List of attacks related to post-secondary schools
This is a list of attacks related to postsecondary schools, such as universities or colleges. These are attacks that occurred on school property or related primarily to school issues or events. A broad definition of the word attacks is used so as to include public attacks or suicide incidents.
College and university school incidents
1800 - 1999
Date | Location | Country | Attackers | Casu- alties[lower-alpha 1] | Dead | Injured | Incident Description |
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October 10, 1892 | Kansas City, Kansas | United States | Fred Basset | 2 | 2 | At Kansas University, two students, E. Higgins and Jack Craycroft, were shot as they were walking back to their dorm rooms from practicing football at the athletic field by a double barreled shotgun as they passed the home of law student, Fred Basset. Basset said they were warned not to trespass on his farm as students so frequently did.[1] | |
March 11, 1908 | Boston, Massachusetts | United States | Sarah Chamberlain Weed | 2 | 2 | Elizabeth Bailey Hardee is shot to death by Sarah Chamberlain Weed at the Laurens School, a finishing school in Boston. Weed then turns the gun on herself and commits suicide.[2] | |
December 23, 1908 | New York City, New York | United States | 1 | 1 | Van Dwight Sheldon, an engineering student at New York University was staying in the Dean's Manor, with his older cousin and Dean of the Engineering College, Dean Snow. A burglar broke into the cellar of the home when Sheldon confronted him. The burglar shot Sheldon in the abdomen, killing him, and escaped after a chase.[3] | ||
April 2, 1921 | Syracuse, New York | United States | Holmes Beckwith | 2 | 2 | Professor Holmes Beckwith shot and killed dean J. Herman Wharton in his office at Syracuse University before committing suicide.[4] | |
June 7, 1925 | Baton Rouge, Louisiana | United States | 1 | 1 | Oscar B. Turner, a professor of agronomy, is murdered by an axe-wielding assailant on the campus of Louisiana State University.[5] | ||
June 4, 1930 | Cambridge | United Kingdom | Douglas Newton Potts, 19 | 3 | 3 | Student Douglas Potts shot dead Dr. Alexander Wollaston and Detective Sergeant Willis at King's College before committing suicide [6] | |
August 12, 1930 | Chemnitz | Germany | 2 | 2 | A teacher named Queck shot and killed one of his colleagues in a classroom at a vocational school in Chemnitz before committing suicide.[7] | ||
December 12, 1935 | New York City, New York | United States | Victor Koussow, 52 | 4 | 3 | 1 | Victor Koussow, a Russian laboratory worker at the School of Dental and Oral Surgery, shot dead Prof. Arthur Taylor Rowe, Prof. Paul B. Wiberg, and wounded Dr. William H. Crawford at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, before committing suicide.[8] |
April 27, 1936 | Lincoln, Nebraska | United States | John P. Weller, 40 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 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. After shooting Kurz Weller tried to escape, but was surrounded by police on the campus, whereupon he killed himself with a shot in the chest.[9] |
June 4, 1936 | Bethlehem, Pennsylvania | United States | Wesley Crow | 2 | 2 | Wesley Crow shot and killed his Lehigh University English instructor, C. Wesley Phy. Crow went to Phy's office and demanded that Phy change his grade to a passing mark. Crow committed suicide after shooting Phy.[10] | |
June 22, 1936 | Vienna | Austria | Johann Nelböck, 33 | 1 | 1 | Johann Nelböck shot and killed Moritz Schlick at the University of Vienna. | |
February 24, 1939 | Los Angeles, California | United States | De Witt Clinton Cook, 20 | 1 | 1 | 32-year-old drama student Anya Sosoyeva was bludgeoned to death by De Witt Clinton Cook on the campus of Los Angeles City College.[11][12] | |
November 13, 1949 | Columbus, Ohio | United States | James Heer | 1 | 1 | Ohio State University freshman James Heer of Euclid, Ohio grabbed a .45 caliber handgun from the room of a Delta Tau Delta fraternity brother and shot and killed Jack McKeown, 21, of Norwood, Ohio, an Ohio State senior and fraternity brother.[13] | |
April 25, 1950 | Peru, Nebraska | United States | Barney Baker, 54 | 3 | 3 | Dr. William Nicholas, 48, president of Peru State College and Dr. Paul Maxwell, 56, education department head, were shot to death at their desks by Dr. Barney Baker, 54-year-old psychology professor. Baker was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot at his home on campus.[14] | |
July 14, 1952 | New York City, New York | United States | Bayard Peakes | 1 | 1 | Bayard Peakes walked in to the offices of the American Physical Society at Columbia University and shot and killed secretary Eileen Fahey with a .22 caliber pistol.[15][16] Peakes was reportedly upset that the APS had rejected a pamphlet he had written.[17] | |
November 20, 1952 | New York City, New York | United States | E. E. Herrmann, 56 | 1 | 1 | Rear Admiral E. E. Herrmann, 56, superintendent of the Naval Postgraduate School, was found dead in his office with a bullet in his head. A service revolver was found by his side.[18] | |
May 15, 1954 | Chapel Hill, North Carolina | United States | 3 | 1 | 2 | Putnam Davis Jr. was shot and killed during a fraternity house carnival at the Phi Delta Theta house at the University of North Carolina. William Joyner and Allen Long were shot and wounded during the exchange of gunfire in their fraternity bedroom. The incident took place after an all-night beer party. Long reported to the police that, while the three were drinking beer at 7 a.m., Davis pulled out a gun and started shooting, and that he had obtained the gun from a former roommate's car.[19] | |
January 11, 1955 | Swarthmore, Pennsylvania | United States | Robert Bechtel, 20 | 1 | 1 | After some of his dorm mates urinated on his mattress Bob Bechtel, a 20-year-old student at Swarthmore College, returned to his dorm with a shotgun and used it to shoot and kill fellow student Holmes Strozier.[20][21][22] | |
August 1, 1966 | Austin, Texas | United States | Charles Whitman, 25 | 49 | 18 | 31 | University of Texas Clock Tower shootings. After killing his wife and mother, Charles Whitman pointed a rifle from the observation deck of the University of Texas at Austin's Tower and began shooting for 96 minutes. He killed fifteen people and wounded 31 others before being shot dead by police. David Gunby was wounded in the shooting but died 35 years later after ceasing kidney dialysis treatments stemming from the shooting. |
November 12, 1966 | Mesa, Arizona | United States | Robert Benjamin Smith, 18 | 7 | 5 | 2 | Bob Smith, 18, took seven people hostage at Rose-Mar College of Beauty, a school for training beauticians. Smith ordered the hostages to lie down on the floor in a circle. He then proceeded to shoot them in the head with a 22-caliber pistol. Four women and a three-year-old girl died, one woman and a baby were injured but survived. Police arrested Smith after the massacre. Smith had reportedly admired Richard Speck and Charles Whitman.[23] |
February 8, 1968 | Orangeburg, South Carolina | United States | Nine patrolmen | 30 | 3 | 27 | Orangeburg massacre. In the days leading up to February 8, 1968, about 200 mostly student protesters gathered on the campus of South Carolina State University, located in the city of Orangeburg, to protest the segregation of the All Star Bowling Lane. The bowling alley was owned by the late Harry K. Floyd. That night, students started a bonfire. As police attempted to put out the fire, an officer was injured by a thrown piece of banister. The police said they believed they were under attack by small weapons fire. The officers fired into the crowd, killing three young men: Samuel Hammond, Delano Middleton, and Henry Smith, and wounding twenty-seven others. |
January 17, 1969 | Los Angeles, California | United States | Claude Hubert, 21 | 2 | 2 | Two student members of the Black Panther Party, Alprentice Carter and John Huggins, were fatally shot during a student meeting inside Campbell Hall at the University of California, Los Angeles. The motive of the shooting regarded who would own the school's African American Studies Center.[24] The shooter, Claude Hubert, was never to be found but three other men were arrested in connection with the shooting.[25] | |
August 24, 1969 | Alor Akar | Malaysia | 5 | 3 | 2 | A 23-year-old teacher at a vocational school in Alor Akar, Kuantan attacked several sleeping students in the school hostel. He killed three students and wounded two others, one of them critically, with a dagger. The teacher surrendered when confronted by a 17-year-old student and was later handed over to police.[26][27] | |
November 28, 1969 | State College, Pennsylvania | United States | 1 | 1 | 22-year-old graduate student Betsy Aardsma is stabbed to death in the Pattee Library at the Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania. Her killer is never apprehended.[28] | ||
May 4, 1970 | Kent, Ohio | United States | Ohio Army National Guard | 14 | 4 | 10 | Ohio Army National Guard open fire on student protesters at Kent State University during an anti-Vietnam War/Cambodian Campaign rally, killing 4 and wounding 10. See Kent State University shootings for more information. |
May 14–15, 1970 | Jackson, Mississippi | United States | Jackson Police Department and Mississippi Highway Patrol | 14 | 2 | 12 | Jackson State killings. Police kill two and injure twelve students during student demonstrations against the Vietnam War. |
August 24, 1970 | Madison, Wisconsin | United States | Karleton Armstrong, Dwight Armstrong, David Fine and Leo Burt | 5 | 1 | 4 | Sterling Hall bombing. A bombing occurred on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. It was committed by four young people as a protest against the University's research connections with the US military during the Vietnam War. It resulted in the death of Robert Fassnacht, a university physics researcher, and severe injuries to four other building occupants. |
November 11, 1971 | Spokane, Washington | United States | Larry J. Harmon, 21 | 6 | 2 | 4 | Former MIT student Larry J. Harmon, 21, entered St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Church on the Gonzaga University campus armed with a .22 caliber rifle. Harmon killed the caretaker, 68-year-old Hilary Kunz, and upon emerging from the church, wounded four more people before police officers shot and killed him. Harmon was described by his father as a religious fanatic who believed that he had seen the devil and that Christ was an imposter.[29] |
November 13, 1971 | Guatemala City | Guatemala | 17 | 2 | 15 | A 21-year-old student killed two people with a machete at an agricultural school near Guatemala City. 15 others were also wounded before the man could be overpowered by other students.[30] | |
January 30, 1974 | New Orleans, Louisiana | United States | Paul D. Caldwell, 20 | 1 | 1 | 20-year-old Paul Caldwell shot out several windows and held three students hostage, one of them for 45 minutes, in the library of Louisiana State University in New Orleans, before committing suicide.[31] | |
October 12, 1974 | Stanford, California | United States | 1 | 1 | 19-year-old Arlis Perry was stabbed to death with an ice pick in Stanford Memorial Church on the grounds of Stanford University by an unknown assailant.[32] | ||
November 7, 1974 | New York City, New York | United States | Gerald Melton, 27 | 1 | 1 | Gerald Melton stabbed 19-year-old Helen Surgan to death on the campus of Wagner College.[33] | |
December 24, 1974 | Sofia | Bulgaria | Branimir Donchev, 17 | 16 | 6 | 10 | 6 students were killed and 10 others wounded, among them several foreign students, when 17-year-old Branimir Donchev began shooting with a pistol in a university hostel in Sofia. Donchev was then subdued and arrested by police.[34][35] |
February 18, 1975 | Poughkeepsie, New York | United States | Louis Octavio Acevedo, III, 20 | 1 | 1 | Marist College student Shelley Lynn Sperling, 17, was shot and killed by Louis Acevedo, a scorned suitor, in the Marist College cafeteria.[36][37][38] | |
February 17, 1976 | Beirut | Lebanon | Najim Najim | 3 | 2 | 1 | Robert Najemy and Raymond Ghosn, two deans at the American University of Beirut, were shot and killed by former student Najim Najim, who had been expelled for radical activity. Najim then took six people hostage, after unsuccessfully trying to locate Samuel Kirkwood, the president of the university, and threatened to kill the hostages and himself with hand grenades. Three hours later he surrendered to police. When Najim was led out of the building he was shot and wounded by Joseph Cherbeka, a friend of dean Ghosn.[39] |
February 19, 1976 | Los Angeles, California | United States | Neil Jordan Liebeskind, 18 | 9 | 1 | 8 | During a test Neil Liebeskind, a student at a Los Angeles computer school, opened fire at his fellow students with a shotgun, killing Fernando E. Alcivar, 24, and wounding several others. Alcivar was an innocent bystandard who sat next to the intended target. When trying to escape, he was apprehended by Howard Barnes, a security guard working with a television crew filming nearby. When he was told to drop his gun, Liebeskind fired a shot at Barnes, hitting him in the thigh. Barnes returned fire and hit the gunman twice in the chest, leaving him critically wounded. The shooting was apparently sparked, because of a dispute between Liebeskind and another student who left his motorcycle helmet in his seat.[40][41][42][43] |
July 12, 1976 | Fullerton, California | United States | Edward Charles Allaway, 37 | 9 | 7 | 2 | California State University, Fullerton library massacre. A custodian opens fire on his fellow workers in the California State University, Fullerton library, killing seven and injuring two. |
October 6, 1976 | Bangkok | Thailand | Thai military and police | 46 | 46 | 6 October 1976 Massacre. At least 46 people were killed when Thai military and police units opened fire on students protesting at Thammasat University. The students were demonstrating against the return to Thailand of Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn. | |
January 15, 1978 | Tallahassee, Florida | United States | Ted Bundy, 31 | 4 | 2 | 2 | Ted Bundy entered the Florida State University Chi Omega sorority house at approximately 3 a.m. and killed two sleeping women, Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman. Bundy bludgeoned and strangled Levy and Bowman; he also sexually assaulted Levy. He also bludgeoned two other Chi Omegas, Karen Chandler and Kathy Kleiner. Bundy was a serial killer and had killed several other people before this event. |
August 18, 1978 | Stanford, California | United States | Theodore Streleski, 42 | 1 | 1 | Theodore Streleski murdered his mathematics professor, Karel deLeeuw at Stanford University by bludgeoning him with a ball-peen hammer. He was also found with a hit list containing deLeeuw's name. | |
October 6, 1979 | Columbia, South Carolina | United States | Mark Houston, 19 | 7 | 2 | 5 | Mark Houston opens fire inside a dormitory where a party is taking place at the University of South Carolina, He kills two partygoers and injures five.[44] |
December 1979 | Seattle, Washington | United States | Roger Cutsinger, 21 | 1 | 1 | Roger Cutsinger, 21, fatally shot his roommate and lover, Larry Duerkson, hoping to collect $500,000 from Duerkson's life insurance policy in which Cutsinger was named beneficiary. Duerkson, a University of Washington library employee, was walking between Parrington Hall and the Henry Art Gallery when Cutsinger shot him. Cutsinger was later convicted of first-degree murder.[45] | |
March 26, 1980 | Big Rapids, Michigan | United States | Thomas Kakonis, 20 | 1 | 1 | Robert Brauer, Business Professor, was shot to death by student Thomas Kakonis, 20, at Ferris State College. Robert Brauer had failed Kakonis on an examination. Kakonis was the son of an associate dean at the college.[46] | |
April 17, 1981 | Ann Arbor, Michigan | United States | Leo Kelly, 22 | 2 | 2 | Psychology Major Leo Kelly set off several Molotov Cocktails into the hallway of Bursley Residence Hall at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, setting off the fire alarm. He then took a sawed-off shotgun from his room, and began firing shots at fleeing residents. Freshman Edward Siwik and resident advisor Douglas McGreaham would ultimately die from gunshot wounds. Kelly was found guilty on two murder counts, and was sentenced to life in prison.[47] | |
April 5, 1982 | Hot Springs, Arkansas | United States | Kelvin Love | 2 | 2 | Kelvin Love, a student at Garland County Community College, killed an instructor and another student. | |
December 17, 1983 | Ithaca, New York | United States | Su Yong Kim | 2 | 2 | Non-student Su Yong Kim enters the Low Rise 7 dormitory and kills Cornell University freshmen Young Hee Suh and Erin Nieswand with a rifle.[48] | |
August 12, 1985 | New York City, New York | United States | Van Anthony Hull, 29 | 5 | 1 | 4 | Student Van Hull shot one person dead, injured another four at the New York City Technical College and kept police at bay for about an hour, before being taken into custody. The shooting was apparently related to a dispute over financial aid.[49] |
April 5, 1986 | Bethlehem, Pennsylvania | United States | Joseph M. Henry, 20 | 1 | 1 | Jeanne A. Clery, 19, a freshman at Lehigh University, was raped, beaten, and strangled to death with a metal Slinky coil by Henry, a sophomore, when she woke up while he was burglarizing her dorm room. Henry was convicted of murder and given a death sentence. Clery's parents sued Lehigh and used the settlement money to found Security on Campus, an advocacy group that won passage of the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy & Campus Crime Statistics Act.[50][51] | |
September 8, 1986 | New Orleans, Louisiana | United States | Cindy Marie Piccot, 21 | 2 | 2 | Cindy Marie Piccot entered the Coastal Training Institute and shot dead 20-year-old student Shamette Allen with a .38 caliber pistol before committing suicide. The motive for the shooting was revenge for an earlier attack in which Shamette Allen set Cindy Marie Piccot on fire.[52] | |
July 1989 | Seattle, Washington | United States | Azizolla Mazooni | 2 | 2 | Azizolla Mazooni shot and killed his ex-girlfriend, Marjan Mohseninia, and her friend, Abraham Sharif-Kashani, in the University of Washington parking lot. Mazooni had hired a private detective to locate Mohseninia, who was a summer student at the university. Mazooni was later convicted on two counts of second-degree murder. | |
November 16, 1989 | San Salvador | El Salvador | 8 | 8 | Six Jesuit priests, their cook and his 15-year-old daughter were shot to death, when 30 men in military uniforms raided the Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas".[53] | ||
December 6, 1989 | Montreal, Quebec | Canada | Marc Lépine, 25 | 29 | 15 | 14 | École Polytechnique massacre. Marc Lépine took a hunting rifle into École Polytechnique de Montréal. He began his attack by entering a classroom at the university, where he separated the male and female students. After claiming that he was "fighting feminism", he shot all nine women in the room, killing six. He then moved through corridors, the cafeteria, and another classroom, specifically targeting women to shoot. He killed fourteen women and injured four men and ten women in just under twenty minutes before turning the gun on himself. It remains to this day the worst mass killing in Canadian history, on or off a school campus. |
November 27, 1990 | Heraklion, Crete | Greece | Giorgos Petrodaska- lakis, 32 | 3 | 3 | Theoretical physicist Basilis C. Xanthopoulos and his colleague Stephanos Pnevmatikos were shot to death by 32-year-old post-graduate student Giorgos Petrodaskalakis at the University of Crete. Petrodaskalakis then committed suicide. | |
November 1, 1991 | Iowa City, Iowa | United States | Gang Lu, 28 | 7 | 6 | 1 | University of Iowa shooting After his dissertation did not win a certain academic award, Ph.D. physics student Gang Lu shot six people before committing suicide. Five were killed, including three professors. A student employee was paralyzed.[54] |
August 24, 1992 | Montreal, Quebec | Canada | Valery Fabrikant, 52 | 5 | 4 | 1 | Former professor Dr. Valery Fabrikant killed four colleagues and injured another at Montreal's Concordia University. |
December 14, 1992 | Great Barrington, Massachusetts | United States | Wayne Lo, 18 | 6 | 2 | 4 | Armed with an SKS carbine, 18-year-old Simon's Rock College of Bard student Wayne Lo killed a professor and a student and wounded several others. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. |
July 8, 1993 | Ogden, Utah | United States | Mark Duong, 28 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 28-year-old student Mark Duong shot and injured three people, one of them a Weber State police officer, at a grievance hearing at Weber State University before the injured officer was able to shoot him. Doung died at the scene.[55] |
April 5, 1994 | Aarhus | Denmark | Flemming Nielsen, 35 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 35-year-old Flemming Nielsen, a student at Aarhus University, entered the cafeteria of the University armed with a shotgun. He shot and killed two female students and wounded two others. Soon afterwards he went to the men's room where he committed suicide. |
December 8, 1994 | Quezon City | Philippines | 1 | 1 | Dennis Venturina, a Sigma Rhoan, was beaten to death by members of Scintilla Juris, a rival fraternity, on the campus of the University of the Philippines.[56] | ||
January 26, 1995 | Chapel Hill, North Carolina | United States | Wendell Williamson | 4 | 2 | 2 | Wendell Williamson, a law student and schizophrenic, opened fire on Henderson Street with an M1 rifle, killing two and injuring two others, including a Chapel Hill police officer. |
May 28, 1995 | Cambridge, Massachusetts | United States | Sinedu Tadesse, 20 | 3 | 2 | 1 | Sinedu Tadesse stabbed her roommate, 20-year-old Trang Phuong Ho, to death with a hunting knife inside a dormitory at Harvard University. Tadesse also attacked one of Ho's visiting friends, 26-year-old Thao Nguyen, severely injuring her as well. Tadesse then hanged herself.[57] |
August 15, 1996 | San Diego, California | United States | Frederick M. Davidson, 36 | 3 | 3 | San Diego State University shooting. Frederick M. Davidson, shot Dr. Chen Liang, Dr. Constantinos Lyrintzis, and Dr. D. Preston Lowrey during a meeting at which he was to defend his master's thesis. He pleaded guilty to three counts of murder and is serving a life term in state prison.[58] | |
September 17, 1996 | University Park, Pennsylvania | United States | Jillian Robbins, 19 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Hetzel Union Building shooting. 19-year-old Jillian Robbins opened fire on students walking to classes at The Pennsylvania State University, killing one student and wounding another. |
October 16, 1996 | West Lafayette, Indiana | United States | Jarrod Allen Eskew, 19 | 2 | 2 | On October 15, 1996, Jay Severson, 27, a Wiley Hall counselor at Purdue University caught Jarrod Allen Eskew, 19 of Crawfordsville, Indiana cutting cocaine in his dorm room. Severson called the Purdue Police Department but when they arrived Eskew had fled. Eskew returned the next day at 2:50 pm with a sawed off 12-gauge shotgun while under the influence of both marijuana and cocaine. Eskew went to Severson's Wiley Hall dorm room and fatally shot Severson in the head. He then barricaded himself in his third floor dorm room. A janitor found the body a short time later. SWAT and police took up positions around Wiley Hall. Police evacuated Wiley Hall, attempted to negotiate, fired tear gas, and stormed the room to find Eskew had killed himself with the shotgun.[59][60] | |
March 8, 1997 | Kamyshin | Russian Federation | Sergei Lepnev | 8 | 6 | 2 | First year cadet Sergei Lepnev of the Russian Military School opened fire on his classmates, killing six and wounding two.[61] |
September 3, 1998 | San Bernardino, California | United States | Jesus "Jesse" Morfe, 50 | 2 | 2 | An employee who recently resigned returned to campus, shot and killed his former boss, then turned the gun on himself. Jesus "Jesse" Morfe, 50, of Colton shot and killed Jerry Morrison, 55, director of the campus' Computing Services Center, at San Bernardino Valley College. Although police did not immediately determine a motive, Morfe had submitted his resignation Aug. 28. He was officially on paid vacation until the resignation took effect Sept. 30.[62] | |
February 19, 1999 | Quezon City | Philippines | 1 | 1 | Niño Calinao, a senior journalism major at the University of the Philippines was shot dead by suspected UP Sigma Rho fraternity members after being mistaken for a member of a rival fraternity.[56] | ||
