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Bell was also sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted in 2017 to life with parole. The other perpetrators are Timothy McVeigh, Clay Shrout, Anders Breivik, James Holmes, and Dylann Roof. And they were falling.". Sixteen-year-old freshman Earl Wolf was accidentally shot in the leg with a revolver about noon, in the company of classmates at Central High School. 15-year-old Shawn Cooper of Notus, Idaho took a 12-gauge shot gun to school and started firing, injuring one student and holding the school hostage for about 20 minutes. The 16-year-old gunman was arrested and charged with murder; two other youths were sought by police. 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At Atlantic Shores Christian School, 16-year-old student Nicholas Elliott shot two teachers with a Mac-10 9-millimeter machine pistol, killing 41-year-old Karen Farley and critically wounding 37-year-old Sam Marino, then began firing on a classroom full of students before the gun jammed; no students were hit. The youth was expected to recover. A 16-year-old student at Stow High School shot and wounded his chemistry teacher during an argument. But his victims and their families testified that there is no guarantee he would continue to take medications after he was released. The authorities . Butler as revenge for sadistic punishment of his brother the day before. LOUISVILLE, Ky. One man is dead and another is in critical condition after they were shot in the parking lot of the Gordon Food Service distribution . Rampage school shootings are a type of school shooting where no single or specific individual is targeted by the shooter. 14-year-old Peter Ray Forger shot and wounded 15-year-old William Shurlow after a disagreement at Edmore High School. 32, Total number of 20th century incidents listed here: 49-year-old fifth grade teacher Rosie Pearson was killed in J. Leslie Patton School by an unknown assailant. On Monday, the Kentucky Parole Board denied the 42-year-old his freedom after his first time up for parole. Mangum had argued with Woodward, who had given Mangum's 15-year-old son a severe whipping. William Benedict Sr. was instantly killed, William Benedict Jr. was shot in the ankle, Bourdon Galloway was shot in the right arm, and Mike Gaddis was shot in the leg. He was sentenced to life with the opportunity for parole after 25 years, the maximum allowed at the time for someone his age. On May 4, 1972, 33-year-old Libby Booth Elementary school principal Virgil Ouren was shot three times with a 22-caliber pistol which killed him instantly. 15-year-old Serrocko James Henry, a Sacramento High School sophomore, and 12-year-olds Edell Story, Jerry Wilson, and DeVon Johnson-Curry were taking turns using a baseball bat to smash windows at the school, tripping the school's alarm. Missy Jenkins Smith is. After Hepler fell to the ground, Bell fired another shot into his head. Injured. "Almost 25 years later, I'm still hearing stories of Kayce's acts of kindness," said Sabrina Steger, who lost her daughter Kayce Steger in the shooting. Arcelia was convicted of first degree murder and is serving a life sentence. Betts later committed suicide. Oaks went to jail. He shot the father through the mouth, and was fatally shot through the body, dying an hour later. 16-year-old Stephen Goods, a bystander, was killed during a fight between other teens. While working late at the schoolhouse on a program for the children's concert, Mr. O'Donnell, the school master, and Mr. Williams, one of the parents, got into an argument. Two students were shot and injured in a stairwell at John Marshall High School. Michael Carneal was a 14-year-old freshman when he fired a stolen pistol at a prayer group at Heath High School. Two masked gunmen killed 14-year-old Damion Blocker in a stairwell at Winston Education Center. Jose Aguilar fired a. 14-year-old Dewitt Duckett was shot in the neck and killed at Harlem Park Junior High School. A Booker T. Washington Junior High School student was shot and wounded in the forearm by another student armed with a homemade weapon. The Kentucky Parole Board decided Monday that Clay Shrout cannot seek parole again until 2029. Business professor Robert Brauer was killed in class by 20-year-old student Thomas Kakonis at, 17-year-old Rudy Farmer pulled out a .22-caliber pistol and wounded a fellow student in the art room of, 19-year-old former freshman James Howard Taylor brought a 12-gauge single-shot shotgun into the, As