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Some of our schools have metal protectors. AND there is a contract that tells parents they have the right to search lockers and backpacks.Have you kept up with the school shootings in the last few years?Start here and finish in Wikipedia it will terrify you and hurt your stomachList of school shootings in the United States - WikipediaFebruary 29, 2000Flint, Michigan10Shooting of Kayla Rolland: At Buell Elementary School, a 6-year-old boy fatally shot 6-year-old classmate Kayla Rolland. To date, the boy is the youngest documented fatal school shooter.[1] See August 22, 2013 below.May 26, 2000Lake Worth, Florida1013-year-old honor student, Nathaniel Brazill, was sent home for throwing water balloons, but returned to his Lake Worth Middle School with a family pistol. He fatally shot teacher Barry Grunow, a popular teacher and Brazill's favorite.[1][2]June 28, 2000Seattle, Washington2[n 1]058-year-old Director of the Division of Pathology of the University of Washington Medical Center, Rodger C. Haggitt, was shot dead by 42-year-old Taiwanese emigrant and then-U.S. citizen, Jian Chen, who had just completed his second year of forensic pathology residency training and had been notified of his contract non-renewal (which Chen wrote would dishonor his family). Chen then committed suicide.[3] In 2001 the Rodger C. Haggitt Gastrointestinal Pathology Society was named in memory of Dr. Haggitt.August 28, 2000Fayetteville, Arkansas2[n 1]036-year-old James Easton Kelly, a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at University of Arkansas, killed 67-year-old John R. Locke, the English professor overseeing his coursework. Kelly had been dismissed from this PhD program for lack of progress toward his degree. Kelly shot Locke three times before committing suicide in the director's office, which had been isolated by campus police.[4]September 26, 2000New Orleans, Louisiana0213 year-olds Darrel Johnson, and Alfred Anderson were initially charged with attempted first-degree murder in the shooting of 15 year-old William Pennington. Pennington, after being shot, managed to gain control of the gun and shoot Johnson in the back.[5] Charges were later reduced to Aggravated Battery.December 1, 2000San Diego, California01[n 1]A 15-year-old Junipero Serra High School student who showed off a handgun on campus and threatened to shoot a classmate, ended up accidentally shooting himself, causing minor injuries.[6]March 5, 2001Santee, California213Santana High School shooting: 15-year-old student, Charles Andrew Williams, killed two students, 14-year-old Bryan Zuckor, and 15-year-old Randy Gordon, at Santana High School and wounded thirteen others. He was arrested and convicted of murder and attempted murder. He was sentenced to life with the chance of parole after serving fifty years.[7]March 7, 2001Williamsport, Pennsylvania0114-year-old student, Elizabeth Catherine Bush, wounded fellow student Kimberly Marchese in the cafeteria of Bishop Neumann High School.[8] Bush was released in 2004.[9]May 16, 2001Parkland, Washington2[n 1]040-year-old music instructor and organist James D. Holloway was shot multiple times with a .22-caliber handgun at Pacific Lutheran University by a 55-year-old man from Tacoma. The shooter was not a student or employee of the university and also killed himself. The victim was apparently chosen at random as the shooter had a personal dispute with a different staff member who was not on campus that day.[10]March 22, 2001El Cajon, California0518-year-old former student, Jason Hoffman, opened fire at Granite Hills High School, injuring five people. He was convicted of assault and sentenced to prison, where he committed suicide in 2002.[11]March 30, 2001Gary, Indiana1017-year-old Donald Ray Burt Jr., fatally shot Neal Boyd, IV with one bullet to the head in a parking lot outside Lew Wallace High School.[12] Burt was sentenced to 57 years in prison.[13]January 15, 2002New York City, New York0217-year-old Vincent Rodriguez, wounded two students at Martin Luther King, Jr. High School in Manhattan, with a semi-automatic pistol. He was retaliating for the victims having harassed his girlfriend. In February 2003, Rodriguez was sentenced to ten years in prison on charges of assault and attempted assault.