July 10, 1999 | Ile-Ife, Osun State | Nigeria | Black Axe Confraternity | 19 | 8 | 11 | Obafemi Awolowo University massacre. An organized death squad of 30 members of the Black Axe Confraternity orchestrated a series of shootings and murders which took place against students of Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria . It resulted in the deaths of eight people and injuring of 11, all of them students at OAU. |
August 3, 1999 | Latrobe University, Melbourne | Australia | Jonathon Brett Horrocks, 38 | 2 | 1 | 1 | The shooting took place at 11:05 am when a man walked into the Eagle Bar on the La Trobe Bundoora campus armed with a .38 caliber revolver and shot and wounded a young woman before shooting bar manager Leon Capraro, killing him instantly. He then attempted to shoot at others but was restrained by patrons until police came and arrested him.[63] |
2000 - 2009
Date | Location | Country | Attackers | Casu- alties[lower-alpha 1] | Dead | Injured | Incident Description |
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February 10, 2000 | Quezon City | Philippines | 1 | 1 | Den Daniel Reyes was stabbed to death during a fight between two rival fraternities at the University of the Philippines.[56] | ||
June 28, 2000 | Seattle, Washington | United States | Jian Chen, 42 | 2 | 2 | Jian Chen entered the University of Washington Medical Center around 3:45 pm and went to the office of his former supervisor, 57-year-old Dr. Rodger Haggitt. Chen closed the door to Haggett's office and pulled out a gun and killed Haggett. Chen then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide. | |
August 28, 2000 | Fayetteville, Arkansas | United States | James Easton Kelley | 2 | 2 | James Easton Kelley shot and killed professor John Locke in his office at the University of Arkansas before committing suicide.[64] | |
September 28, 2000 and February 3, 2001 | Washington, District of Columbia | United States | Joseph Mesa Jr., 20 | 2 | 2 | 19-year-old Eric Franklin Plunkett was found beaten to death inside his dorm room at Gallaudet University in September 2000. In February 2001, 19-year-old Benjamin Varner, an RA in the same dorm, was found stabbed to death. An investigation led authorities to Joseph Mesa Jr., and Mesa was found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder.[65] | |
January 19, 2001 | Toronto, Ontario | Canada | 1 | 1 | Professor David Buller, 50, was stabbed to death outside his office at the University of Toronto by an unknown assailant.[66] | ||
May 18, 2001 | Pierce County, Washington | United States | Donald D. Cowan, 55 | 2 | 2 | Donald D. Cowan walked onto the Pacific Lutheran University campus armed with a 9mm handgun and a .22 caliber handgun, and then shot and killed music professor James D. Holloway, who was standing outside a residence hall, and then killed himself after leaving a 16-page suicide note behind. | |
January 16, 2002 | Grundy, Virginia | United States | Peter Odighizuwa, 43 | 6 | 3 | 3 | Appalachian School of Law shooting. Odighizuwa, a native-born Nigerian and former student at the Appalachian School of Law, shot and killed its dean, a professor and a student and wounded three other students. After running out of ammunition he was tackled by a student and subdued. He pleaded guilty to murder charges and received multiple life sentences. The school settled a suit brought by the wounded students and the dead student’s family, who claimed that officials knew the suspect had a history of paranoid outbursts and should have realized he was a threat.[67] |
October 21, 2002 | Melbourne | Australia | Huan Xiang | 7 | 2 | 5 | Monash University shooting. Huan Xiang, a commerce student at the university, armed with five loaded handguns, opened fire in a tutorial room. Two students, William Wu and Steven Chan, were killed and five others seriously wounded. Xiang was found not guilty of murder due to mental illness, and was ordered to be sent to a psychiatric hospital. |
October 28, 2002 | Tucson, Arizona | United States | Robert Flores, 41 | 4 | 4 | Robert J. Flores, Jr., 40, a failing nursing student and ex-Gulf War veteran, had shot and killed three professors before turning the gun onto himself and committing suicide. One professor was shot in her office, and two others were shot in a classroom. | |
May 9, 2003 | Cleveland, Ohio | United States | Biswanath Halder, 62 | 3 | 1 | 2 | Biswanath Halder, a former student of Case Western Reserve University, opened fire with an automatic firearm on campus, killing one student and wounding two others. After vigorous and bullet-ridden gun battles with school police and SWAT officers, Halder surrendered. |
September 13, 2003 | Nanning | China | 8 | 8 | A female student, who was suspended for one year after trying to commit suicide, stabbed eight classmates in a dormitory at Guangxi Teachers' College. Three of the victims were critically injured.[68][69] | ||
February 4, 2004 | Remanso | Brazil | 5 | 2 | 3 | A 17-year-old boy took a motorcycle taxi to the town center of Remanso where he shot and killed 13-year-old Farlley Bastos Almeida, who had previously ridiculed him, and then forced the driver at gunpoint to take him to a nearby EDP school. There he killed 23-year-old Ana Paula Feitosa de Almeida and wounded two others before he had emptied his revolver and could be subdued by two students. Another woman, afraid of getting shot, jumped out of a window in the third floor and broke her legs. In custody the boy stated that he sympathized with Islamic terrorists and had intended to kill at least a hundred people.[70] | |
Feb. 13-15, 2004 | Kunming | China | Ma Jiajue, 23 | 4 | 4 | Biochemistry student Ma Jiajue stabbed four other students to death in a dormitory at Yunnan University. He was found guilty of the crime and executed on June 17, 2004.[71] | |
August 4, 2004 | Beijing | China | Xu Heping, 51 | 18 | 1 | 17 | Xu Heping, a 51-year-old doorman with a history of mental illness, stabbed several students and teachers in Beijing University's Number One Hospital, killing a child and wounding 17 others, 14 of whom were children. |
December 28, 2005 | Bangalore | India | Unknown gunmen | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2005 Indian Institute of Science shooting. Prof. Munish Chandra Puri was killed and four others injured after two or more unidentified gunmen opened fired at the Indian Institute of Science. |
September 3, 2006 | Shepherds- town, West Virginia | United States | Douglas W. Pennington, 49 | 3 | 3 | Douglas W. Pennington, 49, killed his sons Logan P. Pennington, 26, and Benjamin M. Pennington, 24, during a visit to the campus at Shepherd University before shooting and killing himself.[72] | |
September 13, 2006 | Montreal, Quebec | Canada | Kimveer Gill, 25 | 21 | 2 (student & Gill) | 19 | Dawson College shooting. Kimveer Gill had opened fire at Dawson College, a college in Westmount near downtown Montreal. Gill began shooting outside the de Maisonneuve Boulevard entrance to the school, and moved towards the atrium by the cafeteria on the main floor. One victim (Anastasia De Sousa) died later in the next day due to her serious injuries at the hospital, while another 19 were injured, eight of whom were listed in critical condition, with six requiring surgery. The gunman later committed suicide by shooting himself in the head, after being shot in the arm by police. |
September 17, 2006 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | United States | 5 | 5 | Shots were fired outside the campus of Duquesne University, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, after a dance party sponsored by the Black Student Union which several non-students were attending. Five members of the Duquesne Dukes basketball team were injured during the shooting including one who sustained critical injuries after an argument between one individual and two students. | ||
January 16, 2007 | Baghdad | Iraq | Iraqi militants | 239 | 70 | 169 | Mustansiriya University bombings. Three explosions consisting of two car bombs and a suicide bomber occurred on the campus of the largely Shiite Mustansiriya University in Baghdad, Iraq. 70 people were killed and 169 were wounded in the attack.[73] |
January 25, 2007 | Beirut | Lebanon | Pro- government activists | 204 | 4 | ~200 | Four people were shot dead in clashes between pro- and anti-government activists and about 200 were hurt in violence that flared after a scuffle between students at the Beirut Arab University. |
April 2, 2007 | Seattle, Washington | United States | Jonathan Rowan, 41 | 2 | 2 | Rowan entered Gould Hall on the University of Washington's Seattle Campus and headed to the fourth floor where he entered the office of his ex-girlfriend Rebecca Griego, 26, a program coordinator for the College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Rowan fired two shots, the first taking Griego's life and the second taking his own life.[74] | |
April 16, 2007 | Blacksburg, Virginia | United States | Seung-Hui Cho, 23 | 58 | 33 | 25 | Virginia Tech massacre. Thirty-two people (27 students and 5 faculty members) were killed by Cho, a senior English-studies major, on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in two separate incidents, about two hours apart: at West Ambler Johnston Hall dormitory, where 2 were shot, and at Norris Hall, where the remaining 30 were shot in an attack lasting nine minutes. Another 25 people were injured at Norris, some when they jumped from second-story windows to escape. Cho committed suicide after police breached the main entrance doors, which he had chained shut.[75][76] The attack is the deadliest peacetime shooting incident by a single gunman in U.S. history, on or off a school campus.[77] |
May 8, 2007 | Bundoora, Victoria | Australia | Sarah Jean Cheney, 23 | 1 | 1 | Sarah Jean Cheney stabbed Jemma Clancy, a 27-year-old behavioral science student, three times with a steak knife. The incident occurred in the Borchardt library at the Bundoora campus of La Trobe University. Sarah Jean Cheney did not know Jemma Clancy personally and expressed that she just desired to kill someone. Jemma Clancy was taken to hospital in a serious but stable condition.[78] | |
July 3–11, 2007 | Islamabad | Pakistan | hundreds of Islamic militant students | 198 | 154 | 44 | Lal Masjid siege. Pro-Taliban students barricaded themselves in the Lal Masjid mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan. The mosque is attached to a religious school for women (the Jamia Hafsa madrasah) and a male madrasah. The Pakistani government sieged the mosque for 8 days, having numerous gun battles in heavy, room-to-room fighting until all the defenders were killed, captured, or had surrendered.[79][80] |
September 21, 2007 | Dover, Delaware | United States | Loyer D. Braden, 18 | 2 | 1 | 1 | An 18-year-old Delaware State University student shot two 17-year-old female students; one shooting victim, 17-year-old Shalita Middleton, died from injuries sustained in the shootings 32 days later while in the hospital. |
September 30, 2007 | Memphis, Tennessee |
United States | Devin Jefferson, 20; DaeShawn Tate, 21; Victor Trezevant, 21; Courtney Washington, 22 |
1 | 1 | A University of Memphis football player, 21-year-old Taylor Bradford, was fatally shot on campus in what was believed to be a targeted attack. Bradford was shot near his campus apartment. He then got into his car and drove a short distance before crashing into a tree where police found him dead from the gunshot wound. Bradford was rumored to have won more than $3,000 at a nearby casino the night before, which Four suspects were charged, with Jefferson being credited as the primary conspirator. | |
December 9, 2007 | Arvada, Colorado | United States | Matthew J. Murray, 24 | 10 | 5 | 5 | Matthew J. Murray attacked the Youth With A Mission missionary training school in Arvada, Colorado, killing two and wounding two others. He then drove to the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado where an additional two people were killed and three people were wounded before Murray was shot by a church security guard. Murray then committed suicide.[81][82] Murray had previously attended the same YWAM Missionary Center where he began his shooting spree. Murray was expelled from the school due to "strange behavior", which included playing frightening rock music and claiming to hear voices.[83] |
February 8, 2008 | Baton Rouge, Louisiana | United States | Latina Williams, 23 | 3 | 3 | Latina Williams, a 23-year-old nursing student, opened fire of six rounds with a .357-caliber revolver in a second-floor classroom at Louisiana Technical College, in Baton Rouge, before committing suicide. The two victims were classmates Karsheika Graves and Taneshia Butler, who were both fatally shot.[84] | |
February 14, 2008 | DeKalb, Illinois | United States | Steven Phillip Kazmierczak, 27 | 27 | 6 | 21 | Northern Illinois University shooting. 27-year-old former student Steven Kazmierczak opened fire with a shotgun and three semi-automatic handguns at Cole Hall on the campus of Northern Illinois University, in DeKalb, killing five students and wounding 20 other students and the class instructor. 17 of the injuries were determined to be gunshot-related, while the others were injured escaping the scene. Kazmierczak then fatally shot himself.[85][86][87][88] |
March 6, 2008 | Jerusalem | Israel | Alaa Abu Dhein, 26 | 20 | 9 | 11 | Mercaz HaRav massacre. Alaa Abu Dhein, a 26-year-old Palestinian, fired approximately 600 bullets from an AK-47 assault rifle at the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, a religious school in the Kiryat Moshe neighborhood in Jerusalem, Israel.[89] Eight students were killed and a further eleven were wounded. The attack ended about twenty minutes later when the gunman was shot to death by a part-time student and an officer of the Israel Defense Forces.[90] |
September 23, 2008 | Kauhajoki | Finland | Matti Juhani Saari, 22 | 12 | 11 | 1 | Kauhajoki school shooting. 22-year-old culinary arts student Matti Saari opened fire at the Kauhajoki School of Hospitality of Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences, in Kauhajoki, Finland, using a semi-automatic .22-caliber Walther P22 pistol. Nine students and a teacher died in the shooting, and their bodies along with school property inside the building were set ablaze. Saari then shot himself in the head, later dying at Tampere University Hospital.[91][92] It was the second school shooting to have occurred in Finland in less than a year, with the first one being the Jokela High School shooting in November 2007.[93] |
October 26, 2008 | Conway, Arkansas | United States | Kawin Brockman, 19; Kelcey Perry, 19; Mario Toney, 20, and Brandon Wade, 20 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2008 University of Central Arkansas shootings. A shooting took place on the campus of University of Central Arkansas, in Conway, outside the Arkansas Hall dormitory. Two students—Ryan Henderson, 18, and Chavares Block, 19—were both fatally shot. A third person, a 19-year-old campus visitor, was shot and wounded in the leg.[94] |
January 21, 2009 | Blacksburg, Virginia | United States | Haiyang Zhu, 25 | 1 | 1 | Yang Xin, a 22-year-old graduate student from Beijing, China, was decapitated with a kitchen knife by fellow student Zhu Haiyang, in a cafe on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). It is the second murder to have occurred on campus since April 2007, in which a 23-year-old student killed 32 people before committing suicide.[95] | |
February 7, 2009 | Houston, Texas | United States | Jeremy Lee Pierce, 32 | 1 | 1 | Jeremy Lee Pierce, a 32-year-old student at University of Houston, fatally shot Joe Tall, a 47-year-old homeless man, on the campus bus stop. Pierce has been charged with murder.[96] | |
March 2, 2009 | Nanyang Avenue | Singapore | David Hartanto Widjaja, 21 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Nanyang Technological University Professor Chan Kap Luk was stabbed in the arm and back in his office by David Hartanto Widjaja. Widjaja then slit his wrists and jumped off the five story engineering building where he died. Professor Luk was taken to the National University Hospital where he was treated for his injuries. |
April 2, 2009 | Radford, Virginia | United States | Phillip Eugene Beale Sr., 42; | 1 | 1 | Phillip Beale and another unidentified individual murdered a drug dealer near the campus of Radford University after getting into an argument with him. Radford police arrested Beale and are seeking to identify his accomplice.[97] | |
