List of school shootings in the United States (before 2000)

This chronological list of school gun incidents and mass shootings in the United States before the year 2000 includes any school shootings that occurred at a K-12 public or private school, as well as colleges and universities, and on school buses. Excluded from this list are the following:

Incidents that occurred during wars
Incidents that occurred as a result of police actions
Murder-suicides by rejected suitors or estranged spouses
Suicides or suicide attempts involving only one person.

Shooting by school staff, where the only victims are other employees, are covered at workplace killings. This list does not include the 1970 Kent State shootings, or bombings.

Date	Location	Deaths	Injuries	Total	Description
1840
November 12, 1840	Charlottesville, Virginia	1	0	1	John Anthony Gardner Davis, a law professor at the University of Virginia, was shot by student Joseph Semmes and died three days later.^[1]^[2]

Date	Location	Deaths	Injuries	Total	Description
1853
November 2, 1853	Louisville, Kentucky	1	0	1	Murder of William Butler: Student Mathews Flounoy Ward shot schoolmaster William H.G. Butler as revenge for what he perceived as unfair punishment of his brother the day before. Butler died and Ward was acquitted.^[3]
1856
August 16, 1856	Florence, Alabama	2	0	2	The schoolmaster warned students not to harm his tame sparrow, threatening death. One of the boys stepped on the bird and killed it. When the boy returned to school, the master took the boy into a private room and strangled him. Upon hearing what happened, the boy's father went to the school and shot the schoolmaster dead.^[4]
1858
July 8, 1858	Baltimore, Maryland	1	0	1	The 15-year-old son of Col. John T. Farlow (Baltimore's Marshal of Police 1867–70) was killed during a Sabbath School gathering. The perpetrator escaped, but several arrests were made.^[5]

Date	Location	Deaths	Injuries	Total	Description
1860
January 21, 1860	Todd County, Kentucky	1	0	1	A son of Col. Elijah Sebree was killed by another student. He had been led to believe that Young Sebree was threatening him; the latter student got a gun and fatally shot Sebree in the schoolhouse.^[6]
1864
February 6, 1864	Ashland County, Ohio	1	0	1	George W. Longfelt (or George W. Langfitt), the school teacher of the Pyfer's School House, killed student Alfred Desem (or Albert Diesem) and fled.^[7]^[8]
1867
February 16, 1867	Knights Ferry, California	2^{[n 1]}	0	2	Mr. McGinnis was killed by his daughter's teacher George T. Cheshire after McGinnis threatened the teacher for expelling his daughter from school. When McGinnis' son learned of this, he went to the school and killed the teacher.^[9]
April 2, 1867	Madison, Florida	1	0	1	Frank Pope, a pupil at St. John's seminary, shot and killed his teacher Mr. Bristow.^[10]
June 4, 1867	Buffalo, New York	0	1	1	13-year-old Arthur Day secretly took a loaded pistol to PS No. 18 to shoot a dog he said had bitten him. While playing with the pistol, Day accidentally shot and wounded classmate Robert Morton.^[11]

Date	Location	Deaths	Injuries	Total	Description
1871
January 27, 1871	Knoxville, Tennessee	1	0	1	John Roberts, aged 10 or 12, was accidentally shot in the eye at school and died.^[12]
1872
February 1, 1872	Washington, Pennsylvania	0	1	1	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. McGiffin was a son of Col. Norton McGiffin, and brother of US naval hero Philo McGiffin.^[13]
1873
February 11, 1873	Wisconsin	0	1	1	A man shot the school mistress for whipping his son.^[14]^{[unreliable source?]}
1874
February 20, 1874	Agency, Montana	1	0	1	After being ejected from school for disobedience, 20-year-old Thomas Squires fatally shot Prof. Hayes three times in the abdomen.^[15]
April 9, 1874	Lebanon, Tennessee	1	0	1	John Robert Breckinridge, son of the late Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, attending classes in law at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee, was killed by John L. Anderson, the Mayor's son. The latter was reportedly "crazed with liquor."^[16]^[17]
1878
May 24, 1878	St. Paul, Minnesota	0	1	1	A 13-year-old boy, Luckert, accidentally shot and wounded Allie McDonald, another boy at the Neill school. The youth was expected to recover. His mother Mrs. McDonald went to the police station, but did not file a formal complaint.^[18]
1879
May 24, 1879	Lancaster, New York	0	1	1	Telegraph operator Frank Shugart shot and severely injured Mr. Carr, superintendent of the stables at a girls' school.^[19]

Date	Location	Deaths	Injuries	Total	Description
1881
December 1, 1881	Santa Monica, California	1	0	1	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. Williams fatally shot O'Donnell in the back.^[20]
December 22, 1881	Shelby County, Indiana	0	0	0	School teacher Charles J. Gregory shot at a pupil at close range because he refused to write on a slate. The bullet missed the boy. The teacher was arrested.^[21]
1882
January 16, 1882	Iola, Kansas	0	0	0	A group of boys shot into a schoolhouse, but no one was hurt. Two of the boys were arrested and pleaded guilty three weeks later. They were fined $9.00 each.^[22]
April 13, 1882	Huntsville, Texas	0	1	1	G.W. Gray, a student at the Sam Houston Normal School, shot and wounded another student, M.J. Jordan. They were arguing over a comic valentine.^[23]
1883
February 14, 1883	Florence, Nebraska	0	3	3	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. One of the Shipley brothers had a .45-caliber needle gun. As the children kept throwing snowballs, Harbaugh aimed the gun at them. The lock was faulty and the gun went off; he wounded Mamie Shipley, Joy Price, and Marquis Price. Harbaugh later surrendered himself to the authorities.^[24]
November 20, 1883	Barber County, Kansas	0	0	0	A bunch of drunken cowboys stopped at several schoolhouses, forcing two teachers to drink whiskey, and firing numerous shots at three schoolhouses.^[25]
1884
February 28, 1884	Danville, Virginia	0	2	2	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).^[26] The students came out and fired several shots at him; he shot back, hitting two students.^[27]
March 6, 1884	Charlestown, Massachusetts	0	0	0	As news of outlaw Jesse James reached the East Coast, young boys started to imitate him. For instance, boys shot at police investigating their activities at the Concord Street schoolhouse.^[28]
1887
June 12, 1887	Cleveland, Tennessee	1	0	1	Will Guess shot and killed teacher Miss Irene Fann, for whipping his little sister the day before.^[29]
1889
June 13, 1889	New Brunswick, New Jersey	0	0	0	Charles Crawford, upset over an argument with a school trustee, went up to the window and fired a pistol into a crowded schoolroom. The bullet lodged in the wall just above the teacher's head.^[30]