students fled their rooms after a homemade firebomb set a minor blaze on the sixth floor hallway of, Shortly before noon in Engineering Hall on the school's campus in north Portland, 34-year-old, 26-year-old Kelvin Ray Love, who was struggling academically, entered, Two students were accidentally shot in a hallway at, 18-year-old dropout James Hartzog killed his girlfriend, 17-year-old Faye Williams, in her algebra class at, Billy Conn Gardner, a friend of a food service worker's husband, robbed the. While school was in session, Hugh Claggett shot through the schoolhouse's front door, while on his way home from work. Michael Carneal. Michael Carneal was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and takes three medications for it, the newspaper reported. Hills was not injured. At Thomas Jefferson Junior High School, a 12-year-old boy fired a handgun at a vice principal, William Crumbaugh. "She's just an amazing girl. After being suspended for refusing to take off his hat while at school, 13-year-old student Floyd Warmsley pulled out a firearm at Portland Junior High School, shooting and wounding the 53-year-old school secretary Lynn Haddad and killing 36-year-old janitor David Bangston. He fled the grounds and wounded himself. Frank Pope, a pupil at St. John's seminary, shot and killed his teacher Mr. Bristow. At Jenkins High School, Keith Antwone Green shot and killed Dwayne Cedric Martin. 25-year-old Robin Jenkins was shot in the elbow after a basketball game turned violent at Siefert Elementary School. Byers was denied parole in 2007, 2015, and 2020. 5. During the afternoon recess, a boy was looking over a 22-caliber rifle; it discharged, striking the head of the Coyne boy in the seat to the front, killing him instantly. Carneal had killed three Heath High School students and injured five. "And I hear, 'Pow. This is a chronological list of school shootings in the United States before the year 2000, including any school shootings that occurred at a K-12 public or private school, as well as at colleges and universities, and on school buses. A 15-year-old boarding school student shot a dean rather than give up his pin-up pictures of girls in bathing suits. Two 14-year-old girls and a 16-year-old boy were shot outside a Bronx high school, the apparent result of a dispute between the gunman and the boy. Mr. McGinnis was killed by his daughter's teacher after McGinnis threatened the teacher for expelling his daughter from school. 44-year-old David Taber entered Ford Middle School and took three hostages. It was May 25 th, 1994. Lawrenceburg Shakespeare Company presents Meredith Willson's The Music Man. He was a student at the time. Telegraph operator Frank Shugart shot and severely injured Mr. Carr, superintendent of the stables at a girls' school. Brothers 16-year-old William and 15-year-old Ralph Carter broke into the May Public School, robbing the phone boxes and teachers' desks. It was a Thursday morning. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. 14-year-old Jeremy Bryant shot and killed 13-year-old Terrence Murray at J.T. When questioned, the other three boys said it was an accident. Walter Harris, an 11-year-old student, accidentally shot his teacher, B. C. Briggs, in the head while on a school field trip, killing him. Potter was upset over having been whipped and expelled. 14-year-old Bernice Turner killed 14-year-old Pasquale Coletta inside the science classroom at Kelly High School. The shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, is the most recent deadly shooting of the top five deadliest US school shootings. Cloud served nine years in prison. During an evening school dance at Plain Dealing High School, a fight broke out. He apologized to her, and she said she had forgiven him. Michael Carneal was a 14-year-old freshman in 1997. Three years later, Spencer learned that the blood sample taken after his arrest was found to have high levels of bromide, a popular painkiller he took for headaches. Kentucky Department of Corrections photo. A weekly news magazine offering hard-hitting investigative reports, deep dives on stories in the news cycle, profiles of newsmakers, and celebrity interviews. At Carter MacRae Elementary School, 13-year-old student Ricardo Cruz fired a handgun at another classmate but missed and accidentally shot and killed 18-year-old Debbie Rivera. Several students tackled the gunman and a second shot went off. Excluded from this list are the following: Shootings by school staff, where the only victims are other employees, are covered at workplace killings. Jenkins Smith's testimony came as the board was considering whether to release shooter Michael Carneal on parole. The shooter fled and was never arrested. Liebeskind shot and wounded Barnes, but Barnes and a second security guard returned fire and critically wounded Liebeskind with a shot to the neck. IE 11 is not supported. Caught in the crossfire were 15-year-old Mark Lee and LaSonya Betts, striking Lee in the hip and Betts in the abdomen. Bond confronted the shooter. 