A Timeline of School Shootings

Compiled by Peter Langman, Ph.D.

This is not a complete listing of all incidents of school violence, but rather a chronological list of the attacks contained in the database of www.schoolshooters.info. The primary focus here is on what were intended to be multi-victim attacks, whether or not multiple people were actually shot. In addition, not all attacks were school shootings. Some perpetrators committed violence with other means than firearms; other attacks did not occur at schools, but were committed by people who had recently been students.

Date of attack Perpetrator School Location

20 June 1913 Heinz Schmidt St. Mary’s Catholic School Bremen, Germany

18 May 1927 Andrew Kehoe Bath Consolidated School Bath, Michigan

6 May 1940 Verlin Spencer South Pasadena School District South Pasadena, California

4 March 1961 Ove Andersson Kungälvs Allmänna Läroverk Kungälv, Sweden

11 June 1964 Walter Seifert Catholic Elementary School Cologne, Germany

1 August 1966 Charles Whitman University of Texas Austin, Texas

28 May 1975 Michael Slobodian Centennial Secondary School Brampton, Canada

27 October 1975 Robert Poulin St. Pius X Ottawa, Canada

12 July 1976 Edward Allaway University of California Fullerton, California

29 January 1979 Brenda Spencer Cleveland Elementary School San Diego, California

3 June 1983 Karel Charva Freiherr-vom-Stein Gesamtschule Eppstein-Vockenhausen, Germany

24 February 1984 Tyrone Mitchell 49th Street Elementary School Los Angeles, California

26 November 1985 Heather Smith Spanaway Junior High School Spanaway, Washington

20 May 1988 Laurie Dann Hubbard Woods Elementary Winnetka, Illinois

26 September 1988 James Wilson Oakland Elementary School Greenwood, South Carolina

17 January 1989 Patrick Purdy Cleveland Elementary School Stockton, California

6 December 1989 Marc Lépine École Polytechnique Montreal, Canada

1 November 1991 Gang Lu University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa

1 May 1992 Eric Houston Lindhurst High School Olivehurst, California

24 August 1992 Valery Fabrikant Concordia University Montreal, Canada

14 December 1992 Wayne Lo Simon’s Rock College Great Barrington, Massachusetts

18 January 1993 Gary Scott Pennington East Carter High School Grayson, Kentucky

8 July 1993 Mark Duong Weber State University Ogden, Utah

20 October 1994 Phu Cuong Ta Brockton High School Toronto, Canada

15 November 1995 Jamie Rouse Richland High School Lynville, Tennesee

2 February 1996 Barry Loukaitis Frontier Junior High School Moses Lake, Washington

13 March 1996 Thomas Hamilton Dunblane Primary School Dunblane, Scotland

15 August 1996 Frederick Davidson San Diego State University San Diego, California

17 September 1996 Jillian Robbins Penn State University University Park, Pennsylvania

19 February 1997 Evan Ramsey Bethel High School Bethel, Alaska

1 October 1997 Luke Woodham Pearl High School Pearl, Mississippi

1 December 1997 Michael Carneal Heath High School West Paducah, Kentucky

15 December 1997 Joseph Todd Stamps High School Stamps, Arkansas Drew Golden & 24 March 1998 Westside Middle School Jonesboro, Arkansas Mitchell Johnson 24 April 1998 Andrew Wurst Parker Middle School Edinboro, Pennsylvania

21 May 1998 Kip Kinkel Thurston High School Springfield, Oregon Eric Harris & 20 April 1999 Columbine High School Littleton, Colorado Dylan Klebold 28 April 1999 Todd Smith W.R. Myers High School Taber, Canada

20 May 1999 T.J. Solomon Heritage High School Conyers, Georgia

3 August 1999 Jonathon Horrocks La Trobe University Bundoora, Australia

6 December 1999 Seth Trickey Fort Gibson Middle School Fort Gibson, Oklahoma

26 May 2000 Nathaniel Brazill Lake Worth Middle School Lake Worth, Florida

5 March 2001 Andy Williams Santana High School Santee, California Bishop Neumann Junior-Senior High 7 March 2001 Elizabeth Bush Williamsport, Pennsylvania School 22 March 2001 Jason Hoffman Granite Hills High School El Cajon, California

