List of school shootings in the United States (2000–present)
Updated: 5/20/2026, 8:06:29 PM Wikipedia source
This chronological list of school shootings in the United States since the year 2000 includes school shootings in the United States that occurred at K–12 public and private schools, as well as at colleges and universities, and on school buses. Included in shootings are non-fatal accidental shootings. Excluded from this list are:
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. Shootings by school staff, where the only victims are other employees that are covered at workplace killings.
Tables
· Number of US school shootings by year with casualties
2000
2000
Year
2000
Total number of shootings
20
Total number dead
(including the shooters)
6
Total number wounded
(including the shooters)
3
Total mass murders
(4 or more deaths, not including the shooters)
0
2001
2001
Year
2001
Total number of shootings
6
Total number dead
(including the shooters)
5
Total number wounded
(including the shooters)
17
Total mass murders
(4 or more deaths, not including the shooters)
0
2002
2002
Year
2002
Total number of shootings
6
Total number dead
(including the shooters)
8
Total number wounded
(including the shooters)
7
Total mass murders
(4 or more deaths, not including the shooters)
0
2003
2003
Year
2003
Total number of shootings
5
Total number dead
(including the shooters)
6
Total number wounded
(including the shooters)
7
Total mass murders
(4 or more deaths, not including the shooters)
0
2004
2004
Year
2004
Total number of shootings
21
Total number dead
(including the shooters)
1
Total number wounded
(including the shooters)
6
Total mass murders
(4 or more deaths, not including the shooters)
0
2005
2005
Year
2005
Total number of shootings
11
Total number dead
(including the shooters)
13
Total number wounded
(including the shooters)
16
Total mass murders
(4 or more deaths, not including the shooters)
1
2006
2006
Year
2006
Total number of shootings
13
Total number dead
(including the shooters)
10
Total number wounded
(including the shooters)
15
Total mass murders
(4 or more deaths, not including the shooters)
1
2007
2007
Year
2007
Total number of shootings
10
Total number dead
(including the shooters)
41
Total number wounded
(including the shooters)
35
Total mass murders
(4 or more deaths, not including the shooters)
1
2008
2008
Year
2008
Total number of shootings
15
Total number dead
(including the shooters)
17
Total number wounded
(including the shooters)
30
Total mass murders
(4 or more deaths, not including the shooters)
1
2009
2009
Year
2009
Total number of shootings
10
Total number dead
(including the shooters)
4
Total number wounded
(including the shooters)
20
Total mass murders
(4 or more deaths, not including the shooters)
0
2010
2010
Year
2010
Total number of shootings
14
Total number dead
(including the shooters)
7
Total number wounded
(including the shooters)
12
Total mass murders
(4 or more deaths, not including the shooters)
0
2011
2011
Year
2011
Total number of shootings
12
Total number dead
(including the shooters)
10
Total number wounded
(including the shooters)
17
Total mass murders
(4 or more deaths, not including the shooters)
0
2012
2012
Year
2012
Total number of shootings
12
Total number dead
(including the shooters)
41
Total number wounded
(including the shooters)
17
Total mass murders
(4 or more deaths, not including the shooters)
2
2013
2013
Year
2013
Total number of shootings
26
Total number dead
(including the shooters)
19
Total number wounded
(including the shooters)
37
Total mass murders
(4 or more deaths, not including the shooters)
1
2014
2014
Year
2014
Total number of shootings
35
Total number dead
(including the shooters)
15
Total number wounded
(including the shooters)
39
Total mass murders
(4 or more deaths, not including the shooters)
1
2015
2015
Year
2015
Total number of shootings
22
Total number dead
(including the shooters)
23
Total number wounded
(including the shooters)
41
Total mass murders
(4 or more deaths, not including the shooters)
1
2016
2016
Year
2016
Total number of shootings
20
Total number dead
(including the shooters)
10
Total number wounded
(including the shooters)
28
Total mass murders
(4 or more deaths, not including the shooters)
0
2017
2017
Year
2017
Total number of shootings
18
Total number dead
(including the shooters)
19
Total number wounded
(including the shooters)
32
Total mass murders
(4 or more deaths, not including the shooters)
1
2018
2018
Year
2018
Total number of shootings
43
Total number dead
(including the shooters)
43
Total number wounded
(including the shooters)
82
Total mass murders
(4 or more deaths, not including the shooters)
2
2019
2019
Year
2019
Total number of shootings
61
Total number dead
(including the shooters)
20
Total number wounded
(including the shooters)
80
Total mass murders
(4 or more deaths, not including the shooters)
0
2020
2020
Year
2020
Total number of shootings
21
Total number dead
(including the shooters)
10
Total number wounded
(including the shooters)
13
Total mass murders
(4 or more deaths, not including the shooters)
0
2021
2021
Year
2021
Total number of shootings
36
Total number dead
(including the shooters)
18
Total number wounded
(including the shooters)
62
Total mass murders
(4 or more deaths, not including the shooters)
1
2022
2022
Year
2022
Total number of shootings
53
Total number dead
(including the shooters)
49
Total number wounded
(including the shooters)
97
Total mass murders
(4 or more deaths, not including the shooters)
1
2023
2023
Year
2023
Total number of shootings
60
Total number dead
(including the shooters)
39
Total number wounded
(including the shooters)
61
Total mass murders
(4 or more deaths, not including the shooters)
1
2024
2024
Year
2024
Total number of shootings
56
Total number dead
(including the shooters)
28
Total number wounded
(including the shooters)
70
Total mass murders
(4 or more deaths, not including the shooters)
1
2025
2025
Year
2025
Total number of shootings
68
Total number dead
(including the shooters)
36
Total number wounded
(including the shooters)
109
Total mass murders
(4 or more deaths, not including the shooters)
0
2026
2026
Year
2026
Total
Total
Year
Total
Total number of shootings
642
Total number dead
(including the shooters)
498
Total number wounded
(including the shooters)
953
Total mass murders
(4 or more deaths, not including the shooters)
16
| Year | Total number of shootings | Total number dead (including the shooters) | Total number wounded (including the shooters) | Total mass murders (4 or more deaths, not including the shooters) |
| 2000 | 20 | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| 2001 | 6 | 5 | 17 | 0 |
| 2002 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 0 |
| 2003 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 0 |
| 2004 | 21 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 2005 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 1 |
| 2006 | 13 | 10 | 15 | 1 |
| 2007 | 10 | 41 | 35 | 1 |
| 2008 | 15 | 17 | 30 | 1 |
| 2009 | 10 | 4 | 20 | 0 |
| 2010 | 14 | 7 | 12 | 0 |
| 2011 | 12 | 10 | 17 | 0 |
| 2012 | 12 | 41 | 17 | 2 |
| 2013 | 26 | 19 | 37 | 1 |
| 2014 | 35 | 15 | 39 | 1 |
| 2015 | 22 | 23 | 41 | 1 |
| 2016 | 20 | 10 | 28 | 0 |
| 2017 | 18 | 19 | 32 | 1 |
| 2018 | 43 | 43 | 82 | 2 |
| 2019 | 61 | 20 | 80 | 0 |
| 2020 | 21 | 10 | 13 | 0 |
| 2021 | 36 | 18 | 62 | 1 |
| 2022 | 53 | 49 | 97 | 1 |
| 2023 | 60 | 39 | 61 | 1 |
| 2024 | 56 | 28 | 70 | 1 |
| 2025 | 68 | 36 | 109 | 0 |
| 2026 | ||||
| Total | 642 | 498 | 953 | 16 |
· 2000s
2000
2000
Date
2000
January 10, 2000
January 10, 2000
Date
January 10, 2000
Location
Flint, Michigan
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
During a fight between students, the shooter fired two shots that missed his target.
January 13, 2000
January 13, 2000
Date
January 13, 2000
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Total
0
Description
A fight in the Albuquerque High School parking lot resulted in shots being fired.
January 20, 2000
January 20, 2000
Date
January 20, 2000
Location
Asheville, North Carolina
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Total
0
Description
During a basketball game at Erwin High School, a bullet from a high-powered rifle hit the wall. Four teenagers were arrested for the shooting, and the shooter was also charged with conspiracy and making bomb threats.
January 26, 2000
January 26, 2000
Date
January 26, 2000
Location
Merced, California
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
At Alicia Reyes Elementary School, an ongoing dispute escalated into gunfire.
January 26, 2000
January 26, 2000
Date
January 26, 2000
Location
Omaha, Nebraska
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
During a fight between two students, one student fired a gun at the other student, but missed and hit another uninvolved student.
February 10, 2000
February 10, 2000
Date
February 10, 2000
Location
Yeadon, Pennsylvania
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Total
0
Description
A gun was fired during a fight, and missed; the shooter also pointed the gun at the principal, and it misfired.
February 14, 2000
February 14, 2000
Date
February 14, 2000
Location
Chicago, Illinois
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
At Duke Ellington Elementary School, a gun accidentally discharged in the bathroom, and the bullet went through the wall and hit a student in a classroom.
February 29, 2000
February 29, 2000
Date
February 29, 2000
Location
Flint, Michigan
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
Killing of Kayla Rolland: At Buell Elementary School, a 6-year-old boy fatally shot 6-year-old girl classmate Kayla Rolland. To date, the boy is the youngest documented fatal school shooter.
April 6, 2000
April 6, 2000
Date
April 6, 2000
Location
Hugo, Oklahoma
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
At Hugo High School, a fight between two mothers during a track meet resulted in a shooting that injured a third woman.
April 10, 2000
April 10, 2000
Date
April 10, 2000
Location
Tucson, Arizona
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
At La Cima Middle School, a teacher shot herself and blamed the shooting on a student who did not exist.
May 10, 2000
May 10, 2000
Date
May 10, 2000
Location
Sierra Vista, Arizona
Deaths
2
Injuries
0
Total
2
Description
A man killed his estranged wife in a preschool classroom at Carmichael Elementary School, then killed himself.
May 26, 2000
May 26, 2000
Date
May 26, 2000
Location
Lake Worth, Florida
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
13-year-old honor student Nathaniel Brazill was sent home for throwing water balloons, but returned to his Lake Worth Middle School with a family pistol. He fatally shot teacher Barry Grunow, who was popular at the school.
July 17, 2000
July 17, 2000
Date
July 17, 2000
Location
Renton, Washington
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Total
0
Description
A student jumped on a cafeteria table, fired one shot into the ceiling, then ordered students to go to the stage, but they fled. Then the shooter fled.
August 28, 2000
August 28, 2000
Date
August 28, 2000
Location
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Deaths
2
Injuries
0
Total
2
Description
2000 University of Arkansas shooting: 36-year-old James Easton Kelly, a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at University of Arkansas, killed 67-year-old John R. Locke, the English professor overseeing his coursework. Kelly had been dismissed from this PhD program for lack of progress toward his degree. Kelly shot Locke three times before commi
September 5, 2000
September 5, 2000
Date
September 5, 2000
Location
Bidwell, Ohio
Deaths
2
Injuries
0
Total
2
Description
At Bidwell Porter Elementary School, a cafeteria worker was murdered by her estranged husband, who then went home and killed himself.
September 18, 2000
September 18, 2000
Date
September 18, 2000
Location
Mount Healthy, Ohio
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Total
0
Description
A 14-year-old student fired a gun into the ceiling inside a classroom at Mount Healthy North Junior High School. After a 25-minute standoff, the shooter surrendered to a police officer.
September 26, 2000
September 26, 2000
Date
September 26, 2000
Location
New Orleans, Louisiana
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Total
2
Description
13 year-olds Darrel Johnson and Alfred Anderson were initially charged with attempted first-degree murder in the shooting of 15-year-old William Pennington. Pennington, after being shot, gained control of the gun and shot Johnson in the back. Charges were later reduced to aggravated battery. To prevent violence, Carter G. Woodson Middle School had
October 5, 2000
October 5, 2000
Date
October 5, 2000
Location
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Total
2
Description
At Minneapolis North High School, two people were shot after a homecoming dance.
December 1, 2000
December 1, 2000
Date
December 1, 2000
Location
San Diego, California
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
A 15-year-old Junipero Serra High School student who showed off a handgun on campus and threatened to shoot a classmate ended up accidentally shooting himself, causing minor injuries.
December 21, 2000
December 21, 2000
Date
December 21, 2000
Location
Miami, Florida
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
At Norland Elementary School, two teens shot and killed an armored car guard and stole money.
2001
2001
Date
2001
January 3, 2001
January 3, 2001
Date
January 3, 2001
Location
San Francisco, California
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
At Balboa High School, one 15-year-old student was shot in the hip when a student showing it off had the gun discharge somehow, wounding the other person while inside a classroom. The victim was hospitalized in fair condition and then subsequently in good condition.
February 2, 2001
February 2, 2001
Date
February 2, 2001
Location
Detroit, Michigan
Deaths
0
Injuries
3
Total
3
Description
At Osborn High School, two students and a teacher were grazed by gunfire after a student fired a gun in their classroom.
March 5, 2001
March 5, 2001
Date
March 5, 2001
Location
Santee, California
Deaths
2
Injuries
13
Total
15
Description
Santana High School shooting: 15-year-old student Charles Andrew Williams killed two students, 14-year-old Bryan Zuckor and 17-year-old Randy Gordon, at Santana High School. In total, he wounded thirteen others. Williams was arrested and convicted of murder and attempted murder. He was sentenced to life with the chance of parole after serving 50 ye
March 7, 2001
March 7, 2001
Date
March 7, 2001
Location
Williamsport, Pennsylvania
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
14-year-old student Elizabeth Catherine Bush wounded fellow student Kimberly Marchese in the cafeteria of Bishop Neumann High School. Bush was released in 2004.
March 22, 2001
March 22, 2001
Date
March 22, 2001
Location
El Cajon, California
Deaths
0
Injuries
6
Total
6
Description
18-year-old former student Jason Hoffman opened fire at Granite Hills High School, injuring five people before being shot and wounded by a police officer. He was convicted of assault and sentenced to prison, where he committed suicide in October 2001.
