List of school shootings in the United States (2000–present)

This chronological list of school shootings in the United States since the year 2000 includes school shootings in the United States that occurred at K–12 public and private schools, as well as at colleges and universities, and on school buses. Excluded from this list are the following:

1. Incidents that occurred as a result of police actions
2. Murder–suicides by rejected suitors or estranged spouses
3. Suicides or suicide attempts involving only one person.

Shootings by school staff, where the only victims are other employees, are covered at workplace killings.

85 incidents.

Date	Location	Deaths	Injuries	Total	Description
2000
February 29, 2000	Flint, Michigan	1	0	1	Killing of Kayla Rolland: At Buell Elementary School, a 6-year-old boy fatally shot 6-year-old girl classmate Kayla Rolland. To date, the boy is the youngest documented fatal school shooter.[1]
May 26, 2000	Lake Worth, Florida	1	0	1	13-year-old honor student Nathaniel Brazill was sent home for throwing water balloons, but returned to his Lake Worth Middle School with a family pistol. He fatally shot teacher Barry Grunow, who was popular at the school.[1][2]
June 28, 2000	Seattle, Washington	2[n 1]	0	2	58-year-old Director of the Division of Pathology of the University of Washington Medical Center, Rodger C. Haggitt, was shot dead by 42-year-old Taiwanese immigrant and then-U.S. citizen Jian Chen, who had just completed his second year of forensic pathology residency training, and had been notified of his contract non-renewal (which Chen wrote would dishonor his family). Chen went on to commit suicide.[3] In 2001 the Rodger C. Haggitt Gastrointestinal Pathology Society was named in memory of Dr. Haggitt.
August 28, 2000	Fayetteville, Arkansas	2[n 1]	0	2	36-year-old James Easton Kelly, a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at University of Arkansas, killed 67-year-old John R. Locke, the English professor overseeing his coursework. Kelly had been dismissed from this PhD program due to a lack of progress toward his degree. Kelly shot Locke three times before committing suicide in the director's office, which had been isolated by campus police.[4]
September 26, 2000	New Orleans, Louisiana	0	2[n 1]	2	13 year-olds Darrel Johnson and Alfred Anderson were initially charged with attempted first-degree murder in the shooting of 15 year-old William Pennington. Pennington, after being shot, gained control of the gun and shot Johnson in the back.[5] Charges were later reduced to Aggravated Battery. To prevent violence, Carter G. Woodson Middle School had students pass through metal detectors at the time. A 13-year-old student, who recently had been expelled for fighting, slipped the weapon, a .38-caliber revolver, through a chain link fence.[6]
December 1, 2000	San Diego, California	0	1[n 1]	1	A 15-year-old Junipero Serra High School student who showed off a handgun on campus and threatened to shoot a classmate ended up accidentally shooting himself, causing minor injuries.[7]
2001
February 2, 2001	Detroit, Michigan	0	3	3	At Osborn High School, two students and a teacher were grazed by gunfire after a student fired a gun in their classroom.[8]
March 5, 2001	Santee, California	2	13	15	Santana High School shooting: 15-year-old student Charles Andrew Williams killed two students, 14-year-old Bryan Zuckor and 17-year-old Randy Gordon, at Santana High School. In total, he wounded thirteen others. Williams was arrested and convicted of murder and attempted murder. He was sentenced to life with the chance of parole after serving 50 years.[9]
March 7, 2001	Williamsport, Pennsylvania	0	1	1	14-year-old student Elizabeth Catherine Bush wounded fellow student Kimberly Marchese in the cafeteria of Bishop Neumann High School.[10] Bush was released in 2004.[11]
March 22, 2001	El Cajon, California	0	6[n 1]	6	18-year-old former student Jason Hoffman opened fire at Granite Hills High School, injuring five people before being shot and wounded by a police officer.[12] He was convicted of assault and sentenced to prison, where he committed suicide in October 2001.[13]
