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. Seventeen others suffered gunshot wounds, while many more were injured from trying to jump out the window. He went into the girls restroom to reload where he was attacked by Kat Finkbeiner, a Physical Education teacher. • April 24, 1998 Edinboro, Pennsylvania One teacher, John Gillette, killed, two students wounded at a dance at James W. Parker Middle School. February 23, 1943: Port Chester, NY Harry Wyman, 13-year-old, shot himself dead at the Harvey School, a boys' preparatory school. • June 12, 1976 California State University, Fullerton massacre, where the school's custodian opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle in the library on the California State University, Fullerton campus killing 7, and wounding 2. The bowling alley was owned by the late Harry K. Floyd. June 7, 1960 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. • December 15, 1997 Stamps, Arkansas Two students wounded. Since 2009, at least 177 of America’s schools experienced a shooting. Smith had reportedly admired Richard Speck and Charles Whitman. October 8, 1953: New York City, New York Larry Licitra, 17-year-old student at the Machine and Metal Trades High School, was shot and slightly wounded in the right shoulder in the lobby of the school while inspecting a handmade pistol owned by one of several students. Pleasantville, New Jersey. The boys refused to disclose the object of their meeting, but it is thought that another "Jesse James" organization has been broken up.". How Many Serial Killers Are On The Loose Today? 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. The Pontiac's Rebellion school massacre in 1764, is the first recorded case of school shooting in the US. February 12, 1909 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. Only two … Four women and a three-year-old girl died, one woman and a baby were injured but survived. December 12, 1935 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. 1993-1994 (42 Homicides and 51 Deaths resulting from school shootings in the U.S.) One definition is an act of public firearm violence—excluding gang killings, domestic violence, or terrorist acts sponsored by an organization—in which a shooter kills at least four victims. The late 1990s started to see a major reduction in gun related school violence, but was still plagued with multiple victim shootings including; • October 12, 1995 Blackville, South Carolina A suspended student shot two math teachers with a .32 caliber revolver. 1998-1999 (25 Homicides from school shootings in the U.S.) Only two children survived. Tereaschinko then shot himself in a failed suicide attempt. The late 1980s began to see a major increase in school shootings including; • September 4, 1985 Richmond, Virginia At the end of the second day of school from the East End Middle School a 12yr old boy shot a girl with his mother's gun. According to a 1987 survey conducted by the American School Health Association," 3% of the boys reported having carried a handgun to school at least once during the school year; 1% reported carrying a handgun on a daily basis.". The Bath School disaster was a pair of bombings that took place in 1927 at Bath Consolidated School in a small township in Michigan. Pitts was later acquitted of murder. Still, as infamous as it was, Columbine wasn't the first, or the deadliest, school shooting in America. • May 20, 1988 Winnetka, Illinois 30yr old Laurie Dann shot and killed one boy, and wounded five other kids, in an elementary school, then took a family hostage and shot a man before killing herself. March 23, 1907 Carmi, Illinois George Nicholson shot and killed John Kurd at a schoolhouse outside of Carmi, Illinois during a school rehearsal. Cruz was charged with seventeen counts of premeditated murder. Smith ordered the hostages to lie down on the floor in a circle. • April 12, 1887 Watertown, New York Edwin Bush, a student a the Potsdam Normal School committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. When the school originally opened in 1922, local taxes were raised as a means to pay for it. April 15, 1908 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. During the nineteenth century at least 36 school shootings took place in the US. There have been at least 288 school shootings in the US since January 1, 2009. Crow went to Phy's office and demanded that Mr. Phy change his grade to a passing mark. • June 13, 1889 New Brunswick, New Jersey Charles Crawford upset over an argument with a school Trustee, went up to the window and fired a pistol into a crowded school room. The suspect, a 14-year-old boy, had dropped out of school after he was severely ostracized by his classmates. It was initially thought that the gunmen were purposefully targeting athletes, minorities, and Christians, but it was later determined that they chose their victims at random. March 27, 1919 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. • December 10, 1985 Portland, Connecticut At the Portland Junior High School, the Principal was having a heated discussion with a 13-year-old male eighth-grader when he locked the boy inside an office. November 27, 1951 New York City, New York David Brooks, a 15-year-old student, was fatally shot as fellow-pupils looked on in a grade school. 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. 