April 9, 2009 | Agios Ioannis Rentis, Athens | Greece | Dimitris Patmanidis, 19 | 4 | 1 | 3 | OAED Vocational College shooting. Dimitris Patmanidis, a 19-year-old car electronics student at the Manpower Employment Organisation of Greece (OAED), a vocational college in the Agios Ioannis Rentis suburb of Athens, Greece, walked onto campus armed with two pistols and a knife. Patmanidis shot an 18-year-old student on a staircase three times; he was carried to Nikaia General Hospital with serious injuries. Patmanidis then confronted two pedestrians alerted by the gunfire, and shot both of them, and then fled to a park where he committed suicide.[98] The incident of a school shooting is one of the first to ever occur in Greece.[99][100] |
April 10, 2009 | Dearborn, Michigan | United States | Anthony Powell, 28 | 2 | 2 | 28-year-old Anthony Powell fatally shot his classmate, 20-year-old Asia McGowan, before committing suicide on the campus of Henry Ford Community College.[101] | |
April 26, 2009 | Hampton, Virginia | United States | Odane Maye, 18 | 3 | 3 | Odane Maye, an 18-year-old former student, entered Hampton University, in eastern Virginia, while armed with three handguns. Maye stalked a pizza delivery man, who he then shot while entering Harkness Hall dormitory. Maye then entered the dormitory and shot its manager, and then shot himself in an unsuccessful suicide attempt;[102][103] both victims survived. Maye was arrested three days later after being hospitalized and was arraigned the next day on seven counts—aggravated malicious wounding and various firearms offenses.[104][105] | |
April 28, 2009 | Richmond, Virginia | United States | 2 | 2 | Early on the morning of April 28, two students at Virginia Union University were stabbed. Police say the suspect, whose name has not been released, is not a VUU student.[106] | ||
April 30, 2009 | Baku | Azerbaijan | Farda Gadirov, 29 | 23 | 13 | 10 | Azerbaijan State Oil Academy shootings. Farda Gadirov, a 29-year-old Georgian citizen, opened fire with a Makarov PM semi-automatic pistol at the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy, in Baku. Seven students and five faculty members died, another 10 were injured. Gadirov committed suicide after the attack.[107] |
May 6, 2009 | Middletown, Connecticut | United States | Stephen P. Morgan, 29 | 1 | 1 | Stephen P. Morgan allegedly used a CZ-USA 9 mm semi-automatic pistol to shoot and kill 21-year-old Wesleyan University student Johanna Justin-Jinich at the off-campus bookstore where she was working. Morgan purportedly previously had been stalking Johanna Justin-Jinich and leaving her harassing phone calls and e-mail messages (prior to her matriculation at Wesleyan when they were both attending classes at New York University). After arresting Morgan, police purportedly found a journal in Morgan's car that supposedly stated Morgan's plans might have been allegedly to rape and kill Johanna Justin-Jinich and then allegedly go on a killing spree at Wesleyan University.[108] | |
May 18, 2009 | Cambridge, Massachusetts | United States | Jabrai Jordan Copney, 20; Jason Aquino, 23; Blayn Jiggetts, 19 | 1 | 1 | Justin Cosby, 21, of Cambridge, was invited into a Harvard dormitory to sell the suspects marijuana.[109] They attempted to rob him, then shot him. Copney turned himself in four days later.[110] A week later, two investigators hired by the MIT Crime Club were arrested on charges of breaking into the dormitory; a judge ruled that the prosecutors had no case.[111][112] Copney was convicted of murder. His girlfriend, Brittany Smith '09, 21, pleaded guilty to assisting after the fact, firearm possession, and misleading a grand jury.[113] Jiggetts pleaded guilty to manslaughter, armed robbery, and firearm possession; Aquino to manslaughter, armed robbery, and misleading a grand jury.[114] | |
September 2, 2009 | San Bruno, California | United States | Germaine Benjamin, 18; Dimaryea McGhee, 20; Jacori Bender, 18 |
1 | 1 | A student was shot in the abdomen and buttocks after an argument escalated between two groups of young males in the parking lot of Skyline College, in San Bruno, a suburb of San Francisco, California. The victim was transported to San Francisco General Hospital and the campus was subsequently placed on lockdown. Police arrested three suspects on September 3.[115][116] | |
September 8, 2009 | New Haven, Connecticut | United States | Raymond Clark, 24 | 1 | 1 | 24-year-old doctoral student Annie Le was strangled to death inside a research building on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.[117][118] On September 17, police arrested lab technician Raymond Clark and charged him with murder.[119] Clark pleaded guilty to the murder and was sentenced to 44 years in prison on June 3, 2011.[120] | |
October 8, 2009 | Los Angeles, California | United States | Damon Thompson, 20 | 1 | 1 | A 20-year-old female student of a chemistry laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles was stabbed multiple times, including having her throat slashed, during class. A teaching assistant stopped the bleeding and called for help. The victim was transported to the hospital and needed surgery but was expected to recover. Police arrested Damon Thompson after the attack.[121] | |
October 18, 2009 | Storrs, Connecticut | United States | John William Lomax III, 21 | 1 | 1 | Jasper Howard, a 20-year-old cornerback for the UConn Huskies, was stabbed to death on the campus of the University of Connecticut, outside the Student Union Center where an on-campus dance was held to celebrate the Huskies’ homecoming victory over the Louisville Cardinals. On October 21, police arrested John William Lomax III, 21, and charged him with murder. Three other men were also arrested in connection with the murder.[122][123] | |
November 26, 2009 | Pécs | Hungary | 4 | 1 | 3 | A 23-year-old pharmacology student at the University of Pécs opened fire inside the biophysics research institute at the university. A 19-year-old student was killed and a student, a teacher and a cleaning woman were wounded in the shooting. The gunman was arrested by police about one hour after the attack.[124][125] | |
December 4, 2009 | Vestal, New York | United States | Abdulsalam S. al-Zahrani, 46 | 1 | 1 | Richard T. Antoun, 77, a professor of anthropology and specialist in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, is stabbed to death inside his office at Binghamton University. Police arrested 46-year-old graduate student Abdulsalam S. al-Zahrani after the stabbing and charged him with second-degree murder.[126] Al-Zahrani pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of first-degree manslaughter and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. After al-Zahrani is released he will be deported to his native Saudi Arabia.[127] |
2010 - 2015
Date | Location | Country | Attackers | Casu- alties[lower-alpha 1] | Dead | Injured | Incident Description |
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January 13, 2010 | Perpignan | France | Unknown, 26 | 4 | 1 | 3 | A 26-year-old Chinese sociology student killed a secretary and wounded three teachers with a knife at the University of Perpignan. The student, who was said to have been treated for behavioural problems previously, was arrested by police.[128] |
February 12, 2010 | Huntsville, Alabama | United States | Amy Bishop, 44 | 6 | 3 | 3 | University of Alabama in Huntsville shooting. Amy Bishop, a biology professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, shot six faculty members at a faculty meeting. Three professors died in the shooting. Bishop was arrested after the shooting and charged with capital murder.[129] On September 24, 2012, Bishop was sentenced to life in prison.[130] |
March 9, 2010 | Columbus, Ohio | United States | Nathaniel Brown, 51 | 3 | 2 | 1 | Nathaniel Brown, a 51-year-old custodian at Ohio State University, fatally shot one co-worker and wounded another after he was told that he was being fired from his custodial job at the university. Brown then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide.[131] |