16 January 2002 Peter Odighizuwa Appalachian School of Law Grundy, Virginia

26 April 2002 Robert Steinhäuser Gutenberg Gymnasium Erfurt, Germany

21 October 2002 Huan Yun Xiang Monash University Melbourne, Australia

29 October 2002 Robert Flores University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona Escola Estadual Coronel Benedito 27 January 2003 Edmar Freitas Taiuva, Brazil Ortiz 9 May 2003 Biswanath Halder Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio

24 September 2003 John McLaughlin Rocori High School Cold Spring, Minnesota

21 March 2005 Jeffrey Weise Red Lake High School Red Lake, Minnesota

8 November 2005 Kenneth Bartley Campbell County High School Jacksboro, Tennessee

30 August 2006 Alvaro Castillo Orange High School Hillsborough, North Carolina

13 September 2006 Kimveer Gill Dawson College Montreal, Canada

27 September 2006 Duane Morrison Platte Canyon High School Bailey, Colorado

29 September 2006 Eric Hainstock Weston High School Cazenovia, Wisconsin

2 October 2006 Charles Roberts IV West Nickel Mines School Bart Township, Pennsylvania

20 November 2006 Bastian Bosse Geschwister Scholl Emsdetten, Germany

3 January 2007 Douglas Chanthabouly Henry Foss High School Tacoma, Washington

16 April 2007 Seung Hui Cho Virginia Tech Blacksburg, Virginia

10 October 2007 Asa Coon SuccessTech Academy Cleveland, Ohio

7 November 2007 Pekka-Eric Auvinen Jokela High School Jokela, Finland

8 February 2008 Latina Williams Louisiana Technical College Baton Rouge, Louisiana

14 February 2008 Steven Kazmierczak Northern Illinois University DeKalb, Illinois

23 September 2008 Matti Saari Seinajoki University Kauhajoki, Finland

11 March 2009 Tim Kretschmer Albertville-Realschule Winnenden, Germany

3 April 2009 Jiverly Wong American Civic Association Binghamton, New York

6 May 2009 Stephen Morgan Wesleyan University Middletown, Connecticut

17 September 2009 Georg R. Gymnasium Carolinum Ansbach, Germany

12 February 2010 Amy Bishop University of Alabama Huntsville, Alabama

23 February 2010 Bruco Eastwood Deer Creek Middle School Littleton, Colorado

8 October 2010 Brendan O’Rourke Kelly Elementary School Carlsbad, California

5 January 2011 Robert Butler, Jr. Millard South High School Omaha, Nebraska

8 January 2011 Jared Loughner Safeway Supermarket Tucson, Arizona

7 April 2011 Wellington de Oliveira Escola Municipal Tasso da Silveira Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

27 February 2012 T.J. Lane Chardon High School Chardon, Ohio

2 April 2012 One Goh Oikos University Oakland, California

20 July 2012 James Holmes Century 16 Cinema Aurora, Colorado

14 December 2012 Adam Lanza Sandy Hook Elementary School Newtown, Connecticut

10 January 2013 Bryan Oliver Taft Union High School Taft, California

21 October 2013 Jose Reyes Sparks Middle School Sparks, Nevada

13 December 2013 Karl Pierson Arapahoe High School Littleton, Colorado

14 January 2014 Mason Campbell Berrendo Middle School Roswell, New Mexico University of California at Santa 23 May 2014 Elliot Rodger Isla Vista, California Barbara 5 June 2014 Aaron Ybarra Seattle Pacific University Seattle, Washington

10 June 2014 Jared Padgett Reynolds High School Troutdale, Oregon

24 October 2014 Jaylen Fryberg Marysville-Pilchuck High School Marysville, Washington

20 November 2014 Myron May Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida

5 February 2015 Sunghee Kwon University of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina