15-year-old Augie Holmquist, a student at. During an evening school dance at Plain Dealing High School, a fight broke out. A 7th grade student walked into a classroom and shot 35-year-old Andy Pope, a social studies teacher in the upper chest at Chadron Middle School. Thomas Thornton had been drinking and objected to Benedict telling him to calm down. McGiffin was a son of Col. Norton McGiffin, and brother of US naval hero. The teacher was arrested. Carneal was a 14-year-old freshman in 1997 when he fired a stolen pistol at a before-school prayer group in the lobby of Heath High School, near Paducah. Five girls suffered minor injuries from broken glass. 48-year-old teacher John S. Lane was fatally wounded when he tried to stop 16-year-old student James Arthur Frampton, who was armed with a shotgun and seeking boys he had argued with earlier that day. New video emerges from deadly Kentucky school shooting Jan. 24, 201802:21 Sixteen of the wounded were injured by gunfire and the four others were hurt while trying to escape, state police. 18-year-old dropout Michael Pisarski killed his former girlfriend, 17-year-old Christine Mitchell, inside. 17-year-old Wayne Phillips was killed when he was caught between two youths who were fighting in the hallway of. 2. After being fired from his job as a substitute teacher for fighting with a student, Robert O. Wickes entered Brentwood East Junior High School in Brentwood, New York, dressed in camouflage fatigues and armed with a semi-automatic .22-caliber rifle and over 100 rounds of ammunition, to get revenge on the student, 15-year-old Luis Burgos. 30-year-old Mark Boyd hired 23-year-old Malik Nettles to kill 15-year-old Kyunia Taylor as she rode on a school bus bound for Beaumont High School. Following the murders, he took a gun to Ryle High School and took a classroom of students hostage. Matt Bevin of Kentucky said the gunman who opened fire Tuesday morning at Marshall County High School in Benton, near the western tip of the state was a 15-year-old student. When they showed up, Yates had armed himself. 52-year-old elementary school principal Rudolph Jezek Jr. was killed in his office by 14-year-old Steven Guy, a former student said to be angry about being transferred to a social adjustment center. Mangum had argued with Woodward, who had given Mangum's 15-year-old son a severe whipping. Taber was found not guilty of the murder by reason of insanity. The crime was never solved. Bill Bond, who was the high school principal at the time, remembered where he was when Carneal began shooting. A mob tracked and killed Glover 7 miles (11km) in Indianola (now. Tower Kills 12, Hits 33", "Boy, Teacher Shot by Youth at Grand Rapids", "The Shootings at Grand Rapids High School", "Youth, 18, Slays 4 Women and Child in Beauty School", "PEOPLE v. PISARSKI - 6 Ill. 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He later received a $250,000 settlement in a civil suit against. 14-year-old Jeremy Bryant shot and killed 13-year-old Terrence Murray at J.T. And that was all I said to him. She met with Carneal in prison in 2007 and had a long conversation with him. Carneal said then that he was sorry for what he had done and acknowledged that he was only thinking of himself at the time, not the people he would hurt and kill. March 23, 1994: A 16-year-old student in Seattle is killed in a gang-related drive-by shooting at the school. There have been 7 school shootings this year that resulted in injuries or deaths. Caught in the crossfire were 15-year-old Mark Lee and LaSonya Betts, striking Lee in the hip and Betts in the abdomen. ET and started shooting. George W. Longfelt, the school teacher of the Pyfer's School House, killed student Alfred Desem and fled. 61-year-old Special Deputy Vernon Graves was accidentally shot in the face with a shotgun at the Fairview school. During the standoff, Wickes periodically released 17 of the 18 hostages before shooting himself in the head nine hours into the siege, dying in the hospital later that night. Total incidents listed here in this section (19th century): Clay Shrout. Someone discharged a shotgun from a few feet away. 13-year-old student Andre Davis was wounded while watching a fight between two students in the front lobby of Christian County Middle School, one of whom had a gun. He shot the father through the mouth, and was fatally shot through the body, dying an hour later. The shot, intended as a sound effect for a school play, hit him in the chest during a rehearsal minutes before the play was to take place. 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. He would have been the first school shooter to be released on parole. After being caught with beer at the Orme School in Mayer, Arizona, 17-year-old Jarod Huskey went on a shooting rampage on the school campus, wounding two people, before being killed in a shootout with police. Katherine McMillen, 24-year-old teacher at the Howard Gensen rural school near Duluth, was accidentally killed by a pupil who brought a revolver to school. While school was in session, Hugh Claggett shot through the schoolhouse's front door, while on his way home from work. "A black bearded maniac drew an automatic pistol" and fired five shots into a crowd of boys at the Harlem School, who were taunting him. Taylor was pregnant with a child fathered by Boyd; a baby girl was delivered by emergency caesarean section, but died 23 days later. 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. Updated: May 25, 2022 / 07:24 PM CDT PADUCAH, Ky. (WKRN) A school shooting survivor shared her story of one of the first mass school shootings in the country. Three mothers had to bury their children in the subsequent days, and an entire community was left to grieve. She had been working late after school, when a man with a revolver entered the schoolhouse and ordered her to obey him. He missed and instead killed 11-year-old bystander Alejandro Vargas, a student at the school. Charles Colby was shot in the head with a pistol, then returned fire, killing Tom Bucanoros, and fatally wounding Fred Smith. 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. ABC News' "Impact x Nightline" team spoke with survivors and families of the victims for the latest episode in the series. Donald Kurtz, a 17-year-old senior at Delmont High School, was fatally wounded by a .22-caliber bullet from a rifle. While the amount was high enough to render him legally insane at the time of the shooting, he did not receive a retrial but was released from in prison in 1970. This page was last edited on 21 February 2023, at 21:08. They were fined $9.00 each. 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. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? He was sentenced to life in prison without parole for 25 years in 1995. Updated: 3:27 PM EST February 21, 2023. 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. In the days following the Kentucky shooting, several news . The watchman said he fired into the air as a warning. Clay Shrout was up for parole 25 years after the infamous crime he committed when he was 16-years-old. 52-year-old math teacher Norma Cooper was shot in the shoulder at. 45-year-old Shirley Shindeldecker killed school bus driver 54-year-old Gene Green as he stopped to pick up the son of Shindeldecker's estranged husband. Mangum was shot through the head and killed by the principal of the high school, Professor J. E. Woodward, after shooting the principal in the hand. There have been 151 such shootings since 2018 . The youth was expected to recover. 16-year-old Robert Douthitt was accidentally killed backstage during high school play practice. The charges stem from an incident at a home on Salem Creek Road on Feb. 23. It seems weird to say, but I am not really a violent person, he said. Commonwealths Attorney Daniel Boaz, the lead prosecutor for the area that includes Paducah, wrote a letter to the Kentucky Parole Board on Sept. 9 opposing Carneals release. Williams fatally shot O'Donnell in the back. It was May 25 th, 1994. The shooter fled and was never arrested. 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. The five school shooters are Eric Houston, Eric Harris, Seung Hui Cho, Adam Lanza, and Elliot Rodger. The case was reviewed and the evidence that was withheld was recovered and used by the defense. 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. 14-year-old Bernice Turner killed 14-year-old Pasquale Coletta inside the science classroom at Kelly High School. When questioned, the other three boys said it was an accident. 35-year-old principal Dennis Ray Hepler was robbed at gunpoint by three men, Kevin Dean Young, William Henry Bell and John Glenn, on the grounds of West Franklin Street Elementary school. Several men were arrested. (Union, Ky.) - A man who murdered his family in their Boone County home before taking classmates at Ryle High School hostage back in 1994 will not be getting out of prison anytime soon. 102 (1988) - uper1021321 - Leagle.com", "Gun incident to bring discipline for John Marshall High School student", "Intruders Wound 5 Students In Shooting At Detroit School", "81-Year-Old Invalid Shoots Teenage Burglary Subject", Fatal shooting disrupts television show filming, One dead, nine injured in school shoot-out, Shooting spree leaves one dead, seven injured, "Police Don't Know Reason Student Killed His Principal", "LOPEZ v. 