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On October 2, 2006, a shooting occurred at the West Nickel Mines School, an Amish one-room schoolhouse in the Old Order Amish community of Nickel Mines, a village in Bart Township, Pennsylvania. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Gunman Charles Carl Roberts IV took hostages and shot ten girls (aged 6–13), killing five, before committing suicide in the schoolhouse ...
A single gunman attacked his wife's family in several locations. 2014 Pennsylvania State Police barracks attack. Blooming Grove Township. September 12, 2014. 1. Eric Frein attacked a Pennsylvania State Police barracks. Ross Township Municipal Building shooting. Saylorsburg. August 5, 2013.
1966 Rose-Mar College of Beauty shooting: 18-year-old Robert Smith took seven people, including four students, into a backroom at Rose-Mar College of Beauty and ordered them to lie down in a circle. He shot each in the head. Four women and a 3-year-old girl died; another woman and a baby were injured but survived.
Perpetrators of school shootings tend to be male and have access to a loaded firearm. They are more likely than their peers to suffer from a mental illness (anxiety, depression, psychopathy), to have had a history of violence or delinquency, to have experienced a traumatic event in their childhood, [10] and to report having been bullied by their peers. [11]
Martinez called the police department and was instructed to help direct traffic around the university. ... At the time, the tower shooting was by far the deadliest school shooting in US history ...
There have been at least two school shootings in the United States so far this year, as of January 4. None were on college campuses, and two were on K-12 school grounds.
A school shooting is an armed attack at an educational institution, such as a primary school, secondary school, high school or university, involving the use of a firearm. Many school shootings are also categorized as mass shootings due to multiple casualties. [ 1][ 2] The phenomenon is most widespread in the United States, which has the highest ...
21. Columbine High School massacre: 18-year-old Eric Harris and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold, students at Columbine High School, killed twelve students and one teacher; after killing two students in the schoolyard and fatally wounding a teacher in the hallway, they killed the rest of their victims in the school library.