15-year-old David Lee Walker was killed just outside. Smith is paralyzed from the chest down and now relies on a wheelchair. The Kentucky Parole Board decided Monday that Clay Shrout cannot seek parole again until 2029. School principal William Howland was also shot and wounded by Wickes when Howland peered into the classroom. School teacher Charles J. Gregory shot at a pupil at close range because he refused to write on a slate. Permission had been given in the belief the guns were loaded with blanks, but they had live shot. 24-year-old Roosevelt Johnson was shot in the leg after a basketball game at, 33-year-old Dante D. Hayes, a hunter and ex-convict, killed 58-year-old Richard Vancena, a cafeteria manager, and 33-year-old Robin Michelle Coleman, a cook, in the mess hall of, While watching a fistfight between students after class at, 10-year-old Jason Osmanson, teased because his parents had. Moore was back at work the next day. Cora had told the teacher about Ben's misconduct. Clay Shrout has been in jail for the past 25 years, all of his adult life. 17-year-old Calvin Dowell was shot during a senior economics class at. Carneal, who told the parole board that he heard voices on the day of the 1997 shooting and also heard voices just a few days before appearing before the panel, was denied parole and will serve out his life sentence. During the standoff, Wickes periodically released 17 of the 18 hostages before shooting himself in the head nine hours into the siege, dying in the hospital later that night. Milan, Rising Sun, and Franklin Co. advanced in the boys basketball state tournament on Tuesday. Following the murders, he took a gun to Ryle High School and took a classroom of students hostage. 13-year-old John Daniel Christian, son of, 18-year-old Larry Ward and two companions were escorted from the halls of. Before lunch, 13-year-old Jeremy Bryant waved a small silver handgun around in front of a couple of buddies gathered in a boys room at John Trotwood Moore Middle School. The victims were Nicole Hadley, Jessica James and Kayce Steger, ages 14, 17, and 15, respectively. Hartford City, Indiana, Principal Leonard Redden shot and killed two teachers with a shotgun at William Reed Elementary School before fleeing into a remote forest, where he committed suicide. A 28-year-old man was taken into custody the following day. The shot riddled the door within a foot of his head. Mangum was shot through the head and killed by the principal of the high school, Professor J. E. Woodward, after shooting the principal in the hand. The teacher, A. T. Kelly, said it was not. "I'm sitting in my office," he told ABC News. 15-year-old Tyrone Perry was killed at Hine Junior High School and another student was injured. In the hours after the mass shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on Feb. 14 2018, Everytown for Gun Safety, which tracks every instance of gunfire on. Irwin Goodman, 36-year-old mathematics teacher at William J. Gaynor Junior High School, was shot and killed in the school corridor by two boys. During the school exhibition, a group of young men tried to break up a student performance. 48-year-old teacher John S. Lane was fatally wounded when he tried to stop 16-year-old student James Arthur Frampton, who was armed with a shotgun and seeking boys he had argued with earlier that day. Shrout had met with two members of the parole board last week. She also doesnt think it would be right for him to walk free when the people he injured are still suffering. This month, the man who killed his entire family and took a classroom full of students hostage could be released on . After an argument between them the day before, 13-year-old Brandon Hartsoe took a .38 revolver from his mother's dresser drawer and shot 13-year-old Lincoln Middle School classmate Trent Murray in the back, causing serious injury, then continued to fire three more shots in the general area of other students. McGiffin was a son of Col. Norton McGiffin, and brother of US naval hero. His mother Mrs. McDonald went to the police station, but did not file a formal complaint. Barnes had submitted his resignation to the school board, as students had boycotted his class in protest over the whipping. 