When McGinnis' son learned of this, he went to the school and killed the teacher. 13-year-old Kelly Crittendon was accidentally killed by two classmates in a classroom at the Precious Blood School. Pitts was acquitted of murder on grounds of self-defense. 13-year-old Arthur Day secretly took a loaded pistol to PS No. From Times Wire Services. On May 4, 1972, 33-year-old Libby Booth Elementary school principal Virgil Ouren was shot three times with a 22-caliber pistol which killed him instantly. Bell was also sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted in 2017 to life with parole. Two students were shot while standing in a second-floor hallway of. Hostage High and Target for Rage) is a 1997 film based on the Lindhurst High School shooting. The Lindhurst High School shooting was a school shooting and subsequent siege that occurred on May 1, 1992, at Lindhurst High School in Olivehurst, California, United States. Jose Aguilar fired a. 777 West Valley Blvd. 13-year-old Seth Trickey opened fire in the courtyard of his middle school using a gun brought from home. Page 234. (909) 580-5005 Ext. The bullet ricocheted and wounded Reedy in the shoulder. 41-year-old mail carrier Lester Betts confronted 33-year-old principal Carson Hammond in his Blaine Elementary School office and shot him dead with a 12-gauge shotgun in apparent jealousy over Hammond's relationships with his former wife. A version of this article appears in print on, 16-Year-Old Is Shot to Death In a High School in Brooklyn, https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/26/nyregion/16-year-old-is-shot-to-death-in-a-high-school-in-brooklyn.html. AP course participation. Jefferson High School -- the alma mater of scores of people who grew up in the Depression or World War II and rose to prominence in the arts, literature and other fields -- has long since lost the luster of a great academic steppingstone for the children of immigrants. A man shot the school mistress for whipping his son. The episode aired on December 29, 2011. A Black youth was taunted with racial slurs by three white youths in the stairwell of a public school in the. Betts later committed suicide. Putnam Davis Jr. was killed during a fraternity house carnival at the, After some of his dormmates urinated on his mattress during a hazing, Robert B. Bechtel, a 22-year-old student proctor at. 4-year high school graduation rate. At the High School, 15-year-old student Alexander Potter fired six shots at his teacher, Prof. Matthews had attended the school for nine days when the incident occurred and was believed to have been bullied at his previous school. A youth trying to help his brother in a fistfight drew a gun and opened fire in the crowded hallway of a Brooklyn high school yesterday, and the wild shots killed a 16-year-old student bystander and critically wounded a teacher who was approaching to intervene. The fight resulted in deaths: Harry Flasher was shot in the heart and instantly killed, Henry Carney was fatally shot in the back, Ralph Jones and two others were also fatally shot, and George Gibson was shot in the hand; Haz Harding had his skull crushed and several others received minor wounds. The attack happened at about 6:05 p.m. in the 1800 block of . Following a pep rally at Palo Duro High School, 17-year-old Randy Earl Matthews shot and wounded seven students with a .22-caliber pistol. After killing 41-year-old John Van Dyke of. Police arrested Smith, who reportedly admired. A 17-year-old male former student of Lincoln was arrested in connection with the shootings. Frank Pope, a pupil at St. John's seminary, shot and killed his teacher Mr. Bristow. He shot each in the head. Prof. Barnes of Middlesboro High School was fatally shot by Adolphus Oaks for whipping Oaks' sister the week before. Spencer had a long history of clashes with faculty and staff and was forced to serve a three-week involuntary leave of absence the year prior. Parent George Nicholson killed John Kurd at a schoolhouse during a school rehearsal. For four hours on Sept. 11, 1991, Deanna Zent sat in a Stevens High School classroom, one of 22 students held hostage by a classmate with a sawed-off shotgun. Beard attempted suicide but survived. 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This chronological list of school shootings in the United States before the year 2000 includes any school shootings that occurred at a K-12 public or private school, as well as at colleges and universities, and on school buses. [8] In 2012, the California Supreme Court upheld his death penalty. Pearl Reedy, an 18-year-old student who was to use the gun in the play, said she was afraid to handle it. 10/10. February 24, 2018 Savannah, Georgia: 1 0 1: Savannah State University: A non-student was shot on campus and later died. 14-year-old Hayes Junior High School student Stuart Wayne Perrock killed 14-year-old schoolmate Arthur Clinton Smith. Sweatt, superintendent and teacher at the Alexander School, was killed by 16-year-old Billy Ray Powell and 19-year-old Hugh Justice, students whom he had reprimanded. 