1994-1995 (17 Homicides and 20 Deaths resulting from school shootings in the U.S.) The massacre at Columbine was at the time the worst high school shooting in US history. Gunfire erupted at a high school football game, injuring an adult … Colt Todd, 14, was hiding in the woods when he shot the students as they stood in the parking lot, • March 24, 1998 Jonesboro, Arkansas Four students and one teacher killed, ten others wounded outside as Westside Middle School emptied during a false fire alarm. 2003-2004 (29 Deaths resulting from school shootings in the U.S.) That night, students started a bonfire. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — On the morning of Nov. 15, 1840, the Richmond Enquirer reported the nation's first campus shooting on the bottom corner of Page 2. 201 were severely wounded by gun fire. September 12, 1940 Uniontown, Pennsylvania, 29-year-old teacher Carolyn Dellamea is shot to death inside her third grade classroom by 35-year-old William Kuhns. 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 first victim, was fatally shot in the stomach, and the second victim received a non-fatal gunshot wound to the abdomen. July 4, 1940: Valhalla, New York Angered by the refusal of his daughter, Melba, 15 years old, to leave a boarding school and return to his home, Joseph Moshell, 47, visited the school and shot and killed the girl. March 11, 1908 Boston, Massachusetts Elizabeth Bailey Hardee was shot to death by Sarah Chamberlain Weed at the Laurens School, a finishing school in Boston. After a horrifying ninety minutes, four law enforcement officers surrounded Whitman on the observation deck and shot him. James shot her in the hand and mouth. • March 15, 1884 Gainsville, Georgia In the middle of the day, a group of very drunk Jackson County farmers left the Jug Tavern drinking and shooting their revolvers as they headed down the street driving people into their homes. Adams then shot and killed himself. Even though they are in actuality quite rare, these traumatic events have many people concerned about their safety and that of their children. T hree men entered a schoolhouse in, Pennsylvania, shot and killed schoolmaster and ten children. Kuhns then shot himself in the chest in a failed suicide attempt. That's 57 times as many shootings as the other six G7 countries combined. During the nineteenth century at least 36 school shootings took place in the US. As police attempted to put out the fire, an officer was injured by a thrown piece of banister. Doctors prescribed him all sorts of medication. The motive of the shooting regarded who would own the school's African American Studies Center. • December 9, 1985 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania At the Archbishop Ryan High School for Boys, a 22yr old Mental health patient took 6 students hostage with what ended up being a starter pistol. February 2, 1960 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. September 24, 1959: New York City, New York Twenty-seven men and boys and an arsenal were seized in the Bronx last night as the police headed off a gang war resulting from the fatal shooting of a teenager Monday at Morris High School. Today, a commemorative park marks the site. • November 26, 1985 Spanaway, Washington A 14yr old girl shot two boys dead then kills herself with a .22-caliber rifle at the Spanaway Junior High School. The incident took place in a schoolhouse about a mile outside of Warrenville after the students had been dismissed for the day. The First Mass School Shooting, 1891 April 9, 1891 marked the first mass school shooting … How Many Serial Killers Are Active In The UK Now? April 20, 1961 Chicago, Illinois Teacher Josephine Keane, 45, is sexually assaulted and stabbed to death inside a storeroom at Lewis-Champlin elementary school in Chicago. September 24, 1937 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. • March 6, 1884 Boston, Massachusetts As news of Jesse James reached the east coast, young kids started to act in the same manner. Seung-Hui Cho (23) opened fire at two locations on campus, first the dormitory, followed by an academic building where he locked the doors and went from classroom to classroom shooting at random. On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza (20) rocked the nation when, after killing his mother, he drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. A boy of 12 has his pantaloons made with a pistol pocket; and this at a boarding-school filled with boys, who, we suppose, do or wish to do the same thing. • May 21, 1998 Springfield, Oregon Two students killed, 22 others wounded in the cafeteria at Thurston High School by 15-year-old Kip Kinkel. The Florida massacre is one of the deadliest school shootings in US history. The massacre at Columbine High School is considered to be the event that has most shaped the modern gun debate. 