SCHOOL SHOOTINGS: FROM ROBB ELEMENTARY TO COLUMBINE
Fourteen mass shootings at U.S. schools since 1999’s massacre at Columbine High in Colorado have killed a total of 169 victims, according to a database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University. Mass shooters have killed hundreds in recent decades in stores, theaters and workplaces. But it is in schools and colleges where the carnage reverberates perhaps most keenly.
May 24: An 18-year-old gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, killing 19 children and two adults. Law enforcement killed the attacker.
November 2021: A sophomore is accused of killing four people and wounding others at Oxford High School in Oxford, Mich., near Detroit. His trial is set for September. His parents have been charged with involuntary manslaughter.
May 2018: A shooter opened fire at Santa Fe High School near Houston, killing 10 people, Texas authorities said. The suspect has been charged with murder.
February 2018: An attack left 14 students and three staff members dead at Marjory Stoneman High School in Parkland, Fla., and injured many others. The suspect was charged with murder.
October 2015: A man killed nine people at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., and wounded nine others, then killed himself.
October 2014: A 15-yearold boy used text messages to draw several cousins and friends to his cafeteria table at Marysville-Pilchuck High School in Washington state. He fatally shot four of them before killing himself.
May 2014: A 22-year-old college student frustrated over sexual rejections fatally stabbed or shot six students near the University of California at Santa Barbara in Isla Vista and injured several others before he killed himself.
December 2012: A 19-yearold man killed his mother at their home in Newtown, Conn., then went to the nearby Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed 20 first graders and six educators. He took his own life.
April 2012: A former nursing student fatally shot seven people at Oikos University, a small private college in East Oakland, Calif. He died in prison in 2019.
February 2008: A 27-yearold former student shot and killed five people and wounded more than 20 others at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb before killing himself.
April 2007: A 23-year-old student killed 32 people at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg; more than two dozen others were wounded. The gunman killed himself.
October 2006: A 32-yearold man entered West Nickel Mines Amish School near
Lancaster, Pa., dismissed the boys, bound the girls, and fatally shot five of them before killing himself. Five others were wounded.
March 2005: A 16-year-old student killed his grandfather and the man’s companion at their Minnesota home, then went to nearby Red Lake High School, where he killed five students, a teacher and a security guard before shooting himself.
April 1999: Two students killed 12 of their peers and one teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., and injured many others before killing themselves.