School Shootings: History, what can We do.....

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School shootings, in the now most commonplace definition of the word, seemed to have begun back in 1966, in Texas. There,  on August 1, 1966, Charles Joseph Whitman, a former Marine and a student at Texas A&M in Austin, Texas, barricaded himself in the school's tower, where he opened fire on the students below . In all, 32 students were wounded, 10 killed on the ground below; he killed three people in the tower, and had already killed his wife and his mother prior to going to the tower for his rampage.  For reference on this topic, refer to the Wikipedia page on Charles Whitman- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman.


But- even before Texas, there was another, just as tragic school massacre, if not more so. I guess I can't really say 'more so', anything in this particular subject matter is tragic. In 1927, on May 18, in Bath Michigan, 38 school children, and 7 adults were killed because of the wrath of one man-Andrew Kehoe. Kehoe was a member of the school board, and was upset that a property tax had been levied to help pay for the construction of a new school building. In Kehoe's mind, this tax was 'the straw that broke the camel's back'. He blamed that tax for helping lead to foreclosure actions against his farm. Apparently, over a period of several months, Andrew Kehoe, as a school board member with easy access to the school, planted a large amount of dynamite inside the school building.  The morning of May 18, 1927, Kehoe first killed his wife, then set fire to his barn. While firefighters were pre-occupied with that fire, this apparently is when Kehoe detonated the dynamite at the school. It was as devious a plan as one could possibly imagine, the man knowing full well the number of children there and how many he could kill.  There are several resources on the internet about this tragedy. Google Bath School Tragedy, you will immediately come upon many of the main sources of information about this incident.

There seems to have been a steady rash of school shootings, bombings, and incidents of terror for almost as long as we have had public schools in the United States.

 We have seen an  almost steady increase of news grabbing headlines about another student, or another person somewhere who has supposedly 'snapped', and gone into a school with guns blazing.

Take a look at this list, the unbelievably LONG list here below, and the details of each, and then we can work on the biggest question of all- WHY? Why do we seem to either completely miss, or just overlook the red flags that should tell us something? Is it a lack of caring? A feeling of -OH, but you mean ME? You want ME to open my mouth and say something? Why can't it be someone else? PLEASE people. Get real. Just in the last few days, we've got another tragedy or two that has unveiled itself in Los Angelas.  What about the recent Arizona shootings? Even though that wasn't school related, my gosh, there was a NINE YEAR OLD LITTLE GIRL KILLED THERE!!!!! WHY???? There is ALWAYS 20/20 vision in hindsight. It is going to take more than just one or two people who aren't afraid to stand up and bring attention to a potentially explosive situation before it happens. IT TAKES ALL OF US-!


 On July 26, 1764, four Lenape American Indian warriors entered a log schoolhouse of white settlers in what is now Franklin County, Pennsylvania, near present-day Greencastle. Inside were the schoolmaster, Enoch Brown, and twelve young students. Brown pleaded with the warriors to spare the children before being shot and scalped. The warriors then began to tomahawk and scalp the children, killing nine or ten of them (reports vary). Two children who had been scalped survived.
On June 22, 1871 Anna Dwight, the schoolmistress of Stone Lake Schoolhouse, inLaGrange County, Indiana  is shot to death outside her schoolhouse by Chauncey Barnes, a rejected suitor. Barnes then committed suicide by shooting himself in the head several times.
January 21, 1882 in Red Bud, Illinois, United States. While chastising student James McBride, teacher Robert Bailey was fatally wounded when the student stabbed him twice with a knife he was using to sharpen a pencil.
August 27, 1886    Charleston, West Virginia. After being reprimanded by his teacher, James Kiser, 15-year-old John Griffith, a student at a school in Jackson County, brought a knife and rocks to school the next morning. When he was about to hit Kiser with a rock a student warned the teacher and a struggle ensued in which Griffith stabbed Kiser several times, leaving him deathly injured.
January 26, 1899 in Albany, Missouri. When he got whipped by his teacher T. B. Hunter, student Charles Ayres drew a jackknife and slashed the teacher's throat. The incident happened at Adams school, about 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Albany.
On May 17, 1889 in Washington D.C., Sarah E. Allen, a third grade teacher at the Jefferson school, is shot to death in front of her class by her estranged husband Oswald C. Allen, who then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide.
On April 9, 1891 In Newburgh, New York, 70-year-old James Foster fired a shotgun at a group of male students in the playground of St. Mary's Parochial School, causing minor injuries to several of the students.
On December 21, 1898 In New York City, New York, Samuel Jacobson, student at Grammar School 85, stabbed his 8-year-old classmate Hans Pietze with a pocketknife after he fell over the latters foot. Both students were said to have quarrelled often before.
On February 26, 1902 in Camargo, Illinois, teacher Fletcher R. Barnett shot and killed another teacher, Eva C. Wiseman, in front of her class at a school near Camargo, Illinois. After shooting at a pupil who came to help Miss Wiseman and wounding himself in a failed suicide attempt he waited in the classroom until a group of farmers came to lynch him. He then ran out of the school building, grabbed a shotgun from one of the farmers and shot himself, before running away and leaping into a well where he finally drowned. The incident was likely sparked by Wiseman's refusal to marry Barnett.
February 24, 1903 in Inman, South Carolina.  Edward Foster, a 17-year-old student at Inman High school, was shot and fatally wounded by his teacher Reuben Pitts after he had jerked a rod from Pitts' hands to resist punishment. According to the teacher, Foster struck the pistol Pitts had drawn to defend himself, thus causing its discharge. Pitts was later acquitted of murder.
September 12, 1905 in Athens, Tennessee. Student Ernest Powers fatally stabbed his teacher Elbert Wattanbarger when he attempted to whip him for throwing stones.
On October 10, 1906 in Cleveland, Ohio Harry Smith shot and killed 22-year-old teacher Mary Shepard at South Euclid School after she had rejected him. Smith escaped and committed suicide in a barn near his home two hours later.
On March 11, 1908 in Boston, Massachusetts. Elizabeth Bailey Hardee is shot to death by Sarah Chamberlain Weed at the Laurens School, a finishing school in Boston. Weed then turns the gun on herself and commits suicide.
On  March 23, 1907 in Carmi, Illinois George Nicholson shot and killed John Kurd at a schoolhouse outside of Carmi, Illinois during a school rehearsal. The motive for the shooting was Kurd making a disparaging remark about Nicholson's daughter during her recital.
April 15, 1908 in Asheville, North Carolina.  Dr. C. O. Swinney shot and fatally wounded his 16-year-old daughter Nellie in a reception room at Normal and Collegiate Institute. He then committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.
On February 12, 1909 in San Francisco, California 10-year-old Dorothy Malakanoff was shot and killed by 49-year-old Demetri Tereaschinko as she arrived at her school in San Francisco. Tereaschinko then shot himself in a failed suicide attempt. Tereaschinko was reportedly upset that Malakanoff refused to elope with him.
On January 10, 1912 in Warrenville, Illinois Sylvester E. Adams shot and killed teacher Edith Smith after she rejected his advances. Adams then shot and killed himself. The incident took place in a schoolhouse about a mile outside of Warrenville after the students had been dismissed for the day.
On March 27, 1919 in Lodi Township, Michigan 19-year-old teacher Irma Casler was shot and killed in her classroom at Rentschler school in Lodi Township, Michigan by Robert Warner, apparently because she had rejected his advances.
On April 2, 1921 in Syracuse, New York. Professor Holmes Beckwith shot and killed dean J. Herman Wharton in his office at Syracuse University before committing suicide.
On June 7, 1925 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Oscar B. Turner, a professor of agronomy, is murdered by an axe-wielding assailant on the campus of Louisiana State University.
In May 1927- Bath School Tragedy- See above.
On February 15, 1933 in Downey, California Dr. Vernon Blythe shot and killed his wife Eleanor, as well as his 8-year old son Robert at Gallatin grammar school and committed suicide after firing three more shots at his other son Vernon. His wife, who had been a teacher at the school, had filed for divorce the week before.
September 14, 1934 in Gill, Massachusetts. Headmaster Elliott Speer was murdered by a shotgun blast through the window of his study at Northfield Mount Hermon School. The crime was never solved.
On December 12, 1935 in New York City, New York, Victor Koussow, a Russian laboratory worker at the School of Dental and Oral Surgery, shot Prof. Arthur Taylor Rowe, Prof. Paul B. Wiberg, and wounded Dr. William H. Crawford at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, before committing suicide.
On April 27, 1936 in Lincoln, Nebraska, Prof. John Weller shot and wounded Prof. Harry Kurz in a corridor of the University of Nebraska, apparently because of his impending dismissal at the end of the semester. After shooting Kurz Weller tried to escape, but was surrounded by police on the campus, whereupon he killed himself with a shot in the chest.
On June 4, 1936 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 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.
September 24, 1937 in Toledo, Ohio. 12-year-old Robert Snyder shot and wounded his principal, June Mapes, in her office at Arlington public school when she declined his request to call a classmate. He then fled the school grounds and shot and wounded himself.
On February 24, 1939 in Los Angeles, California, 32-year-old drama student Anya Sosoyeva was bludgeoned to death by De Witt Clinton Cook on the campus of Los Angeles City College.
May 6, 1940 in South Pasadena, California. After being removed as principal of South Pasadena Junior High School, Verlin Spencer shot six school officials, killing five, before attempting to commit suicide by shooting himself in the stomach. He was later sentenced to five consecutive life sentences, and was released early on parole in 1970.
July 4, 1940 in Valhalla, New York.  Angered by the refusal of his daughter, Melba Moshell, 15 years old, to leave a boarding school and return to his home, Joseph Moshell visited the school and shot and killed his daughter. He then shot himself in a failed suicide attempt.
On September 12, 1940 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, 29-year-old teacher Carolyn Dellamea is shot to death inside her third grade classroom by 35-year-old William Kuhns. Kuhns then shot himself in the chest in a failed suicide attempt. Kuhns had reportedly been courting Dellamea for over a year but the relationship was ended when Dellamea discovered that Kuhns was already married.
