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. At the Ardmore Child Care Center, 40-year-old teacher Diane Morse was killed by her former friend 36-year-old Arcelia Trumaine Stoval who had a history of mental illness. Will Guess shot and killed teacher Miss Irene Fann, for whipping his little sister the day before. 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. At the Durant Normal School, teacher Albert McFarland, was seriously wounded by one of his pupils. 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. A student opened fire Tuesday at Marshall County High School in Benton, Ky., killing two fellow students and injuring 18 others, officials said, in a shooting that caused panic and anguish in the . 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. ", 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. 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. Moore Middle School. Johnson survived, and Dye was released to his parents and put on house arrest. Sweatt, superintendent and teacher at the Alexander School, was killed by 16-year-old Billy Ray Powell and 19-year-old Hugh Justice, students whom he had reprimanded. 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. Permission had been given in the belief the guns were loaded with blanks, but they had live shot. A black youth was taunted with racial slurs by three white youths in the stairwell of a public school in the. 56-year-old teacher Samson L. Freedman was killed by 14-year-old student Kevin Simmons as he left Morris E. Leeds School. Michael Carneal was a 14-year-old freshman when he fired a stolen pistol at a prayer group at Heath High School. Hildreth was arrested and was found to have acted in self-defense; no charges were filed. Williams fatally shot O'Donnell in the back. She met with Carneal in prison in 2007 and had a long conversation with him. The shooter was charged with. 44-year-old David Taber entered Ford Middle School and took three hostages. Perpetrator. 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.". A 13-year-old boy, Luckert, accidentally shot and wounded Allie McDonald, another boy at the Neill school. Robinson left the school and returned with a .22-caliber handgun and shot Hoggs, grazing the top of his head. Two students were shot while standing in a second-floor hallway of. 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. A son of Col. Elijah Sebree was killed by another student. Frank Pope, a pupil at St. John's seminary, shot and killed his teacher Mr. Bristow. Spencer had a long history of clashes with faculty and staff and was forced to serve a three-week involuntary leave of absence the year prior. William was critically wounded and not expected to live; Ralph Carter was taken to jail. 52-year-old elementary school principal Rudolph Jezek Jr. was killed in his office by 14-year-old Steven Guy, a former student said to be angry about being transferred to a social adjustment center. This list does not include the 1970 Kent State shootings, or bombings such as the Bath School disaster. In 1989, Young was sentenced to death for the murder, and in 2000 was executed by lethal injection. Carneal was a 14-year-old freshman in 1997 when he fired a stolen pistol at a before-school prayer group in the lobby of Heath High School, near Paducah. 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. Michael Carneal is escorted from federal court in Paducah, Ky., on March 18, 2011. Someone discharged a shotgun from a few feet away. Byers was denied parole in 2007, 2015, and 2020. After serving 19 months of her sentence, Shindeldecker was found not guilty by reason of insanity and released. 19-year-old Jillian Robbins killed one student and injured two outside. He also said, "I'm sorry for what I did.". Armed with a rifle and a handgun, 14-year-old James Alan Kearbey killed principal James McGee and wounded two teachers and a student at Goddard Junior High School. Milan, Rising Sun, and Franklin Co. advanced in the boys basketball state tournament on Tuesday. McGiffin was a son of Col. Norton McGiffin, and brother of US naval hero. 14-year-old Tennyson Beard got into an argument with 15-year-old William Hachmeister at Morey Junior High School, shooting and wounding him. Injured. The shooting happened at around 6:45 p.m. on Monday evening after a large fight involving numerous juveniles, near the intersection of West 17th Street and Russell Street, police investigators. 13-year-old Victor Cordova Jr. fatally shot 13-year-old Deming Middle School schoolmate Araceli Tena. Both Burgos and Howland survived their injuries. Paducah school shooting survivor Kelly Hard Alsip. A 16-year-old student was shot in the leg by a 15-year-old classmate at a city high school. At the Perkins School's Thanksgiving night pie supper, 21-year-old teacher Joe Todd, was mysteriously shot. 15-year-old Jomo-Kenyetta Joseph was shot in the head and killed at. The teacher was arrested. 