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'Shut up. After an argument between them the day before, 13-year-old Brandon Hartsoe took a .38 revolver from his mother's dresser drawer and shot 13-year-old Lincoln Middle School classmate Trent Murray in the back, causing serious injury, then continued to fire three more shots in the general area of other students. Potter was upset over having been whipped and expelled. 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. 16-year-old Stephen Goods, a bystander, was killed during a fight between other teens. 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GARY - 229 N.J. Super. 13-year-old John Daniel Christian, son of, 18-year-old Larry Ward and two companions were escorted from the halls of. He intended to leave the city that weekend. School shootings are a distinctly American phenomenon. When McGinnis' son learned of this, he went to the school and killed the teacher. Sit down.'". At the Perkins School's Thanksgiving night pie supper, 21-year-old teacher Joe Todd, was mysteriously shot. While not a new phenomenon -- one of the first reported school shootings occurred during the 1840s when a student shot and killed his professor John Anthony Gardner Davis, the . Two students were shot and killed immediately, two more were fatally wounded, and the high school's Professor Johnson was wounded in the arm. At around 6a.m., as George O Mortensen, 35-year-old janitor of the Washington Street School building, was unlocking the outer door of the school. She pointed it at the ground and squeezed the trigger. Paducah school shooting survivor Kelly Hard Alsip. "I'm sitting in my office," he told ABC News. An assistant principal at the school talked him into surrendering without harming any of the classmates. 46-year-old Martin Mogensen, principal of Tomah Junior High School, was killed in his office by a 14-year-old boy. A student opened fire Tuesday at Marshall County High School in Benton, Ky., killing two fellow students and injuring 18 others, officials said, in a shooting that caused panic and anguish in the . Bell was also sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted in 2017 to life with parole. John Hoh, of Northern Kentucky, remembers it well. Missy Jenkins Smith is. One shooter, 16-year-old Darrick Evans, was sentenced to 41 years to life in prison. Thornton's brother George left the room and returned with a revolver. Student Mathews Flounoy Ward shot the schoolmaster William H.G. 14-year-old student Lawrence Angel shot his teacher, Beatrice Conner, through the arm for sending him to the principal's office. 13-year-old Robin Robinson was paddled by Lanett Junior High School principal Lewis Hoggs after having a disagreement with another student. NICHOLAS COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - A man is facing a murder charge in Nicholas County. Irwin Goodman, 36-year-old mathematics teacher at William J. Gaynor Junior High School, was shot and killed in the school corridor by two boys. 12-year-old Robert Snyder wounded his principal, June Mapes, in her office at Arlington Public School when she declined his request to call a classmate. After serving 19 months of her sentence, Shindeldecker was found not guilty by reason of insanity and released. Killed in the shooting were Nicole Hadley, 14, Jessica James, 17, and Kayce Steger, 15. Beard attempted suicide but survived. 27 men and boys were arrested and an arsenal was seized in the Bronx as the police headed off a gang war resulting from the fatal shooting of a teenager at. Barnes had submitted his resignation to the school board, as students had boycotted his class in protest over the whipping. Hartford City, Indiana, Principal Leonard Redden shot and killed two teachers with a shotgun at William Reed Elementary School before fleeing into a remote forest, where he committed suicide. The schoolmaster warned students not to harm his tame, The 15-year-old son of Col. John T. Farlow (Baltimore's Marshal of Police 186770), was killed during a. Matthews had attended the school for nine days when the incident occurred and was believed to have been bullied at his previous school. 10. 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. Smith is paralyzed from the chest down and now relies on a wheelchair. The other perpetrators are Timothy McVeigh, Clay Shrout, Anders Breivik, James Holmes, and Dylann Roof. Cordova said he had intended to commit suicide but was jostled by others and his gun moved. In 1989, Young was sentenced to death for the murder, and in 2000 was executed by lethal injection. 