March 30, 2001
March 30, 2001
Date
March 30, 2001
Location
Gary, Indiana
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
17-year-old Donald Ray Burt Jr. fatally shot Neal Boyd IV with one bullet to the head in a parking lot outside Lew Wallace High School. Burt was sentenced to 57 years in prison.
May 16, 2001
May 16, 2001
Date
May 16, 2001
Location
Parkland, Washington
Deaths
2
Injuries
0
Total
2
Description
40-year-old music instructor and organist James D. Holloway was shot multiple times with a handgun at Pacific Lutheran University by a 55-year-old man from Tacoma. The shooter was not a student or employee of the university, and he also killed himself. The victim was apparently chosen at random, as the shooter had a personal dispute wit
2002
2002
Date
2002
January 15, 2002
January 15, 2002
Date
January 15, 2002
Location
New York City, New York
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Total
2
Description
17-year-old Vincent Rodriguez wounded two students at Martin Luther King, Jr. High School in Manhattan with a semi-automatic pistol. He retaliated against the people who had harassed his girlfriend. In February 2003, Rodriguez was sentenced to ten years in prison on charges of assault and attempted assault.
January 16, 2002
January 16, 2002
Date
January 16, 2002
Location
Grundy, Virginia
Deaths
3
Injuries
3
Total
6
Description
Appalachian School of Law shooting: Recently dismissed graduate student 42-year-old Peter Odighizuwa killed three people at the Appalachian School of Law: 42-year-old dean Anthony Sutin, 41-year-old professor Thomas Blackwell, and 33-year-old student Angela Dales. Three other students were also wounded. In 2005 Odighizuwa received three life senten
February 20, 2002
February 20, 2002
Date
February 20, 2002
Location
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
16-year-old Washington High School student, Joseph Johnson Jr., was killed by then 22 years old Phillip D. Jackson Jr., when violence erupted between rival supporters in the parking lot, after a basketball game against Vincent High School.
October 7, 2002
October 7, 2002
Date
October 7, 2002
Location
Bowie, Maryland
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
In the Beltway sniper attacks, one victim of several was 13-year-old Iran Brown, who was wounded as he arrived at Benjamin Tasker Middle School in Bowie, Maryland. His aunt, a nurse who had just dropped him off, rushed him to a hospital emergency room. Despite serious injuries, Brown survived the attack. The shooters, Lee Boyd Malvo and John Allen
October 28, 2002
October 28, 2002
Date
October 28, 2002
Location
Tucson, Arizona
Deaths
4
Injuries
0
Total
4
Description
2002 University of Arizona shooting: Failing nursing college student and Gulf War veteran, 40-year-old Robert Stewart Flores Jr., killed three assistant professors of nursing at the University of Arizona; this included 50-year-old Robin Rogers, 44-year-old Cheryl McGaffic, and 45-year-old Barbara Monroe. Flores finished by turning the gun on himsel
October 29, 2002
October 29, 2002
Date
October 29, 2002
Location
Jersey City, New Jersey
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
A 15-year-old student was shot in the abdomen and wounded inside the basement of Lincoln High School during an argument with another student. Another 15-year-old student was arrested and charged with attempted murder.
December 13, 2002
December 13, 2002
Date
December 13, 2002
Location
Carson, Washington
Deaths
1
Injuries
2
Total
3
Description
13-year-old Wind River Middle School student Tony Fiske fired a rifle round into a classroom, wounding two students with broken glass. Fiske was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a forest across from the school the following day.
2003
2003
Date
2003
April 2, 2003
April 2, 2003
Date
April 2, 2003
Location
Washington, D .
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
A 10th-grader was shot in the leg near Cardozo High School in Columbia Heights, resulting in a three-hour lockdown at six D . public schools to allow for police to search for possible gunmen.
April 14, 2003
April 14, 2003
Date
April 14, 2003
Location
New Orleans, Louisiana
Deaths
1
Injuries
3
Total
4
Description
John McDonogh High School shooting. 18-year-old Steven Williams, and 17-year-old James Tate, opened fire with an AK-47 and a handgun in the gymnasium of John McDonogh High School, killing a 15-year-old student and wounding three female students. Williams was sentenced to life imprisonment, and Tate to 15 years.
April 24, 2003
April 24, 2003
Date
April 24, 2003
Location
Red Lion, Pennsylvania
Deaths
2
Injuries
0
Total
2
Description
14-year-old student James Sheets entered Red Lion Area Junior High School armed with his stepfather's pistols. He killed the school's principal, Eugene Segro, before killing himself.
May 9, 2003
May 9, 2003
Date
May 9, 2003
Location
Cleveland, Ohio
Deaths
1
Injuries
3
Total
4
Description
2003 Case Western Reserve University shooting: On May 9, 2003, Biswanath Halder, a 62-year-old business school alumnus of Case Western Reserve University, killed a graduate student, wounded a professor, and wounded another student using a semi-automatic rifle. He held the building and its nearly 100 occupants hostage for seven hours. He exchanged f
September 24, 2003
September 24, 2003
Date
September 24, 2003
Location
Cold Spring, Minnesota
Deaths
2
Injuries
0
Total
2
Description
2003 Rocori High School shooting: 15-year-old John Jason McLaughlin shot 15-year-old freshman Seth Bartell and 17-year-old senior Aaron Rollins at Rocori High School. Rollins was killed immediately, and Bartell died from his wounds 16 days later. McLaughlin was sentenced to life in prison with the chance of parole in 2038.
2004
2004
Date
2004
January 15, 2004
January 15, 2004
Date
January 15, 2004
Location
Pomona, California
Deaths
1
Injuries
1
Total
2
Description
At Pomona High School, a female student was accidentally shot with a pistol.
February 2, 2004
February 2, 2004
Date
February 2, 2004
Location
Washington, D .
Deaths
1
Injuries
1
Total
2
Description
Thomas J. Boykin was acquitted of the murder of 17-year-old James Richardson, a football player at Ballou High School in Southeast Washington, though the jury hung on lesser charges. An 18-year-old student was also grazed in the leg by a bullet. Boykin later pled guilty to manslaughter.
February 3, 2004
February 3, 2004
Date
February 3, 2004
Location
Houston, Texas
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
At Youens Elementary School, a student accidentally shot himself after showing off a gun to classmates.
February 9, 2004
February 9, 2004
Date
February 9, 2004
Location
East Greenbush, New York
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
16-year-old Jon W. Romano, in East Greenbush, New York, fired two rounds from a shotgun before wounding a teacher with a third at Columbia High School. He was tackled by the assistant principal and charged with one count of attempted murder. Since the shooting, Romano was released in 2020, was severely injured in a sword attack in 2022, and has gai
February 11, 2004
February 11, 2004
Date
February 11, 2004
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Deaths
1
Injuries
1
Total
2
Description
A 10-year-old boy was killed, and a security guard was injured at T M Peirce Elementary School during a shootout between drug deals.
February 13, 2004
February 13, 2004
Date
February 13, 2004
Location
Dayton, Ohio
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Total
2
Description
Two people were injured in a gang-related drive-by shooting at Saledad Enrichment Action Charter High School.
March 5, 2004
March 5, 2004
Date
March 5, 2004
Location
Los Angeles, California
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
At Colonel White High School, a student was shot during a carjacking.
May 4, 2004
May 4, 2004
Date
May 4, 2004
Location
Houston, Texas
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Total
0
Description
At Kashmere High School, multiple shots were fired.
May 7, 2004
May 7, 2004
Date
May 7, 2004
Location
Randallstown, Maryland
Deaths
0
Injuries
4
Total
4
Description
Two students were charged with a school shooting that arose from a dispute after a basketball game at Randallstown High School. Four people were injured, two seriously. One student was paralyzed from the waist down.
May 12, 2004
May 12, 2004
Date
May 12, 2004
Location
Merced, California
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Total
2
Description
At the East Campus Educational Center, a 19-year-old man and a 17-year-old girl were injured in a gang related shooting
May 24, 2004
May 24, 2004
Date
May 24, 2004
Location
Salt Lake City, Utah
Deaths
1
Injuries
1
Total
2
Description
At West High School, a man shot and killed his estranged wife, who was a cafeteria worker.
May 24, 2004
May 24, 2004
Date
May 24, 2004
Location
Biggs, California
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
At Biggs High School, a teen was shot near the halftime show of a homecoming football game.
June 9, 2004
June 9, 2004
Date
June 9, 2004
Location
Oakland, California
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Total
2
Description
At Castlemont High School, two students were shot in a gang-related drive-by shooting.
October 2, 2004
October 2, 2004
Date
October 2, 2004
Location
Grand Island, Nebraska
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
A man shot another man at Jefferson Elementary School.
October 12, 2004
October 12, 2004
Date
October 12, 2004
Location
Sunnyvale, California
Deaths
2
Injuries
0
Total
2
Description
At Lakewood Elementary School, two men fatally shot each other in a dispute over a woman.
October 21, 2004
October 21, 2004
Date
October 21, 2004
Location
Baltimore, Maryland
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Total
2
Description
Two brothers were shot at Thurgood Marshall High School when other students were fighting over a girl.
October 22, 2004
October 22, 2004
Date
October 22, 2004
Location
Hayward, California
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
A man was killed in the parking lot of Tyrrell Elementary School.
November 15, 2004
November 15, 2004
Date
November 15, 2004
Location
Gary, Indiana
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
At Brunswisk Elementary School, two men got into an argument, which escalated into gunfire, which injured a mother caught in the crossfire.
November 16, 2004
November 16, 2004
Date
November 16, 2004
Location
Beafort, South Carolina
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
At Battery Creek High School, a student was shot during a basketball game.
November 17, 2004
November 17, 2004
Date
November 17, 2004
Location
Apopka, Florida
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
A 14-year-old student fired a shot in the bathroom of Apopka Memorial Middle School.
December 31, 2004
December 31, 2004
Date
December 31, 2004
Location
Richmond, Texas
Deaths
1
Injuries
1
Total
2
Description
At Richmond State School, a food service employee was paralyzed after being shot by a co-worker who later committed suicide.
2005
2005
Date
2005
February 8, 2005
February 8, 2005
Date
February 8, 2005
Location
Chicago, Illinois
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
An 18-year-old student at Bowen High School was shot in the leg as she left the school around 2:30 p .
March 2, 2005
March 2, 2005
Date
March 2, 2005
Location
Dover, Tennessee
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
14-year-old Jason Clinard killed his bus driver, 47-year-old Joyce Gregory, as she stopped to pick him up. Gregory had earlier reported Clinard for using snuff on the school bus. Clinard was given a life sentence. but he appealed his conviction; in October 2023, the court ruled he had poor legal representation at trial and likely never should have
March 17, 2005
March 17, 2005
Date
March 17, 2005
Location
Los Angeles, California
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
A girl was fatally shot outside Locke High School.
March 21, 2005
March 21, 2005
Date
March 21, 2005
Location
Red Lake, Minnesota
Deaths
10
Injuries
7
Total
17
Description
Red Lake shootings: 16-year-old student Jeff Weise killed his grandfather and his grandfather's companion at their home, where he had been living, at the Red Lake Indian Reservation. He then drove to Red Lake Senior High School. Armed with his grandfather's police weapons, Weise killed five students, one teacher, and one security guard, wounding se
April 7, 2005
April 7, 2005
Date
April 7, 2005
Location
Canton, Texas
Deaths
1
Injuries
7
Total
1
Description
A father of a student at Canton High School went to the school and shot the coach for cutting his son from all sports. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his crimes.
April 27, 2005
April 27, 2005
Date
April 27, 2005
Location
Reserve, Louisiana
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Total
0
Description
A student at Leon Godchaux Junior High School accidentally fired a gun in his pocket.
May 4, 2005
May 4, 2005
Date
May 4, 2005
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
At Booker T Washington High School a student accidently shot himself in the leg with a gun in his pocket.
July 18, 2005
July 18, 2005
Date
July 18, 2005
Location
Newark, New Jersey
Deaths
1
Injuries
2
Total
3
Description
After breaking up a fight between a group of youths at Weequahic High School, Special Officer Dwayne Reeves was shot and killed, and his partner was wounded in the hand by two men who pulled up alongside him in a car. Despite being wounded, Reeves' partner was able to return fire and hit one of the suspects in the stomach. The gunman was convicted
August 2005
August 2005
Date
August 2005
Location
Saginaw, Michigan
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Total
0
Description
At Arthur Hill High School, a drive-by shooter fired three shots from a shotgun and blew out the back window of a car in the school parking lot after school let out.
September 1, 2005
September 1, 2005
Date
September 1, 2005
Location
Anchorage, Alaska
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Total
0
Description
At Dimond High School, a shots were fired during a fight in the parking lot.
September 8, 2005
September 8, 2005
Date
September 8, 2005
Location
Richmond, California
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
A 28-year-old new parolee was found shot to death on the grounds of John F. Kennedy High School.
September 13, 2005
September 13, 2005
Date
September 13, 2005
Location
Chicago, Illinois
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
At Harlan Community Academy High School, a fight broke out between two 15-year-old boys in the gymnasium. Christopher Huff took out a pistol, shooting the other youth in the leg. A police officer on duty at the school arrested the gunman. The shooter was charged as an adult with aggravated battery with a firearm.