17-year-old Max Alexander Martinez shot and killed 17-year-old Jose Balderas with a .38-caliber revolver in a hallway in, 15-year-old student Jason Smith killed 16-year-old Michael Swann, another student who had bullied him at, 17-year-old Shon Williams fired 10 shots in the, 15-year-old Phillip Powell killed 17-year-old Barrett Modisette at the, 29-year-old Kevin Newman opened fire with a 9mm, 18-year-old Miguel DeJesus was shot and killed on the steps of, 18-year-old Floyd Eugene Brown shot fellow, 24-year-old Darrell Cloud, a former student at Whitman Middle School in North Seattle, killed 45-year-old teacher Neal Summers, who had sexually abused Cloud since he was 13. A lot of people think that exonerates him from consequences, but I dont think so, she said, adding that she is opposes releasing him. There were 51 school shootings in 2022 that resulted in injuries or deaths, the most in a single year since Education Week began tracking such incidents in 2018. 17-year-old Edward Marley was accidentally killed by a fellow actor with a loaded gun while rehearsing for a play at Blencoe High School. According to homeland security expert William Pelfrey Jr.as reported by VCU news, "Eighty or 90 percent of all the school shootings in the world happen in the U.S.". While attending her son's school track meet, Mrs. F. Mahl was killed accidentally by a shot from the starter's pistol. 17-year-old student Todd Dunahoo killed 16-year-old Valerie Rockafellow in the hallway at Southeast Polk High School, then turned the gun on himself. Just minutes before the first bell rang on the first day of school at, Three students were wounded when gang-related gunfire broke out at. He missed and instead killed 11-year-old bystander Alejandro Vargas, a student at the school. At the Cave Run School, James Barrett and Mack Howard argued over a card game and fought a duel with pistols, killing each other. A man shot the school mistress for whipping his son. Following a pep rally at Palo Duro High School, 17-year-old Randy Earl Matthews shot and wounded seven students with a .22-caliber pistol. 15-year-old student Thomas "T.J." Solomon Jr. wounded six students at. Cordova said he had intended to commit suicide but was jostled by others and his gun moved. "Kids were running, and he was shooting. William was critically wounded and not expected to live; Ralph Carter was taken to jail. His parole hearing began Sept. 19 with testimony from those injured in the shooting and close relatives of those who were killed. Lindhurst High School shooting: Former student 20-year-old Eric Houston killed three students and one teacher and wounded nine other students and another teacher before surrendering to police. Lewis Napier was shot and killed, and several other persons were hurt. 31) - Image 1", "Art Teacher Slain, Philadelphia Police Arrest Youth, 14", "The Bryan Times - Google News Archive Search", "Gun Control Legislation: Hearings Before Subcommittee No. 33-year-old Evelena B. Moore, a special education teacher at Galvez Elementary, opened fire on cafeteria worker Beatrice Hills in the school's parking lot. "But it never leaves. At least one person was killed after a shooter opened fire at Marshall County High School in Western Kentucky, Gov. A mob tracked and killed Glover 7 miles (11km) in Indianola (now. During the hostage crisis, Taber killed school nurse Carol Day. Concealed in a wooded area on school grounds, 14-year-old Joseph "Colt" Todd wounded two students as they were entering, 18-year-old Jacob Lee Davis shot 18-year-old Robert Creson at, 14-year-old student Quinshawn Brooker wounded 45-year-old basketball coach and history teacher Gregory Carter and 74-year-old, 52-year-old Professor Andrzej Olbrot was killed by 48-year-old graduate doctoral student Wlodzimierz Dedecjusat at, 15-year-old Andrea Garrett was found dead and 17-year-old Jeff Miller seriously wounded in the girls' restroom at. 24-year-old Douglas Petersen, killed 20-year-old teacher, Margaret Wegman, who was standing in the doorway of a rural schoolhouse. 