May 18, 2010 | Hainan | China | 10 | 10 | A group of men armed with knives attacked college students at the Hainan Institute of Science and Technology. The attack began when the assailants disabled a security camera and stabbed a guard. The assailants then entered the dormitories and attacked students at random. Nine students were injured in the attack, including one who had his hand slashed off. Three of the attackers were arrested.[132][133] | ||
September 28, 2010 | Austin, Texas | United States | Colton Tooley, 19 | 1 | 1 | A man identified as 19-year-old sophomore Colton Tooley opened fire with an assault rifle on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin before fleeing into a library where he committed suicide. No one else was injured.[134] | |
October 3, 2010 | Elizabeth City, North Carolina | United States | Christopher David Amyx, 23 | 1 | 1 | Jonathan Schipper, a student at Mid-Atlantic Christian University was shot to death inside Pearl A. Presley Hall, a campus dormitory. Police arrested 23-year-old student Christopher David Amyx after the shooting and charged him with first-degree murder. Amyx had claimed self-defense, saying 23-year-old Jonathan Schipper came at him with a knife while he sat at his computer in his dorm room. Amyx testified he had received threatening notes in the days leading up to the shooting and felt he was in danger because he was a gay student at a religious school.[135][136][137] | |
February 6, 2011 | Youngstown, Ohio | United States | Columbus E. Jones Jr., 22 Braylon L. Rogers, 19 |
12 | 1 | 11 | Two men opened fire inside a fraternity house where a party was taking place on the campus of Youngstown State University. Jamail E. Johnson, a 25-year-old student, died in the shooting and eleven other people were injured. Six students were among those injured. Two men were arrested on charges of aggravated murder.[138] |
April 6, 2011 | Opelika, Alabama | United States | Thomas Franklin May, 34 | 4 | 1 | 3 | A gunman opened fire on a minivan in the car park of Southern Union Community College killing a 63-year-old woman and wounding a 93-year-old woman and a 36-year-old woman. A four-year-old girl also received injuries from flying glass. The gunman, identified as 34-year-old Thomas Franklin May, was arrested after he returned to the scene and told journalists at the scene that he was the shooter. The journalists then called police. It was reported that one of the injured women was May’s estranged wife.[139] |
May 10, 2011 | San Jose, California | United States | Napoleon Lavarias Caliguiran, 54 | 3 | 3 | Napoleon Lavarias Caliguiran, 54, shot and killed his 25-year-old wife and a 26-year-old man in the fifth level of a parking garage of the San Jose State University campus. Caliguiran shot himself and died later that night in a hospital.[140] | |
August 8, 2011 | Atizapán de Zaragoza | Mexico | 2 | 2 | A homemade bomb explodes at Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Estado de México Campus in Atizapán de Zaragoza. The bomb was sent to a professor of robotics who was injured along with a guard at the university. Personnel of Mexican Army, Attorney General for Justice of the State of Mexico and State Security Agency discovered that the device came with FedEx stamps and it was addressed to the academic. State of Mexico Governor Enrique Peña Nieto calls the incident as an "isolated incident but serious." [141][142] | ||
November 15, 2011 | Berkeley, California | United States | Christopher Travis/UCPD, Berkeley | 1 | 1 | Three campus police officers shot and wounded an undergraduate student who brandished a gun in a Haas Business School computer lab at UC Berkeley; the student later died in the hospital. The incident has been described as a "suicide-by-cop."[143] | |
December 8, 2011 | Blacksburg, Virginia | United States | Ross Truett Ashley, 22 | 2 | 2 | Ross Truett Ashley shot and killed Virginia Tech Police officer Deriek Crouse during the course of a traffic stop, fled the scene and then took his own life in a nearby parking lot after changing his clothes.[144][145] | |
April 2, 2012 | Oakland, California | United States | One L. Goh, 43 (charged) | 10 | 7 | 3 | Oikos University shooting One L. Goh allegedly shot ten people at Oikos University; seven of which died and another three were injured. He is facing murder and attempted murder charges.[146] |
June 15, 2012 | Edmonton, Alberta | Canada | Travis Brandon Baumgartner, 21 | 4 | 3 | 1 | While restocking bank machines at the University of Alberta's HUB Mall, three G4S crew members, Michelle Shegelski, Brian Ilesic, and Eddie Rejano, were shot and killed by another crew member, Travis Brandon Baumgartner. A fourth, Matthew Schuman, was seriously injured, but survived. Baumgartner was arrested on June 16, while attempting to cross into the U.S. at the Aldergrove, British Columbia-Lynden, Washington border.[147] Baumgartner was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 40 years.[148] |
October 31, 2012 | Los Angeles, California | United States | Brandon Spencer, 20 (charged) | 4 | 4 | At a Halloween party on the University of Southern California campus, an argument escalated and a man pulled out a handgun and shot Geno Hall seven times, critically wounding him. Three other people, who were not students of USC, were shot and wounded and hospitalized with less serious injuries. Brandon Spencer, 20, was arrested for the shooting. He is charged with attempted murder.[149][150] | |
November 30, 2012 | Casper, Wyoming | United States | Christopher Krumm, 25 | 3 | 3 | Christopher Krumm fatally shot his father with a bow and arrow at Casper College; he stabbed one female professor near her home, and stabbed himself to death at the college.[151] | |
December 20, 2012 | Hanoi | Vietnam | 1 | 1 | A 20-year-old student was stabbed to death at Ha Noi University of Business and Technology.[152] | ||
January 15, 2013 | St. Louis, Missouri | United States | Sean Johnson (charged) | 2 | 2 | A gunman shot an administrator in his office on the fourth floor of Stevens Institute of Business and Arts, wounding him. The suspected gunman, Sean Johnson, a part-time student, shot and wounded himself on a stairwell. Both the administrator and Johnson were hospitalized in stable conditions. Johnson was charged with three felony charges, including assault.[153] | |
January 15, 2013 | Hazard, Kentucky | United States | Dalton Lee Stidham, 21 (charged) | 3 | 3 | Two people were shot and 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.[154] | |
January 16, 2013 | Chicago, Illinois | United States | 1 | 1 | A 17-year-old boy, Tyrone Lawson, was shot to death in a parking lot of Chicago State University. The shooting happened after high school basketball games were being held on the university campus, and Lawson was a spectator at the event. Police arrested two people after the shooting and recovered a weapon.[155] | ||
January 22, 2013 | Houston, Texas | United States | 3 | 3 | Between the Library and Academic Building outside of Lone Star College–North Harris, two men got into an argument and one of the men pulled out a gun and shot the other man, a student, injuring him. A maintenance man suffered a gunshot wound to the leg. The gunman accidentally shot himself in the leg. After the shooting, the gunman fled into the woods and was arrested hours later. The charges against the initial suspect were dropped and another man was arrested.[156] | ||
March 18, 2013 | Orlando, Florida | United States | James Oliver Seevakumaran, 30 | 1 | 1 | At the University of Central Florida, 30-year-old student James Oliver Seevakumaran pulled a fire alarm went off at the Tower 1 dormitory. According to plans he had written, Seevakumaran intended to attract a large amount of people inside the building to gather and shoot them. He then pointed a handgun at his roommate and threatened to shoot him inside their dormitory room. Seevakumaran released his roommate who ran into a bathroom to call 911. Seevakumaran then fatally shot himself in the head. Authorities found an assault weapon, a couple hundred rounds of ammunition and four homemade bombs inside his backpack.[157] | |
April 9, 2013 | Cypress, Texas | United States | Dylan Andrew Quick, 20 (charged) | 14 | 14 | Fourteen students were injured, two critically, during a stabbing attack at the campus of Lone Star College-CyFair. The assailant was subdued by three students, and then was apprehended. The suspect, Dylan Quick, a student, was charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.[158][159] | |