2004-2005 (20 Deaths resulting from school shootings in the U.S.) • February 2, 1996 Moses Lake, Washington Two students and one teacher killed, one other wounded when 14-year-old Barry Loukaitis opened fire on his algebra class. Peakes was reportedly upset that the APS had rejected a pamphlet he had written. Overall, the bombings killed 44 people—38 of which were schoolchildren—and left 58 injured. The Enoch Brown Massacre is thought to be the earliest known shooting to occur on school property in what would one day become the United States. Slate takes a look at the first … Smith escaped and committed suicide in a barn near his home two hours later. The stabbing was reportedly sparked over a dispute about a basketball game. After 45 minutes, he tossed the gun out a school window and was taken into custody. The earliest known United States shooting to happen on school property was the Pontiac's Rebellion school massacre on July 26, 1764, where four Lenape American Indian entered the schoolhouse near present-day Greencastle, Pennsylvania, shot and killed schoolmaster Enoch Brown, and killed nine or ten children (reports vary). There are very seldom reports of mass or multiple school shootings during the first three decades of the 20th Century, with the three most violent attacks on schools involving either arson or explosions. History of Education in the United States, Primary School and Kindergarten Incidents, College and University School Incidents ›, History of School Shootings in the United States. September 14, 1934 Gill, Massachusetts. • November 15, 1995 Lynnville, Tennessee A seventeen-year-old boy shot and killed a student and teacher with a .22 rifle. He had a history of racist comments and supposedly had ties to white supremacists, often voicing his desire to shoot police and anti-fascist protestors. David wounded John Miller, a teacher who was trying to flee, then killed himself. Not finding the teacher at the school, they continued to his house, where a gun battle rang out, leaving three dead. He was discharged in 1964 and returned to university a year later. In fact, one of the first reported school shootings occurred during the 1840s when John Anthony Gardner Davis, a professor at the University of Virginia, was shot and killed by his student. Most of the bloodshed occurred in the school’s library where, shortly after noon, Harris and Klebold turned the guns on themselves. Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, shot at their classmates and teachers from the woods. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — On the morning of Nov. 15, 1840, the Richmond Enquirer reported the nation's first campus shooting on the bottom corner of Page 2. Following the massacre, it was reported that they had also planted a bomb that failed to detonate. October 2, 1942: New York City, New York "Erwin Goodman, 36-year-old mathematics teacher of William J. Gaynor Junior High School, was shot and killed in the school corridor by a youth... Prosecutors said the attack was in retribution for a failing grade. The Pontiac's Rebellion school massacre in 1764, is the first recorded case of school shooting in the US. The precise inclusion criteria are disputed, and there is no broadly accepted definition. “A lot of the stupid things he did were just stupid things people did,” says Arnie Bernstein, the author of Bath Massacre: America’s First School Bombing. • March 2, 1987 Missouri an honours student Nathan Ferris, 12, killed a classmate and then himself. As they approached the female academy, the girls fled the schoolyard into the school where the gang followed swearing and shooting, firing several rounds into the front door. Law enforcement arrived within minutes, but sadly, Lanza managed to kill twenty children—the majority of whom were six or seven—and six school administrators before killing himself. Just after 7 am on April 16, 2007, there was an active shooter at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg. Six months prior to the attack, the FBI had been alerted to a comment he made on YouTube stating: “I’m going to be a professional school shooter.” Nothing came of it. He enrolled at the University of Texas on a military scholarship, but was recalled to active duty due to poor grades. • March 9, 1873 Salisbury, Maryland After school as Miss Shockley was walking with four small children, she was approached by a Mr. Hall and shot. The Schoolmaster ran out, but she was dead instantly. An April 30, 1866 editorial in the New York Times argued against students carrying pistols, citing "...pistols being dropped on the floor at balls or being exploded in very inconvenient ways. • February 22, 1978 Lansing, Michigan After being taunted for his beliefs, a 15-year-old self-proclaimed Nazi, kills one student and wounds a second with a Luger pistol. His wife, who had been a teacher at the school, had filed for divorce the week before. The First School Shooting in 1764. He turned the Cobray toward his classmates, but the gun jammed and he was quickly subdued by M. Hutchinson Matteson, a teacher, before he could fire another round. • June 12, 1887 Cleveland, Tennessee Will Guess went to the school and fatally shot Miss Irene Fann, his little sister's teacher, for whipping her the day before. Eight children and a police officer were injured, and two men — custodian Michael Suchar and principal Burton Wragg — were killed in what is considered the first modern school shooting in … In 2018, Nikolas Cruz (19) opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Two days following the incident, NBC News received a package from Cho containing a video of him rambling on about “wealthy brats.” Besides this video, there is no evidence to suggest he targeted specific victims. • May 1, 1992 Olivehurst, California Eric Houston, 20, killed four people and wounded 10 in an armed siege at his former high school. According to the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence, in the United States, from September 1986 to September 1990 (four year period): At least 71 people (65 students and 6 school employees) had