March 30, 2001	Gary, Indiana	1	0	1	17-year-old Donald Ray Burt Jr. fatally shot Neal Boyd IV with one bullet to the head in a parking lot outside Lew Wallace High School.[14] Burt was sentenced to 57 years in prison.[15]
May 16, 2001	Parkland, Washington	2[n 1]	0	2	40-year-old music instructor and organist James D. Holloway was shot multiple times with a .22-caliber handgun at Pacific Lutheran University by a 55-year-old man from Tacoma. The shooter was not a student or employee of the university and also killed himself. The victim was apparently chosen at random, as the shooter had a personal dispute with a different staff member who was not on campus that day.[16]
2002
January 15, 2002	New York City, New York	0	2	2	17-year-old Vincent Rodriguez wounded two students at Martin Luther King, Jr. High School in Manhattan with a semi-automatic pistol. He retaliated against the individuals who had harassed his girlfriend. In February 2003, Rodriguez was sentenced to ten years in prison on charges of assault and attempted assault.[17]
January 16, 2002	Grundy, Virginia	3	3	6	Appalachian School of Law shooting: Recently dismissed graduate student 42-year-old Peter Odighizuwa killed three people at the Appalachian School of Law: 42-year-old dean Anthony Sutin, 41-year-old professor Thomas Blackwell, and 33-year-old student Angela Dales. Three other students were also wounded.[18] In 2005 Odighizuwa received three life sentences and an additional 28 years without the possibility of parole.[19]
February 20, 2002	Milwaukee, Wisconsin	1	0	1	16-year-old Washington High School student, Joseph Johnson Jr., was killed by then 22 years old Phillip D. Jackson Jr., when violence erupted between rival supporters in the parking lot, after a basketball game against Vincent High School.[20]
October 7, 2002	Bowie, Maryland	0	1	1	In the Beltway sniper attacks, one victim of several was 13-year-old Iran Brown, who was wounded as he arrived at Benjamin Tasker Middle School in Bowie, Maryland. His aunt, a nurse who had just dropped him off, rushed him to a hospital emergency room. Despite serious injuries, Brown survived the attack.[21][22] The shooters, Lee Boyd Malvo and John Allen Muhammad, were later convicted of numerous unrelated murders committed during their killing spree. Muhammad was executed in 2009, while Malvo was sentenced to life in prison.
October 28, 2002	Tucson, Arizona	4[n 1]	0	4	Failing nursing college student and Gulf War veteran, 40-year-old Robert Stewart Flores Jr., killed three assistant professors of nursing at the University of Arizona; this included 50-year-old Robin Rogers, 44-year-old Cheryl McGaffic, and 45-year-old Barbara Monroe. Flores finished by turning the gun on himself.[23]
October 29, 2002	Jersey City, New Jersey	0	1	1	A 15-year-old student was shot in the abdomen and wounded inside the basement of Lincoln High School during an argument with another student. Another 15-year-old student was arrested and charged with attempted murder.[24]
2003
April 2, 2003	Washington, D.C.	0	1	1	A 10th-grader was shot in the leg near Cardozo high school in Columbia Heights, resulting in a three-hour lockdown at six D.C. public schools to allow for police to search for possible gunmen.[25]
April 14, 2003	New Orleans, Louisiana	1	3	4	John McDonogh High School shooting. 18-year-old Steven Williams, and 17-year-old James Tate, opened fire with an AK-47 and a handgun in the gymnasium of John McDonogh High School, killing a 15-year-old student and wounding three female students. Williams was sentenced to life imprisonment, and Tate was sentenced to fifteen years.[26][27][28]
April 24, 2003	Red Lion, Pennsylvania	2[n 1]	0	2	14-year-old student, James Sheets, entered Red Lion Area Junior High School armed with his stepfather's pistols'. He killed the school's principal, Eugene Segro, before killing himself.[29][30]
May 9, 2003	Cleveland, Ohio	1	3[n 1]	4	2003 Case Western Reserve University shooting: On May 9, 2003, Biswanath Halder, a 62-year-old business school alumnus of Case Western Reserve University, killed a graduate student, wounded a professor, and another student using a semi-automatic rifle. He held the building and its nearly 100 occupants hostage for seven hours and exchanged fire with police and SWAT officers several times during the incident before being wounded and apprehended by a SWAT team. He was sentenced to life in prison.[31][32]
