Past School Violences

Shootings at U.S. schools, universities

(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-04-17 13:57

At least 33 people were killed and 15 others were wounded at Virginia Tech University on Monday in the deadliest campus shooting in U.S. history.

Until Monday's rampage, the worst school shooting incident in the United States was at the University of Texas campus in Austin on August 1, 1966, when Charles Whitman went to the top of a tower and opened fire. He killed 15 people, including his mother and wife the night before, and wounded 31 others.

Here is a chronology of some of the major shootings inside U.S. schools and universities in more recent years:

* March 1998 - At Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas, two boys aged 13 and 11 set off the fire alarm and killed four students and a teacher as they left the school.

* April 1999 - Two student gunmen killed 12 other students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, before killing themselves.

* January 2002 - A student who had been dismissed from the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia, killed the dean, a professor and a student, and wounded three others.

* October 2002 - A failing student out for vengeance opened fire inside the University of Arizona's School of Nursing in an attack that claimed the life of three of his professors, then he turned the gun on himself and committed suicide.

* March 2005 - A 16-year-old high school student gunned down five students, a teacher and a security guard at Red Lake High School in far northern Minnesota before killing himself. He also killed his grandfather and his grandfather's companion elsewhere on the Chippewa Indian reservation.

* September 27, 2006 - A drifter took six female high school students hostage in Bailey, Colorado, molested them and then shot one to death and killed himself as police closed in.

* September 29, 2006 - A 15-year-old student killed his school's principal in western Wisconsin after telling another student "you better run."

* October 2, 2006 - Charles Carl Roberts, a local milk truck driver, entered the West Nickel Mines School in Pennsylvania and shot 10 girls aged 6 to 14 before killing himself. Five girls died.