[14]January 16, 2002Grundy, Virginia33Appalachian School of Law shooting: Recently dismissed graduate student, 42-year-old Peter Odighizuwa, killed three at the Appalachian School of Law. 42-year-old dean Anthony Sutin, and 41-year-old professor Thomas Blackwell were killed along with 33-year-old student, Angela Dales. Three other students were also wounded.[15] In 2005 Odighizuwa received three life sentences and an additional 28 years without the possibility of parole.[16]February 20, 2002Milwaukee, Wisconsin1016-year-old Washington High School student, Joseph Johnson Jr., was killed by Phillip D. Jackson Jr., when violence erupted between rival fans in the parking lot, after a basketball game between Vincent High School.[17]October 7, 2002Bowie, Maryland01In the Beltway sniper attacks, one victim of several was 13-year-old Iran Brown, who was wounded as he arrived at Benjamin Tasker Middle School in Bowie, Maryland. His aunt, a nurse who had just dropped him off, rushed him to a hospital emergency room. Despite serious injuries, Brown survived the attack.[18][19] The shooters, Lee Boyd Malvo and John Allen Muhammad, were later convicted of numerous unrelated murders committed during their killing spree. Muhammad was executed in 2009, while Malvo was sentenced to life in prison.October 28, 2002Tucson, Arizona4[n 1]0Failing nursing college student and Gulf War veteran, 40-year-old Robert Stewart Flores Jr., killed three assistant professors of nursing at the University of Arizona, 50-year-old Robin Rogers, 44-year-old Cheryl McGaffic, and 45-year-old Barbara Monroe, before turning the gun on himself.[20]October 29, 2002Jersey City, New Jersey01A 15-year-old student was shot in the abdomen and wounded inside a basement of Lincoln High School, during an argument with another student. Another 15-year-old student was arrested and charged with attempted murder.[21]April 2, 2003Washington, D.C.01A 10th-grader was shot in the leg near Cardozo high school in Columbia Heights, causing a three-hour lockdown at six D.C. public schools while police searched for possible gunmen.[22]April 14, 2003New Orleans, Louisiana13John McDonogh High School shooting. 18-year-old Steven Williams, and 17-year-old James Tate opened fire with an AK-47 and a handgun in the gymnasium of John McDonogh High School, killing a 15-year-old student and wounding three female students. Williams was sentenced to life imprisonment, and Tate was sentenced to fifteen years.[23][24][25]April 24, 2003Red Lion, Pennsylvania2[n 1]014-year-old student James Sheets, entered Red Lion Area Junior High School armed with his stepfather's pistols. He killed the school's principal, Eugene Segro, before killing himself.[26][27]May 9, 2003Cleveland, Ohio12On May 9, 2003, Biswanath Halder, a 62-year-old business school alumnus of Case Western Reserve University, killed a graduate student and wounded a professor and another student using a semi-automatic rifle. He held the building and its nearly 100 occupants hostage for seven hours before being apprehended by a SWAT team. He was sentenced to life in prison.[28][29]September 24, 2003Cold Spring, Minnesota20Rocori High School shooting: 15-year-old John Jason McLaughlin, shot 15-year-old freshman Seth Bartell and 17-year-old senior Aaron Rollins at Rocori High School. Rollins was killed immediately, and Bartell died from his wounds sixteen days later. McLaughlin was sentenced to life in prison with the chance of parole in 2038.[1]February 2, 2004Washington, D.C.11Thomas J. Boykin was acquitted of the murder of 17-year-old James Richardson, a football player at Ballou High School in Southeast Washington.[30] An 18-year-old student was also grazed in the leg by a bullet.[31]February 9, 2004East Greenbush, New York0116-year-old Jon W. Romano in East Greenbush, New York fired at two rounds from a shotgun, before wounding a teacher with a third. He was tackled by the assistant principal and charged with one count of attempted murder.[32][33]May 7, 2004Randallstown, Maryland04Two students were charged with a school shooting that arose from a dispute after a basketball game at Randallstown High School. Four persons were injured, two seriously. One student was paralyzed from the waist down.