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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. She worries that he isnt equipped to handle life outside prison and could still harm others. 25-year-old Robin Jenkins was shot in the elbow after a basketball game turned violent at Siefert Elementary School. There were 51 school shootings with injuries or deaths last year . 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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. During a stone throwing confrontation near the Oriental School on Clay Street, a group of white boys became trapped between two groups of Chinese boys. While the pupils of the Meridian Street School were at play, student Ben Corbery drew a revolver and seriously wounded 10-year-old Cora Brubach in the face. 15-year-old student David Brooks was fatally shot in front of other pupils. 14-year-old Dewitt Duckett was shot in the neck and killed at Harlem Park Junior High School. (iStock) VIRGINIA HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTING: SUSPECT IN CUSTODY, 2 . High School principal M. O. Tripp was killed on the front steps of the school by 17-year-old student Ricardo Lopez for unknown reasons. When Mr. Ingrim went after Hildreth with an axe, Hildreth shot him in the stomach. Betts later committed suicide. A young man wearing a hood and surgical mask shot and seriously injured the business manager of St. John's College High School during an attempted robbery. The Kentucky Parole Board voted to have Michael Carneal serve out. Clay Shrout. John Glover broke into the schoolhouse, where he killed a girl and fatally wounded a boy. 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. Sanders said the suspect, armed with a handgun, walked into the school at 8:57 a.m. 38-year-old Woodrow Porter, a janitor at Paul Dunbar Elementary School, was killed by the 56-year-old grandmother of an eight-year-old who was allegedly spanked by Porter earlier. He told them the origin of the crime was sexual abuse he suffered by his mother as a child, as well as drug abuse. However, evidence was withheld from the defense that pointed to another suspect, 18-year-old Michael Willis, who witnesses said saw run away and ditch the gun; Willis died in 2002. His mother Mrs. McDonald went to the police station, but did not file a formal complaint. During a high school assembly, six boys shot off their guns. 24-year-old David Gary killed the 33-year-old Reverend Thomas Quinlan inside a classroom at St. James School. 32, Total number of 20th century incidents listed here: 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. And that was all I said to him. The boys fled and also shot Wade Johnson, 15, for reporting their rule infraction to Sweatt. 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. 'Shut up. As some children were playing and throwing snowballs outside the Ponca Creek schoolhouse, Lem Harbaugh and the Shipley brothers, three young men, pulled up in a wagon and engaged the children in a snowball fight. Edward Foster, a 17-year-old student at Inman High School, was fatally wounded by his teacher Reuben Pitts after jerking a rod from Pitts' hands to avoid punishment. ABC News' "Impact x Nightline" team spoke with survivors and families of the victims for the latest episode in the series. Hignight fired two shots. Pow. Teacher Verna Davidson was shot in the foot. Karla Ward. After constant teasing about his weight, 12-year-old honors student Nathan Ferris killed 13-year-old classmate Timothy Perrin, then turned the gun on himself. Taylor was pregnant with a child fathered by Boyd; a baby girl was delivered by emergency caesarean section, but died 23 days later. Lewis Napier was shot and killed, and several other persons were hurt. While playing with the pistol, Day accidentally shot and wounded classmate Robert Morton. A dozen students suffered minor injuries either from shot or the scuffle to secure the gun. Christina reached out to those affected by the shooting to offer advice. IE 11 is not supported. All but one testified against paroling him, the Courier Journal reported. Charles Colby was shot in the head with a pistol, then returned fire, killing Tom Bucanoros, and fatally wounding Fred Smith. Freedman had suspended Simmons earlier in the day for cursing in the hallway. School principal William Howland was also shot and wounded by Wickes when Howland peered into the classroom. Prof. Barnes of Middlesboro High School was fatally shot by Adolphus Oaks for whipping Oaks' sister the week before. During a parent-teachers' meeting, 15-year-old student Murlan Decker was accidentally shot by his younger brother, Luther. Clay Shrout, Who Murdered Family And Took Classmates Hostage, Up For Parole For First Time. 10. 52-year-old math teacher Norma Cooper was shot in the shoulder at. A Kentucky man who killed three students and injured five more in a school shooting 25 years ago was denied parole Monday. 