On October 25, 1940 in Cincinnati, Ohio 10-year-old Clarence Stevens, a third grade pupil at Holy Name School, was stabbed to death inside a storeroom at the school by 27-year-old Guy Willie Ponder.
October 2, 1942 in New York City, New York/ Joseph Annunziata and Neil Simonelli shot and killed teacher Irwin Goodman at William J. Gaynor Junior High School after he had caught them smoking in a wash room. Neither Annunziata nor Simonelli was a student at the school.
May 28, 1943 in Brownsville, Pennsylvania. 16-year-old Ettra Cimagha is stabbed to death by 16-year-old Thomas Celestine during a fight at Brownsville Junior High School.
On May 9, 1944 in New York City, New York Nine-year-old Margaret Patton was attacked and killed at PS 119 in Harlem by two fellow students. One student held Patton's arms while the other stabbed her to death. Police later arrested 11-year-old Madeline Kirkland, who was charged with murder, and 13-year-old Eileen Foster, who was charged with juvenile delinquency.
June 6, 1947 in King William, Virginia. 17-year-old Linwood Johnson Regensburg is stabbed to death by 20-year-old Robert Edward Lee at a dance held at King William High School. Neither Regensburg nor Lee were students at the school.
On November 13, 1949 in Columbus, Ohio, 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.
On July 14, 1952 in New York City, New York, Bayard Peakes walked in to the offices of the American Physical Society at Columbia University and shot and killed secretary Eileen Fahey with a .22 caliber pistol. Peakes was reportedly upset that the APS had rejected a pamphlet he had written.
September 3, 1952 in Lawrenceville, Illinois. After 25-year-old Georgine Lyon ended her engagement with Charles Petrach, Petrach shot and killed Lyon in a classroom at Lawrenceville High School where she worked as a librarian.
October 2, 1953 in Chicago, Illinois. 14-year-old Patrick Colletta is shot to death by 14-year-old Bernice Turner in a classroom of Kelly High School in Chicago. It was reported that after Turner refused to date Colletta he handed her the gun and dared her to pull the trigger, telling her that the gun was “only a toy.” A coroner’s jury later ruled that the shooting was an accident.
December 8, 1953 in Aledo, Illinois. 26-year-old track coach George Marich was stabbed to death by 17-year-old student James Gipson in a hallway of Aledo High School. The stabbing occurred after Marich had removed Gipson and two other seniors from a study hall for creating a disturbance.
On May 15, 1954 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 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.
On January 11, 1955 in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. After some of his dorm mates urinated on his mattress Bob Bechtel, a 20-year-old student at Swarthmore College, returned to his dorm with a shotgun and used it to shoot and kill fellow student Holmes Strozier.
April 17, 1956 in New York City, New York. 18-year-old Henry Smith, a student at a Bronx vocational high school, is stabbed to death by 16-year-old Randolph Lawrence, a fellow student. The stabbing was reportedly sparked over a dispute about a basketball game.
May 4, 1956 in Prince George's County, Maryland, 15-year-old student Billy Prevatte fatally shot one teacher and injured two others at Maryland Park Junior High School in Prince George's County after he had been reprimanded from the school.
May 1, 1958 in Massapequa, New York. 15-year-old freshman Timothy Wall is shot to death by fellow classmate Bruce Zator in a washroom of Massapequa High School.
On September 15, 1959 in Houston, Texas.  The morning that Paul Orgeron's second-grade son is denied enrollment, he detonated 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.
On February 2, 1960 in Hartford City, Indiana. Principal Leonard Redden shot and killed two teachers with a shotgun at William Reed Elementary School in Hartford City, Indiana, before fleeing into a remote forest, where he committed suicide.
February 19, 1960 in Wauseon, Ohio. Karen A. Smith, a 12-year-old junior high school student, is stabbed to death on a school bus. The assailant, identified as 14-year-old Douglas Konrath, fled the school bus but was arrested when he returned to the scene and attacked a deputy.
On June 7, 1960 in Blaine, Minnesota.  Lester Betts, a 40-year-old mail-carrier, walked into the office of 33-year-old principal Carson Hammond and shot him to death with a 12-gauge shotgun.
On April 20, 1961 in Chicago, Illinois. Teacher Josephine Keane, 45, is sexually assaulted and stabbed to death inside a storeroom at Lewis-Champlin elementary school in Chicago. Lee Arthur Hester, a 14-year-old student, is later convicted of the murder and sentenced to 55 years in prison.
October 17, 1961 in Denver, Colorado. Tennyson Beard, 14, got into an argument with William Hachmeister, 15, at Morey Junior High School. During the argument Beard pulled out a .38 caliber revolver and shot at Hachmeister, wounding him. A stray bullet also struck Deborah Faith Humphrey, 14, who died from her gunshot wound. Beard was arrested after fleeing the school.
1966- Texas A&M- see above
On November 12, 1966 in Mesa, Arizona. Bob Smith, 18, took seven people hostage at Rose-Mar College of Beauty, a school for training beauticians. Smith ordered the hostages to lie down on the floor in a circle. He then proceeded to shoot them in the head with a 22-caliber pistol. Four women and a three-year-old girl died, one woman and a baby were injured but survived. Police arrested Smith after the massacre. Smith had reportedly admired Richard Speck and Charles Whitman.
September 26, 1967 in Dayton, Ohio. Thomas Prinz, a 21-year-old football coach at Wilbur Wright High School, is stabbed to death by 19-year-old Will Edward Dixon. The stabbing occurred when Prinz attempted to escort Dixon off the playing field. Dixon had been a student at the school but had dropped out after tenth grade.
January 30, 1968 in Miami, Florida. 16-year-old Blanche Ward shot and killed fellow student Linda Lipscomb, 16, with a .22-caliber pistol at Miami Jackson High School. According to Ward, she was threatened with a razor by Lipscomb during an argument over a fountain pen, and in the ensuing struggle the gun went off.
On February 8, 1968 in Orangeburg, South Carolina.  In the days leading up to February 8, 1968, about 200 mostly student protesters gathered on the campus of South Carolina State University, located in the city of Orangeburg, to protest the segregation of the All Star Bowling Lane. The bowling alley was owned by the late Harry K. Floyd. That night, students started a bonfire. As police attempted to put out the fire, an officer was injured by a thrown piece of banister. The police said they believed they were under attack by small weapons fire. The officers fired into the crowd, killing three young men: Samuel Hammond, Delano Middleton, and Henry Smith, and wounding twenty-seven others.
May 22, 1968 in Miami, Florida. Ernest Lee Grissom, a 15-year-old student at Drew Junior High School, shot and seriously wounded a teacher and a 13-year-old student after he had been reprimanded for causing a disturbance.
September 12, 1968 in Hebron, Connecticut. A 17-year-old girl is stabbed to death by a 15-year-old boy in a corridor of RHAM High School. The boy was arrested by police after being restrained by 50 other students.
On January 17, 1969, in Los Angeles, California. Two student members of the Black Panther Party, Alprentice Carter and John Huggins, were fatally shot during a student meeting inside Campbell Hall at the University of California, Los Angeles. The motive of the shooting regarded who would own the school's African American Studies Center. The shooter, Claude Hubert, was never to be found but three other men were arrested in connection with the shooting.
November 19, 1969 in Tomah, Wisconsin. Principal Martin Mogensen is shot to death in his office by a 14-year-old boy armed with a 20 gauge shotgun.
On November 28, 1969 in State College, Pennsylvania, 22-year-old graduate student Betsy Aardsma is stabbed to death in the Pattee Library at the Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania. Her killer is never apprehended.
On May 4, 1970 in Kent, Ohio. Ohio Army National Guard open fire on student protesters at Kent State University during an anti-Vietnam War/Cambodian Campaign rally, killing 4 and wounding 10. Much information is available about this tragedy, which can be found on the internet, including a song by Crosby Stills Nash and Young, titled Ohio.
On May 14–15, 1970 in Jackson, Mississippi. Police kill two and injure twelve students during student demonstrations against the Vietnam War.
On August 24, 1970 in Madison, Wisconsin.  A bombing occurred on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. It was committed by four young people as a protest against the University's research connections with the US military during the Vietnam War. It resulted in the death of Robert Fassnacht, a university physics researcher, and severe injuries to four other building occupants.
February 1, 1971 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Samson L. Frredman, a 56-year-old art teacher, was shot to death by Kevin Simmons at Leeds Junior High School. Frredman had previously got Simmons suspended from school for cursing.
November 3, 1971 in Carlsbad, New Mexico. Michael O'Hearn barricaded himself in a storage tower of Carlsbad Mid-High School, in Carlsbad, New Mexico, for about two hours with two firearms. He fired about two dozen rounds at police officers, injuring one, before committing suicide.
In November 1971 in Grove, Oklahoma. Principal T.J. Melton is shot to death by James Underwood, a school custodian.
January 24, 1972 in Stow, Ohio. A 16-year-old student at Stow High School shot and wounded his chemistry teacher during an argument.
On January 30, 1974 in New Orleans, Louisiana, 20-year-old Paul Caldwell shot out several windows and held three students hostage, one of them for 45 minutes, in the library of Louisiana State University, before committing suicide.
On October 12, 1974 in Stanford, California, 19-year-old Arlis Perry was stabbed to death with an ice pick in Stanford Memorial Church on the grounds of Stanford University by an unknown assailant.
In Olean New York, on December 30, 1974, 17-year-old Anthony Barbaro, an honor student and member of the school's rifle team,  barricaded himself on the 3'd floor of Olean High School, and began shooting. He had already shot a custodian he encountered when first entering the school. In all, 3 people were killed, and at least 11 more injured. One of the other two people killed in this shooting was 25 year old Carmen Wright, shot in the head in her car as she was only driving by the school.  Eight of the wounded  were Olean city firemen responding to a fire complaint at the school, (Barbaro pulled the fire alarm as he was entering the school, around the same time he shot the janitor.) Columbia Gas Co. employee Neal Pilon, 58, was shot while crossing the street outside of the school.  What caused it? In a note explaining his motives Barbaro wrote:
"I guess I just wanted to kill the person I hate most -- myself, I just didn't have the courage. I wanted to die, but I couldn't do it, so I had to get someone to do it for me. It didn't work out."