14-year-old Hayes Junior High School student Stuart Wayne Perrock killed 14-year-old schoolmate Arthur Clinton Smith. Last month, she testified in front of the Kentucky parole board about how the events 25 years ago continue to impact her today. A Kentucky man who killed three students and wounded five more in a school shooting 25 years ago told a parole panel on Tuesday that he is still hearing voices like the ones that told him to steal . The shot riddled the door within a foot of his head. A 13-year-old boy, Luckert, accidentally shot and wounded Allie McDonald, another boy at the Neill school. A group of men in Itasca County joined in hunting the assailant. Forger was charged with assault with attempt to murder. This article examines five school shooters and five perpetrators of other types of mass violence. Before lunch, 13-year-old Jeremy Bryant waved a small silver handgun around in front of a couple of buddies gathered in a boys room at John Trotwood Moore Middle School. He told them the origin of the crime was sexual abuse he suffered by his mother as a child, as well as drug abuse. The shooting was one of the first school shooting tragedies, preceding the shootings at Columbine High School, Newtown Elementary, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and, most recently, Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas. After being suspended for refusing to take off his hat while at school, 13-year-old student Floyd Warmsley pulled out a firearm at Portland Junior High School, shooting and wounding the 53-year-old school secretary Lynn Haddad and killing 36-year-old janitor David Bangston. 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. 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. Betts later committed suicide. 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Two former students were sought by police. Henry Schaze threw 16-year-old Paul Jelick to the ground, drew a revolver, and killed his rival. 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. 18 to shoot a dog he said had bitten him. Armed with old guns believed to be empty, the children had pulled the triggers. Two people have been killed and 17 injured in a high school shooting in the US state of Kentucky. Butler as revenge for sadistic punishment of his brother the day before. Clay Shrout. "I was just moving slow, steady forward, so it didn't panic him," he said. "And all he said was, 'I'm sorry.' 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. When cornered by police, he shot himself in a suicide attempt but survived and was sentenced to five consecutive life sentences. Bond confronted the shooter. "And all of a sudden, he just looks at the pistol, and just lays it down," Bond said. A 17-year-old male former student of Lincoln was arrested in connection with the shootings. The revolver was to have been loaded with blanks, but it held live ammunition. Watch "Impact x Nightline," Disney's ABC News Studios' first weekly streaming news magazine, exclusively on Hulu. Six-year-old Robert Lomas was hit and died instantly; six-year-old Arthur Shively was critically wounded. List of school shootings in the United States, List of school shootings in the United States (before 2000), List of school shootings in the United States (2000present), List of school shootings in the United States by death toll, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States&oldid=1102658422, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 6 August 2022, at 06:02. High School principal M. O. Tripp was killed on the front steps of the school by 17-year-old student Ricardo Lopez for unknown reasons. One of the Shipley brothers had a .45-caliber, A bunch of drunken cowboys stopped at several schoolhouses, forcing two teachers to drink. The Courier Journal reported that Carneal may have eliminated any chance of parole when he testified last week that he still hears voices in his head like the ones he said told him to open fire on Dec. 1, 1997. 14-year-old John Frankenberger was accidentally killed in a classroom at Day Junior High School when a pistol held by a classmate discharged. LOUISVILLE, Ky. One man is dead and another is in critical condition after they were shot in the parking lot of the Gordon Food Service distribution . "And I hear, 'Pow. He fled the grounds and wounded himself. New York Times story reporting 11 school shootings in first three weeks of 2018. Motive. Fourteen-year-old Michael Carneal is indicted as an adult on three counts of murder and five counts of attempted murder for the shooting of his classmates . Kentucky State Police says they were notified Sunday night about a shooting on Cassidy Creek Road. During the afternoon recess, a boy was looking over a 22-caliber rifle; it discharged, striking the head of the Coyne boy in the seat to the front, killing him instantly. 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. 14-year-old Conniston Middle School student Tronneal Mangum fatally shot 14-year-old classmate John Pierre Kamel over a $40 debt. And they were falling.". joshua haldeman great grandchildren, boyd county mugshots busted newspaper, scarborough funeral home durham, nc obituaries,