12-year-old Frederick Heilman was shot through the right instep when. A feud between Scott Walker, 15, and Randy Hawkins, 19, climaxed when walker shot Hawkins to death on the Manchester elementary school basketball court. Six students at, 15-year-old freshmen student DeLondyn Lawson, of, 15-year-old Robert Heard fatally shot 17-year-old Michael Shean Ensley in the corridor of the. A 15-year-old boarding school student shot a dean rather than give up his pin-up pictures of girls in bathing suits. Paducah school shooting survivor Missy Jenkins Smith. 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. Jose Aguilar fired a. After being ejected from school for disobedience, 20-year-old Thomas Squires fatally shot Prof. Hayes three times in the abdomen. The Kentucky Parole Board voted to have Michael Carneal serve out his life sentence. In November 2019, Chestnut, Watkins and Stewart were exonerated. Matt Bevin said. 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. 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. During that time, he must receive mental health and anger management counseling. Caught in the crossfire were 15-year-old Mark Lee and LaSonya Betts, striking Lee in the hip and Betts in the abdomen. He missed and instead killed 11-year-old bystander Alejandro Vargas, a student at the school. On September 27, 28-year-old Samuel George shot at 13-year-old Curtis McGuffie with a, 1981 alumnus Barry Wayne Shaw returned to his alma mater. He was a student at the time. He intended to leave the city that weekend. She also doesnt think it would be right for him to walk free when the people he injured are still suffering. The authorities . 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. John Roberts, aged 10 or 12, was accidentally shot in the eye at school and died. A group of boys shot into a schoolhouse, but no one was hurt. As Allen Wamack, a 15-year-old boy, drove by an all black schoolhouse, he called out "school butter" (an insult meaning a cobbing, or a whipping). At Mid-Peninsula High School, a student drove onto the basketball court of his Palo Alto high school, tossed a handful of money out of the car window and then opened fire on the students who had hurried over to grab the bills injuring one student then committed suicide. Lelande was arrested and charged with first-degree assault. Verlin Spencer, the 38-year-old principal of South Pasadena Junior High School, killed five of his colleagues and left another seriously injured in shootings at two locations. "I think that it will always live inside us. A Booker T. Washington Junior High School student was shot and wounded in the forearm by another student armed with a homemade weapon. 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. 30-year-old Mark Boyd hired 23-year-old Malik Nettles to kill 15-year-old Kyunia Taylor as she rode on a school bus bound for Beaumont High School. Shortly after noon, Wickes entered a ninth-grade social studies classroom inside the school and fired three shots at Burgos, hitting him twice in the stomach and hand, before taking the entire class of 18 students hostage. 48-year-old James T. Blevins, athletic director at. The shot riddled the door within a foot of his head. Officials say two people were killed and 16 others wounded in the shooting, which began just before 8 a.m. at the Kentucky school; 15-year-old Bailey Nicole Holt died at the scene; Preston. While the amount was high enough to render him legally insane at the time of the shooting, he did not receive a retrial but was released from in prison in 1970. He apologized to her, and she said she had forgiven him. In 1997, a 14-year-old boy opened fire at his high school, killing 3. There have been 7 school shootings this year that resulted in injuries or deaths. 15-year-old Augie Holmquist, a student at. Parent George Nicholson killed John Kurd at a schoolhouse during a school rehearsal. Thomas Thornton had been drinking and objected to Benedict telling him to calm down. Headmaster Elliott Speer was murdered by a shotgun blast through the window at Northfield Mount Hermon School. Taber was found not guilty of the murder by reason of insanity. While walking to school, 14-year-old Charles Listman killed 15-year-old Andrew Milton over rivalry for classmate 13-year-old Minnie London. I was lucky to be her mama.". Missy Jenkins Smith is. Video shows high school after shooting A 15-year-old male student was arrested at the scene, Gov. While school was in session, Hugh Claggett shot through the schoolhouse's front door, while on his way home from work. And I wasn't in a forgiving mood. 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. At the all-girls Union School, 17-year-old Thomas McGiffin shot and seriously wounded the principal, Prof. Wilson, in the hip because Wilson refused to deliver a note to one of the girls. ", "I'm very grateful for it," survivor Christina Ellegood told ABC News, referring to the parole board decision. One shooter, 16-year-old Darrick Evans, was sentenced to 41 years to life in prison.