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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 ...
Eric Frein attacked a Pennsylvania State Police barracks. Ross Township Municipal Building shooting: Saylorsburg: August 5, 2013: 3: A single gunman attacked the town council. 2009 Collier Township shooting: Collier Township: August 4, 2009: 4: Social loner attacked a gym. 2009 shooting of Pittsburgh police officers: Pittsburgh: April 4, 2009: 3
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 ...
ALTOONA, Pa. (WTAJ) – Police agencies were on the scene at multiple schools in Pennsylvania after getting calls about an active shooter on Wednesday. Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) have ...
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]
Officer reportedly injured during active shooting response. Wednesday 23 August 2023 18:10, Ariana Baio. A sergeant from the Allegheny County Sheriff’s Office was injured after sustaining a non ...
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.
Spurred by mass shootings, thousands of school districts have hired companies to produce detailed digital maps that can help police, firefighters and medical professionals respond more quickly in ...