On November 7, 1974, in New York City, New York, Gerald Melton stabbed 19-year-old Helen Surgan to death on the campus of Wagner College.
On January 17, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois 14-year-old Steven Guy, apparently angry about being transferred to a social adjustment center, entered Clara W. Barton Elementary School in Chicago with a revolver and a pistol and killed the principal and wounded three others before he was seized by a teacher when both his guns jammed.
On February 19, 1976 in Los Angeles, California. During a test Neil Liebeskind, a student at a Los Angeles computer school, opened fire at his fellow students with a shotgun, killing one of them and wounding several others. When trying to escape, he was apprehended by Howard Barnes, a security guard working with a television crew filming nearby. When he was told to drop his gun, Liebeskind fired a shot at Barnes, hitting him in the thigh. Barnes returned fire and hit the gunman twice in the chest, leaving him critically wounded. The shooting was apparently sparked, because of a dispute between Liebeskind and another student.
On July 12, 1976, at California State University, in Fullerton, California, 37-year-old Edward Charles Allaway, then a school custodian and later confirmed to have paranoid schizophrenia, killed seven people and wounded two others in the library basement, his schizophrenia having him convinced that his wife was in the commercial pornography videos that were being shown in the basement before and after school hours against school rules.
On November 10, 1976 in Detroit, Michigan, English teacher Betty McCaster, 46, was shot to death by her estranged husband in front of her first grade class at Burt Elementary School in northwest Detroit.
December 12, 1977 in Winter Garden, Florida. During an after-school meeting at West Orange High School to discuss his unwanted advances towards a 16-year-old girl, 41-year-old assistant principal Roosevelt Holloman pulled out a gun and shot principal Raymond Screws, 51, to death. Holloman also shot at two other school officials at the meeting but missed. Holloman then surrendered his gun to a janitor and waited until he was arrested. He was later convicted of first-degree murder.
January 4, 1978 in New York City, New York. Michael Kittrell, 15, is stabbed to death by another student at John Adams High School.
On January 15, 1978, in Tallahassee, Florida, Ted Bundy entered the Florida State University Chi Omega sorority house at approximately 3 a.m. and killed two sleeping women, Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman. Bundy bludgeoned and strangled Levy and Bowman; he also sexually assaulted Levy. He also bludgeoned two other Chi Omegas, Karen Chandler and Kathy Kleiner. Bundy was a serial killer and had killed several other people before this event.
February 22, 1978 in Lansing, Michigan. Roger Needham, a 15-year-old student, shot two students at Everett High School. One of the students, 15-year-old Bill Draher, died of his gunshot wound.
May 18, 1978 in Austin, Texas. 13-year-old honor student John Christian, son of former press secretary under LBJ George Christian, entered an English classroom at Murchison Middle School armed with a .22 caliber rifle. He fatally shot his teacher, 29-year-old Rod Grayson, three times. Christian then fled the school building and dropped the rifle by a bicycle rack, before being wrestled against a fence by gym coach Larry Schirpik. Christian's attorney, Roy Minton, argued Christian was not guilty by reason of insanity, district attorney Ronnie Earle didn't object and the case was never tried. Unlike most juveniles of the era, Christian received treatment in a private mental health facility in Dallas his family paid for.
On August 18, 1978 in Stanford, California, 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.
On January 29, 1979, Brenda Ann Spencer posted herself by a window in her home and began randomly shooting at Grover Cleveland Elementary School across the street. The shooting began as children were waiting outside for principal Burton Wragg to open the gate. The shooting claimed the lives of Wragg and Mike Suchar and injured eight students and a police officer. Wragg was killed while trying to help the children, and Suchar was killed while trying to pull Wragg to safety. When asked why she committed the shooting Spencer replied, "I just did it for the fun of it. I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day. I have to go now. I shot a pig  I think and I want to shoot more. I'm having too much fun.
On October 6, 1979 in Columbia, South Carolina, Mark Houston opens fire inside a dormitory where a party is taking place at the University of South Carolina, He kills two partygoers and injures five.
In December 1979 in Seattle, Washington, 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.
On April 17, 1981 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, psychology Major Leo Kelly set off several Molotov Cocktails into the hallway of Bursley Residence Hall at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, setting off the fire alarm. He then took a sawed-off shotgun from his room, and began firing shots at fleeing residents. Freshman Edward Siwik and resident advisor Douglas McGreaham would ultimately die from gunshot wounds. Kelly was found guilty on two murder counts, and was sentenced to life in prison.
On October 2, 1981 in Greenville, South Carolina. Henry Chiariello, a 30-year-old social studies teacher, is stabbed to death at Greenville High School by 18-year-old student Jewel Garrett.
On January 12, 1982 in Miami, Florida. Francisco Walker, 24, a sixth-grade teacher at Edison Middle School, is stabbed to death when he attempted to chase a teenaged trespasser off of the school grounds. 15-year-old Steven Wayne Holmes is later arrested and charged with first degree murder.
On March 19, 1982 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Clarence Piggott, a 55-year-old psychology and sociology teacher, was shot to death and two students were wounded by a high school senior who was later wounded by the police. The teacher was shot in the heart shortly before classes began at 8:00 a.m. at Valley High School.
On April 5, 1982 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, Kelvin Love, a student at Garland County Community College, killed an instructor and another student.
On April 7, 1982, Jason Rocha, then 14-years-old, shot and killed a classmate, 13-year-old Scott Michael Darwin, with a .22-caliber rifle. Rocha was charged as an adult and sentenced to 12-years in prison. This was at Deer Creek Middle School, in Littleton Colorado.  Motive unknown.
On December 17, 1983 in Ithaca, New York, 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.
On January 20, 1983, freshman David F. Lawler brought to Parkway South Middle School, in Manchester, Missouri,  a duffel bag containing two family-owned .22 caliber pistols,  and a murder/ suicide note that outlined his intention to kill the next person heard speaking ill of his brother Ken. He had received the 100 rounds of ammo used in the shooting as a gift for Christmas in 1982.
On December 16, 1983 in Rockford, Illinois. Michael Graham, a 15-year-old student at Boylan Central Catholic High School, shot and wounded his German teacher, Sharon Mundt, who had previously disciplined him for misbehaviour, in front of his class.
On February 24, 1984 in Los Angeles, California, at 2:23 p.m. 28-year-old Tyrone Mitchell began shooting at students leaving 49th Street Elementary School in Los Angeles with a 12-gauge shotgun and a rifle from a second-floor window of a building across the street. He killed a 10-year-old girl and wounded 11 other children, as well as a schoolyard supervisor and a passer-by. When police finally stormed the building they found Mitchell's body, who had killed himself with the shotgun. Mitchell had lost his parents, grandmother, brother and four sisters in the Jonestown massacre.
January 21, 1985 in Goddard, Kansas,  14 year old James Alan Kearbey, armed with a M1-A semiautomatic rifle and a .357-caliber handgun, kills principal and wounds 2 teachers and a student at his Goddard junior high school. Information on this particular incident seems to be very limited, however, one of the few articles I found on it was here: http://www.knowgangs.com/school_resources/timeline/1980_1989/2.php
James Alan Kearbey, 14 years old, was charged with first-degree murder. The police refused to discuss possible motives, but a teacher said the youth was a loner with a quick temper who was fascinated by weapons. The teen-ager was often teased by classmates, several people said, and recently had been beaten by two students in a locker-room fight, according to a neighbor.
On August 12, 1985 in New York City, New York, student Van Hull shot one person dead, injured another four at the New York City Technical College and kept police at bay for about an hour, before being taken into custody. The shooting was apparently related to a dispute over financial aid.
On November 26, 1985 in Spanaway, Washington,  Heather Smith fatally shot her ex-boyfriend Gordon Pickett and his friend Chris Ricco as they were leaving wrestling practice at Spanaway Junior High School. Smith committed suicide at the school several hours later during a standoff with sheriff's deputies.
On December 10, 1985 in Portland, Connecticut,  13-year-old student Floyd Warmsley fatally shot a school custodian, wounded the principal and school secretary, and held a student hostage with a rifle at Portland Junior High School in Portland, Connecticut after he had been suspended for refusing to take off his hat while in school. He was arrested after his aunt convinced him to surrender.
March 6, 1986 in Dolton, Illinois, a 14-year-old student shot and wounded his math teacher at Thornridge High School.
On May 16, 1986 in Cokeville, Wyoming, David Young, and his wife Doris Young, took 167 children and adults hostage at Cokeville Elementary School. After a two-and-a-half hour standoff, a gasoline bomb the couple was carrying went off prematurely, injuring Doris Young while David Young was out of the room. Returning to the scene, David Young shot his wife, and then himself. All the hostages escaped, though 79 were later hospitalized with burns and injuries.
On September 8, 1986 New Orleans, Louisiana. Cindy Marie Piccot entered the Coastal Training Institute and shot dead 20-year-old student Shamette Allen with a .38 caliber pistol before committing suicide. The motive for the shooting was revenge for an earlier attack in which Shamette Allen set Cindy Marie Piccot on fire.
September 18, 1986 in Benicia, California. Leonard Rubio shot his girlfriend, 15-year-old Heather Dunn, to death at Benicia High School after she told him that she wanted to break up with him.
On October 8, 1986 in Dallas, Texas, 16-year-old Cody Cobbins died after the older brother of a 17-year-old boy that Cobbins was arguing over a bus seat with fatally shot him.
On December 4, 1986 in Lewistown, Montana, 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.
On March 2, 1987 in De Kalb, Missouri. 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.
On February 11, 1988 in Pinellas Park, Florida. Jason Harless and Jason McCoy, both students, brought stolen guns to Pinellas Park High School. They used them to kill principal Richard Allen and injure an assistant principal and an assistant physical education teacher. Harless received a gunshot wound from police and McCoy was arrested without injury. Both served prison terms.