September 24, 2005
September 24, 2005
Date
September 24, 2005
Location
Saginaw, Michigan
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
At Saginaw High School, two students, a 15-year-old and a 14-year-old, were shot at during a drive-by shooting. They were leaving a homecoming dance.
| Date | Location | Deaths | Injuries | Total | Description |
| 2000 | |||||
| January 10, 2000 | Flint, Michigan | 1 | 0 | 1 | During a fight between students, the shooter fired two shots that missed his target. |
| January 13, 2000 | Albuquerque, New Mexico | 0 | 0 | 0 | A fight in the Albuquerque High School parking lot resulted in shots being fired. |
| January 20, 2000 | Asheville, North Carolina | 0 | 0 | 0 | During a basketball game at Erwin High School, a bullet from a high-powered rifle hit the wall. Four teenagers were arrested for the shooting, and the shooter was also charged with conspiracy and making bomb threats. |
| January 26, 2000 | Merced, California | 1 | 0 | 1 | At Alicia Reyes Elementary School, an ongoing dispute escalated into gunfire. |
| January 26, 2000 | Omaha, Nebraska | 0 | 1 | 1 | During a fight between two students, one student fired a gun at the other student, but missed and hit another uninvolved student. |
| February 10, 2000 | Yeadon, Pennsylvania | 0 | 0 | 0 | A gun was fired during a fight, and missed; the shooter also pointed the gun at the principal, and it misfired. |
| February 14, 2000 | Chicago, Illinois | 0 | 1 | 1 | At Duke Ellington Elementary School, a gun accidentally discharged in the bathroom, and the bullet went through the wall and hit a student in a classroom. |
| February 29, 2000 | Flint, Michigan | 1 | 0 | 1 | Killing of Kayla Rolland: At Buell Elementary School, a 6-year-old boy fatally shot 6-year-old girl classmate Kayla Rolland. To date, the boy is the youngest documented fatal school shooter. |
| April 6, 2000 | Hugo, Oklahoma | 0 | 1 | 1 | At Hugo High School, a fight between two mothers during a track meet resulted in a shooting that injured a third woman. |
| April 10, 2000 | Tucson, Arizona | 0 | 1 | 1 | At La Cima Middle School, a teacher shot herself and blamed the shooting on a student who did not exist. |
| May 10, 2000 | Sierra Vista, Arizona | 2 | 0 | 2 | A man killed his estranged wife in a preschool classroom at Carmichael Elementary School, then killed himself. |
| May 26, 2000 | Lake Worth, Florida | 1 | 0 | 1 | 13-year-old honor student Nathaniel Brazill was sent home for throwing water balloons, but returned to his Lake Worth Middle School with a family pistol. He fatally shot teacher Barry Grunow, who was popular at the school. |
| July 17, 2000 | Renton, Washington | 0 | 0 | 0 | A student jumped on a cafeteria table, fired one shot into the ceiling, then ordered students to go to the stage, but they fled. Then the shooter fled. |
| August 28, 2000 | Fayetteville, Arkansas | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2000 University of Arkansas shooting: 36-year-old James Easton Kelly, a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at University of Arkansas, killed 67-year-old John R. Locke, the English professor overseeing his coursework. Kelly had been dismissed from this PhD program for lack of progress toward his degree. Kelly shot Locke three times before commi |
| September 5, 2000 | Bidwell, Ohio | 2 | 0 | 2 | At Bidwell Porter Elementary School, a cafeteria worker was murdered by her estranged husband, who then went home and killed himself. |
| September 18, 2000 | Mount Healthy, Ohio | 0 | 0 | 0 | A 14-year-old student fired a gun into the ceiling inside a classroom at Mount Healthy North Junior High School. After a 25-minute standoff, the shooter surrendered to a police officer. |
| September 26, 2000 | New Orleans, Louisiana | 0 | 2 | 2 | 13 year-olds Darrel Johnson and Alfred Anderson were initially charged with attempted first-degree murder in the shooting of 15-year-old William Pennington. Pennington, after being shot, gained control of the gun and shot Johnson in the back. Charges were later reduced to aggravated battery. To prevent violence, Carter G. Woodson Middle School had |
| October 5, 2000 | Minneapolis, Minnesota | 0 | 2 | 2 | At Minneapolis North High School, two people were shot after a homecoming dance. |
| December 1, 2000 | San Diego, California | 0 | 1 | 1 | A 15-year-old Junipero Serra High School student who showed off a handgun on campus and threatened to shoot a classmate ended up accidentally shooting himself, causing minor injuries. |
| December 21, 2000 | Miami, Florida | 1 | 0 | 1 | At Norland Elementary School, two teens shot and killed an armored car guard and stole money. |
| 2001 | |||||
| January 3, 2001 | San Francisco, California | 0 | 1 | 1 | At Balboa High School, one 15-year-old student was shot in the hip when a student showing it off had the gun discharge somehow, wounding the other person while inside a classroom. The victim was hospitalized in fair condition and then subsequently in good condition. |
| February 2, 2001 | Detroit, Michigan | 0 | 3 | 3 | At Osborn High School, two students and a teacher were grazed by gunfire after a student fired a gun in their classroom. |
| March 5, 2001 | Santee, California | 2 | 13 | 15 | Santana High School shooting: 15-year-old student Charles Andrew Williams killed two students, 14-year-old Bryan Zuckor and 17-year-old Randy Gordon, at Santana High School. In total, he wounded thirteen others. Williams was arrested and convicted of murder and attempted murder. He was sentenced to life with the chance of parole after serving 50 ye |
| March 7, 2001 | Williamsport, Pennsylvania | 0 | 1 | 1 | 14-year-old student Elizabeth Catherine Bush wounded fellow student Kimberly Marchese in the cafeteria of Bishop Neumann High School. Bush was released in 2004. |
| March 22, 2001 | El Cajon, California | 0 | 6 | 6 | 18-year-old former student Jason Hoffman opened fire at Granite Hills High School, injuring five people before being shot and wounded by a police officer. He was convicted of assault and sentenced to prison, where he committed suicide in October 2001. |
| March 30, 2001 | Gary, Indiana | 1 | 0 | 1 | 17-year-old Donald Ray Burt Jr. fatally shot Neal Boyd IV with one bullet to the head in a parking lot outside Lew Wallace High School. Burt was sentenced to 57 years in prison. |
| May 16, 2001 | Parkland, Washington | 2 | 0 | 2 | 40-year-old music instructor and organist James D. Holloway was shot multiple times with a handgun at Pacific Lutheran University by a 55-year-old man from Tacoma. The shooter was not a student or employee of the university, and he also killed himself. The victim was apparently chosen at random, as the shooter had a personal dispute wit |
| 2002 | |||||
| January 15, 2002 | New York City, New York | 0 | 2 | 2 | 17-year-old Vincent Rodriguez wounded two students at Martin Luther King, Jr. High School in Manhattan with a semi-automatic pistol. He retaliated against the people who had harassed his girlfriend. In February 2003, Rodriguez was sentenced to ten years in prison on charges of assault and attempted assault. |
| January 16, 2002 | Grundy, Virginia | 3 | 3 | 6 | Appalachian School of Law shooting: Recently dismissed graduate student 42-year-old Peter Odighizuwa killed three people at the Appalachian School of Law: 42-year-old dean Anthony Sutin, 41-year-old professor Thomas Blackwell, and 33-year-old student Angela Dales. Three other students were also wounded. In 2005 Odighizuwa received three life senten |
| February 20, 2002 | Milwaukee, Wisconsin | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16-year-old Washington High School student, Joseph Johnson Jr., was killed by then 22 years old Phillip D. Jackson Jr., when violence erupted between rival supporters in the parking lot, after a basketball game against Vincent High School. |
| October 7, 2002 | Bowie, Maryland | 0 | 1 | 1 | In the Beltway sniper attacks, one victim of several was 13-year-old Iran Brown, who was wounded as he arrived at Benjamin Tasker Middle School in Bowie, Maryland. His aunt, a nurse who had just dropped him off, rushed him to a hospital emergency room. Despite serious injuries, Brown survived the attack. The shooters, Lee Boyd Malvo and John Allen |
| October 28, 2002 | Tucson, Arizona | 4 | 0 | 4 | 2002 University of Arizona shooting: Failing nursing college student and Gulf War veteran, 40-year-old Robert Stewart Flores Jr., killed three assistant professors of nursing at the University of Arizona; this included 50-year-old Robin Rogers, 44-year-old Cheryl McGaffic, and 45-year-old Barbara Monroe. Flores finished by turning the gun on himsel |
| October 29, 2002 | Jersey City, New Jersey | 0 | 1 | 1 | A 15-year-old student was shot in the abdomen and wounded inside the basement of Lincoln High School during an argument with another student. Another 15-year-old student was arrested and charged with attempted murder. |
| December 13, 2002 | Carson, Washington | 1 | 2 | 3 | 13-year-old Wind River Middle School student Tony Fiske fired a rifle round into a classroom, wounding two students with broken glass. Fiske was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a forest across from the school the following day. |
| 2003 | |||||
| April 2, 2003 | Washington, D . | 0 | 1 | 1 | A 10th-grader was shot in the leg near Cardozo High School in Columbia Heights, resulting in a three-hour lockdown at six D . public schools to allow for police to search for possible gunmen. |
| April 14, 2003 | New Orleans, Louisiana | 1 | 3 | 4 | John McDonogh High School shooting. 18-year-old Steven Williams, and 17-year-old James Tate, opened fire with an AK-47 and a handgun in the gymnasium of John McDonogh High School, killing a 15-year-old student and wounding three female students. Williams was sentenced to life imprisonment, and Tate to 15 years. |
| April 24, 2003 | Red Lion, Pennsylvania | 2 | 0 | 2 | 14-year-old student James Sheets entered Red Lion Area Junior High School armed with his stepfather's pistols. He killed the school's principal, Eugene Segro, before killing himself. |
| May 9, 2003 | Cleveland, Ohio | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2003 Case Western Reserve University shooting: On May 9, 2003, Biswanath Halder, a 62-year-old business school alumnus of Case Western Reserve University, killed a graduate student, wounded a professor, and wounded another student using a semi-automatic rifle. He held the building and its nearly 100 occupants hostage for seven hours. He exchanged f |
| September 24, 2003 | Cold Spring, Minnesota | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2003 Rocori High School shooting: 15-year-old John Jason McLaughlin shot 15-year-old freshman Seth Bartell and 17-year-old senior Aaron Rollins at Rocori High School. Rollins was killed immediately, and Bartell died from his wounds 16 days later. McLaughlin was sentenced to life in prison with the chance of parole in 2038. |
| 2004 | |||||
| January 15, 2004 | Pomona, California | 1 | 1 | 2 | At Pomona High School, a female student was accidentally shot with a pistol. |
| February 2, 2004 | Washington, D . | 1 | 1 | 2 | Thomas J. Boykin was acquitted of the murder of 17-year-old James Richardson, a football player at Ballou High School in Southeast Washington, though the jury hung on lesser charges. An 18-year-old student was also grazed in the leg by a bullet. Boykin later pled guilty to manslaughter. |
| February 3, 2004 | Houston, Texas | 0 | 1 | 1 | At Youens Elementary School, a student accidentally shot himself after showing off a gun to classmates. |
| February 9, 2004 | East Greenbush, New York | 0 | 1 | 1 | 16-year-old Jon W. Romano, in East Greenbush, New York, fired two rounds from a shotgun before wounding a teacher with a third at Columbia High School. He was tackled by the assistant principal and charged with one count of attempted murder. Since the shooting, Romano was released in 2020, was severely injured in a sword attack in 2022, and has gai |
| February 11, 2004 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | 1 | 1 | 2 | A 10-year-old boy was killed, and a security guard was injured at T M Peirce Elementary School during a shootout between drug deals. |
· 2010s
2010
2010
Date
2010
February 5, 2010
February 5, 2010
Date
February 5, 2010
Location
Madison, Alabama
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
14-year-old student, Hammad Memon, killed 14-year-old Todd Brown at Discovery Middle School as classes were changing. The shooting was possibly related to gang activity. In May 2013, Memon pleaded guilty to the murder and was sentenced to thirty years in prison. After Memon is released from prison, he is likely to be deported to his native Pakistan
February 10, 2010
February 10, 2010
Date
February 10, 2010
Location
Knoxville, Tennessee
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Total
2
Description
A fourth-grade teacher at Inskip Elementary School shot the principal and assistant principal, injuring both and paralyzing the principal below the waist. The shooting occurred hours after students had been dismissed due to snow. The shooter fled the scene but was arrested at a highway construction roadblock. He was sentenced to 56 years in prison.
February 12, 2010
February 12, 2010
Date
February 12, 2010
Location
Huntsville, Alabama
Deaths
3
Injuries
3
Total
6
Description
2010 University of Alabama in Huntsville shooting: During a biology department meeting with approximately twelve people in attendance, 44-year-old professor of biology Amy Bishop stood up and opened fire. After killing three and wounding three others, Bishop was pushed out of the meeting room by the survivors after her gun ran out of ammo. After be
February 19, 2010
February 19, 2010
Date
February 19, 2010
Location
DeKalb, Illinois
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
Less than a week after Northern Illinois University solemnly marked the second anniversary of a mass shooting on campus that claimed the lives of five students, the DeKalb school was the scene of further gun violence. 24-year-old NIU student Brian Mulder refused entry to 22-year-old Zachary R. Isaacman when Isaacman tried to follow a female residen
February 23, 2010
February 23, 2010
Date
February 23, 2010
Location
Littleton, Colorado
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Total
2
Description
At Deer Creek Middle School, 32-year-old Bruco Strong Eagle Eastwood opened fire from a rifle in a parking lot, and wounded two eighth-graders, Reagan Webber and Matt Thieu, before being restrained by 57-year-old Math teacher, David Benke, and held until his arrest. The boy's wounds were critical for the four days following the shooting. In October
February 26, 2010
February 26, 2010
Date
February 26, 2010
Location
Tacoma, Washington
Deaths
2
Injuries
0
Total
2
Description
A teacher was shot and killed by a stalker at Birney Elementary School, who was later killed by police in a shootout.
May 11, 2010
May 11, 2010
Date
May 11, 2010
Location
Bladenboro, North Carolina
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
A West Bladen High School student was shot on campus as students were leaving school for the day. Investigators said the incident started when a fight broke out between two groups of students near the high school's entrance.
September 8, 2010
September 8, 2010
Date
September 8, 2010
Location
Detroit, Michigan
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Total
2
Description
Two students were wounded in front of Mumford High School by 17-year-old Steven Jamal Hare. He was tried as an adult and charged with assault with intent to kill. In 2012, Hare was sentenced to 27 years in prison.
September 28, 2010
September 28, 2010
Date
September 28, 2010
Location
Austin, Texas
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
A 19-year-old sophomore student Colton Tooley, wielding an AK-47 and wearing a ski mask, opened fire and then killed himself in a University of Texas library
October 1, 2010
October 1, 2010
Date
October 1, 2010
Location
Salinas, California
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
15-year-old student Jose Daniel Cisneros was killed after being shot several times on an athletic field at Alisal High School while walking to school. Police said that the shooting was gang-related.
October 8, 2010
October 8, 2010
Date
October 8, 2010
Location
Carlsbad, California
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Total
2
Description
41-year-old Brendan O'Rourke climbed over a fence and opened fire with a handgun in a playground of Kelly Elementary School, which had 230 students; two second-grade female students were grazed in the arms before O'Rourke was subdued by a construction worker. He was found guilty of seven counts of attempted murder and was sentenced to 189 years to
October 23, 2010
October 23, 2010
Date
October 23, 2010
Location
Topeka, Kansas
Deaths
1
Injuries
1
Total
2
Description
Two victims went to meet the two suspects on a field just outside of Topeka West High School to purchase cannabis. However, the deal either went bad or they were ambushed, but Samantha Lindsay Hochard and Austin Tabor were both charged in the murder of 20-year-old Matthew C. Mitchell, and the attempted murder of 17-year-old Treshawn Wynee, who was
November 29, 2010
November 29, 2010
Date
November 29, 2010
Location
Marinette, Wisconsin
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
15-year-old Samuel Hengel took 23 students and a teacher hostage inside a classroom of Marinette High School for five hours. He had stormed into the class, firing with a handgun at a movie projector. Police persuaded Hengel to release the hostages. After officers entered the building, Hengel shot himself in the head. He died the next day.
December 6, 2010
December 6, 2010
Date
December 6, 2010
Location
Aurora, Colorado
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
In a gang-related attack outside Aurora Central High School, a 17-year-old girl was paralyzed. She was one of a group of students outside the school. 20-year-old Luis Enrique Guzman-Rincon had fired shots from a car trying to hit gang rivals. Guzman-Ricon was sentenced to thirty-five years in prison.
2011
2011
Date
2011
January 5, 2011
January 5, 2011
Date
January 5, 2011
Location
Omaha, Nebraska
Deaths
2
Injuries
2
Total
4
Description
At Millard South High School, 17-year-old student, Robert Butler Jr., killed assistant principal Dr. Vicki Kaspar and wounded principal Curtis Case before opening fire at police in the front office area, causing the school nurse to be wounded by gunshot debris. Butler then drove to a parking lot and shot himself as police cornered him.
March 25, 2011
March 25, 2011
Date
March 25, 2011
Location
Martinsville, Indiana
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
Michael Phelps, a 15-year-old suspended student, returned to Martinsville West Middle School with a handgun. In the entrance of the school, Phelps shot 15-year-old Chance Jackson twice in the abdomen, critically wounding him. Phelps fled the school and dropped the handgun; he was arrested shortly after. Jackson had to undergo surgery three times to
March 31, 2011
March 31, 2011
Date
March 31, 2011
Location
Houston, Texas
Deaths
1
Injuries
5
Total
6
Description
Multiple gunmen opened fire during a powder puff football game at Worthing High School. One man, an 18-year-old former student named Tremaine De Ante' Paul, died. Five other people were injured.
April 19, 2011
April 19, 2011
Date
April 19, 2011
Location
Houston, Texas
Deaths
0
Injuries
3
Total
3
Description
A 6-year-old boy took a semi-automatic pistol in his backpack to Ross Elementary. Later that morning, as he and more than 40 other kindergartners were having lunch in a crowded cafeteria, the boy accidentally fired the gun as he was showing it off to friends. The boy, as well as another 6-year-old boy and a 5-year-old girl, were injured. Houston po
May 10, 2011
May 10, 2011
Date
May 10, 2011
Location
San Jose, California
Deaths
3
Injuries
0
Total
3
Description
A man shot and killed two San Jose State University students in a campus parking garage, including his estranged wife. He then fatally shot himself.
May 23, 2011
May 23, 2011
Date
May 23, 2011
Location
Pearl City, Hawaii
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
A 14-year-old male student was accused of firing a handgun on the campus of Highlands Intermediate School, wounding one student. The gunman was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. Two other suspects were arrested in connection with the shooting.
August 19, 2011
August 19, 2011
Date
August 19, 2011
Location
Albany, Georgia
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
An Albany State University student was shot on campus.
September 28, 2011
September 28, 2011
Date
September 28, 2011
Location
Jurupa Valley, California
Deaths
2
Injuries
0
Total
2
Description
64-year-old Donaciano Aguirre fatally shot his 61-year-old wife and teacher's aide, Maria Celia Aguirre, in the parking lot of Patriot High School (California) at 10:40 am. He then committed suicide, and the school was put on lockdown. After being searched thoroughly, no other victims were found, and students were let go late in the afternoon.
October 24, 2011
October 24, 2011
Date
October 24, 2011
Location
Fayetteville, North Carolina
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
Cape Fear High School shooting: 15-year-old Catilyn Abercrombie was shot in the neck with a rifle by fellow student, 15-year-old Charles Underwood, at Cape Fear High School. She was hospitalized for two months in a serious condition. Underwood was arrested and charged with attempted murder. He was convicted of attempted first-degree murder and sent
December 8, 2011
December 8, 2011
Date
December 8, 2011
Location
Blacksburg, Virginia
Deaths
2
Injuries
0
Total
2
Description
22-year-old Ross Truett Ashley, a part-time business student at Radford University, killed a police officer engaged in an unrelated traffic stop on the campus of Virginia Tech. He then committed suicide in a nearby parking lot.
December 9, 2011
December 9, 2011
Date
December 9, 2011
Location
Edinburg, Texas
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Total
2
Description
Two students were shot after school at Harwell Middle School in Edinburg, Texas, while trying out for their school's basketball team. The shooting was allegedly done by an adult off campus, who was shooting at a target range.
December 28, 2011
December 28, 2011
Date
December 28, 2011
Location
Flint, Michigan
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
One person was shot and injured just behind Flint Northern High School as a basketball game was finishing inside.
2012
2012
Date
2012
January 10, 2012
January 10, 2012
Date
January 10, 2012
Location
Houston, Texas
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
A student opened fire with a handgun at North Forest High School, wounding another student. The shooter said that he had been confronted by three students who had been bullying him, and he shot in self-defense. He hit a 16-year-old bystander in the leg. The 18-year-old suspect was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
February 23, 2012
February 23, 2012
Date
February 23, 2012
Location
Bremerton, Washington
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
Armin Jahr Elementary School: A 9-year-old boy accidentally set off a firearm in class after slamming his backpack on a desk hitting 8-year-old Amina Kocer-Bowman in the abdomen causing her to spend 8 weeks in a hospital. The boy said he took the gun because he planned to run away from his uncle's house, where he lived, and that he planned to bring
February 27, 2012
February 27, 2012
Date
February 27, 2012
Location
Chardon, Ohio
Deaths
3
Injuries
3
Total
6
Description
2012 Chardon High School shooting: 17-year-old Thomas "T. J." Lane took a semi-automatic handgun and a knife to Chardon High School, where he fired ten shots at a group of students sitting in the cafeteria. He killed three boys and wounded three other students. One 16-year-old died immediately, and two others died the following day. Lane was arrest
March 6, 2012
March 6, 2012
Date
March 6, 2012
Location
Jacksonville, Florida
Deaths
2
Injuries
0
Total
2
Description
Shane Schumerth, a fired teacher at Episcopal High School, shot Headmistress Dale Regan before killing himself.
March 24, 2012
March 24, 2012
Date
March 24, 2012
Location
Oktibbeha County, Mississippi
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
Mason Perry Jones fatally shot Mississippi State University student John Sanderson.
April 2, 2012
April 2, 2012
Date
April 2, 2012
Location
Oakland, California
Deaths
7
Injuries
3
Total
10
Description
2012 Oikos University shooting: 43-year-old One L. Goh was accused of shooting dead seven students with a handgun and wounding three others at Oikos University, a Christian college. He fled the scene, stealing a victim's car, and was apprehended hours later nearby. Goh was charged with seven counts of murder. In January 2013, Goh was determined to
August 16, 2012
August 16, 2012
Date
August 16, 2012
Location
Memphis, Tennessee
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Total
2
Description
Two Hamilton High School students were wounded in the parking lot of the school. The attack was believed to be gang-related.
August 27, 2012
August 27, 2012
Date
August 27, 2012
Location
Perry Hall, Maryland
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
15-year-old Robert Gladden fired two shots with a shotgun inside the cafeteria at Perry Hall School. He hit a 17-year-old senior in the lower back, causing critical wounds. The youth has Down syndrome. Gladden was subdued by two school faculty members and arrested. In February 2013, he was sentenced to thirty-five years in prison on attempted murde
September 7, 2012
September 7, 2012
Date
September 7, 2012
Location
Normal, Illinois
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Total
0
Description
A 14-year-old student fired multiple gunshots in a classroom ceiling at Normal Community High School, and was tackled by a teacher. Nobody was injured. The student was arrested and charged with sixteen felony counts.
October 19, 2012
October 19, 2012
Date
October 19, 2012
Location
Chicago, Illinois
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
18-year-old Banner Academy South student, Terrance Wright, was killed during an attempted robbery. Five would-be robbers approached Wright as he left the school about 3:40 p .. He was shot in the chest as he fought back when one assailant was going through his pockets. Wright had been picked on at his previous high school because he was gay, which
October 31, 2012
October 31, 2012
Date
October 31, 2012
Location
Los Angeles, California
Deaths
0
Injuries
4
Total
4
Description
At a Halloween party on the University of Southern California campus, an argument escalated, and 20-year-old Brandon Spencer used a handgun to shoot rival gang member, Geno Hall, seven times, critically wounding him. Spencer wounded three other people, none of whom were students at USC; they were hospitalized with less serious injuries. Spencer was
December 14, 2012
December 14, 2012
Date
December 14, 2012
Location
Newtown, Connecticut
Deaths
28
Injuries
2
Total
30
Description
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed twenty-six people and himself. He first killed his mother at their shared home before taking four of her guns and driving to the school, where he killed 20 first-grade children aged six and seven, along with six adults, including four teachers, the principal, and the school psycho
2013
2013
Date
2013
January 10, 2013
January 10, 2013
Date
January 10, 2013
Location
Taft, California
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Total
2
Description
16-year-old student, Bryan Oliver, entered a science classroom of Taft Union High School with a shotgun and opened fire, critically wounding 16-year-old student Bowe Cleveland. He shot at but missed another student. The classroom teacher, Ryan Heber, convinced Oliver to drop his weapon. He was later arrested. On January 14, he was charged with two
January 12, 2013
January 12, 2013
Date
January 12, 2013
Location
Detroit, Michigan
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
A 16-year-old Osborn High School student was shot and wounded after a basketball game.
January 15, 2013
January 15, 2013
Date
January 15, 2013
Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Total
2
Description
A 34-year-old gunman wounded an administrator in his office on the fourth floor of Stevens Institute of Business and Arts. The suspected gunman, Sean Johnson, a part-time student, wounded himself in a stairwell. Both the administrator and Johnson were hospitalized in stable condition. Johnson was convicted of three felony charges, including assault
January 15, 2013
January 15, 2013
Date
January 15, 2013
Location
Hazard, Kentucky
Deaths
3
Injuries
0
Total
3
Description
Two people were killed and a third person was wounded at the parking lot of Hazard Community and Technical College. The third victim, 12-year-old Taylor Cornett, died from her wounds the next day. 21-year-old Dalton Lee Stidham, was arrested and charged with three counts of murder. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2014.
January 16, 2013
January 16, 2013
Date
January 16, 2013
Location
Chicago, Illinois
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
A 17-year-old boy, Tyrone Lawson, was killed in the parking lot of Chicago State University. The shooting happened after high school basketball games held on the campus, where Lawson had been a spectator. Police arrested two brothers, Michael McNabb, 33, and Brian Hewlett (under the alias Stephen Gilbert), 30, after the shooting and recovered a wea
January 22, 2013
January 22, 2013
Date
January 22, 2013
Location
Houston, Texas
Deaths
0
Injuries
3
Total
3
Description
Lone Star College–North Harris shooting: Outside Lone Star College–North Harris, two men got into an argument. One wounded the other. He also wounded a maintenance man and accidentally shot himself in the leg. The shooter fled into the woods and was arrested hours later. The charges against the initial suspect were dropped, and another man was arre
January 31, 2013
January 31, 2013
Date
January 31, 2013
Location
Atlanta, Georgia
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Total
2
Description
A 14-year-old male student was wounded at Price Middle School. The gunman, a 15-year-old student, was believed to be arguing with the other student before using a handgun to shoot him. A teacher was also wounded. Afterward, the gunman was disarmed by a school resource officer and arrested; police charged him with aggravated assault.
February 1, 2013
February 1, 2013
Date
February 1, 2013
Location
Detroit, Michigan
Deaths
1
Injuries
1
Total
2
Description
At Martin Luther King High School, a 15-year-old was injured, and a 16-year-old was killed after they tried to rob a school coach who was walking to his car with two students after practice. The coach was the shooter and was a reserve police officer who authorities ruled was acting in self-defense.
March 18, 2013
March 18, 2013
Date
March 18, 2013
Location
Orlando, Florida
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
At the University of Central Florida, 30-year-old student James Oliver Seevakumaran pulled a fire alarm at the Tower One dormitory to attract a crowd. He pointed a handgun at his roommate and threatened to shoot him in their room; he released the roommate, who ran out and called 9-1-1. Seevakumaran then fatally shot himself in the head. Authorities
April 12, 2013
April 12, 2013
Date
April 12, 2013
Location
Christiansburg, Virginia
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Total
2
Description
New River Community College shooting incident: Two women were wounded during a shooting at the campus of New River Community College. 18-year-old Neil Allen MacInnis was taken into custody. In June 2014, he was sentenced to 38 years in prison.
April 16, 2013
April 16, 2013
Date
April 16, 2013
Location
Grambling, Louisiana
Deaths
0
Injuries
3
Total
3
Description
Three students were injured on the campus of Grambling State University.
April 18, 2013
April 18, 2013
Date
April 18, 2013
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Deaths
2
Injuries
2
Total
4
Description
Three days after committing the Boston Marathon bombing, while still at large, the brothers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev shot and killed Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus police officer Sean Collier in his patrol car near MIT's Ray and Maria Stata Center. About three hours after the MIT shooting and after carjacking a vehicle,
May 14, 2013
May 14, 2013
Date
May 14, 2013
Location
Birmingham, Alabama
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Total
0
Description
Allegedly responding to a student fight, the mother of a student fired a weapon on the campus of Ossie Ware Mitchell Middle School. No one was injured.
June 7, 2013
June 7, 2013
Date
June 7, 2013
Location
Santa Monica, California
Deaths
6
Injuries
4
Total
10
Description
2013 Santa Monica shootings: 23-year-old John Zawahri began a killing spree at his home. After killing his 55-year-old father, Samir "Sam" Zawahri, and 25-year-old brother, Chris Zawahri, he set the house ablaze. Dressed all in black with body armor and wielding an AR-15-type semi-automatic rifle, Zawahri carjacked 41-year-old Laura Siska, shooting
August 20, 2013
August 20, 2013
Date
August 20, 2013
Location
Decatur, Georgia
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Total
0
Description
Armed with a 7 AK-47-type assault rifle and nearly 500 rounds of ammunition, 20-year-old Michael Brandon Hill entered the Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy shortly after 1:00 PM and took several employees hostage in the principal's office. Hill ordered his hostages to call local ABC News affiliate WSB-TV, declaring that he wanted a c
August 22, 2013
August 22, 2013
Date
August 22, 2013
Location
Memphis, Tennessee
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Total
0
Description
A 5-year-old kindergarten student fired a handgun in his elementary school cafeteria. The Westside Elementary School student brought the gun to school in his backpack. While waiting for the opening bell in the cafeteria, the gun accidentally discharged one time inside the boy's backpack. There was no evidence of harmful intent, and nobody was injur
August 23, 2013
August 23, 2013
Date
August 23, 2013
Location
Sardis, Mississippi
Deaths
1
Injuries
2
Total
3
Description
15-year-old student, Roderick Bobo, was killed during a football game at North Panola High School in what was termed a gang-related shooting. Two others were injured in the shooting. Three men were charged with being responsible for the crime.
August 30, 2013
August 30, 2013
Date
August 30, 2013
Location
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
A 15-year-old male student was shot at Carver High School, at 2:30 p .. He was hospitalized with minor injuries. An 18-year-old male student was apprehended without further incident. The suspected gunman is charged with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, carrying a concealed gun, possessing and discharging a firearm, and carry
October 4, 2013
October 4, 2013
Date
October 4, 2013
Location
Pine Hills, Florida
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Total
2
Description
A 16-year-old student was shot in the hip outside Agape Christian Academy after a fight broke out at 2 p .. A stray bullet or shrapnel hit an innocent bystander. The two victims were treated for minor injuries. The suspected shooter reportedly fled in a car with several other males and was not caught.
October 21, 2013
October 21, 2013
Date
October 21, 2013
Location
Sparks, Nevada
Deaths
2
Injuries
2
Total
4
Description
2013 Sparks Middle School shooting: 12-year-old seventh-grade student Jose Reyes opened fire with a handgun at the basketball courts of Sparks Middle School, injuring one student in the shoulder. Michael Landsberry, a teacher and veteran, tried to intervene and was killed by Reyes. Reyes also wounded a student while trying to help the teacher. Reye
November 2, 2013
November 2, 2013
Date
November 2, 2013
Location
Greensboro, North Carolina
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
A 21-year-old student was wounded at North Carolina A&T State University. The victim was hospitalized for serious but non-life-threatening injuries. The university was temporarily locked down that night. No suspects are in custody.
November 3, 2013
November 3, 2013
Date
November 3, 2013
Location
Lithonia, Georgia
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Total
2
Description
A Stephenson High School student and a janitor were shot in an apparent confrontation between football team members and a group of teens who were not attending the school. Both were innocent bystanders.
November 13, 2013
November 13, 2013
Date
November 13, 2013
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Deaths
0
Injuries
3
Total
3
Description
After classes ended, at least one gunman came out of the woods and opened fire on three students as they were walking to their cars at Brashear High School. One student was grazed in the head, another was struck in the neck and shoulder, and a third was hit in the leg and foot. Six people were taken into custody. The shooting is believed to be drug
December 4, 2013
December 4, 2013
Date
December 4, 2013
Location
Winter Garden, Florida
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
A 15-year-old student was wounded by a 17-year-old student near a soccer field on the campus of West Orange High School. The shooting occurred after a fight broke out between the two students. The 17-year-old suspected shooter was taken into custody several miles away from the school and is charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery with a f
December 13, 2013
December 13, 2013
Date
December 13, 2013
Location
Centennial, Colorado
Deaths
2
Injuries
0
Total
2
Description
18-year-old Karl Pierson shot 17-year-old student Claire Davis in the head, fatally injuring her, in a hallway in Arapahoe High School. Pierson then took his own life. Pierson was armed with a shotgun, three Molotov cocktails, and a machete. He intended to shoot the librarian who had disciplined him. Claire Davis died from her injuries on December
December 19, 2013
December 19, 2013
Date
December 19, 2013
Location
Fresno, California
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
Four teens (16, 16, 16, and 17 years old) entered Edison High School in what was believed to be a gang initiation process. After accosting a 62-year-old woman about a mile away from school grounds, they found an athletic trainer who taught at Edison High and shot him several times in the leg and stomach.
2014
2014
Date
2014
January 9, 2014
January 9, 2014
Date
January 9, 2014
Location
Jackson, Tennessee
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
A 16-year-old student was charged with bringing a gun to school at Liberty Technology Magnet High School and shooting a classmate in the thigh. The incident occurred outside the school.
January 13, 2014
January 13, 2014
Date
January 13, 2014
Location
New Haven, Connecticut
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
A 14-year-old boy was shot a few blocks away from the Hillhouse High School athletic facility, after a basketball game, and suffered wounds in his hand and leg.
January 14, 2014
January 14, 2014
Date
January 14, 2014
Location
Roswell, New Mexico
Deaths
0
Injuries
3
Total
3
Description
Two people were wounded inside the gymnasium of Berrendo Middle School, at about 8:10 a .. An 11-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl were airlifted to a hospital in Lubbock, Texas in critical condition. The 12-year-old suspected shooter, Mason Campbell, a seventh-grade student, was apprehended at the scene after he was talked down by a staff membe
January 17, 2014
January 17, 2014
Date
January 17, 2014
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Total
2
Description
A student allegedly shot two other students in the gymnasium at Delaware Valley Charter School. Both victims, a male and a female, were shot in the arm. They were taken to a nearby hospital and are in stable condition, police say. Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said at a news conference that the shooter ran out of the school after the shooting
January 20, 2014
January 20, 2014
Date
January 20, 2014
Location
Chester, Pennsylvania
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
One person was critically injured at Widener University. The incident occurred around 10 p . outside the university sports complex and led to an 8-hour university lockdown. The suspect was not immediately found.
January 21, 2014
January 21, 2014
Date
January 21, 2014
Location
West Lafayette, Indiana
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
A 21-year-old student, Andrew Boldt, was killed in a classroom building on the campus of Purdue University. 24-year-old student Cody Cousins was found guilty of the murder and was sentenced to sixty-five years in prison. In October 2014, Cousins committed suicide in his cell.
January 24, 2014
January 24, 2014
Date
January 24, 2014
Location
Orangeburg, South Carolina
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
A 20-year-old student was killed at South Carolina State University. A 19-year-old was arrested and charged with murder.
January 25, 2014
January 25, 2014
Date
January 25, 2014
Location
Los Angeles, California
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
A man was killed at Los Angeles Valley College. Two suspects were arrested in the fatal shooting.
January 27, 2014
January 27, 2014
Date
January 27, 2014
Location
Carbondale, Illinois
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
A group of students at Rebound High School got into an argument in the school's parking lot. One student pulled out a gun and shot another student in the ensuing altercation. An 18-year-old suspect is facing charges of attempted murder.
January 28, 2014
January 28, 2014
Date
January 28, 2014
Location
Nashville, Tennessee
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
One student was shot in the leg in an apparent altercation over a gambling debt at Tennessee State University.
| Date | Location | Deaths | Injuries | Total | Description |
| 2010 | |||||
| February 5, 2010 | Madison, Alabama | 1 | 0 | 1 | 14-year-old student, Hammad Memon, killed 14-year-old Todd Brown at Discovery Middle School as classes were changing. The shooting was possibly related to gang activity. In May 2013, Memon pleaded guilty to the murder and was sentenced to thirty years in prison. After Memon is released from prison, he is likely to be deported to his native Pakistan |
| February 10, 2010 | Knoxville, Tennessee | 0 | 2 | 2 | A fourth-grade teacher at Inskip Elementary School shot the principal and assistant principal, injuring both and paralyzing the principal below the waist. The shooting occurred hours after students had been dismissed due to snow. The shooter fled the scene but was arrested at a highway construction roadblock. He was sentenced to 56 years in prison. |
| February 12, 2010 | Huntsville, Alabama | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2010 University of Alabama in Huntsville shooting: During a biology department meeting with approximately twelve people in attendance, 44-year-old professor of biology Amy Bishop stood up and opened fire. After killing three and wounding three others, Bishop was pushed out of the meeting room by the survivors after her gun ran out of ammo. After be |
| February 19, 2010 | DeKalb, Illinois | 0 | 1 | 1 | Less than a week after Northern Illinois University solemnly marked the second anniversary of a mass shooting on campus that claimed the lives of five students, the DeKalb school was the scene of further gun violence. 24-year-old NIU student Brian Mulder refused entry to 22-year-old Zachary R. Isaacman when Isaacman tried to follow a female residen |
| February 23, 2010 | Littleton, Colorado | 0 | 2 | 2 | At Deer Creek Middle School, 32-year-old Bruco Strong Eagle Eastwood opened fire from a rifle in a parking lot, and wounded two eighth-graders, Reagan Webber and Matt Thieu, before being restrained by 57-year-old Math teacher, David Benke, and held until his arrest. The boy's wounds were critical for the four days following the shooting. In October |
| February 26, 2010 | Tacoma, Washington | 2 | 0 | 2 | A teacher was shot and killed by a stalker at Birney Elementary School, who was later killed by police in a shootout. |
| May 11, 2010 | Bladenboro, North Carolina | 0 | 1 | 1 | A West Bladen High School student was shot on campus as students were leaving school for the day. Investigators said the incident started when a fight broke out between two groups of students near the high school's entrance. |
| September 8, 2010 | Detroit, Michigan | 0 | 2 | 2 | Two students were wounded in front of Mumford High School by 17-year-old Steven Jamal Hare. He was tried as an adult and charged with assault with intent to kill. In 2012, Hare was sentenced to 27 years in prison. |
| September 28, 2010 | Austin, Texas | 1 | 0 | 1 | A 19-year-old sophomore student Colton Tooley, wielding an AK-47 and wearing a ski mask, opened fire and then killed himself in a University of Texas library |
| October 1, 2010 | Salinas, California | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15-year-old student Jose Daniel Cisneros was killed after being shot several times on an athletic field at Alisal High School while walking to school. Police said that the shooting was gang-related. |
| October 8, 2010 | Carlsbad, California | 0 | 2 | 2 | 41-year-old Brendan O'Rourke climbed over a fence and opened fire with a handgun in a playground of Kelly Elementary School, which had 230 students; two second-grade female students were grazed in the arms before O'Rourke was subdued by a construction worker. He was found guilty of seven counts of attempted murder and was sentenced to 189 years to |
| October 23, 2010 | Topeka, Kansas | 1 | 1 | 2 | Two victims went to meet the two suspects on a field just outside of Topeka West High School to purchase cannabis. However, the deal either went bad or they were ambushed, but Samantha Lindsay Hochard and Austin Tabor were both charged in the murder of 20-year-old Matthew C. Mitchell, and the attempted murder of 17-year-old Treshawn Wynee, who was |
| November 29, 2010 | Marinette, Wisconsin | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15-year-old Samuel Hengel took 23 students and a teacher hostage inside a classroom of Marinette High School for five hours. He had stormed into the class, firing with a handgun at a movie projector. Police persuaded Hengel to release the hostages. After officers entered the building, Hengel shot himself in the head. He died the next day. |