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Date	Location	Deaths	Injuries	Total	Description
1890
April 24, 1890	Brazil, Indiana	0	1	1	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. Cora had told the teacher about Ben's misconduct.^[31]
December 27, 1890	Staunton, Virginia	1	0	1	At Kable's Military Academy, 15-year-old A.H. Hathaway of Denison, Texas, was accidentally shot and killed by his 17-year-old classmate James Whitworth of Sulphur Springs, Texas, while they were playing with an old pistol.^[32]
1891
March 30, 1891	Liberty, Mississippi	0	14	14	During a school exhibition and concert at the Parson Hill schoolhouse, an unknown gunman fired a double-barreled shotgun into the mixed audience, made up of black and white students, parents and teachers. 14 people were wounded, some seriously.^[33]
April 9, 1891	Newburgh, New York	0	2+	2+	70-year-old James Foster fired a shotgun at a group of students in the playground of St. Mary's Parochial School, causing minor injuries to several of the students.^[34]
1893
March 26, 1893	Plain Dealing, Louisiana	4	1	5	During an evening school dance at Plain Dealing High School, a fight broke out. Two students were shot and killed immediately, two more were fatally wounded, and the high school's Professor Johnson was wounded in the arm.^[35]
1898
December 12, 1898	Charleston, West Virginia	6	4+	10+	During the school exhibition, a group of young men tried to break up a student performance. When teacher Mr. Fisher tried to throw them out, they turned on him. Audience members joined the fray. Harry Flasher was shot and instantly killed, Henry Carney was fatally shot in the back, Ralph Jones and two others were also fatally shot, and George Gibson was shot in the hand; Haz Harding had his skull crushed, and several others received minor wounds.^[36]

Date	Location	Deaths	Injuries	Total	Description
1903
February 24, 1903	Inman, South Carolina	1	0	1	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. According to the teacher, Foster struck the pistol Pitts had drawn, and caused it to fire. Pitts was acquitted of murder on grounds of self-defense.^[37]
July 21, 1903	Jackson, Kentucky	2^{[n 2]}	1	3	At the Cave Run School, James Barrett and Mack Howard argued over a card game and fought a duel with pistols, killing each other. Twelve-year-old student James Vires was shot in the abdomen while sitting at his desk during the gunfight.^[38]
1904
April 6, 1904	Chicago, Illinois	1	0	1	Two students, both aged 16, had been fighting for months over a girl. Paul Jelick struck and threw Henry Schaze to the ground, Schaze then drew a revolver, and killed his rival.^[39]
November 16, 1904	Riverside, California	2	1	3	At the Indian School, a gun fight broke out between pupils. Charles Colby was shot in the head with a pistol, then returned fire, killing Tom Bucanoros, and fatally wounding Fred Smith.^[40]
December 16, 1904	Magee, Mississippi	1	1	2	Parent E.E. 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. Mangum had argued with Woodward, who had given Mangum's 15-year-old son a severe whipping.^[41]
1905
February 9, 1905	Colusa, California	0	1	1	The meeting of 17-year-old Elmer Hildreth with a school Trustee ended in an armed encounter over Hildreth's being suspended. When Mr. Ingrim went after Hildreth with an axe, Hildreth shot him in the stomach. Hildreth was arrested and was found to have acted in self-defense; no charges were filed. Ingrim survived.^[42]
October 5, 1905	Hickman, Kentucky	1	0	1	Parent George Nicholson killed John Kurd at a schoolhouse during a school rehearsal. Kurd had made a disparaging remark about Nicholson's daughter during her recital.^[43]
1907
December 20, 1907	Chico, California	1	0	1	Nine-year-old Arthur Roberts was shot in the head and killed outside his school during a military drill by school children of the Dayton school district. Armed with old guns believed to be empty, the children had pulled the triggers.^[44]
1908
January 10, 1908	Council Bluffs, Iowa	0	0	0	At around 6 a.m., as George O Mortensen, 35-year-old janitor of the Washington Street School building, was unlocking the outer door of the school. Someone discharged a shotgun from a few feet away. The shot riddled the door within a foot of his head.^[45]
March 11, 1908	Fenway–Kenmore, Massachusetts	2^{[n 3]}	0	2	39-year-old teacher Miss Sarah Chamberlain Weed killed 34-year-old teacher Elizabeth Bailey Hardee, then shot herself, at the Laurens School, a fashionable boarding school. Weed was said to be suffering from melancholia (depression).^[46]
1909
March 19, 1909	Mount Vernon, Illinois	0	1	1	During a school performance of The Grand Central, John Moake, portraying the villain, was shot in the forehead and dangerously wounded by the hero, Roy Slater. The cartridge was thought to have been blank.^[47]
June 10, 1909	Trinidad, Colorado	1	0	1	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.^[48]
September 11, 1909	White Rock Township, Missouri	1	0	1	John Butram, a student at the Bear Hollow School, told his fellow students that school was cancelled. The teacher, A. T. Kelly, said it was not. When Butram drew a knife on his teacher, Kelly shot and killed him.^[49]

