February 2, 1996
Moses Lake, WA
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Two students and one teacher killed, one other wounded when 14-year old Barry
Loukaitis opened fire on his algebra class.
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March 13, 1996
Scotland
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16 children and one teacher killed at Dunblane Primary School by Thomas Hamilton,
who then killed himself. 10 others wounded in attack.
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February 19, 1997
Alaska
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Principal and one student killed, two others wounded by Evan Ramsey, 16.
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March 1997
Sanaa, Yemen
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Eight people (six students & two others) at two schools killed by Mohammad Ahman
al-Naziri.
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October 1, 1997
Pearl, Mississippi
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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.
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December 1, 1997
Kentucky
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Three students killed, five wounded by Michael Carneal, 14, as they participated in a
prayer circle at Heath High School.
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December 15, 1997
Arkansas
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Two students wounded. Colt Todd, 14, was hiding in the woods when he shot the
students as they stood in the parking lot.
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March 24, 1998
Arkansas
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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.
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April 24, 1998
Pennsylvania
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One teacher, John Gillette, killed, two students wounded at a dance at James W.
Parker Middle School. Andrew Wurst, 14, was charged.
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May 19, 1998
Tennessee
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One student killed in the parking lot at Lincoln County High School three days before
he was to graduate. The victim was dating the ex-girlfriend of his killer, 18-year-old
honor student Jacob Davis.
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May 21, 1998
Oregon
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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.
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June 15, 1998
Virginia
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One teacher and one guidance counselor wounded by a 14-year old boy in the school
hallway.
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April 20, 1999
Littleton, Colorado
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14 students (including killers) and one teacher killed, 23 others wounded at
Columbine High School in the nation's deadliest school shooting. 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.
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April 28, 1999
Canada
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One student killed, one wounded at W. R. Myers High School in first fatal high school
shooting in Canada in 20 years. The suspect, a 14-year-old boy, had dropped out of
school after he was severely ostracized by his classmates.
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May 20, 1999
Georgia
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Six students injured at Heritage High School by Thomas Solomon, 15, who was
reportedly depressed after breaking up with his girlfriend.
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November 19, 1999
New Mexico
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Victor Cordova, Jr., 12, shot and killed Araceli Tena, 13, in the lobby of Deming Middle
School.
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December 6, 1999
Oklahoma
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Four students wounded as Seth Trickey, 13, opened fire with a 9mm semiautomatic
handgun at Fort Gibson Middle School.
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December 7, 1999
Netherlands
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One teacher and three students wounded by a 17-year-old student.
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February 29, 2000
Michigan
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Six-year-old Kayla Rolland shot dead at Buell Elementary School near Flint, MI. The
assailant was identified as a six-year-old boy with a .32-caliber handgun.
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March 2000
Germany
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One teacher killed by a 15-year-old student, who then shot himself. The shooter has
been in coma ever since.
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March 10, 2000
Georgia
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Two students killed by Darrel Ingram, 19, while leaving a dance sponsored by Beach
High School.
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May 26, 2000
Florida
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One teacher, Barry Grunow, shot and killed at Lake Worth Middle School by Nate
Brazill, 13, .25-caliber semiautomatic pistol on the last day of classes.
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September 26, 2000
Louisiana
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Two students wounded with the same gun during a fight at Woodson Middle School.
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January 17, 2001
Maryland
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One student shot and killed in front of Lake Clifton Eastern High School.
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January 18, 2001
Sweden
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One student killed by two boys, ages 17 and 19.
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March 5, 2001
Santee, CA
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Two killed and 13 wounded by Charles Andrew Williams, 15, firing from a bathroom at
Santana High School.
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March 7, 2001
Pennsylvania
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Elizabeth Catherine Bush, 14, wounded student Kimberly Marchese in the cafeteria of
Bishop Neumann High School; she was depressed and frequently teased.
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March 22, 2001
Granite Hills, CA
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One teacher and three students wounded by Jason Hoffman, 18, at Granite Hills High
School. A policeman shot and wounded Hoffman.
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March 30, 2001
Gary, Indiana
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One student killed by Donald R. Burt, Jr., a 17-year old student who had been
expelled from Lew Wallace High School.
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November 12, 2001
Michigan
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Chris Buschbacher, 17, took two hostages at the Caro Learning Center before killing
himself.
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January 15, 2002
New York, N.Y.
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A teenager wounded two students at Martin Luther King Jr. High School.
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February 19, 2002
Germany
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Two killed in Eching by a man at the factory from which he had been fired; he then
traveled to Freising and killed the headmaster of the technical school from which he
had been expelled. He also wounded another teacher before killing himself.
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April 26, 2002
Germany
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13 teachers, two students, and one policeman killed, ten wounded by Robert
Steinhaeuser, 19, at the Johann Gutenberg secondary school. Steinhaeuser then
killed himself.
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April 29, 2002
Bosnia-Herzegovina
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One teacher killed, one wounded by Dragoslav Petkovic, 17, who then killed himself.
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April 14, 2003
Louisiana
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One 15-year-old killed, and three students wounded at John McDonogh High School
by gunfire from four teenagers (none were students at the school). The motive was
gang-related.
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April 24, 2003
Pennsylvania
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James Sheets, 14, killed principal Eugene Segro of Red Lion Area Jr. High School
before killing himself.
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September 24, 2003
Minnesota
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Two students are killed at Rocori High School by John Jason McLaughlin, 15.
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September 28, 2004
Argentina
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Three students killed and 6 wounded by a 15-year-old Argentininan student in a town
620 miles south of Buenos Aires.
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March 21, 2005
Minnesota
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Jeff Weise, 16, killed grandfather & companion, then arrived at school where he killed
a teacher, a security guard, 5 students, and finally himself, leaving a total of 10 dead.
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November 8, 2005
Tennessee
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One 15-year-old shot and killed an assistant principal at Campbell County high school
and seriously wounded two other administrators.
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August 24, 2006
Vermont
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Christopher Williams, 27, looking for his ex-girlfriend at Essex Elementary School, shot
two teachers, killing one and wounding another. Before going to the school, he had
killed the ex-girlfriend's mother.
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Sept. 13, 2006
Canada
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Kimveer Gill, 25, opened fire with a semiautomatic weapon at Dawson College.
Anastasia De Sousa, 18, died and more than a dozen students and faculty were
wounded before Gill killed himself.
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September 26, 2006
Colorado
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Adult male held six students hostage at Platte Canyon High School and then shot and
killed Emily Keyes, 16, and himself.
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September 29, 2006
Wisconsin
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A 15-year-old student shot and killed Weston School principal John Klang.
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October 3, 2006
Pennsylvania
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32-year-old Carl Charles Roberts IV entered the one-room West Nickel Mines Amish
School and shot 10 schoolgirls, ranging in age from 6 to 13 years old, and then
himself. Five of the girls and Roberts died.
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January 3, 2007
Washington
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Douglas Chanthabouly, 18, shot fellow student Samnang Kok, 17, in the hallway of
Henry Foss High School.
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April 16, 2007
Virginia
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A 23-year-old Virginia Tech student, Cho Seung-Hui, killed two in a dorm, then killed
30 more 2 hours later in a classroom building. His suicide brought the death toll to 33,
making the shooting rampage the most deadly in U.S. history. Fifteen others were
wounded.
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