School Associated Violent Deaths
Here is a list of violent deaths that have occurred since the beginning of the 1995-6 school year. Of the 126 deaths recorded, 97 have died from gunshot wounds. (77%) The source of the listing is from the National School Safety Center as published in the Denver Post, April 24, 1999.
Also read, The Littleton Shootings: The Evolutionary Perspective
An interesting look back at the worst school shooting
(at that time) one month after the incident.
Origin: May 1999
Date School Reason Method Victims
8/29/95 Memorial Middle School,
Laredo, Texas
Unknown
Shooting
1
9/12/95 Cypress Junior High School, Memphis,
Tenn Interpersonal
Shooting
1
9/14/95 Olathe North High School, Olathe, Kan
Unknown
Shooting
2
9/21/95 Jefferson Middle School, Rochester, N.Y.
Interpersonal Stabbing
1
9/30/95 Tavares Middle School, Tavares, Fla
Unknown
Shooting
1
10/3/95 Gilroy High School, Memphis, Tenn
Gang-related
Stabbing
1
10/10/95 Marshall Elementary School, St. Louis
Interpersonal Beating
1
10/12/95 Blackville-Hilda High School, Blackville, S.C.
Unknown
Shooting
2
11/2/95 Blue Lake Elementary School, Miami
Beach, Fla Interpersonal
Shooting
1
11/6/95 Treadwell High School, Memphis, Tenn
Interpersonal Shooting
1
11/15/95 Richland High School, Lynnville, Tenn
Unknown
Shooting
2
11/28/95 Thomas A. Edison Voc. and Tech HS, Queens, N.Y.
Robbery
Shooting 1
12/14/95 Oxon Hill High School, Oxon Hill, Md
Robbery
Shooting
1
1/2/96 Girard High School, Girard,
Pa
Suicide
Shooting
1
1/19/96 Martha H. Winston Comm School, Wash.,
D.C. Accidental
Shooting
1
1/26/96 Manassas High School, Memphis, Tenn
Unknown
Shooting
1
1/26/96 East High School, Detroit
Interpersonal Shooting
1
1/29/96 Tustin High School, Tustin, Calif
Unknown
Stabbing
1
1/30/96 Denby High School, Detroit
Unknown
Stabbing
1
2/2/96 Frontier Junior High School,
Moses Lake, Wash Bully-related
Shooting
3
2/8/96 Mid-Peninsula Ed Ctr, Palo
Alto, Calif
Suicide
Shooting
1
2/22/96 Jenkins High School, Savannah, Ga
Interpersonal
Shooting
1
2/29/96 Beaumont High School, St. Louis
Unknown
Shooting
2
3/11/96 North Stanley High School, New Longdon,
N.C. Suicide
Shooting
1
3/25/96 Eleanor Roosevelt HS, Greenbelt, Md
Interpersonal Stabbing
1
3/25/96 Mountain Park Baptist Academy,
Patterson, Mo Interpersonal
Stabbing
1
4/11/96 Talladega High School, Talladega, Ala
Interpersonal Shooting
1
5/14/96 Bingham Middle School, Taylorsville,
Utah
Suicide
Shooting
1
5/22/96 Colton High School, Cotton, Calif
Unknown
Shooting
1
9/25/96 DeKalb Alternative School, Taylorsville,
Utah Suicide
Shooting
1
10/2/96 Smedley Elementary School, Philadelphia,
Pa Unknown
Shooting
2
10/4/96 St. Bernard HS, Playa del Rey, Calif
Unknown
Shooting
1
10/9/96 Jacksonville Senior High School,
Sherwood, Ark Interpersonal
Shooting
1
10/13/96 Sumner High School, St. Louis
Interpersonal Shooting
1
11/27/96 Highlands High School, Sacramento, Calif
Interpersonal
Shooting
1
1/11/97 Crown Heights High School, Brooklyn,
N.Y.
Interpersonal Stabbing
1
1/27/97 Conniston Middle School, West Palm
Beach, Fla Interpersonal
Shooting
1
2/1/97 Webbers Falls High School,
Webbers Falls, Oka Interpersonal
Stabbing
1
2/18/97 Lincoln Elementary School, Ventura,
Calif
Unknown
Unknown
1
2/19/97 Bethel Regional High School, Bethel,
Alaska
Bully-related Shooting
2
2/20/97 First Coast High School, Jacksonville,
Fla
Suicide
Shooting
1
2/21/97 Concord High School, Concord, N.H.
Interpersonal Beating
1
3/5/97 Bayonne High School, Newark,
N.J.
Interpersonal Stabbing
1
3/17/97 Pershing High School, Detroit
Interpersonal Shooting
1
3/26/97 Oak Harbor Elementary, Oak Harbor, Wash.
