A 15-year-old boy had opened fire at Marshall County High School in 2018, killing two students and wounding 16 people. Potter was upset over having been whipped and expelled. Motive. The girls were bystanders. Cora had told the teacher about Ben's misconduct. After being ejected from school for disobedience, 20-year-old Thomas Squires fatally shot Prof. Hayes three times in the abdomen. A deadly school shooting took place at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022 Credit: AFP or licensors. Beard attempted suicide but survived. 16-year-old Blanche Ward killed fellow student 16-year-old Linda Lipscomb at Miami Jackson High School. Updated: 3:27 PM EST February 21, 2023. A 16-year-old student at Stuyvesant High School was accidentally shot in the arm by a fellow student who was "showing off" with a pistol in a classroom. 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. Two groups of teens fired handguns at each other across Lincoln High School's parking lot. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. He was expected to recover. Clay Shrout. He later received a $250,000 settlement in a civil suit against. 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. Armed with a sawn-off shotgun, 12-year-old Jonah Inverson shot and killed 12-year-old Elizabeth Rivera, who had turned down Inverson's request to go out with him, in a restroom at Memorial Middle School. Lane died about six weeks later. Several students tackled the gunman and a second shot went off. The meeting of 17-year-old Elmer Hildreth with a school Trustee ended in an armed encounter over Hildreth's being suspended. Injured. And that was all I said to him. 5. And he and his wife offered to take him into their home and ensure he continued to get mental health treatment, according to the newspaper. Matthews was charged with one count of attempted murder, five counts of aggravated assault, and one count of unlawfully carrying a weapon onto school grounds. When Butram drew a knife on his teacher, Kelly shot and killed him. After being fired from his job as a substitute teacher for fighting with a student, Robert O. Wickes entered Brentwood East Junior High School in Brentwood, New York, dressed in camouflage fatigues and armed with a semi-automatic .22-caliber rifle and over 100 rounds of ammunition, to get revenge on the student, 15-year-old Luis Burgos. Last month, she testified in front of the Kentucky parole board about how the events 25 years ago continue to impact her today. Police arrived and encountered the children in a dimly lit hallway, Story still carrying a baseball bat. Clay Shrout was up for parole 25 years after the infamous crime he committed when he was 16-years-old. Liebeskind had previously been shot and wounded by a homeowner four years earlier while burglarizing a house in. He was later found not guilty by reason of insanity. 16-year-old David Dubose Jr. killed English teacher Horace Morgan on the steps of Dekalb Alternative School. IE 11 is not supported. He said Tuesday that he had heard voices two days earlier telling him to jump down a stairway. A black youth was taunted with racial slurs by three white youths in the stairwell of a public school in the. The bus driver was also shot but survived. 12-year-old Robert Snyder wounded his principal, June Mapes, in her office at Arlington Public School when she declined his request to call a classmate. But his victims and their families testified that there is no guarantee he would continue to take medications after he was released. 9-year-old Leah Wilbanks was shot twice by an unknown gunman at Mascotte Elementary School during P.E. 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. 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. Cruz was sentenced to life without parole for the shooting but was resentenced in 2017 to 25 years to life and was immediately paroled. On Monday, the Kentucky Parole Board denied the 42-year-old his freedom after his first time up for parole. 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. Three youths were convicted for the homicide. The Courier Journal reported that Carneal may have eliminated any chance of parole when he testified last week that he still hears voices in his head like the ones he said told him to open fire on Dec. 1, 1997. A 17-year-old male former student of Lincoln was arrested in connection with the shootings. 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. 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. The shooter fled and was never arrested. Five girls suffered minor injuries from broken glass. I was lucky to be her mama.". A 16-year-old sophomore at Cardozo High School was fatally shot at an entrance to the school, allegedly by a 14-year-old freshman with whom he had been arguing. 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. Stephen Lance Dennee / The Paducah Sun via AP file, who killed three students and injured five more in a school shooting 25 years ago. While not a new phenomenon -- one of the first reported school shootings occurred during the 1840s when a student shot and killed his professor John Anthony Gardner Davis, the . 