Past School Violences

Deadly campus shootings in US

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-04-17 10:31

In a deadliest campus shooting in U.S. history, a gunman killed at least 22 people and injured more than two dozens of others at a university in Virginia during a two-hour span on Monday. The following is a list of fatal shootings at U.S. schools in recent years:

-- Oct. 2, 2006: In Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, a man shot and killed five girls at an Amish school.

-- March 21, 2005: On an Indian reservation in Red Lake, Minnesota, a male teenager fatally shot nine people, including five students.

-- March 5, 2001: In Santee, California, a teenager shot dead two students and wounded 13 others.

-- August 10, 1999: In Los Angeles, California, a man fatally shot three children and two adults at a pre-school.

-- April 20, 1999: In Littleton, Colorado, two teenagers shot dead 13 people and wounded 24 more at Columbine High School before committing suicide.

-- May 21, 1998: In Springfield, Oregon, a 15-year-old boy shot dead two students, wounded 25 after he was expelled for bringing a gun to school.

-- March 24, 1998: In Jonesboro, Arkansas, two boys aged 11 and 13 fatally shot four students and a teacher and injured 10 more.

-- Dec. 1, 1997: In Paducah, Kentucky, a teenager fatally shot three students and wounded five others during a prayer group.

-- Jan.1, 1989: A man in Stockton, California shot dead five children and wounded about 30 people.

-- Jan., 1979: In San Diego, California, a 17-year-old girl killed two adults and injured eight children.

-- May 4, 1970: Four students were killed and nine wounded by U. S. National Guard troops called in to quell anti-war protests on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio.

-- Aug. 1, 1966: In Austin, Texas, a sniper, identified as Charles Whitman, killed 14 people and injured dozens from the clock tower at the University of Texas.