September 24, 2003	Cold Spring, Minnesota	2	0	2	2003 Rocori High School shooting: 15-year-old, John Jason McLaughlin, shot 15-year-old freshman Seth Bartell and 17-year-old senior Aaron Rollins at Rocori High School. Rollins was killed immediately, and Bartell died from his wounds 16 days later. McLaughlin was sentenced to life in prison with the chance of parole in 2038.[1]
2004
February 2, 2004	Washington, D.C.	1	1	2	Thomas J. Boykin was acquitted of the murder of 17-year-old James Richardson, a football player at Ballou High School in Southeast Washington.[33] An 18-year-old student was also grazed in the leg by a bullet.[34]
February 9, 2004	East Greenbush, New York	0	1	1	16-year-old Jon W. Romano, in East Greenbush, New York, fired two rounds from a shotgun before wounding a teacher with a third at Columbia High School. He was tackled by the assistant principal and charged with one count of attempted murder.[35][36] Since the shooting Romano was released in 2020, was severely injured in a sword attack in 2022, and has gained a following on TikTok.[37]
May 7, 2004	Randallstown, Maryland	0	4	4	Two students were charged with a school shooting that arose from a dispute after a basketball game at Randallstown High School. Four persons were injured, two seriously. One student was paralyzed from the waist down.[38]
2005
February 8, 2005	Chicago, Illinois	0	1	1	An 18-year-old student at Bowen High School was shot in the leg as she left the school around 2:30 p.m.[39]
March 2, 2005	Dover, Tennessee	1	0	1	14-year-old Jason Clinard killed his bus driver, 47-year-old Joyce Gregory, as she stopped to pick him up. Gregory had earlier reported Clinard for using snuff on the school bus. Clinard was given a life sentence.[40] but he appealed his conviction and in October 2023, the court ruled he had poor legal representation at trial and likely never should have been tried as an adult and was immediately released.[41]
March 21, 2005	Red Lake, Minnesota	10[n 1]	7	17	Red Lake shootings: 16-year-old student Jeff Weise, killed his grandfather and grandfather's companion at their home, where he had been living, at the Red Lake Indian Reservation. He then drove to Red Lake Senior High School. Armed with his grandfather's police weapons, Weise killed five students, one teacher and one security guard, wounding seven others, before entering a gunfight with police officers, that resulted in him committing suicide.[42]
July 18, 2005	Newark, New Jersey	1	2[n 2]	3	After breaking up a fight between a group of youths at Weequahic High School, Special Officer Dwayne Reeves was shot and killed and his partner wounded in the hand by two men who pulled up alongside him in a car. Despite being wounded, Officer Reeves' partner was able to return fire and hit one of the suspects in the stomach. The gunman was convicted of manslaughter and in 2007 was sentenced to 30 years in prison and was paroled in 2019.[43]
August 2005	Saginaw, Michigan	0	0	0	At Arthur Hill High School, a drive-by shooter fired three shots from a shotgun and blew out the back window of car in the school parking lot after school let out.[44]
September 13, 2005	Chicago, Illinois	0	1	1	At Harlan Community Academy High School, a fight broke out between two 15-year-old boys in the gymnasium. Christopher Huff took out a pistol, shooting the other youth in the leg. A police officer on duty at the school arrested the gunman. The shooter was charged as an adult with aggravated battery with a firearm.[45]
September 24, 2005	Saginaw, Michigan	0	1	1	At Saginaw High School, two students; a 15-year-old and a 14-year-old were shot at during a drive-by shooting. They were leaving a homecoming dance.[46][47]
October 11, 2005	Farmington, Michigan	0	0	0	At Farmington High School, a 17-year-old male brought a disassembled shotgun to the school. The shooter brought the shotgun to the school in three pieces and then assembled it in the bathroom and then shot it at the ceiling. No one was injured.[48]
October 19, 2005	Saginaw, Michigan	0	1	1	Inside Saginaw High School, a 15-year-old male was shot in the chest by another 15-year-old male.[49][50][51]
