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2010s

• February 27, 2012: Chardon, Ohio T.J. Lane, 17, took a .22-caliber pistol and a knife to Chardon High School and fired 10 shots at a group of students sitting at a cafeteria table, killing 3 and wounding 2.^[56]

• August 27, 2012: Baltimore, Maryland Robert Gladden, 15, allegedly took a double barrel shotgun to Perry Hall High School and shot a 17 year old senior with Down syndrome in the lower back.^[57][58]

• September 26, 2012: Stillwater, Oklahoma Cade Poulos, 13, shot himself in the head right before classes started at Stillwater Junior High School.^[59]

• November 30, 2012: Christopher Krumm, age 25, offender in Wyoming school shooting with bow and arrow, 1 teacher, 1 relative and self.^[60]

• December 14, 2012 (Newtown, Connecticut school shooting) Adam Lanza, age 24, killed 20 children and 7 adults, including his mother who worked at the school, before committing suicide.

• March 21, 2005: Jeff Weise, 16 year old offender in Minnesota school shooting. Fatalities include 1 teacher, 5 students, 1 security guard, 2 relatives.^[55]

• November 8, 2005: Kenny Bartley, age 15, offender in Tennessee school shooting with 1 principal fatality.^[55]
• 2000–2001 (19 Deaths resulting from school shootings in the U.S.)^{[citation needed]}
• 2001–2002 (4 Deaths resulting from school shootings in the U.S.)^{[citation needed]}
• 2002–2003 (14 Deaths resulting from school shootings in the U.S.)^{[citation needed]}
• 2003–2004 (29 Deaths resulting from school shootings in the U.S.)^{[citation needed]}
• 2004–2005 (20 Deaths resulting from school shootings in the U.S.)^{[citation needed]}
• 2005–2006 (5 Deaths resulting from school shootings in the U.S.)^{[citation needed]}
• 2006–2007 (38 Deaths resulting from school shootings in the U.S.)^{[citation needed]}
• 2007–2008 (3 Deaths resulting from school shootings in the U.S.)^{[citation needed]}
• 2008–2009 (10 Deaths resulting from school shootings in the U.S.)^{[citation needed]}

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1990s

 

From the late 1980s to the early 1990s, the United States saw a sharp increase in guns and gun violence in the schools. According to a survey conducted by The Harvard School of Public Health,^[51] "15% [of students surveyed] said that they had carried a handgun on their person in the past 30 days, and 4% said that they had taken a handgun to school in the past year," a sharp increase from just five years earlier. By 1993, the United States saw one of the most violent periods in school shooting incidences.

• May 1, 1992: Olivehurst, California Eric Houston, 20, killed four people and wounded 10 in an armed siege at his former high school. Prosecutors said the attack was in retribution for a failing grade.

According to the National School Safety Center, since the 1992-1993 U.S. school year there has been a significant decline in school-associated violent deaths (deaths on private or public school property for kindergarten through grade 12 and resulting from schools functions or activities):^[52]

• 1992–1993 (44 Homicides and 55 Deaths resulting from school shootings in the U.S.)
• 1993–1994 (42 Homicides and 51 Deaths resulting from school shootings in the U.S.)
• 1994–1995 (17 Homicides and 20 Deaths resulting from school shootings in the U.S.)
• 1995–1996 (29 Homicides and 35 Deaths resulting from school shootings in the U.S.)
• 1996–1997 (23 Homicides and 25 Deaths resulting from school shootings in the U.S.)
• 1997–1998 (35 Homicides and 40 Deaths resulting from school shootings in the U.S.)
• 1998–1999 (25 Homicides from school shootings in the U.S.)
• 1999–2000 (25 Homicides from school shootings in the U.S.)

According to the U.S. Department of Education, in the 1998-1999 School Year, 3,523 Students (57% High School, 33% Junior High, 10% Elementary) were expelled for bringing a firearm to school.^[53]

The late 1990s started to see a major reduction in gun related school violence, but was still plagued with multiple victim shootings including;

• January 12, 1995: Seattle Washington A student left school during the day and returned with his grandfather's 9mm. He wounded two students. The incident is portrayed in the documentary Cease Fire.^{[citation needed]}

• October 12, 1995: Blackville, South Carolina A suspended student shot two math teachers with a .32 caliber revolver.^{[citation needed]}

• November 15, 1995: Lynnville, Tennessee A 17-year-old boy shot and killed a student and teacher with a .22 rifle.^{[citation needed]}

• February 2, 1996: Moses Lake, Washington Two students and one teacher killed, one other wounded when 14-year-old Barry Loukaitis opened fire on his algebra class.^[54]

• February 19, 1997: Bethel, Alaska Principal and one student killed, two others wounded by Evan Ramsey, 16.^[54]

• October 1, 1997: Pearl, Mississippi Two students killed and seven wounded by Luke Woodham, 16, who was also accused of killing his mother. He and his friends were said to be outcasts who worshiped Satan.^[54]

• November 27, 1997: West Palm Beach, Florida Conniston Middle School 14-year-old John Kamel was fatally shot in the chest at 8:40 a.m. outside school on a sidewalk by 14-year-old Tronneal Mangum after an argument over an Adidas watch that Mangum had taken from Kamel.^{[citation needed]}

• December 1, 1997: West Paducah, Kentucky Three students killed, five wounded by Michael Carneal, 14, as they participated in a prayer circle at Heath High School.^[54]

• December 15, 1997: Stamps, Arkansas Two students wounded. Colt Todd, 14, was hiding in the woods when he shot the students as they stood in the parking lot^[54]

• March 24, 1998: Jonesboro, Arkansas Four students and one teacher killed, ten others wounded outside as Westside Middle School emptied during a false fire alarm. Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, shot at their classmates and teachers from the woods^[54]

• April 24, 1998: Edinboro, Pennsylvania One teacher, John Gillette, was killed and two students wounded at a dance at James W. Parker Middle School. Andrew Wurst, 14, was charged.^[54]

• May 21, 1998: Springfield, Oregon Two students killed, 22 others wounded in the cafeteria at Thurston High School by 15-year-old Kip Kinkel. Kinkel had been arrested and released a day earlier for bringing a gun to school. His parents were later found dead at home, shot to death by their son^[54]

• June 15, 1998: Richmond, Virginia One teacher and one guidance counselor wounded by a 14-year-old boy in the school hallway^[54]

• April 20, 1999: Littleton, Colorado 14 students (including shooters) and one teacher killed, 27 others wounded at Columbine High School. Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, had plotted for a year to kill at least 500 and blow up their school. At the end of their hour-long rampage, they turned their guns on themselves.^[54]

• May 20, 1999: Conyers, Georgia Six students injured at Heritage High School by Thomas Solomon, 15, who was reportedly depressed after breaking up with his girlfriend^[54]

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