A Time Line of Recent Worldwide School Shootings
Feb. 2, 1996 Moses Lake, Wash. |
Two students and one teacher killed, one other wounded when
14-year-old Barry Loukaitis opened fire on his algebra class. |
March 13, 1996 Dunblane, Scotland |
16 children and one teacher killed at Dunblane Primary School
by Thomas Hamilton, who then killed himself. 10 others wounded in attack. |
Feb. 19, 1997 Bethel, Alaska |
Principal and one student killed, two others wounded by
Evan Ramsey, 16. |
March 1997 Sanaa, Yemen |
Eight people (six students and two others) at two schools
killed by Mohammad Ahman al-Naziri. |
Oct. 1, 1997 Pearl, Miss. |
Two students killed and seven wounded by Luke Woodham, 16,
who was also accused of killing his mother. He and his friends were said to be outcasts who worshiped Satan. |
Dec. 1, 1997 West Paducah, Ky. |
Three students killed, five wounded by Michael Carneal,
14, as they participated in a prayer circle at Heath High School. |
Dec. 15, 1997 Stamps, Ark. |
Two students wounded. Colt Todd, 14, was hiding in the woods
when he shot the students as they stood in the parking lot. |
March 24, 1998 Jonesboro, Ark. |
Four students and one teacher killed, ten others wounded
outside as Westside Middle School emptied during a false fire alarm. Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, shot at
their classmates and teachers from the woods. |
April 24, 1998 Edinboro, Pa. |
One teacher, John Gillette, killed, two students wounded
at a dance at James W. Parker Middle School. Andrew Wurst, 14, was charged. |
May 19, 1998 Fayetteville, Tenn. |
One student killed in the parking lot at Lincoln County
High School three days before he was to graduate. The victim was dating the ex-girlfriend of his killer, 18-year-old honor
student Jacob Davis. |
May 21, 1998 Springfield, Ore. |
Two students killed, 22 others wounded in the cafeteria
at Thurston High School by 15-year-old Kip Kinkel. Kinkel had been arrested and released a day earlier for bringing a gun
to school. His parents were later found dead at home. |
June 15, 1998 Richmond, Va. |
One teacher and one guidance counselor wounded by a 14-year-old
boy in the school hallway. |
April 20, 1999 Littleton, Colo. |
14 students (including killers) and one teacher killed,
23 others wounded at Columbine High School in the nation's deadliest school shooting. Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold,
17, had plotted for a year to kill at least 500 and blow up their school. At the end of their hour-long rampage, they turned
their guns on themselves. |
April 28, 1999 Taber, Alberta, Canada |
One student killed, one wounded at W. R. Myers High School
in first fatal high school shooting in Canada in 20 years. The suspect, a 14-year-old boy, had dropped out of school after
he was severely ostracized by his classmates. |
May 20, 1999 Conyers, Ga. |
Six students injured at Heritage High School by Thomas Solomon,
15, who was reportedly depressed after breaking up with his girlfriend. |
Nov. 19, 1999 Deming, N.M. |
Victor Cordova Jr., 12, shot and killed Araceli Tena, 13,
in the lobby of Deming Middle School. |
Dec. 6, 1999 Fort Gibson, Okla. |
Four students wounded as Seth Trickey, 13, opened fire with
a 9mm semiautomatic handgun at Fort Gibson Middle School. |
Dec. 7, 1999 Veghel, Netherlands |
One teacher and three students wounded by a 17-year-old
student. |
Feb. 29, 2000 Mount Morris Township, Mich.