November 8, 2005	Jacksboro, Tennessee	1	2	3	2005 Campbell County High School shooting: Inside the Campbell County High School office, 15-year-old Kenneth Bartley, shot the schools then principal, Gary Seale. He shot assistant principals Ken Bruce and Jim Pierce. Bruce later died from his wound. Bartley was sentenced to forty-five years in prison with chance of parole after twenty-nine years.[52][53][54]
December 6, 2005	Detroit, Michigan	0	1	1	At Central High School an 18-year-old former student was shot and injured in a vestibule.[55]
2006
February 9, 2006	Tampa, Florida	1	0	1	Three teenagers shot and killed a former University of South Florida employee as he left a residence hall where he had been visiting his fiancée.[56]
February 23, 2006	Roseburg, Oregon	0	1	1	14-year-old freshman Vincent Wayne Leodoro, shot student 16-year-old Joseph Monti, four times in the back with a handgun at Roseburg High School. Leodoro walked away from the school campus, and was confronted near a restaurant by six police officers. He threatened suicide but was persuaded to surrender.[57] He was found guilty of attempted murder and assault in July 2006, and was sentenced to be held in prison until he turns twenty five years old.[58]
March 14, 2006	Reno, Nevada	0	2	2	2006 Pine Middle School shooting: In the hallway of Pine Middle School, 14-year-old James Scott Newman, injured two 14-year-old classmates, Alexander Rueda and Kenzie McKeon, with a revolver belonging to his parents. Two students received minor wounds. Newman was subdued by a physical education teacher. The youth was arrested and charged as an adult for attempted murder, use of a deadly weapon and use of a firearm by a minor.[59] He later pleaded guilty to charges of two counts of battery with a deadly weapon, and was sentenced as a juvenile. Newman was sentenced to house arrest until he completed two-hundred hours of community service.[60]
June 15, 2006	Detroit, Michigan	0	1	1	At Pershing High School, a 16-year-old male was shot in the back by four men after the men drove up to him and shot him outside the school.[61]
August 24, 2006	Essex Junction, Vermont	2	3[n 1]	5	Christopher Williams, 26, shot his girlfriend's mother, Linda Lambesis, 57 at her home and from there he went to Essex Elementary School where Andrea, his girlfriend, worked. After he arrived at the elementary school, which was not in session at the time, he shot and killed Mary Alicia Shanks, 56, and shot Mary Snedeker, 52, nonfatally. He left the school and allegedly shot Chad Johansen, 26 nonfatally. He then turned the gun on himself, but did not die as a result.[62] Williams was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2008.[63]
August 30, 2006	Hillsborough, North Carolina	1	2	3	After fatally shooting his father, Rafael Castillo, 18-year-old Alvaro Castillo drove the family minivan to his former high school and opened fire where he wounded two students. He was reportedly obsessed with the Columbine High School massacre and had written an email to the current Columbine high school principal before committing his own crime.[64] he was sentenced to life without parole.[65]
September 2, 2006	Shepherdstown, West Virginia	3[n 1]	0	3	49-year-old Douglas W. Pennington, killed himself and his two sons, 26-year-old Logan P. Pennington, 24-year-old Benjamin M. Pennington, during a visit to the campus of Shepherd University.[66][67]
September 17, 2006	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	0	5	5	Five Duquesne University basketball players were shot early Sunday morning during an apparent act of random violence on campus, leaving three hospitalized — two of them in critical condition.[68]
September 22, 2006	Washington, D.C.	0	1	1	Eugene Huff, 17, and an unnamed 16-year-old male sophomore were arguing at one of Cardozo High School's entrances. The fight climaxed when Eugene pulled out a handgun and shot his classmate in the leg. The shooting was captured on the school's surveillance system and witnesses said they heard as many as seven shots.[69][25]