15-year-old student Thomas "T.J." Solomon Jr. wounded six students at. Young, 20, fired a fatal shot from the .25-caliber pistol into Dennis' back. Houston then walked through the hallway outside the classroom and fatally shot student Jason Edward White in the chest. 13-year-old Robin Robinson was paddled by Lanett Junior High School principal Lewis Hoggs after having a disagreement with another student. He raped and shot her; she was expected to live. Carroll said the shooting was accidental, as he did not think the gun was loaded. I'm under control, but I'm very upset that this would happen to one of my children." Thurston High School shooting: After killing his parents at home, 15-year-old Kip Kinkel drove to Thurston High School, where he killed two students and wounded 25 others. The gunfire injured ten others. The gunman, 20-year-old Eric Houston, was a former student at Lindhurst High School. She also said she had set up new groups to serve as liaison between the victims' families and the students and faculty, and to provide information and stem rumors within the school community. (909) 876-4093. 16-year-old Blanche Ward killed fellow student 16-year-old Linda Lipscomb at Miami Jackson High School. Nine-year-old Arthur Roberts was shot in the head and killed outside his school during a military drill by school children of the Dayton school district. 16-year-old David Dubose Jr. killed English teacher Horace Morgan on the steps of Dekalb Alternative School. This article lists school shootings in the United States by death toll (four or more deaths, including any perpetrators that died during the shooting). Six students at, 15-year-old freshmen student DeLondyn Lawson, of, 15-year-old Robert Heard fatally shot 17-year-old Michael Shean Ensley in the corridor of the. McGiffin was a son of Col. Norton McGiffin, and brother of US naval hero. He intended to leave the city that weekend. Tiffany Strauss Gordon is accused of sexually abusing six teenagers decades ago. On May 1, 1992 - seven years before Columbine - a gunman killed four people and wounded 10 others at a California high school. There, Mr. Anderson was admitted in critical but stable condition, but the youth was pronounced dead shortly before noon. COLTON, California -- Six former high school athletes are accusing their former football trainer, Tiffany Strauss-Gordon, of sexually abusing them while they were students at Colton High. Students have the opportunity to take Advanced Placement coursework and exams. COLTON, Calif. (KABC) -- Six former high school athletes are accusing their former football trainer, Tiffany Strauss-Gordon, of sexually abusing them while they were students at Colton. Jefferson had long had one of the city's worst dropout rates, but that began to change since her tenure began and it has seen a steady drop in the four-year dropout rate, from 39.7 percent in 1987 to 33.9 percent in 1990. A 15-year-old boarding school student shot a dean rather than give up his pin-up pictures of girls in bathing suits. This list does not include the 1970 Kent State shootings, or bombings such as the Bath School disaster. It was one of the worst shooting sprees in the U.S. at the time -- a deadly attack at a Yuba County high school that claimed the lives of a teacher and three students. One of the Shipley brothers had a .45-caliber, A bunch of drunken cowboys stopped at several schoolhouses, forcing two teachers to drink. A lawsuit was filed against Strauss-Gordon and the Colton Joint Unified School District by the alleged victims. This school is far above the state average in key measures of college and career readiness. He said Jason Bentley then fired three shots down the hall at young Thompson, but hit the two bystanders. The teacher, A. T. Kelly, said it was not. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. 17-year-old Max Alexander Martinez shot and killed 17-year-old Jose Balderas with a .38-caliber revolver in a hallway in, 15-year-old student Jason Smith killed 16-year-old Michael Swann, another student who had bullied him at, 17-year-old Shon Williams fired 10 shots in the. No other injuries were reported. Thus far this year, the police say, 480 children under 16 have been shot in the city, many by the stray bullets of drug dealers and angry people armed with high-powered weapons. Deadliest incident: Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. The shot riddled the door within a foot of his head. Thornton's brother George left the room and returned with a revolver. The AP participation rate at Colton High School is 34%. During the school exhibition, a group of young men tried to break up a student performance. At Swainston Middle School, two students were shot by another student with a pellet gun. At Hamilton Middle School, 12-year-old Gordon W. Dye Jr. shot his bully, 14-year-old Gregg Johnson, in the head with a .22-caliber pistol in the school cafeteria. In 1989, Young was sentenced to death for the murder, and in 2000 was executed by lethal injection. She referred to Mr. Anderson, the wounded teacher, as "a person who would have stepped forward if he saw children getting into a fight. Charles Colby was shot in the head with a pistol, then returned fire, killing Tom Bucanoros, and fatally wounding Fred Smith. 