[34]February 8, 2005Chicago, Illinois01An 18-year-old student at Bowen High School was shot in the leg as she left the school around 2:30 p.m.[35]March 2, 2005Dover, Tennessee1014-year-old Jason Clinard, killed his bus driver, 47-year-old Joyce Gregory, as she stopped to pick him up. Gregory had earlier reported Clinard for using snuff on the school bus. Clinard was given a life sentence.[36] but he has since filed for post conviction relief[37]March 21, 2005Red Lake, Minnesota10[n 1]7Red Lake shootings: 16-year-old student Jeff Weise, killed his grandfather and grandfather's companion at their home, where he had been living, at the Red Lake Indian Reservation. He drove to Red Lake Senior High School. Armed with his grandfather's police weapons, Weise killed five students, one teacher, and one security guard, wounding seven others, before committing suicide following a gunfight with police officers.[38]July 18, 2005Newark, New Jersey12[n 1]After breaking up a fight between a group of youths at Weequahic High School, Special Officer Dwayne Reeves was shot and killed and his partner wounded in the hand by two men who pulled up alongside him in a car. Despite being wounded, Officer Reeves' partner was able to return fire and hit one of the suspects in the stomach. The gunman was convicted of manslaughter and in 2007 was sentenced to 30 years in prison.[39]September 13, 2005Chicago, Illinois01At Harlan Community Academy High School, a fight broke out between two 15-year-old boys in the gymnasium. Christopher Huff took out a pistol, shooting the other youth in the leg. A police officer on duty at the school arrested the gunman. The suspected shooter was charged as an adult with aggravated battery with a firearm.[40]November 8, 2005Jacksboro, Tennessee12Campbell County High School shooting: Inside the Campbell County High School office, 15-year-old Kenneth Bartley, shot the school principal, Gary Seale. He shot assistant principals Ken Bruce and Jim Pierce. Bruce later died from his wound. Bartley was sentenced to forty-five years in prison with chance of parole after twenty-nine years.[41][42][43]February 23, 2006Roseburg, Oregon0114-year-old freshman Vincent Wayne Leodoro, shot student 16-year-old Joseph Monti, four times in the back with a handgun at Roseburg High School. Leodoro walked away from the school campus, and was confronted near a restaurant by six police officers. He threatened suicide but was persuaded to surrender.[44] He was found guilty of attempted murder and assault in July 2006, and will be held in prison until he turns twenty five years old.[45]March 14, 2006Reno, Nevada02Pine Middle School shooting: In the hallway of Pine Middle School, 14-year-old James Scott Newman, injured two 14-year-old classmates, Alexander Rueda and Kenzie McKeon, with a revolver belonging to his parents. Two students received minor wounds. Newman was subdued by a physical education teacher. The youth was arrested and charged as an adult for attempted murder, use of a deadly weapon and use of a firearm by a minor.[46] He later pleaded guilty to charges of two counts of battery with a deadly weapon, and was sentenced as a juvenile. Newman was sentenced to house arrest until he completed two-hundred hours of community service.[47]August 24, 2006Essex Junction, Vermont23[n 1]Christopher Williams, 26, shot his girlfriend's mother, Linda Lambesis, 57 at her home and from there he went to Essex Elementary School where Andrea, his girlfriend, worked. After he arrived at the elementary school, which was not in session at the time, he shot and killed Mary Alicia Shanks, 56, and shot Mary Snedeker, 52, nonfatally. He left the school and allegedly shot Chad Johansen, 26 nonfatally. He then turned the gun on himself, but did not die as a result.[48] Williams was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2008.[49]August 30, 2006Hillsborough, North Carolina12After shooting and killing his father, 18-year-old teenager Alvaro Castillo went to his high school where he wounded two students. He was reportedly obsessed with the Columbine shootings and had written an email to the current Columbine high school principal before committing his own crime.[50] he was sentenced to life without parole.