September 27, 2006	Bailey, Colorado	2[n 1]	0	2	Platte Canyon High School hostage crisis: 53-year-old drifter, Duane Roger Morrison, walked into Platte Canyon High School and took six girls hostage. During the ensuing siege, Morrison sexually assaulted all of the girls. When a SWAT team stormed the classroom, Morrison killed 16-year-old Emily Keyes, then took his own life after being shot and wounded by police.[70]
September 29, 2006	Cazenovia, Wisconsin	1	0	1	2006 Weston High School shooting: Eric Hainstock, a 15-year-old freshman, entered Weston High School and aimed a shotgun at a social studies teacher before it was wrestled from him by a school custodian. Hainstock then shot the high school principal, who died later that afternoon.[71][72] Hainstock was convicted of murder and is serving a life sentence.[54][73]
October 2, 2006	Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania	6[n 1]	5	11	West Nickel Mines School shooting: 32-year-old milk truck driver, Charles Carl Roberts IV, killed five Amish girls and wounded five others before killing himself in an Amish school in the hamlet of Nickel Mines, in Bart Township, Lancaster County.[74]
October 9, 2006	Joplin, Missouri	0	0	0	13-year-old student Thomas White fired one shot from a MAK-90 rifle at a hallway ceiling at Memorial Middle School. The gunshot struck a water pipe, and nobody was injured. He also tried repeatedly to shoot principal Stephen Gilbreth at near-point-blank range as Gilbreth ushered him out of the school. Joplin police say the attempt was foiled by an improperly seated ammunition magazine in the rifle. The principal was not injured. White was tried as an adult on charges of assault and firearms possession, and in 2009 he was sentenced to ten years of prison.[75]
2007
January 3, 2007	Tacoma, Washington	1	0	1	18-year-old student Douglas S. Chanthabouly, killed 17-year-old Samnang Kok, in the hallways of Henry Foss High School following a personal disagreement. In 2009, Chanthabouly was sentenced to 23 years in prison on a charge of second-degree murder.[76]
January 4, 2007	Detroit, Michigan	1	0	1	At Northwestern High School, a 14-year-old girl was shot in her left leg when two men in a car shot at her as she was standing with a group of students.[77]
March 6, 2007	Midland, Michigan	1[n 1]	1	2	At H.H. Dow High School, 17-year-old David Benjamin Turner shot his 17-year-old ex-girlfriend Jessica Forsyth as they were in the school parking lot after Turner had called Forsyth and asked her to meet him at the school so he could return some of her stuff. Forsyth and her mother drove to the school. When she got out of the car, Turner pulled out a gun, shot her and then committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.[78][79][80]
March 7, 2007	Compton, California	0	1	1	During an argument with several non-students and students, a student was shot in the elbow and wounded in the eating area at Centennial High School. The shooting occurred an hour after classes were dismissed, and students in after-school activities were sent home.[81]
April 16, 2007	Blacksburg, Virginia	33[n 1]	23[n 3]	56	Virginia Tech shooting: A 23-year-old student, Seung-Hui Cho, armed with two pistols, a Glock 19 and a Walther P22, killed thirty-two students and faculty members at Virginia Tech and wounded another seventeen students and faculty members in two separate attacks before committing suicide. The first attack was on the second floor of West Ambler Johnston Hall, where he shot a young girl and another student who came to help. He then changed his clothes, recorded multiple videos stating that he "had to do it for his brothers and sisters", and made several pictures of himself with hammers, large knives, and guns. He then chained the doors of Norris Hall shut and shot and killed thirty more students and staff. He also shot seventeen more students and staff, wounding them. Six more students were also wounded from non gunshot injuries as they jumped out of the windows to flee the shooter. He was described as extremely quiet and lonely. During the rampage he wore a black T-shirt, a russet vest, a backwards baseball cap, black military cargo pants, black boots, and grip gloves. The incident is the third-deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman after the Orlando nightclub shooting and the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, and the deadliest school shooting, in modern U.S. history.