14-year-old John Frankenberger was accidentally killed in a classroom at Day Junior High School when a pistol held by a classmate discharged. School shootings are a distinctly American phenomenon. List of school shootings in the United States may refer to: On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Lelande, Brown's sister, demanded money from Brown before firing several shots at her, hitting her at least once in the abdomen and leaving her in serious condition. The shot, intended as a sound effect for a school play, hit him in the chest during a rehearsal minutes before the play was to take place. The injured include Missy Jenkins Smith, who was paralyzed and uses a wheelchair. The shooter, sixth grade teacher 53-year-old Samuel Grinstead Knipmeyer fled to Mexico, then moved to California and finally to Bend, Oregon where he was arrested on October 26, 1977. Charles Colby was shot in the head with a pistol, then returned fire, killing Tom Bucanoros, and fatally wounding Fred Smith. A son of Col. Elijah Sebree was killed by another student. He intended to leave the city that weekend. During a school play rehearsal, a boy loaded his revolver, unknown to others. Carneal was believed to be one of the first school shooters to come up for parole; the rest died in their attacks or were condemned to life, the Courier Journal reported. '", Bond left his office and entered the lobby of the high school, where he saw "one of my own students had a pistol in his hand," he told ABC News. Putnam Davis Jr. was killed during a fraternity house carnival at the, After some of his dormmates urinated on his mattress during a hazing, Robert B. Bechtel, a 22-year-old student proctor at. He was convicted of two counts of deliberate homicide and sentenced to 165 years in prison. She had been working late after school, when a man with a revolver entered the schoolhouse and ordered her to obey him. After being suspended for smoking, 16-year-old Nicholas Atkinson returned to, A 16-year-old female student was shot in the thigh outside, Ralph J. Tortorici, 26, a military veteran and psychology major at the. A general fight broke out during school board elections. Police arrived and encountered the children in a dimly lit hallway, Story still carrying a baseball bat. Compton Unified School District police officer Roosevelt Farrell was shot in the leg after confronting three juvenile intruders as he was patrolling the campus of Chester Adult School in Compton, California. I experienced and witnessed the immediate effects of Michael Carneals actions on December 1, 1997 and have dealt with the effects of his actions since then, Boaz wrote. The other three boys were detained for questioning and then released to their parents. Headmaster Elliott Speer was murdered by a shotgun blast through the window at Northfield Mount Hermon School. Police arrested Moore and charged her with attempted second-degree murder. She worries that he isnt equipped to handle life outside prison and could still harm others. A drive-by shooting of a sixteen-year-old at a bus stop in Louisville, Ky. was the city's 145 homicide, according to the Mayor. Eight teachers, 20 students, and 13 cheerleaders were leaving Ribault Junior High School after a football game when their bus was pelted with gunfire and rocks. Henry Schaze threw 16-year-old Paul Jelick to the ground, drew a revolver, and killed his rival. A 15-year-old boy had opened fire at Marshall County High School in 2018, killing two students and wounding 16 people. Six-year-old Robert Lomas was hit and died instantly; six-year-old Arthur Shively was critically wounded. Lane died about six weeks later. Superintendent Ralph Ricardo said that the school board had no provisions to dismiss a teacher charged with attempted murder, and therefore Moore was allowed remain on the job until pleading guilty or being convicted of the charge. 15-year-old student David Brooks was fatally shot in front of other pupils. She pointed it at the ground and squeezed the trigger. "I was just moving slow, steady forward, so it didn't panic him," he said. 14-year-old indicted for school shooting. (Union, Ky.) - A man who murdered his family in their Boone County home before taking classmates at Ryle High School hostage back in 1994 will not be getting out of prison anytime soon. A teacher was also wounded. List of school shootings in the United States (2000-present) See also List of school shootings in the United States by death toll This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title List of school shootings in the United States. The students killed in the shooting were 14-year-old Nicole Hadley, 17-year-old Jessica James, and 15-year-old Kayce Steger. Antonio Planas is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.