14-year-old student Keith E. Johnson killed 13-year-old Joey Summerall at Tavares Middle School with a handgun he had stolen from his neighbor's home. Colton Scott Underwood (born January 26, 1992) [1] is an American reality television personality and former professional football player. A fourth man who acted as the getaway driver, Arthur Ray Jones, pleaded guilty to an accessory charge and was sentenced to 10 years in jail, with all but. Detention: The Siege at Johnson High (a.k.a. 17-year-old Arthur Jermel Jack was killed by 15-year-old LaKeeta Cadoree in the cafeteria at, 26-year-old graduate student Sarah Smith was shot and wounded in the chest as she was waiting for her husband to pick her up at. 48-year-old James T. Blevins, athletic director at. Henry Schaze threw 16-year-old Paul Jelick to the ground, drew a revolver, and killed his rival. He was challenging the Oregon Supreme Court decision that his 112-year prison sentence is not cruel . The revolver was to have been loaded with blanks, but it held live ammunition. Encyclopedia of School Crime and Violence. Lo was in his second year at Simon's Rock, a 300-student school founded in 1967 for motivated students who pass directly from their sophomore or junior year of high school into college. Armed with a sawn-off shotgun, 12-year-old Jonah Inverson shot and killed 12-year-old Elizabeth Rivera, who had turned down Inverson's request to go out with him, in a restroom at Memorial Middle School. During a stone throwing confrontation near the Oriental School on Clay Street, a group of white boys became trapped between two groups of Chinese boys. 19-year-old Jillian Robbins killed one student and injured two outside. 14-year-old Dewitt Duckett was shot in the neck and killed at Harlem Park Junior High School. Colton High School is ranked 998th within California. [1][2][3], Lindhurst High School, where the shooting occurred, has a multiethnic student body, mostly from poor and working-class backgrounds.[4]. When cornered by police, he shot himself in a suicide attempt but survived and was sentenced to five consecutive life sentences. A 17-year-old student brought a shotgun on campus and fired a round in the air. The bullets and rocks struck the bus on the drivers side, with the bullets penetrating all the way through the bus. Forger was charged with assault with attempt to murder. While school was in session, Hugh Claggett shot through the schoolhouse's front door, while on his way home from work. No one was injured. Minutes before the first bell rang on the first day of school at, Three students were wounded when gang-related gunfire broke out at. Angered by the refusal of his daughter, 15-year-old Melba, to leave a boarding school and return home, 47-year-old Joseph Moshell went to the school and shot and killed his daughter. At the Perkins School's Thanksgiving night pie supper, 21-year-old teacher Joe Todd, was mysteriously shot. This page is not available in other languages. A feud between Scott Walker, 15, and Randy Hawkins, 19, climaxed when walker shot Hawkins to death on the Manchester elementary school basketball court. "And it's part of the tragedy of society that weapons are available to young people, and we find it more and more throughout our society -- and they make their way into schools eventually. 80%. 12-year-old Frederick Heilman was shot through the right instep when. 52-year-old elementary school principal Rudolph Jezek Jr. was killed in his office by 14-year-old Steven Guy, a former student. 15-year-old Tyrone Perry was killed at Hine Junior High School and another student was injured. When Mr. Ingrim went after Hildreth with an axe, Hildreth shot him in the stomach. Police arrested Moore and charged her with attempted second-degree murder. While attending her son's school track meet, Mrs. F. Mahl was killed accidentally by a shot from the starter's pistol. A group of boys shot into a schoolhouse, but no one was hurt. An 18-year-old McKee Vocational High School student was shot dead in a dispute with a youth on Staten Island last Thursday. Police said the shooting was gang-related. 33-year-old Evelena B. Moore, a special-education teacher at Galvez Elementary, opened fire on cafeteria worker Beatrice Hills in the school's parking lot. Three years later, Spencer learned that the blood sample taken after his arrest was found to have high levels of bromide, a popular painkiller he took for headaches. 