May 10, 2007	Detroit, Michigan	0	2	2	Two 17-year-olds were outside Henry Ford High School when four people in a car opened fire at them. Police believe the shooting was gang-related.[82][83]
August 4, 2007	Newark, New Jersey	3	1	4	[84]
September 21, 2007	Dover, Delaware	1	1	2	Two 17-year-old Delaware State University freshmen were shot on campus. One died 32 days later on October 23, from critical injuries sustained in the attack. A suspected perpetrator, Loyer D. Braden, a freshman from East Orange, New Jersey, was arrested and charged with attempted murder; the charges were dismissed in May 2009.[85]
October 10, 2007	Cleveland, Ohio	1[n 1]	5	6	At SuccessTech alternative high school in downtown Cleveland, 14-year-old student Asa H. Coon shot two students and two teachers in the halls and classrooms on the fourth floor of the building. Coon then moved to another room on the same floor, where he fatally shot himself.[86]
November 7, 2007	Miami Gardens, Florida	0	1	1	At Miami Carol City Senior High School, a robber shot a teacher, who had been smoking a cigarette outside of the campus building. The 18-year-old robber stole the teacher's wallet and was later arrested. The teacher survived the shooting.[87][88]
2008
January 23, 2008	Jonesboro, Arkansas	0	1	1	Arkansas State University offensive line-man 20-year Alfred Louis was grazed in the lower left leg when someone fired several rounds from a 9mm handgun at a residence hall. He was treated at a local hospital. Charges were later dismissed against the person accused of firing the shots.[89]
February 4, 2008	Memphis, Tennessee	0	1	1	At Hamilton High School, a student shot a 16-year-old student in the leg during a classroom argument over rap music. The victim's injury was not life-threatening.[90]
February 8, 2008	Baton Rouge, Louisiana	3[n 1]	0	3	Latina Williams, a 23-year-old nursing student at Louisiana Technical College killed two classmates and herself in a second floor classroom.[91]
February 11, 2008	Miami Gardens, Florida	0	1	1	43-year-old 11th grade algebra teacher, Sergio Miranda, was shot by 19-year-old Patrick Lively, outside Miami Carol City Senior High School during a robbery but was expected to survive.[92][93] In 2011, Lively received a life sentence.[94]
February 11, 2008	Memphis, Tennessee	0	1	1	Following a feud that started off campus earlier in the week, a 19-year-old senior was shot by a 17-year-old sophomore during a gym class held in the cafeteria with about 75 other students at Mitchell High School, before handing the gun to a coach making no attempt to flee. The victim suffered at least two gunshot wounds and was in critical condition, the suspected shooter was in custody. "He walked up to him, shot him, and made a statement to the coach that 'It's over now,' ", said principal, Daniel Ware.[95]
February 12, 2008	Oxnard, California	1	0	1	Murder of Larry King: 14-year-old Brandon McInerney, shot 15-year-old Lawrence "Larry" King, twice in the head in the computer laboratory of E.O. Green Junior High School. McInerney was apprehended in a nearby neighborhood. King, who was openly homosexual, died two days later. McInerney was initially charged with a hate crime, but that charge was dropped. McInerney pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 21 years in prison.[96]
February 14, 2008	DeKalb, Illinois	6[n 1]	21[n 3]	27	Northern Illinois University shooting: 27-year-old Steven Kazmierczak, shot multiple people with a shotgun in a classroom of Northern Illinois University, killing five and injuring 21, seventeen of them by gunfire, before taking his own life. Kazmierczak was not enrolled at the university, but had attended in the years prior to the attack.[97]
February 27, 2008	Little Rock, Arkansas	0	1	1	33-year-old James Earl Matthews was shot in the stomach and buttocks at close range with a handgun on the University of Arkansas at little rock campus. He survived. Gerald Pride Jr. was sentenced to 20 years on multiple charges.[89]
August 14, 2008	Federal Way, Washington	1	0	1	26-year-old Omero Mendez was waiting at the Lakota Middle School campus to pick up his girlfriend's son. He was confronted by 16-year-old Luis F. Cosgaya-Alvarez and two of his friends, driving in an SUV. Cosgaya-Alvarez flashed gang signs at Mendez, and shot him once in the head. Mendez later died of his injuries. Cosgaya-Alvarez was arrested a few days later in Seattle and was charged with murder. Cosgaya-Alvarez pleaded guilty to murder and weapon enhancements, and was sentenced to eighteen years in prison.[98]
August 21, 2008	Knoxville, Tennessee	1	0	1	At Central High School, 15-year-old Jamar Siler killed 15-year-old Ryan McDonald. In 2011, Siler was sentenced to thirty years in prison after pleading guilty to murder in a plea agreement.[99]
September 2, 2008	Willoughby, Ohio	0	0	0	A 15-year-old student brought a handgun into South High School, and shot two rounds, one into the ceiling and one shattering a trophy case. The student then put the gun to his head. Then Assistant Principal Jeff Lyons talked the student out of doing any harm.