[51]September 2, 2006Shepherdstown, West Virginia3[n 1]049-year-old Douglas W. Pennington, killed himself and his two sons, 26-year-old Logan P. Pennington, 24-year-old Benjamin M. Pennington, during a visit to the campus of Shepherd University.[52][53]September 17, 2006Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania05Five Duquesne basketball players were shot early Sunday morning during an apparent act of random violence on campus, leaving three hospitalized — two of them in critical condition.[54]September 22, 2006Washington, D.C.01Eugene Huff, 17, and an unnamed 16-year-old male sophomore were arguing at one of Cardozo's entrances. The fight climaxed when Eugene pulled out a handgun and shot his classmate in the leg. The shooting was captured on the school's surveillance system and witnesses said they heard as many as seven shots.[55][22]September 27, 2006Bailey, Colorado2[n 1]0Platte Canyon High School hostage crisis: 53-year-old drifter, Duane Roger Morrison, walked into Platte Canyon High School and took six girls hostage. During the ensuing siege, Morrison sexually assaulted all of the girls. When a SWAT team stormed the classroom, Morrison killed 16-year-old Emily Keyes, then took his own life after being shot and wounded by police.[56]September 29, 2006Cazenovia, Wisconsin10Weston High School shooting: At around 8 a.m., 15-year-old freshman, Eric Hainstock, entered Weston High School. He aimed a 20-gauge shotgun at social studies teacher, Chuck Keller, before it was wrestled from him by school custodian, Dave Thompson. Hainstock then shot 49-year-old high school principal, John Alfred Klang, with a .22 caliber revolver. Klang died later that afternoon.[57][58] Hainstock was charged and convicted of murder, and is serving a life sentence. He will be eligible for parole in 2037.[43][59]October 2, 2006Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania6[n 1]5West Nickel Mines School shooting: 32-year-old milk truck driver, Charles Carl Roberts IV, killed five Amish girls and wounded five others before killing himself in an Amish school in the hamlet of Nickel Mines, in Bart Township, Lancaster County.[60]October 9, 2006Joplin, Missouri0013-year-old student Thomas White fired one shot from a MAK-90 rifle at a hallway ceiling at Memorial Middle School. The gunshot struck a water pipe, and nobody was injured. He also tried repeatedly to shoot principal Stephen Gilbreth at near-point-blank range as Gilbreth ushered him out of the school. Joplin police say the attempt was foiled by an improperly seated ammunition magazine in the rifle. The principal was not injured. White was tried as an adult on charges of assault and firearms possession, and in 2009 he was sentenced to ten years of prison.[61]January 3, 2007Tacoma, Washington1018-year-old student Douglas S. Chanthabouly, killed 17-year-old Samnang Kok, in the hallways of Henry Foss High School following a personal disagreement. In 2009, Chanthabouly was sentenced to 23 years in prison on a charge of second-degree murder.[62]March 7, 2007Compton, California01During an argument with several non-students and students, a student was shot in the elbow and wounded in the eating area at Centennial High School. The shooting occurred an hour after classes were dismissed, and students in after-school activities were sent home.[63]April 16, 2007Blacksburg, Virginia33[n 1]23Virginia Tech shooting: A 23-year-old student, Seung-Hui Cho, armed with two pistols, a Glock 19 and a Walther P22, killed thirty-two students and faculty members at Virginia Tech and wounded another seventeen students and faculty members in two separate attacks before committing suicide. The first attack was on the second floor of West Ambler Johnston Hall, where he shot a young girl and another student who came to help. He then changed his clothes, recorded multiple videos stating that he "had to do it for his brothers and sisters", and made several pictures of himself with hammers, large knives, and guns. He then chained the doors of Norris Hall shut and shot and killed thirty more students and staff. He also shot seventeen more students and staff, wounding them. Six more students were also wounded from non gunshot injuries. He was described as extremely quiet and lonely. During the rampage he wore a black T-shirt, a russet vest, a backwards baseball cap, black military cargo pants, black boots, and grip gloves. The incident is the third deadliest shooting by a lone gunman, and the deadliest school shooting, in modern U.S. history.September 21, 2007Dover, Delaware11Two 17-year-old Delaware State University freshmen were shot on campus. One died 32 days later on October 23, from critical injuries sustained in the attack. A suspected perpetrator, Loyer D. Braden, a freshman from East Orange, New Jersey, was arrested and charged with attempted murder; the charges were dismissed in May 2009.