21-year-old former MIT student Larry J. Harmon, armed with a rifle, killed 68-year-old caretaker Hilary Kunzon, who came upon him wrecking St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Church, then fled onto the campus of. During an evening school dance at Plain Dealing High School, a fight broke out. 17-year-old Wayne Phillips was killed when he was caught between two youths who were fighting in the hallway of. Donald Kurtz, a 17-year-old senior at Delmont High School, was fatally wounded by a .22-caliber bullet from a rifle. He unrolled Kevlar sheets a material used in bulletproof vests and put them in front of the students. May 1, 1992: Olivehurst, California: 4: 10 14-year-old May McQuade was killed by classmate Raymond B. Carroll. During the hostage crisis, Taber killed school nurse Carol Day. The teacher, Sister Rose, said that the gun was not operational. Assistant principal Gordon Sharp and janitor Ezekiel Thomas were injured by gunshot wounds while 29-year-old 8th grade teacher Peter Smith was injured while escaping due to falling down a flight of stiars. John Butram, a student at the Bear Hollow School, told his fellow students that school was cancelled. Capt. 96 %. Booths representing 35 colleges and programs lined DC Lane providing a host of information for. Student Mathews Flounoy Ward shot the schoolmaster William H.G. At Carter MacRae Elementary School, 13-year-old student Ricardo Cruz fired a handgun at another classmate but missed and accidentally shot and killed 18-year-old Debbie Rivera. COLTON, California -- Six former high school athletes are accusing their former football trainer, Tiffany Strauss-Gordon, of sexually abusing them while they were students at Colton High School . Audience members joined the fray. Cordova said he had intended to commit suicide but was jostled by others and his gun moved. At the Durant Normal School, teacher Albert McFarland, was seriously wounded by one of his pupils. After pleading guilty, he was sentenced to 111 years of prison. At Atlantic Shores Christian School, 16-year-old student Nicholas Elliott shot two teachers with a Mac-10 9-millimeter machine pistol, killing 41-year-old Karen Farley and critically wounding 37-year-old Sam Marino, then began firing on a classroom full of students before the gun jammed; no students were hit. 1992 mass shooting in Olivehurst, California, US. American Decades: 1990-1999, Volume 10. p. 153, Contention: debates in society, culture, and science, Volume 2, Issues 1-3. p.52, Louis R. Mizell. Houston killed three students and one teacher and wounded nine students and a teacher before surrendering to police. Mrs. Carmila Rindoni went to the school and twice shot Rosalind I. Reynolds, her son's teacher, for spanking her son the day before. 46-year-old Martin Mogensen, principal of Tomah Junior High School, was killed in his office by a 14-year-old boy. 18-year-old Bob Smith took seven people hostage at Rose-Mar College of Beauty and ordered them to lie down in a circle. Audience members joined the fray. 15-year-old Serrocko James Henry, a Sacramento High School sophomore, and 12-year-olds Edell Story, Jerry Wilson, and DeVon Johnson-Curry were taking turns using a baseball bat to smash windows at the school, tripping the school's alarm. According to the teacher, Foster struck the pistol Pitts had drawn, and caused it to fire. During a school exhibition and concert at the Parson Hill schoolhouse, an unknown gunman fired a double-barreled shotgun into the mixed audience, made up of black and white students, parents and teachers. According to reports, Houston would send student Andrew Parks to retrieve more hostages, threatening that if he did not come back, he would kill another student and eventually held over 80 students hostage. 61-year-old Henry Suhre, quartermaster at. Excluded from this list are the following: Shooting by school staff, where the only victims are other employees, are covered at workplace killings. The Lindhurst High School shooting was a school shooting and subsequent siege that occurred on May 1, 1992, at Lindhurst High School in Olivehurst, California, United States. John J. Finn, who announced the arrest last night, said Jason Bentley had drawn his gun to help his brother. But its principal, Carol Burt-Beck, as well as the parents of many students and officials of the city school system, contend that Jefferson merely reflects the violence and toughness of the streets of its East New York neighborhood and the problems of the city and society. Harry Flasher was shot and instantly killed, Henry Carney was fatally shot in the back, Ralph Jones and two others were also fatally shot, and George Gibson was shot in the hand; Haz Harding had his skull crushed, and several others received minor wounds. The slain youth, Darryl Sharpe, of 550 Sutter Avenue in East New York, a ninth grader who friends and teachers knew as a likable, average student who went home after school and was never in trouble, was the second city high school student slain in five days. He gathered 60 to 70 people into a Junior ROTC room to take shelter from the gunman during the shooting. After being ejected from school for disobedience, 20-year-old Thomas Squires fatally shot Prof. Hayes three times in the abdomen. A 14-year-old girl who was not involved in the fight was non-fatally struck in the head. Clifford L. Linedecker. Several men were arrested. Cruz was sentenced to