|
Six-year-old Kayla Rolland shot dead at Buell Elementary
School near Flint, Mich. The assailant was identified as a six-year-old boy with a .32-caliber handgun. |
March 2000 Branneburg, Germany |
One teacher killed by a 15-year-old student, who then shot
himself. The shooter has been in a coma ever since. |
March 10, 2000 Savannah, Ga. |
Two students killed by Darrell Ingram, 19, while leaving
a dance sponsored by Beach High School. |
May 26, 2000 Lake Worth, Fla. |
One teacher, Barry Grunow, shot and killed at Lake Worth
Middle School by Nate Brazill, 13, with .25-caliber semiautomatic pistol on the last day of classes. |
Sept. 26, 2000 New Orleans, La. |
Two students wounded with the same gun during a fight at
Woodson Middle School. |
Jan. 17, 2001 Baltimore, Md. |
One student shot and killed in front of Lake Clifton Eastern
High School. |
Jan. 18, 2001 Jan, Sweden |
One student killed by two boys, ages 17 and 19. |
March 5, 2001 Santee, Calif. |
Two killed and 13 wounded by Charles Andrew Williams, 15,
firing from a bathroom at Santana High School. |
March 7, 2001 Williamsport, Pa. |
Elizabeth Catherine Bush, 14, wounded student Kimberly Marchese
in the cafeteria of Bishop Neumann High School; she was depressed and frequently teased. |
March 22, 2001 Granite Hills, Calif. |
One teacher and three students wounded by Jason Hoffman,
18, at Granite Hills High School. A policeman shot and wounded Hoffman. |
March 30, 2001 Gary, Ind. |
One student killed by Donald R. Burt, Jr., a 17-year-old
student who had been expelled from Lew Wallace High School. |
Nov. 12, 2001 Caro, Mich. |
Chris Buschbacher, 17, took two hostages at the Caro Learning
Center before killing himself. |
Jan. 15, 2002 New York, N.Y. |
A teenager wounded two students at Martin Luther King Jr.
High School. |
Feb. 19, 2002 Freising, Germany |
Two killed in Eching by a man at the factory from which
he had been fired; he then traveled to Freising and killed the headmaster of the technical school from which he had been expelled.
He also wounded another teacher before killing himself. |
April 26, 2002 Erfurt, Germany |
13 teachers, two students, and one policeman killed, ten
wounded by Robert Steinhaeuser, 19, at the Johann Gutenberg secondary school. Steinhaeuser then killed himself. |
April 29, 2002 Vlasenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina
|
One teacher killed, one wounded by Dragoslav Petkovic, 17,
who then killed himself. |
October 28, 2002 Tucson, Ariz. |
Robert S. Flores Jr., 41, a student at the nursing school
at the University of Arizona, shot and killed three female professors and then himself. |
April 14, 2003 New Orleans, La. |
One 15-year-old killed, and three students wounded at John
McDonogh High School by gunfire from four teenagers (none were students at the school). The motive was gang-related. |
April 24, 2003 Red Lion, Pa. |
James Sheets, 14, killed principal Eugene Segro of Red Lion
Area Junior High School before killing himself. |
Sept. 24, 2003 Cold Spring, Minn. |
Two students are killed at Rocori High School by John Jason
McLaughlin, 15. |
Sept. 28, 2004 Carmen de Patagones, Argentina |
Three students killed and 6 wounded by a 15-year-old Argentininan
student in a town 620 miles south of Buenos Aires. |
March 21, 2005 Red Lake, Minn. |
Jeff Weise, 16, killed grandfather and companion, then arrived
at school where he killed a teacher, a security guard, 5 students, and finally himself, leaving a total of 10 dead. |
Nov. 8, 2005 Jacksboro, Tenn. |
One 15-year-old shot and killed an assistant principal at
Campbell County High School and seriously wounded two other administrators. |
Aug. 24, 2006 Essex, Vt. |
Christopher Williams, 27, looking for his ex-girlfriend
at Essex Elementary School, shot two teachers, killing one and wounding another. Before going to the school, he had killed
the ex-girlfriend's mother. |
Sept. 13, 2006 Montreal, Canada |
Kimveer Gill, 25, opened fire with a semiautomatic weapon
at Dawson College. Anastasia De Sousa, 18, died and more than a dozen students and faculty were wounded before Gill killed
himself. |
Sept. 26, 2006 Bailey, Colo. |
Adult male held six students hostage at Platte Canyon High
School and then shot and killed Emily Keyes, 16, and himself. |
Sept. 29, 2006 Cazenovia, Wis. |
A 15-year-old student shot and killed Weston School principal
John Klang. |
Oct. 3, 2006 Nickel Mines, Pa. |
32-year-old Carl Charles Roberts IV entered the one-room
West Nickel Mines Amish School and shot 10 schoolgirls, ranging in age from 6 to 13 years old, and then himself. Five of the
girls and Roberts died. |
Jan. 3, 2007 Tacoma, Wash. |
Douglas Chanthabouly, 18, shot fellow student Samnang Kok,
17, in the hallway of Henry Foss High School. |
April 16, 2007 Blacksburg, Va. |
A 23-year-old Virginia Tech student, Cho Seung-Hui, killed two in a dorm, then
killed 30 more 2 hours later in a classroom building. His suicide brought the death toll to 33, making the shooting rampage
the most deadly in U.S. history. Fifteen others were wounded. |
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