On May 20, 1988 in Winnetka, Illinois 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.
August 31, 1988     in Anderson, South Carolina. Principal Dennis Ray Hepler, 35, was accosted by three young men on the grounds of West Franklin Elementary School. They robbed him of $67 before shooting him to death.
September 23, 1988 in Chicago, Illinois Armed with a .38 caliber pistol, 40-year-old Clemmie Henderson shot two people dead at an auto parts store and wounded a garbage man before entering Montefiore Special Elementary School where he killed a school custodian and a police officer. He wounded another police officer before he was shot and killed.
September 26, 1988 in Greenwood, South Carolina. James Wilson, 19, took a .22-caliber pistol to Oakland Elementary School where he shot and killed two students and injured seven other students and two teachers.
On December 16, 1988 in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Nicholas Elliott came to Atlantic Shores Christian School armed with a firearm an adult relative purchased for him. He shot two teachers, one fatally, before barging into a portable classroom full of students. The gun jammed and Elliott was tackled. When the teacher that tackled him demanded to know why, he said "They hate me. They make fun of me. They hit me."
January 17, 1989 in Stockton, California. Patrick Purdy shot and killed five schoolchildren, and wounded 29 other schoolchildren and one teacher on the playground of Cleveland Elementary School. The shooting ended with Purdy committing suicide.
In July 1989 in Seattle, Washington, 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.
On August 26, 1990 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Curtis Collins, a sophomore at Eldorado High School, shot and killed 16-year-old Donnie Lee Bolden inside the school cafeteria. Police said that the shooting was gang-related.
On September 21, 1990 in Houston, Texas. A 16-year-old girl fatally stabbed her classmate, 18-year-old Anthony Johnson, in the upper back with a hunting knife in a classroom at Jesse H. Jones High School, in Houston, Texas; Johnson later died at Ben Taub Hospital. The suspect was then placed in the Harris County Juvenile Probation Department. It was reported that the possible motive was the victim making an insulting comment about the suspect's clothing.
On January 8, 1991 in Richardson, Texas. Jeremy Wade Delle brought a .357 Magnum to Richardson High School and committed suicide in front of his class of about 30 students.
April 23, 1991 in Compton, California. A teenager aimed and fired a handgun at a security guard who had chased him and three friends off the grounds of Ralph J. Bunche Middle School. However, instead of hitting his intended target, the bullet struck 11-year-old bystander Alejandro Vargas, a student at the school, killing him.
On May 9, 1991 in Reserve, Louisiana, 19-year-old senior Debbie Morantes is stabbed to death by 16-year-old sophomore Brenda Carter inside the cafeteria of East St. John High School. Brenda Carter was convicted of second-degree murder two years later.
On September 30, 1991 in Indianapolis, Indiana, 17-year-old Bertram Bowman is stabbed to death in the cafeteria of Arlington High School, reportedly in a dispute over a girl. Police arrested 15-year-old Edward C. Ector after the attack.
On October 9, 1991 in New York City, New York, 17-year-old Tryon Whittaker was shot to death by another youth outside of James Monroe High School in The Bronx. The boys had reportedly got into an argument and Whittaker challenged the other youth to a fight. The youth then walked away but returned with a gun and shot Whittaker.
On November 1, 1991 in Iowa City, Iowa, 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.
On November 14, 1991 in Houston, Texas, 18-year-old Francisco Contreras was shot four times in his feet and leg outside the cafeteria of Milby High School, in Houston, Texas, by a 16-year-old student, who was arrested afterward.
On May 1, 1992 in Olivehurst, California. 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 because he had failed a grade at school. He was given the death penalty for the shooting.
On May 14, 1992 in Napa, California. Armed with a .357-caliber pistol, 14-year-old student John McMahan opened fire in a science classroom, wounding two.
On September 11, 1992 in Amarillo, Texas. Six students were shot at Palo Duro High School, all survived the shooting. Police later arrested 17-year-old Randy Earl Matthews and an unidentified 15-year-old boy in connection with the shooting.
On September 21, 1992 in New York City, New York, Damion Ennis, 15, is stabbed to death by a fellow student in a hallway of South Shore High School.
On October 12, 1992 in Lincoln, Nebraska. A 43-year old graduate student, Arthur McElroy, walked into an actuarial science class at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and attempted to open fire on about 20 students with a .30-caliber, M-1 carbine. As students reacted by hitting the floor and pulling desks over their heads in anticipation, the gun jammed, and McElroy was apprehended. A court later found McElroy insane. He was taken to the Lincoln Regional Center's Forensic Mental Services unit in December 1992 and is still there as of 2009.
On December 14, 1992 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, 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.
On January 18, 1993 in Grayson, Kentucky, 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.
On February 1, 1993 in Amityville, New York, Shem S. McCoy, 17, shot two people, both cousins of his, at Amityville High School. One of those shot, Randel Artis, would die of his gunshot injuries. The three boys had apparently been engaged in a long running dispute.
On February 22, 1993 in Los Angeles, California, 15-year-old Robert Heard shot and killed 17-year-old Michael Shean Ensley in a corridor of Reseda High School.
On February 24, 1993 in New York City, New York, 15-year-old Angel Jimenez is stabbed to death by another 15-year-old student in a hallway of Junior High School 25. The stabbing was sparked by a dispute between the two boys over who owned a pair of sunglasses.
On March 18, 1993 in Harlem, Georgia, Edward Bryant Gillom, a freshman at Harlem High School, shot two fellow students, killing 15-year-old Ronrecas Gibson.
On July 8, 1993 in Ogden, Utah, 28-year old student Mark Duong shot and injured three people, one of them a Weber State police officer, at a grievance hearing at Weber State University before the injured officer was able to shoot him. Doung died at the scene.
On September 17, 1993 in Sheridan, Wyoming, 4 students of a physical education class were wounded at Central Middle School in Sheridan, Wyoming, when 29-year-old Kevin Newman fired at them with a handgun. He then committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. A suicide note found in Newman's motel room revealed that he was unhappy with his life and thought of himself as an evil person.
On December 1, 1993 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin Leonard McDowell, a 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.
On December 17, 1993 in Chelsea, Michigan, Steve Leith, a science teacher at Chelsea High School walked in to a staff meeting being held at the school and shot and killed the district superintendent and wounded the school principal and a teacher. Leith was then arrested by police.
On January 31, 1994 in Seattle, Washington, 24-year-old Darrell Cloud entered Whitman Middle School and shot his former teacher, 45-year-old Neal Summers, to death. Cloud would serve nine years in prison for the murder. The motive for the shooting was sexual abuse that was alleged to have been perpetrated by Summers against Cloud since Cloud was 13-years-old.
On March 23, 1994 in Seattle, Washington. A gang-related drive-by shooting outside Ballard High School resulted in the death of 16-year-old student Melissa Fernandes and the wounding of 17-year-old student Brent Mason. Police later arrested two men in connection with the shooting.
On March 25, 1994 in Cherokee County, Georgia, 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.
On May 26, 1994 in Union, Kentucky, Clay Shrout kills his mother, father, and two younger sisters before embarking a hostage situation in a trigonometry classroom.
On September 8, 1994 in Hollywood, California, Rolando Ruiz, 17, was shot dead on the campus of Hollywood High School. Police suspected that the shooting was gang-related.
On October 12, 1994 in Greensboro, North Carolina, Nicholas Atkinson, a 16-year old Grimsley High School student, returned to campus after being suspended. He proceeded to shoot and wound the assistant principal with a 9 mm handgun before committing suicide.
On October 25, 1994 in Mount Vernon, New York,17-year-old Shebule Jackson is stabbed to death by fellow student Hopeton Minott in a corridor of Mount Vernon High School.
On November 5, 1994 in San Leandro, California, 15-year-old Evelyna LeBlanc was shot in the head and raped on the playground of an elementary school by an unknown assailant, she died from her gunshot wound the next day. In 2007 DNA tests identified a suspect in the case.
On November 7, 1994 in Wickliffe, Ohio, 37-year-old Keith A. Ledeger, a former student, entered Wickliffe Middle School in Wickliffe, Ohio with a 12 gauge shotgun. He shot and killed a custodian and wounded the assistant principal, a teacher and a police officer before being arrested.
On January 5, 1995 in Washington, District of Columbia, 16-year-old Antar A. Hall is shot to death by a 14-year-old boy at the entrance of Cardozo High School.
On January 24, 1995 in Florissant, Missouri, 15-year-old Christine Smetzer is raped and beaten to death inside a washroom at McCluer North High School. Her attacker, Michael Taylor, is later sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder.
On January 26, 1995 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Wendell Williamson, a law student and schizophrenic, opened fire on Franklin Street with an M1 rifle, killing two and injuring two others, including a Chapel Hill police officer.
On May 28, 1995 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Sinedu Tadesse stabbed her roommate, 20-year-old Trang Phuong Ho, to death with a hunting knife inside a dormitory at Harvard University. Tadesse also
attacked one of Ho's visiting friends, 26-year-old Thao Nguyen, severely injuring her as well. Tadesse then hanged herself.
On August 29, 1995 in Laredo, Texas, 12-year-old Jonah Iverson shot and killed a fellow student, 12-year-old Lizzy Rivera, in a washroom of Memorial Middle School.
On September 21, 1995 in Rochester, New York, 13-year-old Stephne Givens was fatally stabbed at Jefferson Middle School by a fellow student.
On October 12, 1995 in South Carolina. After being suspended for making an obscene gesture, 16-year-old Toby Sincino shot and injured a math teacher, then shooting and killing another math teacher before turning the gun on himself.
On November 15, 1995 in Lynnville, Tennessee. 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.
On February 2, 1996 in Moses Lake, Washington. 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.
On February 8, 1996 in Menlo Park, California, 16-year-old student Douglas Bradley drove his vehicle on the campus of Mid-Peninsula High School in Menlo Park, California, and fired at students with a .38-caliber revolver, hitting one in the leg with a bullet and causing injury to two others from shattered glass. Bradley then shot himself in the head, dying the next morning at Stanford University Medical Center.