been killed with guns at school. November 13, 1949 Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State University freshman James Heer grabbed a .45 caliber handgun from the room of a Delta Tau Delta fraternity brother and shot and killed his fraternity brother Jack McKeown, 21, an Ohio State senior. His first shots struck teacher Karen Farley in the arm; when she went down he killed her at point blank range. July 22, 1950 New York City, New York A 16-year-old boy was shot in the wrist and abdomen at the Public School 141 dance… during an argument with a former classmate. Nicholas then injured Sam Marino. Sporting trench coats, they opened fire, killing twelve students and one teacher. • January 17, 1989 Cleveland School massacre of Stockton, California where 5 school children were killed and 29 wounded by a single gunman firing over 100 rounds into a schoolyard from an AK-47. In fact, one of the first reported school shootings occurred during the 1840s when John Anthony Gardner Davis, a professor at the University of … The Bath School Disaster is the worst school bombing in American history. The crime was never solved. He then fled the school grounds and shot and wounded himself. At the time only boys could attend school. May 15, 1954 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. The first known mass shooting in the U.S. where students were shot, was on April 9, 1891, when 70 year old, James Foster fired a shotgun at a group of students in the playground of St. Mary's Parochial School, Newburgh, New York, causing minor injuries to several of the students. 1999-2000 (25 Homicides from school shootings in the U.S.). 2006-2007 (38 Deaths resulting from school shootings in the U.S.) Lanza’s weapons of choice were firearms that his mother had previously purchased, including a .22-calibre rifle and an AR-15, the civilian semiautomatic version of the military M16 assault rifle. 2007-2008 (3 Deaths resulting from school shootings in the U.S.) In 2012, twenty children—the majority of whom were six or seven—were killed during the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. April 27, 1936 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. December 24, 1948: New York City A 14-year-old boy was wounded fatally by an accidental shot from the .22-caliber rifle of a fellow-student … the youth was shot in the head when he chanced into range where Robert Ross, 17, of Brooklyn, was shooting at a target near a lake on the school property. . First the 16-year-old shooter killed his grandfather and the grandfather's girlfriend before driving to Red Lake Senior High School, which he used to attend, and opening fire. October 17, 1961 Denver, Colorado Tennyson Beard, 14, got into an argument with William Hachmeister, 15, at Morey Junior High School. Police arrested Smith after the massacre. a sharp increase from just five years earlier. He arrived in an Uber carrying a big black bag. The earliest known United States shooting to happen on school property was the Pontiac's Rebellion school massacre on July 26, 1764, where four Lenape American Indian entered the schoolhouse near present-day Greencastle, Pennsylvania, shot and killed schoolmaster Enoch Brown, and killed nine or ten children (reports vary). It was Valentine’s Day. 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. © 2004-2021 K12academics.com — All Rights Reserved. This article lists school shootings in the United States by death toll (four or more … With 32 killed and dozens injured, the massacre at Virginia Tech remains the worse school shooting in the United States. Only one shot was fired in order to detonate dynamite in the car. August 1, 1966 University of Texas Massacre Charles Whitman climbs atop the observation deck at the University of Texas-Austin, killing 16 people and wounding 31 during a 96-minute shooting rampage. He then committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. January 17, 1969 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. May 18, 1927 Bath, Michigan School treasurer Andrew Kehoe, after killing his wife and destroying his house and farm, blew up the Bath Consolidated School by detonating dynamite in the basement of the school, killing 38 people, mostly children. The boy's father and another family member came to the school and talked to him over the intercom system. One of the deadliest campus shootings in American history took place at Virginia Tech in 2007. School shootings in America have become the norm while gun violence remains a topic of national discussion. No one was hurt in the ordeal. All maps, graphics, flags, photos and original descriptions © 2021 worldatlas.com, The Deadliest School Massacres In American History, The Deadliest Massacres In Canadian History, 10 Countries Where Women Far Outnumber Men, The Most Famous Serial Killers In America And Their Twisted Crimes. 1997-1998 (35 Homicides and 40 Deaths resulting from school shootings in the U.S.) 24 were injured. Tereaschinko was reportedly upset that Malakanoff refused to elope with him. He entered a study hall classroom and opened fire, hitting two fellow students. Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, had plotted for a year to kill at least 500 and blow up their school. The Sandy Hook elementary school shooting is the deadliest at a high school or grade school in the history of the country, but it is far from the first. 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