Date	Location	Deaths	Injuries	Total	Description
1910
January 12, 1910	Harlem, New York	2	0	2	"A black-bearded maniac drew an automatic pistol" and fired five shots into a crowd of boys at the Harlem School, who were taunting him. Six-year-old Robert Lomas was hit and died instantly; six-year-old Arthur Shibley was fatally wounded.^[50] The shooter, Herbert Jerome Dennison, was declared insane and sent to the Matteawan State Hospital.^[51]^[52]
August 16, 1910	Breathitt County, Kentucky	1	2+	3+	A general fight broke out during school board elections. Lewis Napier was shot and killed, and several other people were hurt. Several men were arrested.^[53]
1911
April 27, 1911	Manhattan, Kansas	0	1	1	During a school play rehearsal, a boy loaded his revolver, unknown to others. Pearl Reedy, an 18-year-old student who was to use the gun in the play, said she was afraid to handle it. The teacher, Sister Rose, said that the gun was not operational. She pointed it straight at Reedy's body and squeezed the trigger. The bullet wounded Reedy close to the heart.^[54]
1912
February 16, 1912	Lagrange, New York	1	0	1	14-year-old May McQuade was killed by classmate Raymond B. Carroll. Carroll said the shooting was accidental, as he did not think the gun was loaded.^[55]
December 14, 1912	New York City, New York	0	1	1	A boy living across the street from Hartley Hall of Columbia University supposedly fired shots in his sleep, striking the hall and slightly wounding junior Arthur Smith.^[56]
1914
January 6, 1914	Elkton, Maryland	1	0	1	13-year-old George Short shot and killed 9-year-old Paul McCall in a schoolyard.^[57]
November 19, 1914	Sayre, Pennsylvania	1	0	1	While walking to school, 14-year-old Charles Listman killed 15-year-old Andrew Milton over rivalry for classmate 13-year-old Minnie London.^[58]
November 30, 1914	Camden, New Jersey	0	0	0	14-year-old Walter Varnasdale accidentally fired a shot inside the Kaighn School, which nearly hit two students.^[59]
1915
January 13, 1915	Vancouver, Washington	0	1	1	During a parent-teachers' meeting, 15-year-old student Murlan Decker was accidentally shot by his younger brother, Luther.^[60]
February 3, 1915	Jasper, Florida	1	1	2	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. The Holtzendorffs objected to one of the boys being whipped at school. When they showed up, Yates had armed himself. He shot the father through the mouth, and was fatally shot through the body, dying an hour later.^[61]
1916
September 20, 1916	Bemidji, Minnesota	0	1	1	Olga Dahl, the 19-year-old teacher at the Round Lake District School, was found tied to a tree near the school, assaulted, and shot twice in the face. She had been working late after school, when a man with a revolver entered the schoolhouse and ordered her to obey him. He raped and shot her; she was expected to live. A group of men in Itasca County, Minnesota joined in hunting the assailant.^[62]^[63]
December 4, 1916	Hammond,Indiana	0	3+	3+	The Lake County Superior Court House mass shooting took place on December 4, 1916. A former U.S.Civil War cavalry veteran named Mike Inik shot three people, one of whom was Judge Greenwood. The motive for the attack was reportedly related to Inik attempting to force the company Standard Oil to pay him $4,000,000 in compensation after he was injured in an oil refinery accident. When the court dismissed his claim as outlandish, Inik allegedly spent nearly 20 years collecting revolvers and sabers from the U.S. military. He later carried out the attack with the intention of killing Judge Greenwood. After the shooting, Inik was apprehended by police and sent to Michigan State Prison. He eventually died there in 1945 and was reportedly buried in the prison’s cemetery.^[64]
December 26, 1916	Danville, Kentucky	1	5+	6+	During the Christmas tree celebration at the Harris Creek School, a fight broke out in the room packed with children and visitors. 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. Many others were injured. Thomas Thornton had been drinking and objected to Benedict telling him to calm down. Thornton's brother George left the room and returned with a revolver.^[65]
1917
June 5, 1917	Harrisburg, Pennsylvania	0	1	1	Sixteen-year-old freshman Earl Wolf was accidentally shot in the leg with a revolver about noon, in the company of classmates at Central High School.^[66]
October 28, 1917	Chicago, Illinois	1	0	1	Brothers 16-year-old William and 15-year-old Ralph Carter broke into the May Public School, robbing the phone boxes and teachers' desks. When they were discovered by janitor Howard Parks and policeman Thomas Conway, the latter shot at them. William was critically wounded and not expected to live; Ralph Carter was taken to jail.^[67]
November 29, 1917	Manes, Missouri	0	1	1	At the Perkins School's Thanksgiving night pie supper, 21-year-old teacher Joe Todd, was mysteriously shot. He was expected to recover.^[68]
1918
March 29, 1918	Jefferson City, Missouri	1	0	1	At the Lincoln Institute, State Negro Normal School, 31-year-old Professor Romeo West, was killed in the dormitory by superintendent of school Theodore Martin. They were arguing about dishes to use at a social. Martin said he shot in self-defense, fatally hitting West with three of five shots.^[69]
April 6, 1918	Reeder, North Dakota	1	0	1	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.^[70]
1919
January 9, 1919	Philadelphia, Missouri	0	0	0	While school was in session, Hugh Claggett shot through the schoolhouse's front door, while on his way home from work. No one was hurt, and he was fined $20.^[71]
April 12, 1919	Ogden City, Utah	0	1	1	During a high school assembly, six boys shot off their guns. Permission had been given in the belief the guns were loaded with blanks, but they had live shot. Teacher Verna Davidson was shot in the foot.^[72]
August 4, 1919	Berkeley, California	0	2	2	Roger Sprague, an assistant in the department of chemistry at the University of California, despondent over his inability to obtain a position, shot and wounded 59-year-old Professor Edmond O'Neill, head of department, and 37-year-old Dr. Joel Henry Hildebrand, professor of chemistry, in the offices of Gilman Hall. He went to California Hall and shot at 57-year-old May L. Cheney, appointment secretary, but hit only one of her hair combs before he was subdued.^[73]

Date	Location	Deaths	Injuries	Total	Description
1920
February 14, 1920	Durant, Oklahoma	0	1	1	At the Durant Normal School, teacher Albert McFarland, was seriously wounded by one of his pupils.^[74]
March 4, 1920	Cincinnati, Ohio	0	1	1	14-year-old student Lawrence Angel shot his teacher, Beatrice Conner, through the arm for sending him to the principal's office.^[75]
May 1, 1920	Summerville, Georgia	0	0	0	At the High School, 15-year-old student Alexander Potter fired six shots at his teacher, Prof. Ransom, but missed. Potter was upset over having been whipped and expelled. He was sentenced to six years at a reform school.^[76]
May 15, 1920	Bowling Green, Ohio	1	0	1	While attending her son's school track meet, Mrs. F. Mahl was killed accidentally by a shot from the starter's pistol.^[77]
August 1, 1920	Ogden, Utah	0	1	1	Mike Smults, the night watchman at the Utah school for the Deaf and Blind, shot a 10-year-old boy, Dennis McDonald, as he and his brother Clinton cut through the campus. The watchman said he fired into the air as a warning.^[78]
October 22, 1920	Chicago, Illinois	0	1	1	Mrs. Carmila Rindoni went to the school and twice shot Rosalind I. Reynolds, her son's teacher, for spanking her son the day before. Mrs. Rindoni was arrested; Miss Reynolds was expected to recover.^[79]
November 4, 1920	Middlesboro, Kentucky	1	0	1	Prof. Barnes of Middlesboro High School was fatally shot by Adolphus Oaks for whipping Oaks' sister the week before. Barnes had submitted his resignation to the school board, as students had boycotted his class in protest over the whipping. He intended to leave the city that weekend. Oaks went to jail.^[80]
1922
February 17, 1922	Valdosta, Georgia	2	0	2	John Glover broke into the schoolhouse, where he killed a girl and fatally wounded a boy. A mob tracked and killed Glover 7 miles (11 km) in Indianola (now Naylor, Georgia).^[81]
August 1, 1922	Ardmore, Oklahoma	1	0	1	Bryant Hignight and four other students were at the outhouse of the Mount Zion school. Hignight fired two shots. One instantly killed Raymond Guinn. When questioned, the other three boys said it was an accident.^[82]
1926
December 29, 1926	Gettysburg, Pennsylvania	0	1	1	12-year-old Frederick Heilman was shot through the right instep when Gettysburg College janitor Joseph Carver fired toward a group of boys trying to force their way into the college gymnasium. Carver had shot into the ground, and did not realize a bullet had ricocheted. Heilman's father did not press charges.^[83]
1927
May 18, 1927	Bath Charter Township, Michigan	45^{[n 3]}	58	103	The Bath School disaster: The Bath School disaster occurred in 1927 when Andrew Philip Kehoe murdered his wife, set his farm on fire as a diversion, and detonated dynamite and pyrotol he had secretly planted beneath the local school. The initial blast killed dozens, mostly children, and as rescuers and parents gathered, Kehoe returned with an explosives-filled truck and detonated it during a confrontation, killing himself and several others. In total, 45 people were killed and many more injured, with additional bombs later discovered and disarmed.

Date	Location	Deaths	Injuries	Total	Description
1930
May 22, 1930	Ringe, Minnesota	1	0	1	24-year-old Douglas Petersen killed 20-year-old teacher Margaret Wegman, who was standing in the doorway of a rural schoolhouse.^[84]
1931
May 28, 1931	Duluth, Minnesota	1	0	1	Katherine McMillen, 24-year-old teacher at the Howard Gensen rural school near Duluth, was accidentally killed by a pupil who brought a revolver to school.^[85]
September 17, 1931	Dickson City, Pennsylvania	1	0	1	A school director shot and killed a police officer during a school board meeting at a high school.^[86]
1932
April 20, 1932	Manteca, California	1	1	2	An angered parent whose child had been spanked by Olive Taylor, a teacher at the Castle School, entered the school after classes had been dismissed and shot and killed her, wounding the school janitor as he came to investigate.^[87]^[88]
December 2, 1932	Mentone, California	0	0	0	A school bus carrying 20 students was struck by rifle fire.^[89]
1934
February 2, 1934	Harlan, Iowa	2^{[n 3]}	0	2	28-year-old Herman Seick shot and killed 23-year-old teacher Margaret Graves at the rural Monroe School no. 2 before killing himself.^[90]
February 5, 1934	Oklahoma County, Oklahoma	0	1	1	17-year-old Ulysses Walker shot and wounded a 19-year-old classmate on a school bus headed for Frederick A. Douglass High School.^[91]
March 29, 1934	Corvallis, Oregon	1	0	1	21-year-old Oregon State University student Paul Kutch was shot dead by accident in a fraternity house.^[92]
April 9, 1934	Tuscaloosa, Alabama	0	1	1	University of Alabama student Andrew Manning was shot and wounded on campus during a political dispute.^[93]
April 13, 1934	Institute, West Virginia	2^{[n 3]}	3	5	After finishing a speech to other employees at the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind, superintendent James L. Hill began shooting, killing a teacher and wounding three other people before committing suicide.^[94]
May 25, 1934	Oakland, California	0	1	1	An 8-year-old accidentally shot himself at the Jefferson school.^[95]
June 1, 1934	Oroville, California	0	1	1	12-year-old Jack Drace accidentally shot a 14-year-old classmate during a rehearsal of a school play based on John Dillinger.^[96]^[97]
September 14, 1934	Gill, Massachusetts	1	0	1	Headmaster Elliott Speer was murdered by a shotgun blast through the window at Northfield Mount Hermon School. The crime was never solved.^[98]
October 25, 1934	Kentfield, California	0	0	0	During a fight between Marin Junior College and Santa Rosa Junior College students on the Marin campus, Marin students fired shots.^[99]
November 1, 1934	Berkeley, California	0	0	0	Two students were shot at as they entered International House Berkeley at the University of California. The shooting occurred after students at the University of California, Los Angeles were suspended for their communist beliefs, and of the students shot at was an avid anti-communist activist.^[100]
November 13, 1934	Medora, Indiana	2^{[n 3]}	0	2	17-year-old student Dorothy Weber was killed outside Medora High School by a 25-year-old man, who committed suicide afterwards.^[101]
December 3, 1934	Montgomery County, Ohio	0	0	0	Someone fired shots into the Northridge school as pupils were inside.^[102]
December 10, 1934	Montgomery County, Ohio	0	0	0	Shots were again fired into the Northridge school as class was in session.^[102]
December 14, 1934	Pilot, North Carolina	0	1	1	A boy who took a rifle to school accidentally fired it, severely wounding an 8-year-old pupil.^[103]
1935
February 16, 1935	Trenton, New Jersey	0	2	2	A 12-year-old found a revolver at the Slackwood school and fired two shots, wounding two schoolmates.^[104]
March 27, 1935	Tahlequah, Oklahoma	0	1	1	19-year-old Lois Thompson, a student at Northeastern State Teachers College, shot and wounded another student outside the campus administration building.^[105]
November 22, 1935	Lake Charles, Louisiana	0	2^{[n 3]}	2	Rufus A. Russell, whose son had been cut from the Lake Charles High School football team, shot and wounded the head coach during a pre-game pep rally and attempted suicide.^[106]
1936
January 24, 1936	Elizabeth, New Jersey	1	0	1	15-year-old Robert Arnold accidentally killed 13-year-old Phillip Tortorice in a classroom at Elizabeth elementary school.^[107]
June 4, 1936	Bethlehem, Pennsylvania	2^{[n 3]}	0	2	Wesley Clow killed his Lehigh University English instructor, C. Wesley Phy, for giving him a failing grade. Clow committed suicide after shooting Phy.^[108]
1937
June 4, 1937	Isabel, Kansas	1	0	1	16-year-old Robert Douthitt was accidentally killed backstage during high school play practice. The revolver was to have been loaded with blanks, but it held live ammunition.^[109]
September 24, 1937	Toledo, Ohio	0	2^{[n 3]}	2	12-year-old Robert Snyder wounded his principal, June Mapes, in her office at Arlington Public School when she declined his request to call a classmate. He fled the grounds and wounded himself.^[110]
1938
January 24, 1938	Blencoe, Iowa	1	0	1	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.^[111]
1939
March 15, 1939	Parkersburg, West Virginia	1	0	1	16-year-old student James Russell was shot and killed at Parkersburg High School. An 18-year-old non-student was indicted.^[112]
December 22, 1939	Reading, Michigan	0	1	1	18-year-old Richard Valentine shot and wounded 18-year-old Edith Balcom during a Christmas party at Reading High School after she rejected his advances.^[113]