On March 25, 1996 in Patterson, Missouri, 16-year-old student Will Futrelle was killed by an 18-year old and two 15-year old students at Mountain Park Baptist Academy, a rural Christian reform school.
On April 11, 1996 in Talladega, Alabama, 16-year-old student Steven L. Curry fatally shot 18-year-old student Bobby Roberson Jr. in the parking lot of Talladega High School.
On August 15, 1996 in San Diego, California, San Diego State University shooting. Frederick M. Davidson, shot Dr. Chen Liang, Dr. Constantinos Lyrintzis, and Dr. D. Preston Lowrey during a meeting at which he was to defend his master's thesis. He pleaded guilty to three counts of murder and is serving a life term in state prison.
On September 17, 1996 in University Park, Pennsylvania, 19 year old Jillian Robbins opened fire on students walking to classes at The Pennsylvania State University, killing one student and wounding another.
On September 25, 1996 in Scottdale, Georgia, David Dubose Jr. shot and killed 49-year-old English teacher Horace P. Morgan with a .38 caliber revolver in a corridor of DeKalb Alternative School. Dubose was then subdued by staff members.
On October 16, 1996 in West Lafayette, Indiana,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 killed himself with the shotgun.
On June 28, 2000 in Seattle, Washington, 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.
On January 27, 1997 in West Palm Beach, Florida, 13-year-old Tronneal Mangum shot and killed another student, 14-year-old John Kamel, in front of Conniston Middle School. Mangum was reportedly upset that Kamel had failed to repay a $40 debt.
On February 19, 1997 in Bethel, Alaska. 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 two 99-year prison sentences.
On April 28, 1997 in Cumberland County, New Jersey, 16-year-old student Nielsa Mason is beaten to death by fellow student Peter Henriques inside the boys’ locker room at Cumberland Regional High School.
On October 1, 1997 in Pearl, Mississippi, 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 Woodham. Woodham later claimed that he did not remember killing his mother.
On October 22, 1997 in Norwalk, California, Khoa Truc Dang entered the school of his ex-girlfriend, Catherine Tran, and shot her dead. He then committed suicide.
On December 1, 1997 in West Paducah, Kentucky, Michael Carneal, a 14-year old freshman at Heath High School in West Paducah, Kentucky, opened fire on a prayer circle at his school killing three students and injuring five.
On December 15, 1997 in Stamps, Arkansas, 14-year old Joseph Todd launched a sniper attack at his school that left two students wounded.
On March 24, 1998 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, 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.
On April 24, 1998 in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, 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.
On May 19, 1998 in Fayetteville, Tennessee. 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.
On May 21, 1998 in Springfield, Oregon, Kip Kinkel opened fire with a .22 rifle at Thurston Senior High School, killing two 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.
On January 8, 1999 in Carrollton, Georgia, 17-year-old Jeff Miller fatally shot his girlfriend, 15-year-old Andrea Garrett, and then killed himself in a suicide pact at Central High School in Carrollton, Georgia.
On February 11, 1999 in Elgin, Illinois,a masked gunman shot and killed 14-year-old Hugo Rodriguez at the Ombudsman Education Services alternative education center. It was reported that police thought this shooting to be gang-related. Rickey L. Quezada was later arrested for the crime and convicted of first-degree murder.
On April 20, 1999 in Jefferson County, Littleton, Colorado, the Columbine High School massacre. Two teenage students, Eric Harris—carrying a carbine rifle and a sawed-off pump-action shotgun—and Dylan Klebold—carrying a TEC-9 pistol and a sawed-off 12 gauge double-barreled shotgun—shot and killed 12 students and a teacher, and injured 21 other students and a teacher at Columbine High School. Two more students and a teacher were injured escaping. Ten of the 12 students killed were shot at nearly point-blank range while hiding under tables in the school library in seven minutes by the two shooters. Both were armed with numerous pipe bombs, napalm, knives, and other homemade explosives. Two propane time bombs (which only one partially detonated) were set in the school cafeteria. After their rampage, Harris and Klebold died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head. Both are believed to have committed suicide simultaneously and both bodies were found in the back of the library together. Columbine High School is located in the Columbine CDP of Jefferson County, near the cities of Denver and Littleton.
In May 1999 in Port Huron, Michigan. A 12-year-old, 13-year-old and two 14-year-olds, all boys, planned to outdo Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold at Holland Woods Middle School. They planned to hold up a gun store and then attack the school. Once there, they planned to rape some of the girls and shoot as many as 154 targets which they had drawn up on a list. They had 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.
On May 3, 1999 in Costa Mesa, California, Steven Allen Abrams purposefully drove his car onto the playground of Southcoast Early Childhood Learning Center. He killed two children and injured four other children and an adult. Abrams later stated that he thought the deaths of the children would silence the voices that he thought the US government was beaming into his brain.
On May 20, 1999 in Conyers, Georgia, 15-year old T.J. Solomon, armed with a .22-caliber rifle and a handgun, opened fire at Heritage High School, wounding six students.
On May 26, 2000 in Lake Worth, Florida. 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.
On October 19, 2000 in New York City, New York, 12-year-old Anthony Haynes is stabbed to death in the cafeteria of Canarsie High School. Two 16-year-old students were arrested for the crime. It was suspected that the stabbing was gang-related.
On October 20, 1999 in Houston, Texas, Estanislao Balderas, 14, 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.
On November 19, 1999 in Deming, New Mexico, 12-year old Victor Cordova Jr. dressed in camouflage and shot 13-year old Araceli Tena. Tena died a day later.
On December 6, 1999 in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, 13-year old Seth Trickey armed himself with a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun and opened fire of 15 rounds at Fort Gibson Middle School, injuring four classmates.
On October 23, 2000 in Los Angeles, California, 20-year-old security guard Reginald Millsaps is shot to death at Western Academy Community Education Center by an unknown assailant.
On October 24, 2000 in New York City, New York. While changing a tire on a teacher’s car outside Bushwick High School, 18-year-old Joseph Gallo Rodriguez was accosted by two men looking to rob him of a silver crucifix. When he refused the robbers shot him and fled. Rodriguez died of the gunshot wound the next day.
On August 28, 2000 in Fayetteville, Arkansas, James Easton Kelley shot and killed professor John Locke in his office at the University of Arkansas before committing suicide.
February 29, 2000 in Mount Morris Township, Michigan. Dedrick Owens took a .32 caliber pistol to Buell Elementary School from his uncle's home and used it to kill 6-year-old Kayla Rolland.
September 5, 2000 in Bidwell, Ohio. Frank Shoemaker shot and killed his estranged wife, 52-year-old Linda Shoemaker, in the parking lot of Bidwell Porter Elementary School where she worked as a cook. Frank Shoemaker then returned home and committed suicide.
On September 28, 2000, in Washington, District of Columbia, 19-year-old Eric Franklin Plunkett was found beaten to death inside his dorm room at Gallaudet University. Shortly afterward, 19-year-old Benjamin Varner, an RA in the same dorm, was found stabbed to death. An investigation led authorities to Joseph Mesa Jr., and Mesa was found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder.
On January 30, 2001 in Cupertino, California. 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. In October, 2002, DeGuzman was sentenced to seven years in state prison.He later committed suicide by hanging himself in his jail cell.
February 2, 2001 in Red Lion, Pennsylvania, 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.
On February 14, 2001 in Elmira, New York, Jeremy Getman, 18, planned a school attack at Southside High School but it was foiled after students told a teacher that he was carrying weapons. He carried 14 pipe bombs, three smaller bombs, a propane tank, a sawed-off shotgun, and a .22 caliber pistol into the school by a duffel bag and also a book bag full of ammunition. On December 17, 2001, he was sentenced to 8½ years.
On March 5, 2001 in Santee, California. Armed with a .22-caliber revolver, 15-year-old Charles Andrew Williams opened fire in a male toilet facility at Santana High School in Santee, California, killing one student. Then exiting the restroom, Williams fired indiscriminately at nearby students, killing another student and wounding 13. Shortly afterward he retreated back into the restroom, where he surrendered to police. In June 2002, Williams was sentenced to 50 years in prison.
On March 7, 2001 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Elizabeth Bush shoots and injures Kimberly Marchese at Bishop Neumann High School.
On March 22, 2001 in El Cajon, California, 18-year-old student Jason Hoffman opened fire with a handgun and shotgun at Granite Hills High School, in El Cajon, California, wounding three students and two teachers.
On March 30, 2001 in Gary, Indiana, Donald Ray Burt Jr., a 17-year-old expelled student, shot and killed 16-year-old student Neal Boyd III in the parking lot of Lew Wallace High School, in Gary, Indiana.
On May 7, 2001 in Anchorage, Alaska. Four students were stabbed in the neck by 33-year-old Jason Pritchard at Mountain View Elementary School.
On May 18, 2001, in Pierce County, Washington, 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.
On November 12, 2001 in Caro, Michigan, 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.
On January 15, 2002 in New York, New York, 17-year-old Vincent Rodriguez shot and wounded two students at Martin Luther King, Jr. High School in Manhattan, New York City, with a .380-caliber semi-automatic pistol. The possible motive was that the victims had harassed Rodriguez's girlfriend.
On January 16, 2002, in Grundy, Virginia, Peter Odighizuwa, a 43-year-old Nigerian national in the U.S. on a student visa and former student, shot and killed the dean, a professor, and a student at the Appalachian School of Law, in Grundy, Virginia; three other students were wounded. The attack was ended after Odighizuwa had run out of ammunition and when students subdued the shooter. The fact that two of those who subdued the shooter had firearms has been used to argue the benefit of carrying firearms in preventing violent crime. Odighizuwa was sentenced to multiple life terms in prison. The school later settled a lawsuit by some of the surviving victims and their families brought over the school's failure to take action earlier, when the student had shown signs of psychosis and had made threats.
On October 28, 2002, in Tucson, Arizona, 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.
On April 14, 2003 in New Orleans, Louisiana, 15-year-old Jonathan Williams, a student and football player, was fatally shot while sitting on the bleachers in the gymnasium of John McDonogh Senior High School, by two men armed with an AK-47 assault rifle and a handgun. The two gunmen fired at least 18 rounds from their weapons, shattering Williams' face, and injuring three girls.
