November 2, 1853 Louisville, Kentucky A student, Matthew Ward, bought a self-cocking pistol in the morning, went to school and killed Schoolmaster Mr. Butler for excessively punishing his brother the day before. Butler was lifted up by several of his students and taken to a nearby house. More than 300 people have died in these incidents. [4] John McCullough, a settler who had been held prisoner by the Delaware since 1756,[6] later described the return of the raiding party in his captivity narrative: I saw the Indians when they returned home with the scalps; some of the old Indians were very much displeased at them for killing so many children, especially Neep-paugh'-whese, or Night Walker, an old chief, or half king,he ascribed it to cowardice, which was the greatest affront he could offer them. The newspapers reported that Allen was also Matt Wards best friend. William Nangle, age 14, and Sidney Duncan, age 12, were captured, but the other five or six escaped, among them the one who who did the shooting. A boy who was in a fight earlier that day, pulled out a shotgun and opened fire injuring six students. Brown pleaded with the warriors to spare the children before being shot and scalped. Peakes was reportedly upset that the APS had rejected a pamphlet he had written. It is also considered to be the event that has most shaped the modern gun control debate. Meanwhile, Whitman was dealing with rage. A mob approaching 8,000 people burned Ward and his defense team in effigy outside the Ward mansion. The Courier-Journal reported that Matt was upset with Butler because he had beaten his other brother, William, with 5 or 6 licks with a leather strap the previous day in school after William had been caught eating chestnuts in class. Lawyers and state officials were skeptical, feeling if these allegations were true, they would have likely come out 20 years before. May 21, 1998 Springfield, Oregon Two students killed, 22 others wounded in the cafeteria at Thurston High School by 15-year-old Kip Kinkel. In July 1764, 10 Pennsylvania students and their teacher died in the very first school massacre. A little over three weeks later, new gun laws were passed in Florida. Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, shot at their classmates and teachers from the woods. Wives and mothers testified and fainted. As they approached the female academy, the girls fled the schoolyard into the school where the gang followed swearing and shooting, firing several rounds into the front door. This livens up the day.. Among those injured were 9-year-old Cam Miller, who was shot in the chest, an inch from his heart, and police officer Robert Robb, who was shot in the neck. On Friday, Klebold's mother, Susan, gave her first-ever television interview, speaking with ABC News's Diane Sawyer. April 24, 1998 Edinboro, Pennsylvania One teacher, John Gillette, killed, two students wounded at a dance at James W. Parker Middle School. When a gunman killed 20 first graders and six adults with an assault rifle at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, it rattled Newtown, Conn., and reverberated across the world.Since then, there . 2023 BDG Media, Inc. All rights reserved. February 24, 1903 Inman, South Carolina Edward Foster, a 17-year-old student at Inman High school, was shot and fatally wounded by his teacher Reuben Pitts after he had jerked a rod from Pitts' hands to resist punishment. Motive could not be conclusively determined, although many people relate it to mental illness. The federal Safe School Initiative was formed after the 1999 Columbine High School massacre to help determine how to prevent future attacks. The late 1990s started to see a major reduction in gun related school violence, but was still plagued with multiple victim shootings including; October 12, 1995 Blackville, South Carolina A suspended student shot two math teachers with a .32 caliber revolver. This incident occurred near present-day Greencastle, Pennsylvania and was named the Pontiac's Rebellion school massacre. 2006-2007 (38 Deaths resulting from school shootings in the U.S.) The Enoch Brown School Massacre is one of the first documented school shootings in U.S. history. April 17, 1956 New York City, New York 18-year-old Henry Smith, a student at a Bronx vocational high school, is stabbed to death by 16-year-old Randolph Lawrence, a fellow student. The next deadliest school shooting (based on fatalities) was the Sandy. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) On the morning of January 29, 1979, teenager Brenda Spencer took a break from shooting people through her window to answer the phone. List of school shootings in the United States (before 2000), List of school shootings in the United States (2000present), "July 1764 Enoch Brown schoolhouse massacre commemorated", "The History and Topography of Dauphin, Cumberland, Franklin, Bedford and Adams", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Enoch_Brown_school_massacre&oldid=1142038844, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 28 February 2023, at 05:05. K-12 School Shooter Statistics. April 2, 1921 Syracuse, New York Professor Holmes Beckwith shot and killed dean J. Herman Wharton in his office at Syracuse University