[64]October 10, 2007Cleveland, Ohio1[n 1]5At SuccessTech alternative high school in downtown Cleveland, 14-year-old student Asa H. Coon shot two students and two teachers in the halls and classrooms on the fourth floor of the building. Coon then moved to another room on the same floor, where he fatally shot himself.[65]November 7, 2007Miami Gardens, Florida01At Miami Carol City Senior High School, a robber shot a teacher, who had been smoking a cigarette outside of the campus building. The 18-year-old robber stole the teacher's wallet and was later arrested. The teacher survived the shooting.[66][67]January 23, 2008Jonesboro, Arkansas01Arkansas State University offensive line-man 20-year Alfred Louis was grazed in the lower left leg when someone fired several rounds from a 9mm handgun at a residence hall. He was treated at a local hospital. Charges were later dismissed against the person accused of firing the shots.[68]February 4, 2008Memphis, Tennessee01At Hamilton High School, a student shot a 16-year-old student in the leg during a classroom argument over rap music. The victim's injury was not life-threatening.[69]February 8, 2008Baton Rouge, Louisiana3[n 1]0Latina Williams, a 23-year-old nursing student at Louisiana Technical College killed two classmates and herself in a second floor classroom.[70]February 11, 2008Miami Gardens, Florida0143-year-old 11th grade algebra teacher, Sergio Miranda, was shot by 19-year-old Patrick Lively, outside Miami Carol City Senior High School during a robbery but was expected to survive.[71][72] In 2011, Lively received a life sentence.[73]February 11, 2008Memphis, Tennessee01Following a feud that started off campus earlier in the week, a 19-year-old senior was shot by a 17-year-old sophomore during a gym class held in the cafeteria with about 75 other students at Mitchell High School, before handing the gun to a coach making no attempt to flee. The victim suffered at least two gunshot wounds and was in critical condition, the suspected shooter was in custody. "He walked up to him, shot him, and made a statement to the coach that 'It's over now,' ", said principal, Daniel Ware.[74]February 12, 2008Oxnard, California10Murder of Larry King: 14-year-old Brandon McInerney, shot 15-year-old Lawrence "Larry" King, twice in the head in the computer laboratory of E.O. Green Junior High School. McInerney was apprehended in a nearby neighborhood. King, who was openly homosexual, died two days later. McInerney was initially charged with a hate crime, but that charge was dropped. McInerney pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 21 years in prison.[75]February 14, 2008DeKalb, Illinois6[n 1]21Northern Illinois University shooting: 27-year-old Steven Kazmierczak, shot multiple people with a shotgun in a classroom of Northern Illinois University, killing five and injuring 21, before taking his own life. Kazmierczak was not enrolled at the university, but had attended in the years prior to the attack.[76]February 27, 2008Little Rock, Arkansas0133-year-old James Earl Matthews was shot in the stomach and buttocks as close range with a handgun on the University of Arkansas at little rock campus. He survived. Gerald Pride Jr. was sentenced to 20 years on multiple charges.[68]August 14, 2008Federal Way, Washington1026-year-old Omero Mendez was waiting at the Lakota Middle School campus to pick up his girlfriend's son. He was confronted by 16-year-old Luis F. Cosgaya-Alvarez and two of his friends, driving in an SUV. Cosgaya-Alvarez flashed gang signs at Mendez, and shot him once in the head. Mendez later died of his injuries. Cosgaya-Alvarez was arrested a few days later in Seattle and was charged with murder. Cosgaya-Alvarez pleaded guilty to murder and weapon enhancements, and was sentenced to eighteen years in prison.