| December 6, 2010 | Aurora, Colorado | 0 | 1 | 1 | In a gang-related attack outside Aurora Central High School, a 17-year-old girl was paralyzed. She was one of a group of students outside the school. 20-year-old Luis Enrique Guzman-Rincon had fired shots from a car trying to hit gang rivals. Guzman-Ricon was sentenced to thirty-five years in prison. |
| 2011 | |||||
| January 5, 2011 | Omaha, Nebraska | 2 | 2 | 4 | At Millard South High School, 17-year-old student, Robert Butler Jr., killed assistant principal Dr. Vicki Kaspar and wounded principal Curtis Case before opening fire at police in the front office area, causing the school nurse to be wounded by gunshot debris. Butler then drove to a parking lot and shot himself as police cornered him. |
| March 25, 2011 | Martinsville, Indiana | 0 | 1 | 1 | Michael Phelps, a 15-year-old suspended student, returned to Martinsville West Middle School with a handgun. In the entrance of the school, Phelps shot 15-year-old Chance Jackson twice in the abdomen, critically wounding him. Phelps fled the school and dropped the handgun; he was arrested shortly after. Jackson had to undergo surgery three times to |
| March 31, 2011 | Houston, Texas | 1 | 5 | 6 | Multiple gunmen opened fire during a powder puff football game at Worthing High School. One man, an 18-year-old former student named Tremaine De Ante' Paul, died. Five other people were injured. |
| April 19, 2011 | Houston, Texas | 0 | 3 | 3 | A 6-year-old boy took a semi-automatic pistol in his backpack to Ross Elementary. Later that morning, as he and more than 40 other kindergartners were having lunch in a crowded cafeteria, the boy accidentally fired the gun as he was showing it off to friends. The boy, as well as another 6-year-old boy and a 5-year-old girl, were injured. Houston po |
| May 10, 2011 | San Jose, California | 3 | 0 | 3 | A man shot and killed two San Jose State University students in a campus parking garage, including his estranged wife. He then fatally shot himself. |
| May 23, 2011 | Pearl City, Hawaii | 0 | 1 | 1 | A 14-year-old male student was accused of firing a handgun on the campus of Highlands Intermediate School, wounding one student. The gunman was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. Two other suspects were arrested in connection with the shooting. |
| August 19, 2011 | Albany, Georgia | 0 | 1 | 1 | An Albany State University student was shot on campus. |
| September 28, 2011 | Jurupa Valley, California | 2 | 0 | 2 | 64-year-old Donaciano Aguirre fatally shot his 61-year-old wife and teacher's aide, Maria Celia Aguirre, in the parking lot of Patriot High School (California) at 10:40 am. He then committed suicide, and the school was put on lockdown. After being searched thoroughly, no other victims were found, and students were let go late in the afternoon. |
| October 24, 2011 | Fayetteville, North Carolina | 0 | 1 | 1 | Cape Fear High School shooting: 15-year-old Catilyn Abercrombie was shot in the neck with a rifle by fellow student, 15-year-old Charles Underwood, at Cape Fear High School. She was hospitalized for two months in a serious condition. Underwood was arrested and charged with attempted murder. He was convicted of attempted first-degree murder and sent |
| December 8, 2011 | Blacksburg, Virginia | 2 | 0 | 2 | 22-year-old Ross Truett Ashley, a part-time business student at Radford University, killed a police officer engaged in an unrelated traffic stop on the campus of Virginia Tech. He then committed suicide in a nearby parking lot. |
| December 9, 2011 | Edinburg, Texas | 0 | 2 | 2 | Two students were shot after school at Harwell Middle School in Edinburg, Texas, while trying out for their school's basketball team. The shooting was allegedly done by an adult off campus, who was shooting at a target range. |
| December 28, 2011 | Flint, Michigan | 0 | 1 | 1 | One person was shot and injured just behind Flint Northern High School as a basketball game was finishing inside. |
| 2012 | |||||
| January 10, 2012 | Houston, Texas | 0 | 1 | 1 | A student opened fire with a handgun at North Forest High School, wounding another student. The shooter said that he had been confronted by three students who had been bullying him, and he shot in self-defense. He hit a 16-year-old bystander in the leg. The 18-year-old suspect was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. |
| February 23, 2012 | Bremerton, Washington | 0 | 1 | 1 | Armin Jahr Elementary School: A 9-year-old boy accidentally set off a firearm in class after slamming his backpack on a desk hitting 8-year-old Amina Kocer-Bowman in the abdomen causing her to spend 8 weeks in a hospital. The boy said he took the gun because he planned to run away from his uncle's house, where he lived, and that he planned to bring |
| February 27, 2012 | Chardon, Ohio | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2012 Chardon High School shooting: 17-year-old Thomas "T. J." Lane took a semi-automatic handgun and a knife to Chardon High School, where he fired ten shots at a group of students sitting in the cafeteria. He killed three boys and wounded three other students. One 16-year-old died immediately, and two others died the following day. Lane was arrest |
| March 6, 2012 | Jacksonville, Florida | 2 | 0 | 2 | Shane Schumerth, a fired teacher at Episcopal High School, shot Headmistress Dale Regan before killing himself. |
| March 24, 2012 | Oktibbeha County, Mississippi | 1 | 0 | 1 | Mason Perry Jones fatally shot Mississippi State University student John Sanderson. |
| April 2, 2012 | Oakland, California | 7 | 3 | 10 | 2012 Oikos University shooting: 43-year-old One L. Goh was accused of shooting dead seven students with a handgun and wounding three others at Oikos University, a Christian college. He fled the scene, stealing a victim's car, and was apprehended hours later nearby. Goh was charged with seven counts of murder. In January 2013, Goh was determined to |
| August 16, 2012 | Memphis, Tennessee | 0 | 2 | 2 | Two Hamilton High School students were wounded in the parking lot of the school. The attack was believed to be gang-related. |
| August 27, 2012 | Perry Hall, Maryland | 0 | 1 | 1 | 15-year-old Robert Gladden fired two shots with a shotgun inside the cafeteria at Perry Hall School. He hit a 17-year-old senior in the lower back, causing critical wounds. The youth has Down syndrome. Gladden was subdued by two school faculty members and arrested. In February 2013, he was sentenced to thirty-five years in prison on attempted murde |
| September 7, 2012 | Normal, Illinois | 0 | 0 | 0 | A 14-year-old student fired multiple gunshots in a classroom ceiling at Normal Community High School, and was tackled by a teacher. Nobody was injured. The student was arrested and charged with sixteen felony counts. |
| October 19, 2012 | Chicago, Illinois | 1 | 0 | 1 | 18-year-old Banner Academy South student, Terrance Wright, was killed during an attempted robbery. Five would-be robbers approached Wright as he left the school about 3:40 p .. He was shot in the chest as he fought back when one assailant was going through his pockets. Wright had been picked on at his previous high school because he was gay, which |
| October 31, 2012 | Los Angeles, California | 0 | 4 | 4 | At a Halloween party on the University of Southern California campus, an argument escalated, and 20-year-old Brandon Spencer used a handgun to shoot rival gang member, Geno Hall, seven times, critically wounding him. Spencer wounded three other people, none of whom were students at USC; they were hospitalized with less serious injuries. Spencer was |
| December 14, 2012 | Newtown, Connecticut | 28 | 2 | 30 | Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed twenty-six people and himself. He first killed his mother at their shared home before taking four of her guns and driving to the school, where he killed 20 first-grade children aged six and seven, along with six adults, including four teachers, the principal, and the school psycho |
| 2013 | |||||
| January 10, 2013 | Taft, California | 0 | 2 | 2 | 16-year-old student, Bryan Oliver, entered a science classroom of Taft Union High School with a shotgun and opened fire, critically wounding 16-year-old student Bowe Cleveland. He shot at but missed another student. The classroom teacher, Ryan Heber, convinced Oliver to drop his weapon. He was later arrested. On January 14, he was charged with two |
| January 12, 2013 | Detroit, Michigan | 0 | 1 | 1 | A 16-year-old Osborn High School student was shot and wounded after a basketball game. |
| January 15, 2013 | St. Louis, Missouri | 0 | 2 | 2 | A 34-year-old gunman wounded an administrator in his office on the fourth floor of Stevens Institute of Business and Arts. The suspected gunman, Sean Johnson, a part-time student, wounded himself in a stairwell. Both the administrator and Johnson were hospitalized in stable condition. Johnson was convicted of three felony charges, including assault |
| January 15, 2013 | Hazard, Kentucky | 3 | 0 | 3 | Two people were killed and a third person was wounded at the parking lot of Hazard Community and Technical College. The third victim, 12-year-old Taylor Cornett, died from her wounds the next day. 21-year-old Dalton Lee Stidham, was arrested and charged with three counts of murder. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2014. |
| January 16, 2013 | Chicago, Illinois | 1 | 0 | 1 | A 17-year-old boy, Tyrone Lawson, was killed in the parking lot of Chicago State University. The shooting happened after high school basketball games held on the campus, where Lawson had been a spectator. Police arrested two brothers, Michael McNabb, 33, and Brian Hewlett (under the alias Stephen Gilbert), 30, after the shooting and recovered a wea |
| January 22, 2013 | Houston, Texas | 0 | 3 | 3 | Lone Star College–North Harris shooting: Outside Lone Star College–North Harris, two men got into an argument. One wounded the other. He also wounded a maintenance man and accidentally shot himself in the leg. The shooter fled into the woods and was arrested hours later. The charges against the initial suspect were dropped, and another man was arre |
| January 31, 2013 | Atlanta, Georgia | 0 | 2 | 2 | A 14-year-old male student was wounded at Price Middle School. The gunman, a 15-year-old student, was believed to be arguing with the other student before using a handgun to shoot him. A teacher was also wounded. Afterward, the gunman was disarmed by a school resource officer and arrested; police charged him with aggravated assault. |
· 2020s
2020
2020
Date
2020
January 8, 2020
January 8, 2020
Date
January 8, 2020
Location
Belle Glade, Florida
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
An individual who was not a student accidentally shot himself in the leg in the parking lot of Glades Central High School.
January 11, 2020
January 11, 2020
Date
January 11, 2020
Location
Dallas, Texas
Deaths
1
Injuries
1
Total
2
Description
A 15-year-old was arrested after two people were wounded by gunfire during a fight at a high school basketball game between South Oak Cliff and Kimball High School. An 18-year-old man was badly wounded in the shooting, and a bullet fragment grazed a Dallas ISD police officer. The 15-year-old shooter, who turned himself in at Dallas police headquart
January 14, 2020
January 14, 2020
Date
January 14, 2020
Location
Bellaire, Texas
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
A 19-year-old student was shot in the chest and killed at Bellaire High School. A 16-year-old student was arrested and convicted of manslaughter and was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
January 14, 2020
January 14, 2020
Date
January 14, 2020
Location
Fort Worth, Texas
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Total
2
Description
An adult male and a 10-year-old child were injured at North Crowley Ninth Grade Campus after a youth basketball game.
January 17, 2020
January 17, 2020
Date
January 17, 2020
Location
Howell, Michigan
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
A father accidentally shot himself while in the Three Fires Elementary School parking lot and was picking up his child when his gun went off by mistake when the man was adjusting himself inside his car.
January 23, 2020
January 23, 2020
Date
January 23, 2020
Location
Oxnard, California
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
A stray bullet fired during a street altercation struck a 9-year-old student at McAuliffe Elementary School.
January 23, 2020
January 23, 2020
Date
January 23, 2020
Location
Saint Thomas, U . Virgin Islands
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Total
0
Description
A woman fired two shots in the air at the Antilles School before pointing her gun at another woman.
January 31, 2020
January 31, 2020
Date
January 31, 2020
Location
Antioch, California
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
A 16-year-old student was killed after a large fight broke out after a basketball game at Deer Valley High School.
February 3, 2020
February 3, 2020
Date
February 3, 2020
Location
Commerce, Texas
Deaths
2
Injuries
1
Total
3
Description
Jacques Dshawn Smith, 21, gained access to Pride Rock Residence hall at Texas A&M University–Commerce, where he is suspected of shooting his ex-girlfriend Abbaney Matts, 20, and her sister Deja Matts, 19, to death. Abbaney's two-year-old son was also injured during the shooting. Smith pled guilty and was sentenced to life in prison plus 35 years.
February 4, 2020
February 4, 2020
Date
February 4, 2020
Location
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
A 22-year-old employee of the Louisiana Culinary Institute was killed in the institute's parking lot by the ex-boyfriend of his girlfriend. The ex-boyfriend was later arrested and claimed he did not know the weapon was loaded and planned to use it as a scare tactic.
March 5, 2020
March 5, 2020
Date
March 5, 2020
Location
Weston, Florida
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
A school security officer was with a school maintenance worker in the parking lot of Sagemount School when he unintentionally shot the worker in the eye. The officer was not authorized to carry the weapon on campus.
March 11, 2020
March 11, 2020
Date
March 11, 2020
Location
Shenango Township, Pennsylvania
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Total
2
Description
Byron Benetas shot at a school van carrying seven elementary school students. Two bullets hit the van. Nobody was hit, although two children were injured by flying glass. Benetas was arrested a short time after and later pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and reckless endangerment in exchange for other charges, including attempted murder, being d
March 15, 2020
March 15, 2020
Date
March 15, 2020
Location
Humble, Texas
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
A large group of men jumped a fence to gain access to Atascocita High School's football field, when an argument escalated, and a 19-year-old was killed. The shooter, Jaqwaun Glenn Pradia, was sentenced to 50 years in prison with 25 years before parole.
March 30, 2020
March 30, 2020
Date
March 30, 2020
Location
Madison, Wisconsin
Deaths
2
Injuries
0
Total
2
Description
18-year-old Khari Sanford abducted his girlfriend's parents from their home and brought them to the University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum, where he shot both of them in the head. Sanford, who was previously staying with the victims, had reportedly gotten into a dispute with them over COVID-19 social distancing restrictions.
July 27, 2020
July 27, 2020
Date
July 27, 2020
Location
Oro Valley, Arizona
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
A worker fixing the roof of Canyon del Oro High School was fatally wounded after his unholstered weapon accidentally discharged.
July 29, 2020
July 29, 2020
Date
July 29, 2020
Location
Collinsville, Illinois
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
Responding officers to a report of a student in distress at Collinsville High School opened fire after a 17-year-old pointed a weapon at them, wounding the teenager.