before committing suicide. Police say the shooting stemmed from a dispute between the victim and a 16-year-old student accused of pulling the trigger. Sporting trench coats, they opened fire, killing twelve students and one teacher. [3], On July 26, 1764, four Delaware (Lenape) Native Americans entered a settlers' log schoolhouse in the Province of Pennsylvania in what is now Franklin County, near the present-day city of Greencastle. The attack was broadcast over the PA system, prompting teachers to take action in accordance with the lockdown protocol. Law enforcement arrived within minutes, but sadly, Lanza managed to kill twenty childrenthe majority of whom were six or sevenand six school administrators before killing himself. After her case was moved to Orange County to keep it from becoming a spectacle, Brenda Spencer pleaded guilty in court and was sentenced to 25 years to life. With 32 killed and dozens injured, the massacre at Virginia Tech remains the worse school shooting in the United States. 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December 15, 1997 Stamps, Arkansas Two students wounded. April 27, 1936 Lincoln, Nebraska, Prof. John Weller shot and wounded Prof. Harry Kurz in a corridor of the University of Nebraska, apparently because of his impending dismissal at the end of the semester. I have to go now, she added. When the Columbine shooting happened in 1999, the survivors had no concept of what a school shooting was. One other student named Archie McCullough was wounded. He then fled the school grounds and shot and wounded himself. May 15, 1954 Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Putnam Davis Jr. was shot and killed during a fraternity house carnival at the Phi Delta Theta house at the University of North Carolina. [4] [3], A child survivor recounted "Two old Indians and a young Indian rushed up to the door soon after the opening of the morning session. On the morning of January 29, 1979, teenager Brenda Spencer took a break from shooting people through her window to answer the phone. On April 20, 1999, Harris and Klebold opened fire inside their high school near Denver. The gang scattered at the approach of the police, and in their flight on drew a revolver and fired at Officer Rowan, without effect, however. According to the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence, in the United States, from September 1986 to September 1990 (four year period): At least 71 people (65 students and 6 school employees) had been killed with guns at school. On April 27, 1854, the jury issued its verdict: not guilty. Police arrived quickly on the scene, but unaware of the gunmans identity, they initially pursued the first victims boyfriend. October 2, 1942: New York City, New York "Erwin Goodman, 36-year-old mathematics teacher of William J. Gaynor Junior High School, was shot and killed in the school corridor by a youth Since then, the Columbine High School massacre has been remembered as one of the most infamous school shootings in U.S. history, and it has even been blamed for inspiring more recent shootings at other schools. List of school shootings in the United States (2000-present) See also List of school shootings in the United States by death toll This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title List of school shootings in the United States. Kuhns then shot himself in the chest in a failed suicide attempt. It happened in Pennsylvania at the Enoch Brown School near the city that is now known as Greencastle, Pennsylvania. William Joyner and Allen Long were shot and wounded during the exchange of gunfire in their fraternity bedroom. May 22, 1968 Miami, Florida Ernest Lee Grissom, a 15-year-old student at Drew Junior High School, shot and seriously wounded a teacher and a 13-year-old student after he had been reprimanded for causing a disturbance. June 8, 1867 New York City At Public School No. While not a new phenomenon -- one of the first reported school shootings occurred during the 1840s when a student shot and killed his professor John Anthony Gardner Davis, the . Copyright (c) Minerva Webworks LLC All Rights Reserved. When Ward ran out to stop them, he was wearing a blue coat, which might have made them think he was a Union soldier. Settlers buried Enoch Brown and the schoolchildren in a common grave. Four women and a three-year-old girl died, one woman and a baby were injured but survived. 2004-2005 (20 Deaths resulting from school shootings in the U.S.) The Wards scattered. With lyrics like And he can see no reasons / because there are no reasons, it topped the U.K. charts for four straight weeks. Between 2013 to 2021, there were 47 school shootings in the United States. June 12, 1976 California State University, Fullerton massacre, where the school's custodian opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle in the library on the California State University, Fullerton campus killing 7, and wounding 2. October 2, 1953 Chicago, Illinois 14-year-old Patrick Colletta was shot to death by 14-year-old Bernice Turner in a classroom of Kelly High School in Chicago. The bullet lodged in the wall just above the teacher's head. On June 24, the Washington Post reported their calculation that school shootings increased in 2021. May 1, 1958: Massapequa, New York A 15-year-old high school freshman was shot and killed by a classmate in a washroom of the Massapequa High School. Andrew Wurst, 14, was charged. On May 6, 1940,Verlin Spencer, the38-year-old principalof South Pasadena Junior High School, shotthree school officials, killed five of his colleagues and left another seriously injured. It was fun to watch the children that had red and blue ski jackets on, as they made perfect targets, she later said to a police investigator. 