Date	Location	Deaths	Injuries	Total	Description
1940
May 6, 1940	South Pasadena, California	5	2^{[n 3]}	7	South Pasadena Junior High School shooting: 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. 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. When cornered by police, he shot himself in a suicide attempt but survived and was sentenced to five consecutive life sentences. 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. 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 prison in 1970.^[114]
July 4, 1940	Valhalla, New York	1	0	1	Angered by the refusal of his daughter, 15-year-old Melba, to leave a boarding school and return home, 47-year-old Joseph Moshell went to the school and shot and killed his daughter.^[115] Moshell was sentenced to death for the murder; the governor of New York later commuted his sentence to life in prison.^[116]
1942
June 11, 1942	Columbus, Ohio	1	0	1	16-year-old Stedman Thompson shot and killed his stepfather, 37-year-old Ohio State University chemical engineer Charles R. Owens, in his university laboratory.^[117]
October 2, 1942	Williamsburg, New York	1	0	1	Irwin Goodman, 36-year-old mathematics teacher at William J. Gaynor Junior High School, was shot and killed in the school corridor by two boys.^[118]
1944
October 30, 1944	New York City, New York	0	1	1	During a workshop class at Samuel Gompers High School, a 16-year-old accidentally fired a pistol, wounding another student.^[119]
1946
June 26, 1946	Williamsburg, New York	0	1	1	A 15-year-old student was shot in the chest at the PS 147 annex of Brooklyn Automotive Trades High School after refusing to give money to a gang of seven youths.^[120]
1948
March 18, 1948	Bowling Green, Ohio	1	0	1	21-year-old Bowling Green State University student Jim Singler fired a pistol from his window, striking and killing 18-year-old Charles Wenzel in his room. Singler said he thought the gun was unloaded.^[121]
December 23, 1948	Ramapo, New York	1	0	1	A 14-year-old student was fatally wounded in the head by a shot from fellow student, 17-year-old Robert Ross, when he happened to be into range where Ross was target shooting near a lake at the school, and was caught in the crossfire.^[122]
1949
March 11, 1949	East Village, New York	0	1	1	A 16-year-old student at Stuyvesant High School was accidentally shot in the arm by a fellow student who was "showing off" with a pistol in a classroom.^[123]
November 12, 1949	Columbus, Ohio	1	0	1	Ohio State University freshman James Heer took a .45-caliber handgun from the room of a Delta Tau Delta fraternity brother and killed 21-year-old Jack McKeown, a senior and fraternity brother.^[124] Heer was sentenced to life in prison for the crime.^[125]
November 18, 1949	Chicago, Illinois	1	0	1	16-year-old LaVon Cain of DuSable High School was shot to death at the school after a group of female students began shooting at another group of female students. The shooting was over domestic disputes that had occurred days prior. Edwina Howard, aged 19, and two other teenage girls were charged in the shooting.^[126] The shooting was noted as one of the first fatal shootings in a Chicago public school.^[127]