life without parole for the shooting but was resentenced in 2017 to 25 years to life and was immediately paroled. Six-year-old Robert Lomas was hit and died instantly; six-year-old Arthur Shively was critically wounded. After being suspended for smoking, 16-year-old Nicholas Atkinson returned to, A 16-year-old female student was shot in the thigh outside, Ralph J. Tortorici, 26, a military veteran and psychology major at the. During the school exhibition, a group of young men tried to break up a student performance. In her four years at the school, she estimated that 70 students had been shot or stabbed on the nearby streets of one of the city's most violent neighborhoods. My childhood friend's brother, Jason White, along with fellow students Judy Davis, Beamon Hill, and teacher Robert Brens were killed in the 1992 Lindhurst High School shooting, in my hometown Roger Sprague, an assistant in the department of chemistry at the. 15-year-old Phillip Powell killed 17-year-old Barrett Modisette at the, 29-year-old Kevin Newman opened fire with a 9mm, 18-year-old Miguel DeJesus was shot and killed on the steps of, 18-year-old Floyd Eugene Brown shot fellow, 24-year-old Darrell Cloud, a former student at Whitman Middle School in. School principal William Howland was also shot and wounded by Wickes when Howland peered into the classroom. Potter was upset over having been whipped and expelled. The shooter, sixth grade teacher 53-year-old Samuel Grinstead Knipmeyer fled to Mexico, then moved to California and finally to Bend, Oregon where he was arrested on October 26, 1977. At Mid-Peninsula High School, a student drove onto the basketball court of his Palo Alto high school, tossed a handful of money out of the car window and then opened fire on the students who had hurried over to grab the bills injuring one student then committed suicide. During a high school assembly, six boys shot off their guns. Hignight fired two shots. Four women and a 3-year-old girl died; a woman and a baby were injured but survived. .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}390504N 1213209W / 39.08444N 121.53583W / 39.08444; -121.53583. She also made news by setting up a "grieving room," where students can go to work out feelings when tragedies strike. After 17-year-old Douglas High student Colton Haab heard the first shots, he and his fellow JROTC members shepherded between 60 and 70 students into a JROTC classroom and shielded them with Kevlar . As he entered the school, he fatally shot teacher Robert Brens, his civics teacher during his senior year. A mob tracked and killed Glover 7 miles (11km) in Indianola (now. Brothers 16-year-old William and 15-year-old Ralph Carter broke into the May Public School, robbing the phone boxes and teachers' desks. While in police custody, Houston stated that he was despondent over losing his job and was angered that he failed to graduate from high school or obtain a GED. During an evening school dance at Plain Dealing High School, a fight broke out. Mangum had argued with Woodward, who had given Mangum's 15-year-old son a severe whipping. Five were injured, including a girl who was shot in the face. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. A 16-year-old student at Stow High School shot and wounded his chemistry teacher during an argument. Concealed in a wooded area on school grounds, 14-year-old Joseph "Colt" Todd wounded two students as they were entering, 18-year-old Jacob Lee Davis shot 18-year-old Robert Creson at, 14-year-old student Quinshawn Brooker wounded 45-year-old basketball coach and history teacher Gregory Carter and 74-year-old, 52-year-old Professor Andrzej Olbrot was killed by 48-year-old graduate doctoral student Wlodzimierz Dedecjusat at, 15-year-old Andrea Garrett was found dead and 17-year-old Jeff Miller seriously wounded in the girls' restroom at. Superintendent Ralph Ricardo said that the school board had no provisions to dismiss a teacher charged with attempted murder, and therefore Moore was allowed remain on the job until pleading guilty or being convicted of the charge. They were fined $9.00 each. A group of men in. 11 %. NEW YORK A 15-year-old student shot and killed two schoolmates Wednesday in a high school swarming with security guards preparing for a visit from the mayor, police said. Alfred Chestnut and Ransom Watkins, who were both 16 at the time, and 17-year-old Andrew Stewart were convicted of the murder and sentenced to life in prison. After firing four shots down the hall at responding police officers, Wickes barricaded himself inside the classroom and a standoff ensued. While playing with the pistol, Day accidentally shot and wounded classmate Robert Morton. At the all-girls Union School, 17-year-old Thomas McGiffin shot and seriously wounded the principal, Prof. Wilson, in the hip because Wilson refused to deliver a note to one of the girls. AMARILLO, Tex. Headmaster Elliott Speer was murdered by a shotgun blast through the window at Northfield Mount Hermon School. 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