September 16, 2020
September 16, 2020
Date
September 16, 2020
Location
Sonora, California
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
At Sonora High School in downtown Sonora, a student named Eric Aguiar, 17, was shot and killed in the High School's parking lot. The shooter, Joshua Amondo Rodriguez was found guilty of first-degree murder and three counts of attempted second-degree murder and sentenced to 71 years, eight months plus 50 years to life in prison, with eligibility for
September 16, 2020
September 16, 2020
Date
September 16, 2020
Location
Macomb, Illinois
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
Kavion Poplous, 18, was arrested and charged with attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery, and aggravated discharge of a firearm in the shooting of a student in a dorm at Western Illinois University. Poplous was sentenced to 18 years in prison plus three years of supervised release.
September 19, 2020
September 19, 2020
Date
September 19, 2020
Location
San Francisco, California
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Total
0
Description
At Krouzian-Zekarian-Vasbouragan Armenian School, a 1-2 am shooting happened, which was believed to be a hate crime targeting the Armenian people. Nobody was killed or injured in the shooting.
November 25, 2020
November 25, 2020
Date
November 25, 2020
Location
Garden City, Kansas
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
0
Description
A man was arrested after a 4-year-old girl was shot and killed at a house, and a 16-year-old was injured nearby in the Abe Hubert Elementary School parking lot.
December 17, 2020
December 17, 2020
Date
December 17, 2020
Location
Birmingham, Alabama
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
A 20-year-old University of Alabama at Birmingham student was shot and killed in a campus parking lot outside the student center. Investigators believed the shooting occurred during an arranged meeting to sell headphones. The shooter Carlos Stephens was originally convicted of capital murder in her death and sentenced to life without parole but had
2021
2021
Date
2021
February 26, 2021
February 26, 2021
Date
February 26, 2021
Location
New Orleans, Louisiana
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
A Tulane University police officer was shot and killed after trying to break up a fight at a high school basketball game at George Washington Carver High School.
March 1, 2021
March 1, 2021
Date
March 1, 2021
Location
Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
A 15-year-old student was killed in a targeted shooting at Watson Chapel Junior High School. The shooter pled guilty to first degree murder and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
March 8, 2021
March 8, 2021
Date
March 8, 2021
Location
Chesterfield, South Carolina
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
A woman wounded her son-in-law in the parking lot of Edwards Elementary School while school was in session, before fleeing the area.
April 12, 2021
April 12, 2021
Date
April 12, 2021
Location
Knoxville, Tennessee
Deaths
1
Injuries
1
Total
2
Description
A student armed with a handgun was shot and killed after a confrontation with a police officer at Austin-East High School. One officer was shot but survived.
April 26, 2021
April 26, 2021
Date
April 26, 2021
Location
Plymouth, Minnesota
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Total
0
Description
An unidentified 6th-grade student fired several shots from a handgun into the ceiling in a hallway within Plymouth Middle School. He was taken into custody by police without incident. There were no reported casualties.
April 27, 2021
April 27, 2021
Date
April 27, 2021
Location
Smyrna, Delaware
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
A man shot and killed his wife in the parking lot of Smyrna Middle School after an argument before picking up their child for a doctor's appointment. Police later determined that he had killed a female friend of his wife. The man was killed in a car crash while attempting to flee from police.
May 6, 2021
May 6, 2021
Date
May 6, 2021
Location
Rigby, Idaho
Deaths
0
Injuries
3
Total
3
Description
Two students and one custodian were shot and wounded by a 6th-grade female student who opened fire inside Rigby Middle School in the morning hours of May 6, 2021. The perpetrator was disarmed by a teacher and taken into custody by police.
June 8, 2021
June 8, 2021
Date
June 8, 2021
Location
Kansas City, Kansas
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
A 15-year-old boy was walking in front of Hazel Grove Elementary school when a vehicle stopped next to him. The shooter called out to the victim and then fatally shot him.
July 9, 2021
July 9, 2021
Date
July 9, 2021
Location
Wichita, Kansas
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
Following a police chase, a man driving a vehicle crashed into a field in front of Campus High School. He then fired shots at officers from the vehicle, after which the vehicle caught fire, and he died inside it.
August 13, 2021
August 13, 2021
Date
August 13, 2021
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
A 13-year-old student allegedly shot and killed another 13-year-old student, Bennie Hargrove, during a lunch hour at Washington Middle School.
August 18, 2021
August 18, 2021
Date
August 18, 2021
Location
Orangeburg, South Carolina
Deaths
0
Injuries
3
Total
3
Description
A 14-year-old student allegedly opened fire in the parking lot of Orangeburg-Wilkinson High School while students were leaving for the day, wounding three.
August 27, 2021
August 27, 2021
Date
August 27, 2021
Location
Woodridge, Virginia
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Total
2
Description
A teenager wounded two people in the parking lot of Freedom High School after two groups got into a fight following a football game.
August 27, 2021
August 27, 2021
Date
August 27, 2021
Location
Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania
Deaths
1
Injuries
4
Total
5
Description
A drive-by shooting following a high school football game at Academy Park High School wounded a civilian, resulting in police at the game firing back. Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer says there is a "high probability" that the police gunfire struck four people, including an 8-year-old girl who was killed.
August 27, 2021
August 27, 2021
Date
August 27, 2021
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
A student was shot during a fight at New Hanover High School. Another student, Chance Debalo was charged with attempted murder. Deablo plead guilty to intent to kill with a deadly weapon, resulting in injury, and discharging a firearm on school grounds and he was sentenced to over four years in prison.
September 1, 2021
September 1, 2021
Date
September 1, 2021
Location
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
A student was shot and killed at Mount Tabor High School. Suspect, another student at the school, has been taken into custody.
September 4, 2021
September 4, 2021
Date
September 4, 2021
Location
Towson, Maryland
Deaths
0
Injuries
3
Total
3
Description
Three people, including one student, were shot on the campus of Towson University during a gathering at 2 am. Neither the university nor any student organization organized the gathering.
September 7, 2021
September 7, 2021
Date
September 7, 2021
Location
Buena Park, California
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
Cedric Baxter drove his SUV into a school bus driven by his estranged wife, then opened fire on it. A six-year-old child was also on the bus, though the gunfire injured neither the child nor the driver. Baxter then drove away from the scene, resulting in a high-speed chase which ended when Baxter's car crashed. The police subsequently killed Baxter
September 9, 2021
September 9, 2021
Date
September 9, 2021
Location
Royal Oak Township, Michigan
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Total
0
Description
At the Tri-County Education Center, two groups of teenagers got into a fight when one of the teens went home, obtained a firearm, and then fired a shot into the ground in the school parking lot.
September 20, 2021
September 20, 2021
Date
September 20, 2021
Location
Newport News, Virginia
Deaths
0
Injuries
4
Total
4
Description
Two people were wounded after a shooting at Heritage High School. Another two students were hospitalized for non-shooting injuries.
September 21, 2021
September 21, 2021
Date
September 21, 2021
Location
Wichita, Kansas
Deaths
0
Injuries
3
Total
3
Description
Two students were shot and a third grazed outside Wichita East High School.
September 24, 2021
September 24, 2021
Date
September 24, 2021
Location
Fairfield, Alabama
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
A man was wounded during a football game at Fairfield High Preparatory School while tailgating in the parking lot. The gunfire seemed to come from off the school campus.
September 30, 2021
September 30, 2021
Date
September 30, 2021
Location
Memphis, Tennessee
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
One student was shot in Cummings Elementary School.
September 30, 2021
September 30, 2021
Date
September 30, 2021
Location
Newton, Mississippi
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
A 7-year-old student was injured after a gun accidentally discharged from the backpack of another student at Newton Elementary School.
October 1, 2021
October 1, 2021
Date
October 1, 2021
Location
Houston, Texas
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
A former student walked into the YES Prep Southwest school and opened fire, wounding the principal as he attempted to lock down the school.
October 6, 2021
October 6, 2021
Date
October 6, 2021
Location
Arlington, Texas
Deaths
0
Injuries
4
Total
4
Description
An adult shooter opened fire in Mansfield Timberview High School after a fight escalated; four people were injured, including a 15-year-old and a teacher.
October 12, 2021
October 12, 2021
Date
October 12, 2021
Location
Chicago, Illinois
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Total
2
Description
Someone across the street from Wendell Phillips Academy High School in Bronzeville opened fire during dismissal, wounding a student and a security guard.
October 13, 2021
October 13, 2021
Date
October 13, 2021
Location
Grambling, Louisiana
Deaths
1
Injuries
1
Total
2
Description
An eighteen-year-old opened fire at Grambling State University killed a 19-year-old and wounded a 16-year-old before fleeing campus.
October 17, 2021
October 17, 2021
Date
October 17, 2021
Location
Grambling, Louisiana
Deaths
1
Injuries
7
Total
8
Description
A gunman opened fire at Grambling State University in the early morning outside a dining hall where students were celebrating homecoming. One person was killed, and seven were wounded.
October 19, 2021
October 19, 2021
Date
October 19, 2021
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
A man was shot and killed outside a building on the University of Indianapolis campus.
November 1, 2021
November 1, 2021
Date
November 1, 2021
Location
Madison, Mississippi
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Total
0
Description
A woman accidentally fired her gun while reaching for her phone during a basketball game at the Rosa Scott School. No one was injured.
November 19, 2021
November 19, 2021
Date
November 19, 2021
Location
Aurora, Colorado
Deaths
0
Injuries
3
Total
3
Description
Three students were shot in the parking lot of Hinkley High School. No fatalities were reported.
November 26, 2021
November 26, 2021
Date
November 26, 2021
Location
Campbell, California
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Total
2
Description
Two men were wounded in the parking lot of Westmont High School during a football game.
November 29, 2021
November 29, 2021
Date
November 29, 2021
Location
Phoenix, Arizona
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
A student wounded another in a bathroom of Cesar Chavez High School after a gun sale gone bad. The wounded individual realized that the money he received in the sale was fake and was shot in the argument.
November 30, 2021
November 30, 2021
Date
November 30, 2021
Location
Oxford Township, Michigan
Deaths
4
Injuries
7
Total
11
Description
2021 Oxford High School shooting: A 15-year-old sophomore was taken into custody. Seven people, including a teacher, were injured, and four died, all of whom were students. An investigation is ongoing as of December 1, 2021.
November 30, 2021
November 30, 2021
Date
November 30, 2021
Location
Humboldt, Tennessee
Deaths
1
Injuries
2
Total
3
Description
A man was killed, and two others were wounded two hours into a pair of basketball games between Humboldt High School and North Side. The shooting occurred outside the gym near the concessions.
December 6, 2021
December 6, 2021
Date
December 6, 2021
Location
Wilmington, California
Deaths
1
Injuries
2
Total
3
Description
A 12-year-old was killed, and his step-mother was wounded when a teenager opened fire on their vehicle outside the Wilmington Park Elementary School. A 9-year-old in the playground was also injured.
December 8, 2021
December 8, 2021
Date
December 8, 2021
Location
Kansas City, Missouri
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Total
2
Description
Two teenagers were wounded in the parking lot of Ewing Marion Kauffman School during a basketball game.
2022
2022
Date
2022
January 4, 2022
January 4, 2022
Date
January 4, 2022
Location
Rockford, Illinois
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Total
2
Description
Two 17-year-olds were wounded while sitting in a car in the parking lot of Auburn High School around 1 pm. Three juveniles fled and were later arrested.
January 9, 2022
January 9, 2022
Date
January 9, 2022
Location
Murfreesboro, North Carolina
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Total
0
Description
An unknown individual discharged a gun in a Chowan University dorm room, no injuries were reported, and the bullet was later located in a fridge.
January 11, 2022
January 11, 2022
Date
January 11, 2022
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Total
0
Description
A shooting occurred in the parking lot of Valley High School during a basketball game; no injuries were reported.
January 19, 2022
January 19, 2022
Date
January 19, 2022
Location
Sanford, Florida
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
A 16-year-old student wounded an 18-year-old student around noon at Seminole High School over a disagreement about a dead relative.
January 19, 2022
January 19, 2022
Date
January 19, 2022
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
A 15-year-old boy boarded a school van to go home when school was being dismissed at Oliver Citywide Academy. Two masked gunmen approached the van and shot the boy twice in the chest. The boy was taken to the hospital, where he later died. The shooter, Eugene Watson, and his younger brother were not arrested until April 2023. Eugene pled guilty to
January 21, 2022
January 21, 2022
Date
January 21, 2022
Location
Derwood, Maryland
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
A 17-year-old boy shot and wounded a 15-year-old boy in a bathroom at Colonel Zadok Magruder High School. The victim was hospitalized, and the shooter was taken into custody.
January 29, 2022
January 29, 2022
Date
January 29, 2022
Location
Beloit, Wisconsin
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
A 19-year-old man (suspected to be Amaree Goodall) shot and killed another 19-year-old man, Jion Broomfield in the parking lot of Beloit Memorial High School. The victim was admitted to a nearby hospital around 9:07 P . CST with a gunshot wound to his leg and died shortly after. Goodall, a native of Madison, was not captured until March 30.
February 1, 2022
February 1, 2022
Date
February 1, 2022
Location
Richfield, Minnesota
Deaths
1
Injuries
1
Total
2
Description
At the South Education Center, a fight broke out, which resulted in 15-year-old student Jahmari Rice being killed and a 17-year-old student critically injured.
February 1, 2022
February 1, 2022
Date
February 1, 2022
Location
Bridgewater, Virginia
Deaths
2
Injuries
1
Total
3
Description
Two campus police and security officers were shot and killed at Bridgewater College. The shooter was taken into custody and hospitalized for non-life-threatening injuries.
February 6, 2022
February 6, 2022
Date
February 6, 2022
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Total
0
Description
A member of the Phi Sigma Phi fraternity fired a gun into the air following a fight with Delta Chi members at West Virginia University.
February 8, 2022
February 8, 2022
Date
February 8, 2022
Location
Catonsville, Maryland
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
A 16-year-old was wounded in an apparent targeted shooting in Catonsville High Schools parking lot shortly after 3pm.