Date	Location	Deaths	Injuries	Total	Description
1950
January 31, 1950	Evanston, Illinois	0	1	1	A 13-year-old boy shot his classmate, 13-year-old Nancy Penfield, in the neck with a pistol at Skokie High School.^[128]
March 16, 1950	Los Angeles, California	0	0	0	Five young gangsters fired three shots at members of a rival gang once classes were dismissed at Roosevelt High School.^[129]
March 20, 1950	Antlers, Oklahoma	0	1	1	A 12-year-old boy shot 15-year-old Byron Baker in the abdomen on the grounds of Antlers High School as revenge for a fight they had the previous day.^[130]
July 22, 1950	New York City, New York	0	1	1	During an argument with a former classmate, a 16-year-old boy was shot in the wrist and abdomen at the PS 141 dance.^[131]
October 8, 1950	New Orleans, Louisiana	0	6	6	Two unidentified suspected gangsters opened fire on each other from opposite ends of a balcony at Booker T. Washington High School while a jazz band was playing. Six bystanders were slightly injured, and the gunmen fled the scene.^[132]
1951
January 24, 1951	Alton, Illinois	1	0	1	61-year-old Henry Suhre, quartermaster at Western Military Academy, was killed in the cadet store on campus.^[133]
March 12, 1951	Union Mills, North Carolina	2	0	2	Professor W.E. 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. The boys fled and also shot Wade Johnson, 15, for reporting their rule infraction to Sweatt.^[134]
November 27, 1951	St. Louis, Missouri	1	0	1	15-year-old student David Brooks was fatally shot in front of other pupils. Two former students were sought by police.^[135]
1952
April 8, 1952	Rabun Gap, Georgia	1	0	1	A 15-year-old boarding school student shot a dean rather than give up his pin-up pictures of girls in bathing suits.^[136]
July 14, 1952	Morningside Heights, New York	1	0	1	Bayard Peakes shot and killed secretary Eileen Fahey at the American Physical Society (APS) office at Columbia University, where he was reportedly upset that the APS had rejected a paper of his.^[137] Peakes was deemed insane by a judge; he was held at an asylum for the criminally insane until his death in 2000.^[138]
1953
January 31, 1953	Kalispell, Montana	0	1	1	61-year-old Special Deputy Vernon Graves was accidentally shot in the face with a shotgun at the Fairview School.^[139]
May 19, 1953	Miami, Florida	0	1	1	29-year-old teacher Paul Singer was teaching firearm safety to his students at Edison Junior High School when his pistol slipped from its holster and discharged when it struck the floor. The bullet hit Singer in the lower abdomen, severely wounding him.^[140]
October 2, 1953	Chicago, Illinois	1	0	1	14-year-old Bernice Turner killed 14-year-old Pasquale Coletta inside the science classroom at Kelly High School. The shooting was later ruled to be accidental.^[141]
1954
March 31, 1954	Newton, Massachusetts	1	0	1	14-year-old John Frankenberger was accidentally killed in a classroom at Day Junior High School when a pistol held by a classmate discharged.^[142]
May 15, 1954	Chapel Hill, North Carolina	1^{[n 3]}	2	3	Putnam Davis Jr. was killed during a carnival at the Phi Delta Theta house at the University of North Carolina. William Joyner and Allen Long were wounded during the exchange of gunfire in their room. The incident followed an all-night beer party. Long told police Davis pulled a gun and started shooting while the three were drinking beer at 7 a.m. After wounding both men, Davis apparently shot himself.^[143]^[144]
1955
January 11, 1955	Swarthmore, Pennsylvania	1	0	1	After some of his dormmates urinated on his mattress during a hazing, 22-year-old Robert B. Bechtel, a student proctor at Swarthmore College, returned to his Wharton Hall dorm with a shotgun and killed fellow student, 19-year-old Francis Holmes Strozier.^[145] Bechtel was acquitted of murder by reason of insanity and spent five years in a psychiatric hospital.^[146]
January 26, 1955	Charlotte, North Carolina	0	1	1	15-year-old Kenneth Ray Griffin was showing his stepfather's pistol to his friends in the restroom of A. J. Junior High School when he accidentally fired it, striking 14-year-old Jack Plummer in the left side.^[147]
1956
March 5, 1956	Edmore, Michigan	0	1	1	14-year-old Peter Ray Forger shot and wounded 15-year-old William Shurlow after a disagreement at Edmore High School. Forger was charged with assault with attempt to murder.^[148]
March 13/21, 1956	Lakeland, Florida	1	1	2	24-year-old Clarke Gavin Jr. shot one Florida Southern College student in the foot and fired at a second student because his wife had been having an affair with him. As punishment, he was expelled. Gavin later killed his friend, 23-year-old Anthony McBride, at McBride's apartment. Gavin was later acquitted by reason of insanity and sent to a mental hospital.^[149]
May 4, 1956	Seat Pleasant, Maryland	1	2	3	15-year-old student Billy Ray Prevatte fatally shot 32-year-old teacher Frazer Cameron and injured 25-year-old athletic coach Francis Daniel Wagner and 31-year-old teacher Robert Hicks at Maryland Park Junior High School. He left after waiting outside the principal's office for a reprimand due to failing to turn in a written physical education assignment; he returned with a rifle, shooting the three staff members.^[150] Prevatte was sentenced to 30 years in prison and was released in 1988.^[151]
May 7, 1956	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	0	2^{[n 2]}	2	Burlie Lord and James Pollard, both 17, shot each other in the basement of Overbrook High School due to a gang feud.^[152]
October 20, 1956	Manhattan Valley, New York	0	1	1	A Booker T. Washington Junior High School student was shot and wounded in the forearm by another student armed with a homemade weapon.^[153]
1957
February 16, 1957	Lolo, Montana	0	1	1	A 16-year-old boy was shooting at a target in the snow at his home. The bullet went through the snow and hit Manley Brown, a student in the schoolyard of a school a quarter mile away from where the bullet was fired.^[154]
October 2, 1957	New York City, New York	0	1	1	A 16-year-old student was shot in the leg by a 15-year-old classmate at a city high school.^[155]
1958
March 4, 1958	Park Slope, New York	0	1	1	A 16-year-old student shot the 17-year-old future major league baseball player Joe Pepitone through his stomach at the Manual Training High School.^[156]^[157]
May 1, 1958	Massapequa, New York	1	0	1	A 15-year-old Massapequa High School freshman was killed by a classmate in a washroom.^[158]
September 5, 1958	Dallas, Texas	0	1	1	A student was shot and severely injured while attending a Latin class in Booker T. Washington High School.^[159]
September 11, 1958	Dallas, Texas	0	0	1	Two students of Lincoln High School were having a shootout in the hallway until teachers restrained them.^[159]
1959
April 25, 1959	Nash County, North Carolina	0	0	0	Three teenagers vandalized North Whitakers Colored School by breaking eight windows with an automatic rifle and egg-sized rocks, causing over $300 in damage.^[160]
September 24, 1959	Melrose, New York	1	0	1	27 men and boys were arrested and an arsenal was seized in the Bronx as the police headed off a gang war resulting from the fatal shooting of a teenager at Morris High School.^[161]