October 13, 2008	Universal City, Texas	1	0	1	A librarian shot and killed a co-worker in the Northeast Lakeview College library.[100]
October 16, 2008	Detroit, Michigan	1	3	4	16-year-old Christopher Walker, was killed, and three other teenagers were seriously wounded during a drive-by shooting near Henry Ford High School, soon after classes let out. Three teenagers were arrested and charged in connection with the shooting. The shooter, 15-year-old William Morton, was sentenced to life without parole, and Devon Bell was sentenced to forty-two years of prison.[101]
October 26, 2008	Conway, Arkansas	2	1	3	2008 University of Central Arkansas shooting: Four young men fatally shot two students, 18-year-old Ryan Henderson, and 19-year-old Chavares Block, and wounded a 19-year-old campus visitor in the leg, outside the Arkansas Hall dormitory of University of Central Arkansas.[102]
November 12, 2008	Fort Lauderdale, Florida	1	0	1	15-year-old Amanda Collette, was killed in the hallway at Dillard High School. The shooter, 15-year-old Teah Wimberly, was sentenced to twenty-five years to life on a first-degree murder charge.[103]
2009
January 9, 2009	Chicago, Illinois	0	5	5	After attendees were leaving a basketball game at Dunbar High School, a truck pulled over and someone inside fired shots at the crowd, wounding five people, three critically. 18-year-old Georgio Dukes, was arrested and charged a week later with five counts of felony aggravated battery with a firearm. Police believe that the attack was gang-related.[104]
January 20, 2009	Mount Morris Township, Michigan	0	4	4	Four people, ranging in age from 16 to 20-years-old, were shot and injured in the parking lot of Beecher High School after a basketball game.[105]
February 17, 2009	Detroit, Michigan	0	3[n 4]	3	At Central High School, a 17-year-old male shot a 19-year-old male, who shot a nearby 18-year old after the teenagers had been involved in a fight.[106]
April 26, 2009	Hampton, Virginia	0	3[n 1]	3	18-year-old Odane Greg Maye, a former student of Hampton University, followed a 43-year-old pizza delivery man into his former dormitory. Armed with three guns, Maye wounded the delivery man, then the dorm monitor. Lastly, Maye shot himself in a suicide attempt. He survived and was convicted of two charges of malicious wounding, two counts of using a gun in a felony; burglary; and shooting in an occupied building. He was sentenced to fourteen years of prison in November 2009, and was ordered by a judge to pay more than $62,000 in restitution to his victims for lost wages.[107]
May 18, 2009	Cambridge, Massachusetts	1	0	1	20-year-old Jabrai Copney, 23-year-old Jason Aquino, and 19-year-old Blayn Jiggetts, of New York City, invited 21-year-old Justin Cosby, of Cambridge, into a Harvard College dormitory. After trying to rob him of one pound (450 g) of marijuana, they shot him. The victim, Cosby, was pronounced dead early the next day. Copney turned himself in three days later, and was convicted of murder and sentenced to life without parole.[108] His partners pleaded guilty to armed robbery and manslaughter with Jiggetts being sentenced to 9 to 12 years in prison and Aquino being sentenced to 18 to 20 years in prison.[109] His girlfriend, 21-year-old Brittany Smith, pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact, firearm possession, and misleading a grand jury and was sentenced to 3 years in prison.[110][111]
May 18, 2009	Larose, Louisiana	1[n 1]	0	1	15-year-old Larose-Cut Off Middle School student, Justin Doucet, carried his backpack to a restroom, where he put on camouflage clothes and took out a semi-automatic handgun before storming into a nearby classroom. He attempted to shoot a teacher, Jessica Plaisance, but the gun did not fire. He returned to the restroom and shot himself in the head, dying a week later of his wounds.[112][113]