2001-2002 (4 Deaths resulting from school shootings in the U.S.) From the Bath School disaster to Virginia Tech, the following six cases are the deadliest school massacres in American history. Since 1764, the number of school shootings rose exponentially. June 13, 1889 New Brunswick, New Jersey Charles Crawford upset over an argument with a school Trustee, went up to the window and fired a pistol into a crowded school room. Bob Bechtel, 20, had had enough of fraternity hazing when on January 11, 1955 he returned to Swarthmore College toting a rifle. Michael Carneal was 14 years old in 1997 when he fired on a prayer group, killing three; his request has been . The previous "record holder" was the University of Texas massacre by Charles Whitman. December 16, 1988 Virginia Beach, Virginia Nicholas Elliott, 15, opened fire with a SWD Cobray M-11 semiautomatic pistol on his teachers at the Atlantic Shores Christian School. It was also the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history, but it was surpassed in 2016 when 49 people were killed at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando. According to Ward, she was threatened with a razor by Lipscomb during an argument over a fountain pen, and in the ensuing struggle the gun went off. "The earliest known United States shooting to happen on school property was the Pontiac's Rebellion school massacre on July 26, 1764, where four Lenape American Indian entered the schoolhouse near present-day Greencastle, Pennsylvania, shot and killed schoolmaster Enoch Brown, and killed nine or ten children (reports vary). When the school originally opened in 1922, local taxes were raised as a means to pay for it. The Enoch Brown school massacre[1] was "one of the most notorious incidents"[2] of Pontiac's War. Then he said, "no one will ever call my brother a pussy again" then committed suicide. May 16, 1986 The Cokeville Elementary School hostage crisis In a ransom scheme, David and Doris Young, both in their forties, took 150 students and teachers hostage on this spring day. On April 20, 1999, two students gunned down 12 students and a teacher and wounded more than 20 others before turning the gun on themselves. May 18, 1927 Bath, Michigan School treasurer Andrew Kehoe, after killing his wife and destroying his house and farm, blew up the Bath Consolidated School by detonating dynamite in the basement of the school, killing 38 people, mostly children. The bullet shattered the glass door and struck the left forearm of the secretary and the glass injured the Principal. By subscribing to this BDG newsletter, you agree to our. School shootings and mass shootings happen about every year or two in the U.S. and I guarantee that there is going to be another one in a year and another one after that and nothing is going to change until enough people develop a political will to support meaningful gun changes. It's a pattern. Following the massacre, it was reported that they had also planted a bomb that failed to detonate. William H.G. They also planted bombs, although the explosives never detonated. December 9, 1985 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania At the Archbishop Ryan High School for Boys, a 22yr old Mental health patient took 6 students hostage with what ended up being a starter pistol. RED LAKE HIGH SCHOOL, March 2005, 9 dead. Deaths, however, were down. By 1993, the United States saw some of the most violent time is school shooting incidences. In 1764, three men entered a schoolhouse near present-day Greencastle, Pennsylvania, and reportedly killed 10 people. He had bought two self-cocking pistols the morning of the shooting at Dickson & Gilmore, a local gun store, and had a history of violent threats and angry letters to teachers. In the earliest known school shooting in the United States that happened on July 26, 1764, 4 American Indians entered the schoolhouse, shot and killed the schoolmaster, and killed nine or ten children. T hree men entered a schoolhouse in, Pennsylvania, shot and killed schoolmaster and ten children. Nicholas then injured Sam Marino. The incident occurred on a property that is owned by the city of Mobile, not the school district. A database of mass shootings compiled by Mother Jones going back to 1982 counts 123 such incidents in which at least three people were killed, not including the gunman. The first victim, was fatally shot in the stomach, and the second victim received a non-fatal gunshot wound to the abdomen. 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The prosecution portrayed Butler as a kind man who had devoted his life to education. On Saturday, Tim Throne, who heads the Oxford Community. Crow committed suicide after shooting Phy.