Tate[10]
1 dead,

4 injured

2003 John McDonogh High School shooting - At 10:30 AM, two men entered the school gymnasium of John McDonogh High School and executed Jonathan "Caveman" Williams, a football player. The killers fired at least 18 times, shattering Williams' face and injuring three neighboring girls. A stampede of students trampled a pregnant girl.[19][20][21]
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. [22]
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.[23]
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. [24]
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. [25]
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. [26]
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, 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.
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. [27]
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 briefly 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.
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. [28]
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. [29][30]
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. [31]
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 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.
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.[citation needed]
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. [32]
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.[citation needed]
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.[33]
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 [34].
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.[35] 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. The school campus had been subsequently put on lockdown.[36]
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.[37][38][39]
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. [40]
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.[41] 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.[42]
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. The gunman had committed suicide when police executed a manhunt search. [43][44]
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. [11]
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 was pronounced dead at a hospital after trying to take his own life. [45] The shooter posted a video entitled "Jokela High School Massacre - 11/7/2007" on YouTube a day before the incident. [46][47]
December 12 2007 Gurgaon, Haryana, India Akash Vadav, 14 and Vikas Yadav, 13 1 dead Euro International school shooting Akash Yadav brings his father's gun that was kept unlocked and hid it in the school toilet. At the end of school, he shot classmate 14-year old Abhishek Tyagi five times at close range over a fight they had a few days ago. [48]
February 12 2008 Oxnard, California, United States Brandon McInerney, 14 1 dead 15-year-old Lawrence Fobes King was shot in the head by 14-year-old Brandon McInerney in the E.O. Green Junior High School computer lab.[49] King was transported to St. Johns Medical Center under serious condition. Examiners declared King dead.[50] It was suspected that the motivation of the shooting was McInerney suspecting King was gay, in which a hate crime charge was filed.

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. [51]
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. [52]
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. [53]
August 1, 1966 Austin, Texas,

United States

Charles Whitman 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.
May 4, 1970 Kent, Ohio,

United States

Ohio National Guard 4 dead,

10 injured

Ohio 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 student demonstrations against the Vietnam War.
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 Stanford, California, United States Theodore Streleski 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 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.[54]
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. [55]
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 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 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 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 ..., 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 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 [56].
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.
August 3, 1999 Latrobe University, Melbourne,

Australia

Jonathon Brett Horrocks 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-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.
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. 43-year-old Appalachian School of Law student Peter Odighizuwa shot and killed the Law School Dean, a professor, and another student; three others were wounded. The incident was ended when two students with guns subdued the shooter. Odighizuwa, a Nigerian national in the US on a student visa, 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.
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. [57].
September 13, 2006 Montreal, Quebec,

Canada

Kimveer Gill 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 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.
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. [58].
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.[12]
July 3 to July 10, 2007 Islamabad,

Pakistan

hundreds of militant students 9 soldiers and 75 militants [59] died, but the number may be in the hundreds Lal Masjid siege. Pro-Taliban students barricaded themselves in the Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) in Pakistan's capital city. 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.

[60]

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 1 dead, 1 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. 17-year old Shalita Middleton died from injuries sustained in the shootings 32 days later.
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, Taylor Bradford (21), was fatally shot on campus in what was believed to be a targeted attack, but as a precaution classes were canceled the next day. Bradford was shot at 9:45 p.m. Sunday 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 gun-shot wound. Bradford was rumored to have won more than $3,000 at a nearby casino the night before. Four suspects were charged, with Jefferson being credited as the primary conspirator.
February 8, 2008 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States Latina Williams 3 dead Latina Williams, a 23-year-old student, opened fire of six rounds with a .357 revolver in a second-floor classroom at Louisiana Technical College before committing suicide. The two victims were Karsheika Graves (21) and Taneshia Butler (26), who were both fatally shot.[61]
February 14, 2008 DeKalb, Illinois, United States Steven Kazmierczak, 27 6 dead, 18 injured Northern Illinois University shooting. Stephen Kazmierczak opened fire with a shotgun and three handguns at Cole Hall on the campus of Northern Illinois University, killing five and wounding 16. Kazmierczak then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide.

Foiled or exposed plots

Date Location Description
May, 1999 Port Huron, Michigan,

United States

A 12-year-old, a 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 draw 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. [62]
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. [13] In October, 2002, DeGuzman was sentenced to seven years in state prison.[63]
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 tell a teacher that he is 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. [64]
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]
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 (LaGrange, New York) on April 20, 2010, the 11th anniversary of the attack on Columbine High School, police said. [65]

See also

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