On April 24, 2003 in Red Lion, Pennsylvania, 14-year-old student James Sheets, armed with .44 and .357-caliber revolvers and a .22-caliber pistol, shot and killed Principal Eugene Segro and then committed suicide in the school cafeteria of Red Lion Area Junior High School, in Red Lion, Pennsylvania.
On May 9, 2003 in Cleveland, Ohio, 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.
On September 24, 2003 in Cold Spring, Minnesota, 15-year-old Jason McLaughlin shot Aaron Rollins and Seth Bartell at Rocori High School with a .22- caliber pistol. Rollins died the same day; Bartell died October 10 of injuries sustained in the attack.
On February 2, 2004 in Washington, District of Columbia, 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.
On February 3, 2004 in Palmetto Bay, Florida, 14-year old Michael Hernandez stabbed and slit the throat of a 14-year-old classmate, Jaime Rodrigo Gough, while in a restroom at Southwood Middle School. Hernandez was tried as an adult, and sentenced to life in prison without parole. A search of his home revealed he had concocted plans to murder several classmates and his older sister. His journal revealed he was obsessed with perfection and Christianity, and admired Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.
On March 16, 2004 in Malcolm, Nebraska, 17-year-old Joshua Magee was arrested in the parking lot of Malcolm High School after a school staff member, who saw the youth drinking liquor and putting on a black overcoat, called police. A search of Magee's car produced a bolt-action rifle, 20 bombs and a note stating the he wanted to injure everyone at the school except for three friends. Magee, to whom school paid close attention after it was reported to faculty that he was experimenting with explosives at home, was charged with attempted murder.
On May 24, 2004 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Just after 6:00 A.M. on May 24, 2004, Federico Cervantes-Lavelle shot and killed his estranged wife, Marisela Lavelle, as she arrived at work at West High School in Salt Lake City. Cervantes-Lavelle then committed suicide.
On January 25th, 2005 in Grand Marais, Minnesota,17-year-old David Riehm was arrested at is home on January 25th, 2005 after authorities at Cook County High School turned over a collection of writings and essays to police in which Riehm described in great detail shooting and killing his English teacher. After spending 72 hours at Miller Dwan Hospital, Riehm was released. He was later acquitted of all charges.
On March 2, 2005 in Cumberland City, Tennessee, 14-year old Jason Clinard shot and killed school bus driver Joyce Gregory, who had been carrying a bus of approximately 24 students.
On March 21, 2005 in Red Lake, Minnesota, Jeffrey Weise, a student at Red Lake High School in Red Lake, Minnesota, killed his grandfather and his grandfather's girlfriend before killing seven more people, comprising of five students, a teacher and an unarmed security guard at Red Lake High School. The attack concluded when Weise exchanged fire with police, and then retreated to a classroom where he fatally shot himself.
On November 8, 2005 in Jacksboro, Tennessee. 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.
On January 13, 2006 in Longwood, Florida,15-year-old Christopher Penley held his classroom at Milwee Middle School, in Longwood, Florida, Florida, gunpoint and holed himself in a restroom alcove, holding law enforcement at bay. He was eventually shot by a SWAT member, after raising the weapon at an officer. The weapon was a pellet gun.
On February 23, 2006 in Roseburg, Oregon, 14-year-old Vincent Leodoro shot 16-year-old fellow student Joseph Monti in the back four times with a 10mm semi-automatic pistol, critically injuring him, in the courtyard of Roseburg High School in Roseburg, Oregon.
On March 14, 2006 in Reno, Nevada, 14-year-old student James Newman brought a .38-caliber revolver to Pine Middle School in Reno, Nevada, and shot and injured two students at random in the school's hallway before being restrained by a physical education teacher. Newman was charged as a juvenile for two counts of battery with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to house arrest and 200 hours of community service.
On June 6, 2006 in Los Angeles, California, 17-year-old Venice High School junior Augustine Contreras was shot and killed in one of the school's parking lots shortly after the day's classes ended. He was shot after he went to the aid of his brothers, who were involved in a fight with several other young men. The fight was reportedly stemmed from a local gang dispute between Latino and black students. Two arrests were made but the suspects were released shortly thereafter.
On August 30, 2006 in Hillsborough, North Carolina, 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.
August 30, 2006  Essex, Vermont. Searching for his ex-girlfriend, Christopher A. Williams entered his ex-girlfriend's house and shot her mother dead. Williams then travelled to Essex Elementary School, his ex-girlfriend's workplace, and shot two teachers, killing one. Williams then travelled to a friend's house where he shot and wounded his friend before wounding himself. Williams was arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder. His ex-girlfriend was not wounded in the attack.
On September 3, 2006, in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, 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.
On September 17, 2006, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, shots were fired outside the campus of Duquesne University, after a dance party sponsored by the Black Student Union which several non-students were attending. Five members of the Duquesne Dukes basketball team were injured during the shooting including one who sustained critical injuries after an argument between one individual and two students.
On September 27, 2006 in Bailey, Colorado. 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.
On September 29, 2006 in Cazenovia, Wisconsin, 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     Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Charles Carl Roberts, a 32-year-old milk-tank truck driver, took hostages and eventually shot ten girls, killing five (aged 7–13), before killing himself at West Nickel Mines School, a one-room Amish schoolhouse.
On October 9, 2006 in Joplin, Missouri, 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.
On October 19, 2006 in Orlando, Florida, 17-year-old Kelvin De La Cruz stabbed 15-year-old Michael Nieves in the chest with a pocket knife at a school bus stop of the Main Campus at University High School. After he stabbed him, Cruz hid under the bus and attempted to change his clothes, but was apprehended and charged with first-degree murder. Nieves died two hours after being stabbed.
On January 3, 2007 in Tacoma, Washington, 18-year-old Douglas S. Chanthabouly shot 17-year-old Samnang Kok to death in one of the school's hallways due to a personal disagreement.
On January 19, 2007 in Sudbury, Massachusetts, 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.
On March 7, 2007 in Midland, Michigan, 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.
On April 2, 2007, in Seattle, Washington, Jonathan 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 taking his own life.
On April 10, 2007 in Gresham, Oregon.    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.
On April 16, 2007, in Blacksburg, Virginia. Thirty-two people (27 students and five faculty members) were killed by Seung-Hui Cho, a 23-year-old senior English major, on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in two separate locations, about two hours apart: West Ambler Johnston Hall dormitory, where two were shot dead, and Norris Hall, where the remaining 30 were shot in an attack lasting nine minutes. Cho committed suicide in a classroom after law enforcement officers breached the main entrance doors of Norris Hall, which Cho had chained shut. Police reported that 25 others were injured, some in the Norris Hall shooting, while others were hurt when they jumped from second-story windows to escape. The attack is the deadliest peacetime shooting incident by a single gunman in United States history, on or off a school campus.
On April 18, 2007 in Huntersville, North Carolina. 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.Four Charlotte-Mecklenberg schools went on lockdown.
August 4, 2007    Newark, New Jersey. Known as the Newark Schoolyard Killings, three Delaware State University students were forced to kneel against an elementary school wall and were shot execution-style by 28-year old Jose Carranza and two 15-year old juveniles. A fourth student was found with gunshot wounds to her head.
On September 21, 2007, in Dover, Delaware, an 18-year old Delaware State University student shot two 17-year old female students; one shooting victim, 17-year old Shalita Middleton, died from injuries sustained in the shootings 32 days later while in the hospital.
On September 28, 2007 in Oroville, California, 17-year-old student Greg Wright held twenty-seven students and a teacher hostage in a classroom at Las Plumas High School, in Oroville, California, for about two hours before surrendering to law enforcement;all but three of the hostages were released an hour within. Several shots were fired towards the air from Wright's weapon, a .22-caliber semi-automatic handgun, during the crisis. Wright was tried and convicted in adult court on charges of false imprisonment and firearms offenses and was sentenced to 22 years in prison in January 2008.
On September 30, 2007 in Memphis, Tennessee. A University of Memphis football player, 21-year-old Taylor Bradford, was fatally shot on campus in what was believed to be a targeted attack. Bradford was shot near his campus apartment. He then got into his car and drove a short distance before crashing into a tree where police found him dead from the gunshot wound. Bradford was rumored to have won more than $3,000 at a nearby casino the night before, which Four suspects were charged, with Jefferson being credited as the primary conspirator.
On October 10, 2007 in Cleveland, Ohio,14-year-old student Asa Coon, reportedly upset about a school suspension, went on a shooting spree at SuccessTech Academy, an alternative high school in Cleveland, Ohio, wounding two students and two teachers. He then fatally shot himself in a classroom.
On October 11, 2007 in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, 14-year-old Dillon Cossey was arrested at his home in Plymouth Meeting after a friend told police about his plan to carry out a Columbine style attack on Plymouth Whitemarsh High School. After a police-conducted search of the Cossey residence, officers found a 9 mm Hi-Point Carbine(which he named "Reb" in honor of Eric Harris), over 30 airsoft guns, a dozen knives and swords, 7 homemade explosives(4 which were live), a copy of The Anarchist Cookbook, and several movies about the Columbine High School Massacre, all which were in the boy's bedroom. A .22 rifle and a .22 pistol, which were lent to another acquaintance for safe-keeping, were also recovered by authorities. However, no ammunition turned up in the search, so investigators have concluded that the threat of an attack was not imminent. Even on Cossey's MySpace page, he discussed his admiration for the bank robbers of the North Hollywood shootout as well as for Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the Columbine gunmen. In his trial, Cossey confessed that he was going to carry out his shooting to kill the people who had relentlessly bullied him in elementary and middle school. Bullying led his parents to pull him out of public school at the end of his 7th grade year and home-school him. It was later found that he also had contact with Pekka-Eric Auvinen, the perpetrator of the Jokela school shooting, though Cossey apparently had no knowledge of Auvinen's plans. Cossey is currently serving time in juvenile detention and could possibly stay until the age of 21. His mother, Michelle Cossey, faced charges for purchasing the weapons and other charges regarding the welfare of her son.