February 9, 2022
February 9, 2022
Date
February 9, 2022
Location
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
A moving school bus was fired at, which resulted in the bus driver being non-fatally shot in the head.
March 4, 2022
March 4, 2022
Date
March 4, 2022
Location
Olathe, Kansas
Deaths
0
Injuries
3
Total
3
Description
An 18-year-old senior at Olathe East High School, identified as Jaylon Elmore, was called to the office on suspicion of carrying a gun. Upon arriving, an assistant principal demanded that he be allowed to search the student's backpack. When the student refused, a School Resource Officer (SRO) was called. After the SRO arrived, four bullets were f
March 7, 2022
March 7, 2022
Date
March 7, 2022
Location
Des Moines, Iowa
Deaths
1
Injuries
2
Total
3
Description
2022 East High School shooting: Around 2:42 P . CST, shooters from multiple vehicles opened fire on a group of teenagers in front of East High School in a drive-by shooting. 3 teenagers, a 15-year-old targeted male, a 16-year-old female, and an 18-year-old female, were shot and transferred to hospitals where they were reported to be in critical co
March 31, 2022
March 31, 2022
Date
March 31, 2022
Location
Greenville, South Carolina
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
A 12-year-old student shot and killed another student at Tanglewood Middle School. The shooter was found under a deck at a nearby home.
April 2, 2022
April 2, 2022
Date
April 2, 2022
Location
Santa Rosa, California
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Total
1
Description
Near Hilliard Comstock Middle School, a 19-year-old man, Connor Bundock, was shot dead as he was hanging out with his friends at a park at late-night hours. The shooting allegedly was over a robbery, and the victim intervened and attempted to defend his friend from being robbed; a suspect was allegedly charged and sentenced to 21 years for the kill
April 5, 2022
April 5, 2022
Date
April 5, 2022
Location
Erie, Pennsylvania
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Total
1
Description
A student was wounded after multiple shots were fired at Erie High School around 9:20 am. No perpetrator was immediately identified, and police were searching for a person who had fled campus shortly after the shooting.
April 8, 2022
April 8, 2022
Date
April 8, 2022
Location
Bronx, New York City, New York
Deaths
1
Injuries
2
Total
3
Description
A shooting around the school property of University Prep High School in the Bronx killed a 17-year-old girl and wounded two others in a school stairway; the victim was not the intended target, according to investigators. A 17-year-old boy was arrested.
| Date | Location | Deaths | Injuries | Total | Description | |
| 2020 | ||||||
| January 8, 2020 | Belle Glade, Florida | 0 | 1 | 1 | An individual who was not a student accidentally shot himself in the leg in the parking lot of Glades Central High School. | |
| January 11, 2020 | Dallas, Texas | 1 | 1 | 2 | A 15-year-old was arrested after two people were wounded by gunfire during a fight at a high school basketball game between South Oak Cliff and Kimball High School. An 18-year-old man was badly wounded in the shooting, and a bullet fragment grazed a Dallas ISD police officer. The 15-year-old shooter, who turned himself in at Dallas police headquart | |
| January 14, 2020 | Bellaire, Texas | 1 | 0 | 1 | A 19-year-old student was shot in the chest and killed at Bellaire High School. A 16-year-old student was arrested and convicted of manslaughter and was sentenced to 12 years in prison. | |
| January 14, 2020 | Fort Worth, Texas | 0 | 2 | 2 | An adult male and a 10-year-old child were injured at North Crowley Ninth Grade Campus after a youth basketball game. | |
| January 17, 2020 | Howell, Michigan | 0 | 1 | 1 | A father accidentally shot himself while in the Three Fires Elementary School parking lot and was picking up his child when his gun went off by mistake when the man was adjusting himself inside his car. | |
| January 23, 2020 | Oxnard, California | 0 | 1 | 1 | A stray bullet fired during a street altercation struck a 9-year-old student at McAuliffe Elementary School. | |
| January 23, 2020 | Saint Thomas, U . Virgin Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 | A woman fired two shots in the air at the Antilles School before pointing her gun at another woman. | |
| January 31, 2020 | Antioch, California | 1 | 0 | 1 | A 16-year-old student was killed after a large fight broke out after a basketball game at Deer Valley High School. | |
| February 3, 2020 | Commerce, Texas | 2 | 1 | 3 | Jacques Dshawn Smith, 21, gained access to Pride Rock Residence hall at Texas A&M University–Commerce, where he is suspected of shooting his ex-girlfriend Abbaney Matts, 20, and her sister Deja Matts, 19, to death. Abbaney's two-year-old son was also injured during the shooting. Smith pled guilty and was sentenced to life in prison plus 35 years. | |
| February 4, 2020 | Baton Rouge, Louisiana | 1 | 0 | 1 | A 22-year-old employee of the Louisiana Culinary Institute was killed in the institute's parking lot by the ex-boyfriend of his girlfriend. The ex-boyfriend was later arrested and claimed he did not know the weapon was loaded and planned to use it as a scare tactic. | |
| March 5, 2020 | Weston, Florida | 0 | 1 | 1 | A school security officer was with a school maintenance worker in the parking lot of Sagemount School when he unintentionally shot the worker in the eye. The officer was not authorized to carry the weapon on campus. | |
| March 11, 2020 | Shenango Township, Pennsylvania | 0 | 2 | 2 | Byron Benetas shot at a school van carrying seven elementary school students. Two bullets hit the van. Nobody was hit, although two children were injured by flying glass. Benetas was arrested a short time after and later pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and reckless endangerment in exchange for other charges, including attempted murder, being d | |
| March 15, 2020 | Humble, Texas | 1 | 0 | 1 | A large group of men jumped a fence to gain access to Atascocita High School's football field, when an argument escalated, and a 19-year-old was killed. The shooter, Jaqwaun Glenn Pradia, was sentenced to 50 years in prison with 25 years before parole. | |
| March 30, 2020 | Madison, Wisconsin | 2 | 0 | 2 | 18-year-old Khari Sanford abducted his girlfriend's parents from their home and brought them to the University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum, where he shot both of them in the head. Sanford, who was previously staying with the victims, had reportedly gotten into a dispute with them over COVID-19 social distancing restrictions. | |
| July 27, 2020 | Oro Valley, Arizona | 1 | 0 | 1 | A worker fixing the roof of Canyon del Oro High School was fatally wounded after his unholstered weapon accidentally discharged. | |
| July 29, 2020 | Collinsville, Illinois | 0 | 1 | 1 | Responding officers to a report of a student in distress at Collinsville High School opened fire after a 17-year-old pointed a weapon at them, wounding the teenager. | |
| September 16, 2020 | Sonora, California | 1 | 0 | 1 | At Sonora High School in downtown Sonora, a student named Eric Aguiar, 17, was shot and killed in the High School's parking lot. The shooter, Joshua Amondo Rodriguez was found guilty of first-degree murder and three counts of attempted second-degree murder and sentenced to 71 years, eight months plus 50 years to life in prison, with eligibility for | |
| September 16, 2020 | Macomb, Illinois | 0 | 1 | 1 | Kavion Poplous, 18, was arrested and charged with attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery, and aggravated discharge of a firearm in the shooting of a student in a dorm at Western Illinois University. Poplous was sentenced to 18 years in prison plus three years of supervised release. | |
| September 19, 2020 | San Francisco, California | 0 | 0 | 0 | At Krouzian-Zekarian-Vasbouragan Armenian School, a 1-2 am shooting happened, which was believed to be a hate crime targeting the Armenian people. Nobody was killed or injured in the shooting. | |
| November 25, 2020 | Garden City, Kansas | 0 | 1 | 0 | A man was arrested after a 4-year-old girl was shot and killed at a house, and a 16-year-old was injured nearby in the Abe Hubert Elementary School parking lot. | |
| December 17, 2020 | Birmingham, Alabama | 1 | 0 | 1 | A 20-year-old University of Alabama at Birmingham student was shot and killed in a campus parking lot outside the student center. Investigators believed the shooting occurred during an arranged meeting to sell headphones. The shooter Carlos Stephens was originally convicted of capital murder in her death and sentenced to life without parole but had | |
| 2021 | ||||||
| February 26, 2021 | New Orleans, Louisiana | 1 | 0 | 1 | A Tulane University police officer was shot and killed after trying to break up a fight at a high school basketball game at George Washington Carver High School. | |
| March 1, 2021 | Pine Bluff, Arkansas | 1 | 0 | 1 | A 15-year-old student was killed in a targeted shooting at Watson Chapel Junior High School. The shooter pled guilty to first degree murder and was sentenced to 40 years in prison. | |
| March 8, 2021 | Chesterfield, South Carolina | 0 | 1 | 1 | A woman wounded her son-in-law in the parking lot of Edwards Elementary School while school was in session, before fleeing the area. | |
| April 12, 2021 | Knoxville, Tennessee | 1 | 1 | 2 | A student armed with a handgun was shot and killed after a confrontation with a police officer at Austin-East High School. One officer was shot but survived. | |
| April 26, 2021 | Plymouth, Minnesota | 0 | 0 | 0 | An unidentified 6th-grade student fired several shots from a handgun into the ceiling in a hallway within Plymouth Middle School. He was taken into custody by police without incident. There were no reported casualties. | |
| April 27, 2021 | Smyrna, Delaware | 1 | 0 | 1 | A man shot and killed his wife in the parking lot of Smyrna Middle School after an argument before picking up their child for a doctor's appointment. Police later determined that he had killed a female friend of his wife. The man was killed in a car crash while attempting to flee from police. | |
| May 6, 2021 | Rigby, Idaho | 0 | 3 | 3 | Two students and one custodian were shot and wounded by a 6th-grade female student who opened fire inside Rigby Middle School in the morning hours of May 6, 2021. The perpetrator was disarmed by a teacher and taken into custody by police. | |
| June 8, 2021 | Kansas City, Kansas | 1 | 0 | 1 | A 15-year-old boy was walking in front of Hazel Grove Elementary school when a vehicle stopped next to him. The shooter called out to the victim and then fatally shot him. | |
| July 9, 2021 | Wichita, Kansas | 1 | 0 | 1 | Following a police chase, a man driving a vehicle crashed into a field in front of Campus High School. He then fired shots at officers from the vehicle, after which the vehicle caught fire, and he died inside it. | |
| August 13, 2021 | Albuquerque, New Mexico | 1 | 0 | 1 | A 13-year-old student allegedly shot and killed another 13-year-old student, Bennie Hargrove, during a lunch hour at Washington Middle School. | |
| August 18, 2021 | Orangeburg, South Carolina | 0 | 3 | 3 | A 14-year-old student allegedly opened fire in the parking lot of Orangeburg-Wilkinson High School while students were leaving for the day, wounding three. | |
| August 27, 2021 | Woodridge, Virginia | 0 | 2 | 2 | A teenager wounded two people in the parking lot of Freedom High School after two groups got into a fight following a football game. | |
| August 27, 2021 | Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania | 1 | 4 | 5 | A drive-by shooting following a high school football game at Academy Park High School wounded a civilian, resulting in police at the game firing back. Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer says there is a "high probability" that the police gunfire struck four people, including an 8-year-old girl who was killed. | |
| August 27, 2021 | Wilmington, North Carolina | 0 | 1 | 1 | A student was shot during a fight at New Hanover High School. Another student, Chance Debalo was charged with attempted murder. Deablo plead guilty to intent to kill with a deadly weapon, resulting in injury, and discharging a firearm on school grounds and he was sentenced to over four years in prison. | |
| September 1, 2021 | Winston-Salem, North Carolina | 1 | 0 | 1 | A student was shot and killed at Mount Tabor High School. Suspect, another student at the school, has been taken into custody. | |
| September 4, 2021 | Towson, Maryland | 0 | 3 | 3 | Three people, including one student, were shot on the campus of Towson University during a gathering at 2 am. Neither the university nor any student organization organized the gathering. | |
| September 7, 2021 | Buena Park, California | 1 | 0 | 1 | Cedric Baxter drove his SUV into a school bus driven by his estranged wife, then opened fire on it. A six-year-old child was also on the bus, though the gunfire injured neither the child nor the driver. Baxter then drove away from the scene, resulting in a high-speed chase which ended when Baxter's car crashed. The police subsequently killed Baxter | |
| September 9, 2021 | Royal Oak Township, Michigan | 0 | 0 | 0 | At the Tri-County Education Center, two groups of teenagers got into a fight when one of the teens went home, obtained a firearm, and then fired a shot into the ground in the school parking lot. | |
| September 20, 2021 | Newport News, Virginia | 0 | 4 | 4 | Two people were wounded after a shooting at Heritage High School. Another two students were hospitalized for non-shooting injuries. | |
| September 21, 2021 | Wichita, Kansas | 0 | 3 | 3 | Two students were shot and a third grazed outside Wichita East High School. | |
| September 24, 2021 | Fairfield, Alabama | 0 | 1 | 1 | A man was wounded during a football game at Fairfield High Preparatory School while tailgating in the parking lot. The gunfire seemed to come from off the school campus. | |
| September 30, 2021 | Memphis, Tennessee | 0 | 1 | 1 | One student was shot in Cummings Elementary School. | |
| September 30, 2021 | Newton, Mississippi | 0 | 1 | 1 | A 7-year-old student was injured after a gun accidentally discharged from the backpack of another student at Newton Elementary School. | |
| October 1, 2021 | Houston, Texas | 0 | 1 | 1 | A former student walked into the YES Prep Southwest school and opened fire, wounding the principal as he attempted to lock down the school. | |
| October 6, 2021 | Arlington, Texas | 0 | 4 | 4 | An adult shooter opened fire in Mansfield Timberview High School after a fight escalated; four people were injured, including a 15-year-old and a teacher. | |
| October 12, 2021 | Chicago, Illinois | 0 | 2 | 2 | Someone across the street from Wendell Phillips Academy High School in Bronzeville opened fire during dismissal, wounding a student and a security guard. | |
References
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- Davies 2008, p. 152.