Date	Location	Deaths	Injuries	Total	Description
1970
January 5, 1970	Washington, D.C.	1	1	2	15-year-old Tyrone Perry was killed at Hine Junior High School and another student was injured.^[307]
January 5, 1970	Washington, D.C.	0	1	1	A 14-year-old student shot and wounded another boy at John Philip Sousa Junior High School.^[308]
February 11, 1970	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	2^{[n 3]}	1	3	University of Pennsylvania professors 40-year-old Walter Koppelman and 45-year-old Oscar Goldman were shot by 33-year-old disgruntled graduate student Robert Cantor during a seminar. Cantor then took his own life. Koppelman died March 5 from his injuries, but Goldman recovered.^[309]
April 15, 1970	Pine Bluff, Arkansas	1	5	6	There was a shooting at Coleman High School resulting in five injuries and one death.^[310]
April 23, 1970	Wilmington, Delaware	1	0	1	A PS duPont High School, 17-year-old football player Derek A. Johnson, was shot and killed by teammate 16-year-old Carlton E. Thornton, who had confronted him to stop the bullying against his siblings. Thornton pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 10 years in prison but was released on probation after serving seven years.^[311]
September 24, 1970	Meridian, Idaho	1	0	1	15-year-old Charles Clegg was accidentally shot and killed in the parking lot at Meridian High School while he and friends examined a pistol.^[312]^[313]
September 28, 1970	Davenport, Iowa	0	0	0	A student fired a shot in the school bathroom at Central High School.^[314]
October 5, 1970	Pontiac, Michigan	0	4	4	Outside of Pontiac Central High School four students were wounded after a fight broke out among many students and one of the students drew a pistol and fired, no perpetrators had been identified.^[315]^[316]^[317]
October 19, 1970	Memphis, Tennessee	0	1	1	A 17-year-old shot and wounded a non-student at Booker T. Washington High School.^[318]
October 20, 1970	Nashville, Tennessee	0	1	1	A 13-year-old was charged after a 15-year-old student was shot in the leg at Washington Junior High School.^[318]
November 20, 1970	Chicago, Illinois	0	2	2	Two students were shot while standing in a second-floor hallway of Harlan High School. Fifteen-year-old Kenneth House was shot in the lower left abdomen and left in serious condition. 14-year-old Portia Walls suffered a superficial wound on her lower back. The incident was thought to have involved gang recruiting in the school.^[319]
1971
February 2, 1971	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	1	0	1	56-year-old teacher Samson L. Freedman was killed by 14-year-old student Kevin Simmons as he left Morris E. Leeds School. Freedman had suspended Simmons earlier in the day for cursing in the hallway.^[320]
May 27, 1971	Benton Harbor, Michigan	0	1	1	At Benton Harbor High School, A 16-year-old male student was shot and injured due to a feud between students.^[321]^[322]^[323]
September 29, 1971	Petersburg, Virginia	1	2	3	14-year-old Edward Bell opened fire in a classroom at Peabody High School, killing another 14-year-old and wounding two other students. He was disarmed by a teacher and arrested.^[324]
November 3, 1971	Carlsbad, New Mexico	1^{[n 3]}	1	2	A mentally ill Vietnam War veteran and former Carlsbad Mid-High School student climbed into a tower on campus and shot into the street and at responding police, slightly wounding one deputy, then committed suicide.^[325]^[326]
November 11, 1971	Spokane, Washington	2^{[n 3]}	4	6	21-year-old former MIT student Larry J. Harmon, armed with a rifle, killed 68-year-old caretaker Hilary Kunzon, who came upon him wrecking St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Church, then fled onto the campus of Gonzaga University, where he wounded four more people before he was shot and killed by police. Harmon was described by his father as a religious fanatic claiming to have visions.^[327]
1972
January 24, 1972	Stow, Ohio	0	1	1	A 16-year-old student at Stow High School shot and wounded his chemistry teacher during an argument.^[328]
March 13, 1972	Tulare, California	0	1	1	At Tulare Western High School, student Albert Greenwood Brown brought a gun to school which he accidentally fired and grazed another student in the head.^[329]^[330]^[331]
May 4, 1972	Reno, Nevada	1	0	1	33-year-old Libby Booth Elementary school principal Virgil Ouren was shot three times with a 22-caliber pistol which killed him instantly. The shooter, sixth grade teacher 53-year-old Samuel Grinstead Knipmeyer fled to Mexico, then moved to California and finally to Bend, Oregon where he was arrested on October 26, 1977.^[332]^[333]
May 5, 1972	Indianapolis, Indiana	1	0	1	At Decatur Central High School sophomore student George Jenkins was shot to death in his classroom by his sister Mickey who was a senior student.^[334]^[335]^[336]
July 25, 1972	Manhattan, New York	0	1	1	Dean Henry S. Coleman, the dean of students for Columbia College, was shot three times by 20-year-old Eldridge McKinney at his office in Hamilton Hall. McKinney had been expelled and had gotten into an argument with Coleman, demanding to be reinstated before pulling out a pistol.^[337]
September 15, 1972	Saginaw, Michigan	0	2	2	At Saginaw High School, A 17-year-old male student shot two other 17-year-old male students at in the school hallway due to a longstanding argument between two of the students, the third student was an innocent bystander.^[338]^[339]^[340]
November 16, 1972	Baton Rouge, Louisiana	2	0	2	At Southern University during a peaceful protest, two African American students were shot and killed by white sheriffs deputies. The deputies who fired the shots were never identified.^[341]^[342]^[343]^[344]
November 27, 1972	Pontiac, Michigan	0	5	5	At Pontiac Central High School five students were wounded, one seriously when a crowd of students gathered around a 16-year-old white student who was being kicked and beaten up by black students when 16-year-old Roderick Bortón, another student pushed through the crowd and opened fire with a 22-caliber pistol, the fight and shooting were believed to be racially motivated.^[315]^[345]
1973
February 26, 1973	Richmond, Virginia	1	0	1	17-year-old Wayne Phillips was killed when he was caught between two youths who were fighting in the hallway of Armstrong High School.^[346]
October 19, 1973	St. Louis, Missouri	1	0	1	17-year old William Wiggins was accidentally shot and killed outside of the cafeteria of Beaumont High School.^[347]^[348]^[349]
November 6, 1973	Oakland, California	1	1	2	School superintendent Marcus Foster was killed and his assistant Robert Blackburn was wounded when members of the Symbionese Liberation Army opened fire on them as they exited a school board meeting. Two members of the SLA were later arrested and convicted of the crime. Both were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The SLA had reportedly believed that Foster supported a measure to install police on school grounds and make students carry identification cards. In reality, Foster opposed both measures.^[350]
1974
January 17, 1974	Chicago, Illinois	1	3	4	52-year-old elementary school principal Rudolph Jezek Jr. was killed in his office by 14-year-old Steven Guy, a former student. Assistant principal Gordon Sharp and janitor Ezekiel Thomas were injured by gunshot wounds while 29-year-old 8th grade teacher Peter Smith was injured while escaping due to falling down a flight of stairs. Guy said to be angry about being transferred to a social adjustment center.^[351]
January 30, 1974	New Orleans, Louisiana	1^{[n 3]}	0	1	A 23-year-old Louisiana State University in New Orleans student fired shots inside a school library and took three hostages. After releasing them, he shot and killed himself.^[352]
March 22, 1974	Brownstown, Indiana	1	0	1	48-year-old James T. Blevins, athletic director at Brownstown Central High School, was fatally shot in the school parking lot by David L Fleetwood, a 17-year-old student waiting for him. He gave the police no motive.^[353] Fleetwood was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to 2 to 21 years in prison.^[354]
October 4, 1974	Kent, Ohio	0	1	1	19-year-old McKeesport, Pennsylvania student Ray D. Gilmore was wounded in a scuffle with two men in his third-floor campus dormitory room at Kent State University. 26-year-old Benjamin F. Goodman and 22-year-old Carl Bell, who were not students, had their .32-caliber pistols taken and were wrestled to the floor by other students.^[355]