On November 28, 2007 in LaGrange, New York. State police arrested two 16-year-old Poughquag students - Patrick Quigley and Joseph Saia – and a 15-year-old student after investigating a threat posted on a MySpace page. The three teens were charged with fourth-degree conspiracy, a felony. The Web page described events to take place at Arlington High School on April 20, 2010, the 11th anniversary of the attack on Columbine High School, police said.
On December 9, 2007, in Arvada, Colorado, Matthew J. Murray attacked the Youth With A Mission missionary training school in Arvada, Colorado, killing two and wounding two others. He then drove to the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado where an additional two people were killed and three people were wounded before Murray was shot by a church security guard. Murray then committed suicide. Murray had previously attended the same YWAM Missionary Center where he began his shooting spree. Murray was expelled from the school due to "strange behavior", which included playing frightening rock music and claiming to hear voices.
On December 21, 2007 in Union City, California, Vernon Matthew Eddins, a 14-year-old student of James Logan High School, was shot dead at the doorstep of Barnard-White Middle School, in Union City, California. Police issued that the shooting was prompted by an argument escalating between Latino and African-American groups of teenagers. No suspects were ever sought.
On January 8, 2008 in Lower Alsace Township, Pennsylvania, 13-year-old student Ian Chimenko stabbed three of his classmates in a clasroom at Antietam Middle-Senior High School, in Lower Alsace, Pennsylvania. Chimenko held faculty members at bay with a blowtorch before being subdued.
February 7, 2008 Portsmouth, Ohio, William Michael 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.
On February 8, 2008, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Latina Williams, a 23-year-old nursing student, opened fire of six rounds with a .357-caliber revolver in a second-floor classroom at Louisiana Technical College, in Baton Rouge, before committing suicide. The two victims were classmates Karsheika Graves and Taneshia Butler, who were both fatally shot.
On February 12, 2008 in Oxnard, California, 15-year-old Lawrence Fobes King was shot in the head twice by 14-year-old classmate Brandon McInerney in the E.O. Green Junior High School computer lab in Oxnard, California. King was transported to St. John's Regional Medical Center in Oxnard under serious condition. Examiners declared King brain dead the following day. It was suspected that the motivation of the shooting was McInerney suspecting King was gay, in which a hate crime charge was filed.
On February 14, 2008, in DeKalb, Illinois, 27-year-old former student Steven Kazmierczak opened fire with a shotgun and three semi-automatic handguns at Cole Hall on the campus of Northern Illinois University, in DeKalb, killing five students and wounding 20 other students and the class instructor. 17 of the injuries were determined to be gunshot-related, while the others were injured escaping the scene. Kazmierczak then fatally shot himself.
On March 6, 2008 in Mobile, Alabama, Jajuan Holmes, an 18-year-old student on suspension, walked into the gym area at Davidson High School and shot himself in front of 150 students. The school was put on lockdown for the day.
On June 4, 2008 in Mishawaka, Indiana. A 16-year old boy was arrested after notebook retrieved from his locker at Penn High School stated "I wanna break the current shooting record. I wanna get instant recognition." He and a 33 year old possible accomplice, Lee Billi, were charged with conspiracy. Trials Pending.
On August 21, 2008 in Knoxville, Tennessee, 15-year-old Ryan McDonald was shot to death by 15-year-old fellow student Jamar Siler in the cafeteria of Central High School, in Knoxville, Tennessee.
On October 31, 2008 in Stockton Springs, Maine. Eleven fifth-grade students were taken hostage in a classroom at Stockton Springs Elementary School, in Stockton Springs, Maine. The hostage situation ended within 30 minutes when the gunman surrendered to a state trooper. The hostage taker, 55-year-old Randall Hofland, was wanted by authorities for pointing a handgun at an officer during a traffic stop and then fleeing.
On October 27, 2008, in Conway, Arkansas. A shooting took place on the campus of University of Central Arkansas, in Conway, outside the Arkansas Hall dormitory. Two students—Ryan Henderson, 18, and Chavares Block, 19—were both fatally shot. A third person, a 19-year-old campus visitor, was shot and wounded in the leg.
On November 12, 2008 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 15-year-old student Amanda Collette was shot to death by her 15-year-old classmate, Teah Wimberly, in a hallway of Dillard High School, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The shooter was arraigned on the charge of first-degree murder.
On December 4, 2008 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, 15-year-old Richard Yanis was arrested for plotting a school shooting at Pottstown High School after his father reported to police three missing handguns. An investigation revealed that Yanis had stolen the guns from his father and put them into a duffelbag, which he handed to a friend with the words to "hold onto it". After checking the bag Yanis' friend told his mother of the weapons, who then forced him to get rid of them by throwing them into a river. After his arrest Yanis admitted that he had planned to shoot people at his school he didn't like, before committing suicide.
On January 9, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois. Five male teenagers leaving a basketball game held on the campus of Dunbar Vocational Career Academy, in the South Side area of Chicago, Illinois, received gunshot wounds after shots were fired from a passing vehicle. All five victims were sent to Chicago area hospitals, three of whom were treated for serious injuries. Police arrested 18-year-old Georgio Dukes a week after the shooting on five counts of aggravated battery with a firearm. Police determined that the attack was gang-related.
On January 15, 2009 in San Francisco, California. A 14-year-old female student was struck eight times with a pair of scissors in a classroom at Marina Middle School, in San Francisco, California, by another 14-year-old female classmate. The victim suffered wounds to the head, arms, chest, and back and was treated at a local hospital.The attacker was arraigned on charges of attempted murder and assault.
On January 21, 2009, in Blacksburg, Virginia, Yang Xin, a 22-year-old graduate student from Beijing, China, was decapitated with a kitchen knife by fellow student Zhu Haiyang, in a cafe on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). It is the second murder to have occurred on campus since April 2007, in which a 23-year-old student killed 32 people before committing suicide.
On February 7, 2009, in Houston, Texas, Jeremy Lee Pierce, a 32-year-old student at University of Houston, fatally shot Joe Tall, a 47-year-old homeless man, on the campus bus stop. Pierce has been charged with murder.
On March 6, 2009 in Fayetteville, North Carolina.  A 15-year-old male was struck in the foot with a bullet at a parking lot of Westover High School, in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The shooting occurred when 19-year-old Terrance Donnell Johnson, Jr. fired several shots from a handgun at his opponents during a fashion show held at the school.
On March 11, 2009 in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. An eighth grade student who attended St. Andrew School in Drexel Hill was arrested after a fellow pupil he attempted to recruit for an attack tipped off authorities. The suspect was then pulled from class and later arrested. Shortly after, two airsoft pistols were found in his backpack, one of them looking very much like a real gun. The plan of the 13-year-old student was to force the school in lock down and shoot anybody who tried to escape. He is charged with terroristic threats and reckless endangerment and is currently held in juvenille detention. He is also charged with burglary for stealing $370 from another school in Drexel Hill on the previous weekend. It is noted that the suspect has a history of mental illness.
On April 2, 2009, in Radford, Virginia, Phillip Beale and another unidentified individual murdered a drug dealer near the campus of Radford University after getting into an argument with him. Radford police arrested Beale and are seeking to identify his accomplice.
On April 10, 2009, in Dearborn, Michigan, 28-year-old Anthony Powell fatally shot his classmate, 20-year-old Asia McGowan, before committing suicide on the campus of Henry Ford Community College.
On April 26, 2009, in Hampton, Virginia, Odane Maye, an 18-year-old former student, entered Hampton University, in eastern Virginia, while armed with three handguns. Maye stalked a pizza delivery man, who he then shot while entering Harkness Hall dormitory. Maye then entered the dormitory and shot its' manager, and then shot himself in an unsuccessful suicide attempt;both victims survived. Maye was arrested three days later after being hospitalized and was arraigned the next day on seven counts—aggravated malicious wounding and various firearms offenses.
On April 28, 2009, in Richmond, Virginia, two students at Virginia Union University were stabbed. Police say the suspect, whose name has not been released, is not a VUU student.
On May 6, 2009, in Middletown, Connecticut, Stephen P. Morgan allegedly used a CZ-USA 9 mm semi-automatic pistol to shoot and kill 21-year-old Wesleyan University student Johanna Justin-Jinich at the off-campus bookstore where she was working. Morgan purportedly previously had been stalking Johanna Justin-Jinich and leaving her harassing phone calls and e-mail messages (prior to her matriculation at Wesleyan when they were both attending classes at New York University). After arresting Morgan, police purportedly found a journal in Morgan's car that supposedly stated Morgan's plans might have been allegedly to rape and kill Johanna Justin-Jinich and then allegedly go on a killing spree at Wesleyan University.
On May 18, 2009 in Larose, Louisiana, Justin Doucet, a 15-year-old eighth grade student, fired one shot from a .25-caliber semi-automatic pistol above a teacher's head inside her classroom at Larose-Cut Off Middle School, in Larose, Louisiana, and then entered a restroom next door and shot himself through the chin. Doucet was lifted by air to Terrebonne General Medical Center where he died five days later from head wounds.
On May 18, 2009, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Justin Cosby, 21, was shot and killed inside a dormitory at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by three men looking to rob him of money and drugs. Police arrested 20-year-old Jabrai Jordan Copney after the shooting. It was not clear which of the three assailants actually shot Cosby.
On June 15, 2009 in San Francisco, California. Three people, including two students, were injured after several shots were fired into a crowd as a summer school class was just released at International Studies Academy High School, in San Francisco, California. The shooting occurred a block away from the campus. Police arrested an 18-year-old as an accessory in the shooting.
On June 24, 2009 in Parkersburg, Iowa, Mark Becker entered the weight room of Aplington-Parkersburg High School, in Parkersburg, Iowa, and shot football coach Ed Thomas inside. Thomas was airlifted to Covenant Medical Center in Waterloo, Iowa, where he later died of his wounds. Becker was arrested and charged with first-degree murder.