April 12, 2013 | Christiansburg, Virginia | United States | Neil Allen MacInnis, 19 (charged) | 2 | 2 | Two women were wounded during a shooting at the campus of New River Community College. Neil Allen MacInnis was taken into custody.[160] | |
April 19, 2013 | Cambridge, Massachusetts | United States | Tamerlan A. Tsarnaev, 26, and Dzhokar A. Tsarnaev, 19 (charged) | 3 | 2 | 1 | Three days after the Boston Marathon bombings, the Tsarnaev brothers allegedly killed MIT Police officer Sean Collier, 27, in an attempt to steal his gun. Collier was stationed in his cruiser outside MIT's Stata Center; the suspects approached from the rear and shot him five times but failed to remove his gun from its locked holster. The suspects fled to Watertown, where Tamerlan was shot and wounded by police; Dzhokar then drove over him with an SUV, killing him. Dzhokar was also shot and wounded, and was apprehended the next evening. He was indicted in federal district court, charged with shooting Collier, trying to steal a service weapon, and using explosive devices with intent to murder, and was also indicted in Middlesex County court, charged with murder and four counts of armed assault with intent.[161][162][163][164] |
June 7, 2013 | Santa Monica, California | United States | John S. Zawahri, 23 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 2013 Santa Monica shooting. Zawarhi killed five people and wounded four during a shooting spree throughout the city. He killed his brother and father at their home, then set it on fire. Attempting to commandeer a car, he wounded the female driver, then forced another to drive him to Santa Monica College. Along the way he shot at a city bus, wounding three passengers, and then killed a man and his daughter who were driving toward the campus. He killed a groundskeeper outside the campus library, entered, and fired off seventy rounds without hitting anyone. He was then shot and killed by police. |
September 29, 2013 | Gujba, Yobe State | Nigeria | Boko Haram | 70 | 44 | 16 | Gujba college massacre. Gunmen from terrorist group Boko Haram entered the male dormitory in the College of Agriculture in Gujba, Yobe State, Nigeria, killing forty-four students and teachers. The gunmen opened fire on the students while they were sleeping. |
November 2, 2013 | Greensboro, North Carolina | United States | 1 | 1 | One person was shot and wounded at North Carolina A&T State University. The victim was hospitalized. The university was temporarily locked down that night, and the lockdown was lifted about half an hour later. No suspects are in custody.[165] | ||
November 19, 2013 | Lynchburg, Virginia | United States | Joshua Hathaway, 19 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Joshua Hathaway, 19, a freshman at Liberty University was killed after he told a security officer at about 4:15 a.m. that someone had stolen his car. Hathaway then pulled out a hammer from his clothing and assaulted the officer in the dormitory's lobby. The officer fired two shots in response, striking Hathaway at least once.[166] |
January 20, 2014 | Chester, Pennsylvania | United States | 1 | 1 | One person was shot and critically injured at Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania. The incident occurred around 10:00 pm outside the university sport’s complex and led to an 8-hour university lock-down. The suspect was not immediately found.[167] | ||
January 21, 2014 | West Lafayette, Indiana | United States | Cody Cousins, 23 | 1 | 1 | Cody Cousins allegedly shot and killed Andrew Boldt, a senior year undergraduate student at Purdue University. The shooting took place in a classroom in the university's electrical engineering building. Cousins was taken into custody.[168] He committed suicide in October 2014.[169] | |
January 24, 2014 | Orangeburg, South Carolina | United States | Justin Bernard Singleton, 19 (charged) | 1 | 1 | A student Brandon Robinson was shot and killed near dormitory at South Carolina State University. On Sunday January 25, police arrested 19-year-old Justin Bernard Singleton and charged him with murder.[170] | |
January 28, 2014 | Nashville, Tennessee | United States | 1 | 1 | One student was shot in the leg in an apparent altercation over a gambling debt at Tennessee State University.[171] | ||
January 30, 2014 | Palm Bay, Florida | United States | 1 | 1 | Three students were fighting in a parking lot of Eastern Florida State College and one pulled out a gun and shot another of the students. All three student claimed self-defense.[172] | ||
February 25, 2014 | Buni Yadi, Yobe State | Nigeria | Boko Haram | 59 | 59 | Federal Government College attack. Militants barged into the Federal Government College while the students were sleeping. They threw explosives into dorm rooms as they sprayed the rooms with gunfire. Fifty-nine boys were killed in the attack. Some died from gunshots or knife wounds, while others were burned to death. The twenty-four buildings of the school were also burned down. Boko Haram are suspected to be behind the attack. | |
May 23, 2014 | Isla Vista, California | United States | Elliot Rodger, 22 | 20 | 7 | 13 | 2014 Isla Vista massacre. 22-year-old Elliot Rodger killed six people in a stabbing and shooting rampage around the city of Isla Vista. Three men were stabbed to death at Rodger's home; two of them were his roommates, and the third was a visitor. Two of the victims were shot and killed at a University of California, Santa Barbara sorority house, and a third victim was wounded there. Rodger opened fire outside a deli, killing a male student, and then engaged in a gun battle with law enforcement officers. He later died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. |
June 5, 2014 | Seattle, Washington | United States | Aaron Ybarra, 26 (charged) | 3 | 1 | 2 | Three people were shot in a hallway at Seattle Pacific University. One person was killed, and another person received life-threatening injuries. The shooter was disarmed by staff members and apprehended at the scene. The suspected shooter is 26-year-old Aaron Ybarra.[173] |
November 20, 2014 | Tallahassee, Florida | United States | Myron May, 31 | 1 | 3 | On November 20, 2014, at around 12:39 a.m. EST, a gunman opened fire in or near the Strozier Library at Florida State University. There were 3 shot,and were taken to an local area hospital. The gunman, later identified as Myron May, an alumnus from the school, starting firing towards police officers and was killed on the steps of the library.[174][175] | |
February 5, 2015 | Columbia, South Carolina | United States | Sunghee Kwon, 46 | 2 | 2 | 0 | On February 5, 2015, 15 12:50 p.m. EST, at the University of South Carolina, Dr. Raja Fayad was killed by his ex-wife, Sunghee Kwon, in his office. Kwon shot Fayad several times before killing herself immediately thereafter.[176] |
April 2, 2015 | Garissa | Kenya | Al-Shabaab | 231 | 152 | 79 | On April 2, 2015 gunmen stormed the Garissa University College in Garissa, Kenya, killing at least 148 people and wounding a further 79. Four gunmen were killed during the massacre. |
See also
- School bullying
- School shooting
- School violence
- List of school-related attacks
- List of attacks related to primary schools
- List of attacks related to secondary schools
- List of rampage killers: School massacres
External links
- School-Related Deaths, School Shootings, & School Violence Incidents: 2000–2001, National School Safety and Security Services
- School-Related Deaths, School Shootings, & School Violence Incidents: 2002–2003, National School Safety and Security Services
- School-Related Deaths, School Shootings, & School Violence Incidents: 2004–2005, National School Safety and Security Services
- School-Related Deaths, School Shootings, & School Violence Incidents: 2006–2007, National School Safety and Security Services
- School-Related Deaths, School Shootings, & School Violence Incidents: 2007–2008, National School Safety and Security Services
- School-Related Deaths, School Shootings, & School Violence Incidents: 2008–2009, National School Safety and Security Services
- School-Related Deaths, School Shootings, & School Violence Incidents: 2009–2010, National School Safety and Security Services
References
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