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. One shooter, 16-year-old Darrick Evans, was sentenced to 41 years to life in prison. There were 51 school shootings with injuries or deaths last year . She worries that he isnt equipped to handle life outside prison and could still harm others. Freedman had suspended Simmons earlier in the day for cursing in the hallway. On Wednesday he was charged with two counts of murder and 12 counts of first. He would have been the first school shooter to be released on parole. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. During a high school assembly, six boys shot off their guns. The sheriff declared the shooting a justifiable homicide. The shooter was charged with. Nov. 1, 1991: A physics graduate student kills five University of Iowa officials and . Five of the seven teams in the conference are still alive in postseason play. 35-year-old principal Dennis Ray Hepler was robbed at gunpoint by three men, Kevin Dean Young, William Henry Bell and John Glenn, on the grounds of West Franklin Street Elementary school. The revolver was to have been loaded with blanks, but it held live ammunition. During a school play rehearsal, a boy loaded his revolver, unknown to others. Mike Smults, the night watchman at the Utah school for the Deaf and Blind, shot a 10-year-old boy, Dennis McDonald, as he and his brother Clinton cut through the campus. When questioned, the other three boys said it was an accident. Christina reached out to those affected by the shooting to offer advice. The Kentucky Parole Board voted to have Michael Carneal serve out his life sentence. Brothers 16-year-old William and 15-year-old Ralph Carter broke into the May Public School, robbing the phone boxes and teachers' desks. 56-year-old teacher Samson L. Freedman was killed by 14-year-old student Kevin Simmons as he left Morris E. Leeds School. "She's just an amazing girl. McGiffin was a son of Col. Norton McGiffin, and brother of US naval hero. 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Another shot fatally struck 14-year-old Deborah Faith Humphrey. Telegraph operator Frank Shugart shot and severely injured Mr. Carr, superintendent of the stables at a girls' school. 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. Charles Colby was shot in the head with a pistol, then returned fire, killing Tom Bucanoros, and fatally wounding Fred Smith. Excluded from this list are the following: Shootings by school staff, where the only victims are other employees, are covered at workplace killings. 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 . Bryant Hignight and four other students were at the outhouse of the Mount Zion school. And they were falling.". According to the newspaper, asked whether he deserved parole, Carneal said, I dont know: Sometimes I think I deserve to be killed. But he said he would like to do something good for society even if it is just to listen people.. (iStock) VIRGINIA HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTING: SUSPECT IN CUSTODY, 2 . At the Perkins School's Thanksgiving night pie supper, 21-year-old teacher Joe Todd, was mysteriously shot. 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. 15-year-old Jomo-Kenyetta Joseph was shot in the head and killed at. Bill Bond, who was the high school principal at the time, remembered where he was when Carneal began shooting. 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. "But still very lost on how to feel and how to react to it. Bill Bond, former high school principal at Heath High School in Paducah, Kentucky. 5 , 92-2, O H.R. He was convicted of two counts of deliberate homicide and sentenced to 165 years in prison. Lelande was arrested and charged with first-degree assault. 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. 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. 45-year-old Shirley Shindeldecker killed school bus driver 54-year-old Gene Green as he stopped to pick up the son of Shindeldecker's estranged husband. Michael Carneal was a 14-year-old freshman when he fired a stolen pistol at a prayer group at Heath High School. His parole hearing began Sept. 19 with testimony from those injured in the shooting and close relatives of those who were killed. Two former students were sought by police. 20-year-old Will Yates, teacher of Clear Pond School in Hamilton County, Florida, was shot and killed in a fight with Claude Holtzendorff and his two sons. Sorrell was in his first year as an assistant principal. Ingrim survived. This article examines five school shooters and five perpetrators of other types of mass violence. When they were discovered by janitor Howard Parks and policeman Thomas Conway, the latter shot at them. 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. 13-year-old student Andre Davis was wounded while watching a fight between two students in the front lobby of Christian County Middle School, one of whom had a gun. 18-year-old Jarrod Allan Eskew killed 27-year-old Jay Severson, his Wiley Hall dorm counselor, and himself after being found with drugs the previous day. School principal William Howland was also shot and wounded by Wickes when Howland peered into the classroom.