Sexual Motive Strangling
1
3/27/97 Sullivan Middle School, Lowell, Mass
Interpersonal Beating
1
4/3/97 Marina del Rey Junior High,
Mar Vista Calif
Gang-related Shooting
1
4/22/97 John Marshall High School, Los Angeles
Gang-related Shooting
1
4/28/97 Cumberland Regnl HS, Upper Deerfield
Twp, N.J. Unknown
Beating
1
5/14/97 Wide Lake High School, Columbia, Md.
Accidental
Heart Attack 1
5/16/97 Rio Linda High School, Rio Linda, Calif
Unknown
Stabbing
1
6/7/97 Lacy Township High School,
Ocean County, N.J. Unknown
Unknown 1
9/11/97 Berkeley High School East Campus,
Berkeley, Ca Unknown
Stabbing
1
9/18/97 Southwest DeKalb High School, Atlanta
Bully-related
Stabbing
1
9/27/97 Christa McAuliffe Middle School, Jackson
Twp, N.J. Sexual Motive Strangling
1
10/1/97 Pearl High School, Pearl, Miss
Unknown
Shooting 2
10/14/97 Lakeview Centennial HS, Garland, Texas
Suicide
Shooting
1
10/14/97 Ruskin High School, Kansas City, Mo
Interpersonal
Shooting
1
10/20/97 McClymonds High School, Oakland, Calif
Unknown
Shooting
1
10/22/97 John Glenn High School, Norwalk, Calif
Interpersonal
Shooting
2
11/7/97 Ribault High School, Jacksonville, Fla
Interpersonal
Shooting
1
11/13/97 Creekside Elementary School, Sacramento, Calif
Unknown
Shooting
1
12/1/97 Heath High School, West Paducah, Ky.
Bully-related
Shooting
3
12/3/97 Madera High School, Madera, Calif
Interpersonal
Beating
1
2/12/98 Hoboken High School, Hoboken, N.J.
Interpersonal
Shooting
2
2/25/98 Reed City High School, Reed City, Mich
Suicide
Shooting
1
2/27/98 Marshall High School, Fairfax, Va.
Gang-related Shooting
1
3/9/98 Central Avenue Elementary
School, Summit, Wash Gang-related
Stabbing
1
3/20/98 East Campus Educational Center, Merced,
Calif Gang-related
Stabbing
1
3/24/98 Westside Middle School, Jonesboro, Ark
Unknown
Shooting
5
3/30/98 Grey Culbreth Middle School, Chapel
Hill, N.C. Suicide
Shooting
1
4/24/98 Parker Middle School, Edinboro, Pa
Unknown
Shooting
1
4/28/98 Philadelphia Elementary School, Pomona,
Calif Gang-related
Shooting
2
5/1/98 Public School 18, Buffalo,
N.Y.
Interpersonal Shooting
1
5/7/98 King Estates Middle School,
Oakland, Calif
Unknown
Stabbing
1
5/19/98 Lincoln County High, Fayetteville, Tenn
Interpersonal
Shooting
1
5/21/98 Thurston High Schook, Springfield, Ore
Unknown
Shooting
2
5/21/98 Onalaska High Shcool, Onalaska, Wash
Suicide
Shooting
1
5/21/98 Rialto High School, Rialto, Calif
Suicide
Shooting 1
5/27/98 Washington Middle School, Pasadena,
Calif
Gang-related Shooting
1
5/29/98 Stranahan High jSchool, Ft. Lauderdale,
Fla
Interpersonal
Shooting
2
7/10/98 Burbank High School, Burbank, Caoif
Interpersonal Stabbing
1
9/12/98 Herbert Hoover High School, Glendale,
Calif
Interpersonal Shooting
1
10/5/98 San Juan High School, Sacramento, Calif
Unknown
Beating
1
10/23/98 Landmark Middle School, Moreno Valley, Calif
Interpersonal
Beating
1
11/2/98 E.T. Booth Middle School, Woodstock, Ga
Bully-related Beating
1
11/5/98 Wetumpka Junior High Schook, Wetumpka,
Ala Interpersonal
Stabbing
1
1/1/99 Richland Hills High School,
Fort Worth, Texas
Suicide
Shooting 1
1/8/99 Central High School,
Carrollton, Ga
Suicide
Shooting 2
2/11/99 Ombudsman Educational Service Center,
Elgin, Ill Gang-related
Shooting
1
4/20/99 Columbine High School, Littleton, Co.
Bully-related
Shooting
15
(I apologize for the wiggly columns -- it seems that my table creator only goes up to 22 rows, and I had to do it manually.)
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