[77]August 21, 2008Knoxville, Tennessee10At Central High School, 15-year-old Jamar Siler killed 15-year-old Ryan McDonald. In 2011, Siler was sentenced to thirty years in prison after pleading guilty to murder in a plea agreement.[78]September 2, 2008Willoughby, Ohio00A 15-year-old student brought a handgun into South High School, and shot two rounds, one into the ceiling and one shattering a trophy case. The student then put the gun to his head. Then Assistant Principal Jeff Lyons talked the student out of doing any harm.October 16, 2008Detroit, Michigan1316-year-old Christopher Walker, was killed, and three other teenagers were seriously wounded during a drive-by shooting near Henry Ford High School, soon after classes let out. Three teenagers were arrested and charged in connection with the shooting. The shooter, 15-year-old William Morton, was sentenced to life without parole, and Devon Bell was sentenced to forty-two years of prison.[79]October 26, 2008Conway, Arkansas21University of Central Arkansas shootings: Four young men fatally shot two students, 18-year-old Ryan Henderson, and 19-year-old Chavares Block, and wounded a 19-year-old campus visitor in the leg, outside the Arkansas Hall dormitory of University of Central Arkansas.[80]November 12, 2008Fort Lauderdale, Florida1015-year-old Amanda Collette, was killed in the hallway at Dillard High School. The shooter, 15-year-old Teah Wimberly, was sentenced to twenty-five years to life on a first-degree murder charge.[81]January 9, 2009Chicago, Illinois05After attendees were leaving a basketball game at Dunbar High School, a truck pulled over and someone inside fired shots at the crowd, wounding five people, three critically. 18-year-old Georgio Dukes, was arrested and charged a week later with five counts of felony aggravated battery with a firearm. Police believe that the attack was gang-related.[82]April 26, 2009Hampton, Virginia0318-year-old Odane Greg Maye, a former student of Hampton University, followed a 43-year-old pizza delivery man into his former dormitory. Armed with three guns, Maye wounded the delivery man, then the dorm monitor. Lastly, Maye shot himself in a suicide attempt. He survived and was convicted of two charges of malicious wounding, two counts of using a gun in a felony; burglary; and shooting in an occupied building. He was sentenced to fourteen years of prison in November 2009, and was ordered by a judge to pay more than $62,000 in restitution to his victims for lost wages.[83]May 18, 2009Cambridge, Massachusetts1020-year-old Jabrai Copney, 23-year-old Jason Aquino, and 19-year-old Blayn Jiggetts, of New York City, invited 21-year-old Justin Cosby, of Cambridge, into a Harvard College dormitory. After trying to rob him of a pound of marijuana, they shot him. The victim, Cosby, was pronounced dead early the next day. Copney turned himself in three days later, and was convicted of murder. His partners pleaded guilty to armed robbery and manslaughter. His girlfriend, 21-year-old Brittany Smith, pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact, firearm possession, and misleading a grand jury.[84]May 18, 2009Larose, Louisiana1[n 1]015-year-old Larose-Cut Off Middle School student, Justin Doucet, carried his backpack to a restroom, where he put on camouflage clothes and took out a semi-automatic handgun before storming into a nearby classroom. He attempted to shoot a teacher, Jessica Plaisance, but the gun did not fire. He returned to the restroom and shot himself in the head, dying a week later of his wounds.[85][86]June 16, 2009San Francisco, California03After students were being let out of International Studies Academy on the first day of summer school classes, a man left a car and opened fire, wounding three people, including a 17-year-old female student. An 18-year-old man was arrested for being an accessory in the crime.[87]September 3, 2009San Bruno, California01A 20-year-old student was wounded in the parking lot of Skyline College after an argument between him and other men. The college campus was placed on lockdown. Three San Francisco residents, 18-year-old Germaine B. Benjamin, 20-year-old Dimaryea J. McGhee, and 18-year-old Jacori W. Bender, were each arrested and charged with felony firearm offenses.[88]2010s[edit]DateLocationDeathsInjuriesDescription