December 30, 1974	Olean, New York	3 (including a pregnant woman)	11	14	1974 Olean High School shooting: During a two-and-a-half-hour siege, 17-year-old honor student Anthony Barbaro, the best marksman on his rifle team, killed three adults, one pregnant, in and around his high school and wounded 11 others.^[356]^[357] He shot from the windows at the street and neighborhood. The school was closed for the Christmas holiday.^[358] Barbaro committed suicide in prison before he could stand trial.
1975
February 18, 1975	Poughkeepsie, New York	1	0	1	Marist College freshman Shelley Sperling was shot and killed in the dining hall by her ex-boyfriend, Louis Acevedo.^[359]
February 24, 1975	Penns Grove, New Jersey	1	1	2	24-year-old David Gary killed the 33-year-old Reverend Thomas Quinlan inside a classroom at St. James School. Quinlan was the school's principal. A teacher was also wounded.^[360] Gary was sentenced to life in prison for the crime.^[361]
March 18, 1975	St. Louis, Missouri	1	0	1	16-year-old Stephen Goods, a bystander, was killed during a fight between other teens. Three youths were convicted for the homicide.^[357]
September 11, 1975	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma	1	5	6	Student James Briggs killed fellow student Randy Truitt at Grant High School, wounding several others.^[362] Briggs was convicted of first-degree manslaughter by an Oklahoma County juvenile court jury the following year. A judge ordered Briggs committed to an unidentified, nonprofit institution in another state until he turned 18.^[363]
1976
February 12, 1976	Detroit, Michigan	0	5	5	Intruders entered Murray-Wright High School, shooting and wounding five students after an apparent dispute over a girlfriend of one of the intruders.^[364]
February 19, 1976	Mid-Wilshire, California	1	9^{[n 3]}	10	Computer Learning Center shooting: 18-year-old Neil Liebeskind of Chatsworth, California entered a Los Angeles computer school and opened fire on his class with a 12-gauge shotgun, killing 24-year-old Fernando E. Alcivar and wounding 6 others, in an attempt to kill another student. After Liebeskind left the classroom, he was confronted by an armed security officer, Howard Barnes, who ordered him to drop his weapon. Liebeskind shot and wounded Barnes, but Barnes and a second security guard returned fire and critically wounded Liebeskind with a shot to the neck. Liebeskind had previously been shot and wounded by a homeowner four years earlier while burglarizing a house in Woodland Hills, California.^[365] In January 1977, a jury found Liebeskind not guilty by reason of insanity and he was confined to a psychiatric hospital.^[366]^[367] The shooting disrupted a filming of the television series Jigsaw John.^[368]^[369]^[370]^[371]
July 12, 1976	Fullerton, California	7	2	9	California State University, Fullerton massacre: 37-year-old Edward Charles Allaway, a custodian at the California State University, Fullerton library, shot and killed seven people and wounded two others in the library's first-floor lobby and at the building's Instructional Media Center (IMC), located in the basement. Allaway was convicted of murder, but a judge ruled him insane and ordered him confined to a mental institution.
November 10, 1976	Detroit, Michigan	1	0	1	A man entered the Burt Elementary School campus and walked into a second-grade teachers classroom then shot and killed The teacher who happened to be the shooters estranged wife who had transferred to the school from a different school in order to get away from her husband.^[372]
December 9, 1976	St. Louis, Missouri	0	0	0	An 11-year-old Fremont School student fired multiple shots within the school before fleeing and being taken into custody.^[373]
1977
April 7, 1977	Whitharral, Texas	1	0	1	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.^[374] Lopez was convicted of murder and subsequently sentenced to life in prison.^[375]
May 30, 1977	Hayward, California	2	0	2	An officer with the California State University, Hayward Police Department got into an argument with a sergeant and a patrolman following a call at a campus field station. The argument escalated, and the officer shot both men, killing them.^[376]
November 19, 1977	Washington, DC	0	2	2	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.^[377]
December 2, 1977	Coral Gables, Florida	1^{[n 3]}	2	3	22-year-old University of Miami student Jeffery Sacks shot and wounded two men at his campus apartment, then went to his ex-girlfriend's residence and fatally shot himself.^[378]^[379]
1978
January 11, 1978	Hopkinsville, Kentucky	0	1	1	13-year-old student Andre Davis was wounded while watching a fight between two students in the front lobby of Christian County Middle School, one of whom had a gun. A 16-year-old was charged with the assault.^[380]
February 9, 1978	St. Albans, West Virginia	1	0	1	14-year-old Hayes Junior High School student Stuart Wayne Perrock killed 14-year-old schoolmate Arthur Clinton Smith. He subsequently fled the school, sparking a search that lasted several hours before he was arrested and he was tried as a juvenile.^[381]^[382]
February 22, 1978	Lansing, Michigan	1	1	2	After being taunted for his beliefs, 15-year-old Roger Needham, a self-proclaimed neo-Nazi, killed one student and wounded a second with a pistol at Everett High School. He was tried as a juvenile for the crime.^[357]^[383]^[384]
April 4, 1978	Dearborn, Michigan	0	1	1	At Fordson High School an 18-year-old student was shot in the head in a locker room by a 16-year-old student with a handgun.^[385]
April 26, 1978	South Dallas, Texas	1	0	1	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.^[386]
May 18, 1978	Northwest Hills, Texas	1	0	1	13-year-old John Daniel Christian, son of Lyndon B. Johnson's former press secretary George Christian, killed his English teacher, 29-year-old Wilbur Grayson, with his father's rifle in front of approximately 30 classmates at Murchison Junior High School.^[356]^[357] Christian was arrested and charged but not prosecuted; he was committed to a mental hospital where he was treated for a period and released.^[387]
October 17, 1978	University City, Missouri	0	4	4	18-year-old Larry Ward and two companions were escorted from the halls of University City High School following a fight with 18-year-old student Carl Triplett. Ward ran back into the building with a gun and fired shots into a group, critically injuring Triplett in the chest and hip and wounding 17-year-old Angela Darden and 16-year-old Jennifer Pride. Ward sustained a head injury as he was tackled by assistant principal, Franklin McCallie. His companions grabbed the gun and fled.^[388]
October 17, 1978	Lanett, Alabama	0	1	1	13-year-old Robin Robinson was paddled by Lanett Junior High School principal Lewis Hoggs after having a disagreement with another student. Robinson left the school and returned with a .22-caliber handgun and shot Hoggs, grazing the top of his head.^[356]^[389]^[390] Robinson was arrested two hours later about two blocks from the school and was later charged in juvenile court.^[387]^[391]^[392]
1979
January 29, 1979	San Carlos, San Diego, California	2	9	11	Cleveland Elementary School shooting: 16-year-old Brenda Spencer opened fire on Grover Cleveland Elementary School from her home across the street, killing two adults and wounding nine people. Spencer was sentenced to 25 years to life and remains in prison.^[357]^[393]^[394]^[395]^[396]^[397]
April 16, 1979	Milwaukee, Wisconsin	0	1	1	17-year-old Timothy Stahle was critically wounded in the leg and upper thigh with shot gun pellets as he threw rocks at the windows of Wisconsin Lutheran High School. 28-year-old school janitor Kenneth B. Stein was arrested.^[398]
September 28, 1979	Charlestown, Massachusetts	0	1	1	15-year-old sophomore Darryl Williams was shot in the neck by a sniper during the halftime interval while standing with teammates and coach in the end zone of the Charlestown High School football field. The player for the predominantly black Jamaica Plain High School team was left paralyzed. A racial motivation was determined by Mayor Kevin White.^[399] 17-year-old white youths Joseph Nardone and Stephen McGonagle were charged with the shooting and received 10-year sentences.^[400]
October 3, 1979	Columbia, South Carolina	2	5	7	A University of South Carolina student opened fire during a party at a fraternity house, killing two and injuring five.^[401]

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