Other school shootings
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Columbine, April 20
Two heavily armed young men, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, storm through Columbine High School and, in a shooting rampage of unprecedented carnage in an American school, kill 15 people, including themselves, and wound 21.
Richmond, Va., June 15, 1998
Quinshawn Booker, a 14-year-old student who is angry at a classmate, opens fire in a crowded high school hallway, wounding a 45-year-old social studies teacher and a 74-year-old Head Start volunteer. Booker pleads guilty to five charges and will remain at a school for troubled boys until he completes its program.
Springfield, Ore., May 21, 1998
Kipland Kinkel, a 15-year-old student, enters Thurston High School with three guns and opens fire in a school cafeteria. He kills one student and wounds 19; another student dies later. His parents are found dead in his home. Kinkel awaits trial.
Fayetteville, Tenn., May 19, 1998
Jacob Davis, an 18-year-old honor student, fatally shoots a classmate in the school's parking lot. The victim was dating his ex-girlfriend. Davis awaits trial.
Edinboro, Pa., April 24, 1998
Andrew Wurst, 14, is arrested for shooting to death science teacher John Gillette in front of students at a middle school graduation dance. Two 14-year-old boys are wounded. Wurst will be tried as an adult.
Jonesboro, Ark., March 24, 1998
Four girls and a teacher are shot to death and 10 others are wounded by Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11. The two boys activate a fire alarm and shoot their victims as they evacuate the building. They are found guilty of murder and committed to a state detention center. Under a controversial juvenile sentencing law, they will be allowed to walk out of jail by their 21st birthdays.
West Paducah, Ky., Dec. 1, 1997
Three students are killed and five wounded while praying in a school hallway. A 14-year-old, Michael Carneal, is arrested and pleads guilty but mentally ill to three counts of murder and six other charges related to the shootings. He was sentenced Dec. 17 to life in prison without possibility of parole for 25 years.
Pearl, Miss., Oct. 1, 1997
Luke Woodham, 16, stabs his mother to death before going to Pearl High School and shooting nine students. Two die, including Woodham's ex-girlfriend; seven others are wounded. Woodham is convicted as an adult in June 1998. He is serving three life sentences.
Moses Lake, Wash., Feb. 2 1996
Barry Loukaitis, 14, walks into algebra class at a junior high school and opens fire with a hunting rifle. The teacher and two students are killed, and one student is wounded. He is convicted in 1997 of two counts of aggravated first-degree murder and sentenced to two life terms without parole.
Winnetka, Ill., May 20, 1988
A mentally ill woman named Laurie Dann steps into a second-grade classroom with two handguns and opens fire, killing a child and wounding five others. Dann flees the school and later kills herself.
San Diego, Calif, Jan. 16, 1979
Brenda Spencer, 16, waits outside the Cleveland Elementary School for the principal to open the school. For 20 minutes, she fired on arriving students and teachers. She killed the principal and school caretaker, and injured nine students between the ages of 6 and 12. She then went home and waited for police to arrive. ". . . I just did it for the fun of it. . . . ," Spencer told police. She was convicted on two counts of murder and is serving two 25-to-life sentences.
April 28, 1999
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