On August 24, 2009 in San Mateo, California. Two pipe bombs went off in a hallway of Hillsdale High School, in San Mateo, California, during the beginning of first period classes. Nobody was injured from the explosions. Alex Youshock, a 17-year-old former student of the school, was held by staff members until police arrived and was found with eight other pipe bombs, a two-foot-long sword, and a chainsaw concealed in a guitar case. Youshock was subsequently arrested and charged as an adult with eight felonies.
On September 2, 2009, in San Bruno, California, a student was shot in the abdomen and buttocks after an argument escalated between two groups of young males in the parking lot of Skyline College, in San Bruno, a suburb of San Francisco, California. The victim was transported to San Francisco General Hospital and the campus was subsequently placed on lockdown. Police arrested three suspects on September 3.
On September 8, 2009, in New Haven, Connecticut, 24-year-old doctoral student Annie Le was strangled to death inside a research building on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. On September 17, police arrested lab technician Raymond Clark and charged him with murder.
On September 11, 2009 in Owosso, Michigan, James Pouillon, 63, was killed in a drive-by shooting in front of Owosso High School, in Michigan, where he was protesting against abortion. Several students witnessed the attack but none were injured. An hour later the body of business owner Mike Fuoss was found shot to death inside his office at Fuoss Gravel. Police arrested Harlan James Drake after the shootings and charged him with two counts of first-degree murder.
On September 15, 2009 in Coral Gables, Florida. Juan Carlos Rivera, a 17-year-old student of Coral Gables Senior High School, located in the Coral Gables suburb of Miami, Florida, was stabbed in the chest by another student and died. The stabbing happened during a fight between the two students, reportedly over a girl. 17-year-old student Andy Rodriguez was arrested for the crime.
On September 16, 2009 in Antioch, California. An 16-year-old student of Deer Valley High School, in Antioch, California, was shot in the arm and torso after an argument between two groups of young men. The shots were fired from a vehicle, which then drove off. The victim was lifted by air to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek and underwent surgery. Yousuf Mohammad Aziz, a 19-year-old graduate of Deer Valley, was arrested on September 18 in connection with the shooting.
On September 23, 2009 in Tyler, Texas, 50-year-old Todd Henry, a special education teacher at John Tyler High School, was fatally stabbed by a student inside a classroom at the school. Henry later died of his injuries at a local hospital. The attacker was taken into custody.
On October 8, 2009, in Los Angeles, California. A 20-year-old female student of a chemistry laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles was stabbed multiple times, including having her throat slashed, during class. A teaching assistant stopped the bleeding and called for help. The victim was transported to the hospital and needed surgery but was expected to recover. Police arrested Damon Thompson after the attack.
On October 18, 2009, in Storrs, Connecticut, Jasper Howard, a 20-year-old cornerback for the UConn Huskies, was stabbed to death on the campus of the University of Connecticut, outside the Student Union Center where an on-campus dance was held to celebrate the Huskies’ homecoming victory over the Louisville Cardinals. On October 21, police arrested John William Lomax III, 21, and charged him with murder. Three other men were also arrested in connection with the murder.
On October 21, 2009 in Monroe, New York.  A 15-year-old boy from Monroe was already on juvenile probation when he broke down crying, police said Tuesday night, as he admitted he stockpiled bottles of gasoline, makeshift fuses, a torch, a 2-foot (0.61 m) machete and three tanks of propane in a plot to attack former fellow students at Monroe-Woodbury High School.
On October 16, 2009 in Carolina Forest, South Carolina, Trevor Varinecz, a junior at Carolina Forest High School, attacked and stabbed police officer Marcus Rhodes, the School Resource Officer, inside his office. Rhodes then shot Varinecz in self defense. Varinecz later died in hospital.
On October 30, 2009 in Long Beach, 16-year-old Melody Ross, a junior at Wilson Classical High School, was fatally shot leaving a homecoming game at the school. Two males, aged 18 and 20, were also injured in the shooting. Tom Vinson and Daivion Davis were later arrested and charged with murder and two counts of attempted murder.
On December 4, 2009, in Vestal, New York, Richard T. Antoun, 77, a professor of anthropology and specialist in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, is stabbed to death inside his office at Binghamton University. Police arrested 46-year-old graduate student Abdulsalam S. al-Zahrani after the stabbing and charged him with second-degree murder.
On January 20, 2010 Livingston, Alabama, Telvin Gray shot and killed Starrick Gray, his estranged wife, at Livingston High School where she worked as a special education teacher. Telvin Gray then fled the scene but was later arrested by police and charged with murder.
On February 5, 2010 in Madison, Alabama, Todd Brown, a 14-year-old ninth-grade student, was shot in the back of the head in a hallway of Discovery Middle School in Madison, Alabama. Brown was transported to a hospital in Huntsville, Alabama where he later died. A fellow ninth-grader was arrested for the crime.
On February 12, 2010, in Huntsville, Alabama. Amy Bishop, a biology professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, shot six faculty members at a faculty meeting. Three professors died in the shooting. Bishop was arrested after the shooting and charged with capital murder.
On February 19, 2010, in DeKalb, Illinois. Following an argument outside of Stevenson Towers North at Northern Illinois University, an off campus student shot and injured a resident of Stevenson North. 22-year-old Zach R. Isaacman was arrested after the shooting. This was the second shooting to occur on the NIU campus since February 2008, when a 27-year-old former student killed five people before committing suicide.
On February 23, 2010 in Littleton, Colorado. A 32 year old gunman, identified as Bruco Strongeagle Eastwood, opened fire on students at Deer Creek Middle School at 3:30 pm (MST) as school was being let out in Littleton, Colorado. The gunman was later tackled by a math teacher and the teacher turned him into the police when they arrived on scene. The gunman shot and injured two students at the school before he was taken into custody.
On February 26, 2010 in Tacoma, Washington Jennifer Paulson, a 30-year-old special education teacher, is shot to death outside of Birney Elementary School by a man who was reportedly infatuated with her. The gunman, identified as 30-year-old Jed Waits, fled the scene but was later shot and killed by police in a day-cay center parking lot.
On March 9, 2010, in Columbus, Ohio, Nathaniel Brown, a 51-year-old custodian at Ohio State University, fatally shot one co-worker and wounded another after he was told that he was being fired from his custodial job at the university. Brown then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide.
On April 28, 2010 in Portsmouth,Virginia. At around 12:15 pm, a 15-year old student at Woodrow Wilson High School who was suspended earlier in the week for disorderly conduct entered the school through the back door and fired three shots in the cafeteria, with two hitting the ceiling and one hitting entering the wall of a classroom. The suspect left the firearm and fled, but was later apprehended by a security officer and a school administrator. The shooter, identified as 15-year-old Keith Elliott, was charged as an adult with gun violations, armed burglary and assault.
On June 10, 2010 in Binghamton, New York. A brawl broke out among the students of Binghamton High School. It started as a food fight-prank in the cafeteria, then radiated out into the streets. Some police officers and school personnel suffered minor injuries, and at least one school administrator suffered more serious injuries. Over 100 students then gathered at Oak and Main streets and the situation rapidly degraded. Police broke up the incident. The skirmishes resulted in at least 9 students being arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and/or assault in the 2nd degree. The school was put on lockdown for the rest of the day.
On August 30, 2010 in Blountville, Tennessee, Thomas Cowan entered Sullivan Central High School with two loaded guns with the intent on killing principal Melanie Riden. SRO Carolyn Gudger was able to hold him off until back-up arrived, when they were forced to shoot and kill Cowan. No staff or students were injured.
On September 28, 2010, in Austin, Texas,a man identified as 19-year-old sophomore Colton Tooley opened fire with an assault rifle on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin before fleeing into a library where he committed suicide. No one else was injured.
On October 1, 2010 in Salinas, California, 15-year-old student Jose Cisneros is shot to death on an athletic field at Alisal High School. Police said that the shooting was gang-related.
On October 3, 2010, in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, Jonathan Schipper, a student at Mid-Atlantic Christian University was shot to death inside Pearl A. Presley Hall, a campus dormitory. Police arrested 23-year-old student Christopher David Amyx after the shooting and charged him with first-degree murder. It was reported that the shooting was the result of a personal matter between the shooter and the victim.
On October 8, 2010 in Carlsbad, California. A middle aged man holding a jack-o-lantern stormed the campus at Kelly Elementary School, his bullets grazing the shoulders of two students, six and seven year olds. The assailant, identified as 41-year-old Brendan Liam O’Rourke, was apprehended by police.
On October 24, 2010 in Topeka, Kansas, 20-year-old Matthew C. Mitchell was shot to death on the grounds of Topeka West High School. An unidentified juvenile was also injured in the shooting but was expected to recover. Police arrested three suspects.
On November 29, 2010 in Marinette, Wisconsin, Samuel Hengel took 23 students and one teacher hostage for over 5 hours at Marinette High School. The suspect, a student in the sophomore Western Civilization class, shot himself after police officers stormed the classroom shortly after 8 p.m. All hostages were removed safely. Hengel died at 10:44 the next morning.
On December 14, 2010 in Panama City, Florida. A gunman named Clay Duke pulled out a gun during a school board meeting in the Panama City district. He ordered everyone but six male school board members to leave the room. He then aimed and shot at superintendent Bill Husfelt, who tried to talk him down before ducking to avoid getting shot. A security guard came in and shot Duke, and while on the ground, Duke shot himself in the head.
On January 5, 2011 in Omaha, Nebraska, Robert Butler Jr., after being suspended for destruction of property entered Millard South High School at 12:45 PM. He then entered the office of 58-year-old Vice Principal Vicki Kaspar, and shot her five times in the chest and head. As staff and teachers took cover, 44-year-old Principal Curtis Case ran into the hall because of all the commotion, and was shot multiple times in the chest and hip. As Butler left he shot randomly around the front office, causing gunshot debris to give the school nurse minor injuries. He then threatend to kill a resource officer, and left campus, where he later commited suicide in a parking lot. Shortly after, 911 arrived and transported Kaspar and Case to the hospital, where Kaspar later died of her injuries. During the event Millard South went into a lockdown which later included 21,000 kids in the Millard district.