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School shootings committed by pupils

  • Columbine High School massacreThe Columbine High School massacre was meant to be a bombing. On the 20th of April 1999, seniors Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold carried explosives into Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, expecting them to kill hundreds of…
  • Parkland high school shootingThe Parkland high school shooting began at 2:19 p.m. on the 14th of February 2018, when an Uber driver dropped a 19-year-old passenger at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Dismissal was twenty minutes away. The…
  • Abundant Life Christian School shootingThe Abundant Life Christian School shooting in Madison, Wisconsin, began with a phone call at 10:57 a.m. on the 16th of December 2024. A second-grade teacher, standing inside the building, dialed 911 and became the first person to raise…
  • Sandy Hook Elementary School shootingThe Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, on the 14th of December 2012 left 26 people dead. Twenty of them were children, all six or seven years old. The other six were adult staff members, and every one of them…
  • Virginia Tech shootingThe Virginia Tech shooting took place on Monday, the 16th of April 2007, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia. Each year, the university observes a moment of silence at 9:43 a.m. That time is tied…
  • Oxford High School shootingAt 12:51 p.m. on the 30th of November 2021, the first of roughly 100 calls to 9-1-1 came in about Oxford High School in Oxford Township, Michigan. The Oxford High School shooting was over within minutes. Its consequences in courtrooms, in…
  • Cleveland Elementary School shooting (San Diego)The Cleveland Elementary School shooting began on the morning of Monday the 29th of January 1979, outside Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California. Children were gathered at the school gates, waiting for the principal to…
  • 1998 Thurston High School shootingThe Thurston High School shooting in Springfield, Oregon, happened on the 21st of May 1998, in a cafeteria where about three hundred students were present. The gunman was Kipland Kinkel, known to everyone as Kip. He was a 15-year-old…
  • University of Texas tower shootingThe University of Texas tower shooting began at 11:48 a.m. on the 1st of August 1966, when a gunman opened fire from the observation deck of the Main Building tower in Austin. The deck stood 231 feet above the ground, and from it the whole…
  • Kerch Polytechnic College massacreThe Kerch Polytechnic College massacre began at about 10:02 on the morning of the 17th of October 2018, in the Crimean city of Kerch. It became the deadliest school shooting in Russia or Ukraine since the 2004 Beslan school siege. The…
  • Uvalde school shootingThe Uvalde school shooting began on the 24th of May 2022, when an 18-year-old former student named Salvador Ramos entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. He killed 19 students and 2 teachers. Law enforcement officers killed him 77…

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