June 16, 2009	San Francisco, California	0	3	3	After students were being let out of International Studies Academy on the first day of summer school classes, a man left a car and opened fire, wounding three people, including a 17-year-old female student. An 18-year-old man was arrested for being an accessory in the crime.[114]
June 24, 2009	Parkersburg, Iowa	1	0	1	Coach Edward Arthur Thomas, the football coach at Aplington–Parkersburg High School, was shot and killed in the school's weightroom by a former player.[115]
September 3, 2009	San Bruno, California	0	1	1	A 20-year-old student was wounded in the parking lot of Skyline College after an argument between him and other men. The college campus was placed on lockdown. Three San Francisco residents, 18-year-old Germaine B. Benjamin, 20-year-old Dimaryea J. McGhee, and 18-year-old Jacori W. Bender, were each arrested and charged with felony firearm offenses.[116]
October 16, 2009	San Bruno, California	1	1	2	At Carolina Forest High School, a 16-year-old male student lunged at a school resource officer with a knife. After a struggle, the officer fatally shot the student.[117][118]

266 incidents.

Date	Location	Deaths	Injuries	Total	Description
2010
February 5, 2010	Madison, Alabama	1	0	1	14-year-old student, Hammad Memon, killed 14-year-old Todd Brown at Discovery Middle School as classes were changing. The shooting was possibly related to gang activity. In May 2013, Memon pleaded guilty to the murder and was sentenced to thirty years of prison. After Memon is released from prison, he is likely to be deported to his native Pakistan.[119]
February 10, 2010	Knoxville, Tennessee	0	2	2	A fourth-grade teacher at Inskip Elementary School shot the principal and assistant principal, injuring both and paralyzing the principal below the waist. The shooting occurred hours after students had been dismissed due to snow. The shooter fled the scene but was arrested at a highway construction roadblock. He was sentenced to 56 years in prison.[120][121]
February 12, 2010	Huntsville, Alabama	3	3	6	2010 University of Alabama in Huntsville shooting: During a biology department meeting with approximately twelve people in attendance, 44-year-old professor of biology Amy Bishop stood up and opened fire. After killing three and wounding three others, Bishop was pushed out of the meeting room by the survivors after her gun ran out of ammo. After being arrested without incident by the police outside the science building, Bishop denied that the shooting even happened. In 1986, Bishop shot and killed her brother in Braintree, Massachusetts, in an incident ruled an accident. In 1993, Bishop and her husband were questioned after a pipe bomb threat incident toward her lab supervisor.[122]
February 19, 2010	DeKalb, Illinois	0	1	1	Less than a week after Northern Illinois University solemnly marked the second anniversary of a mass shooting on campus that claimed the lives of five students, the DeKalb school was the scene of further gun violence. 24-year-old NIU student, Brian Mulder, refused entry to 22-year-old Zachary R. Isaacman, when he had tried to follow a female resident into the Stevenson Residence Hall North, where they were living, because he was not a resident. Moments later, while outside the dorm smoking with a friend, Mulder was shot by Isaacman, with a handgun in the leg above the knee. Isaacman tried to flee, but was caught by police within minutes.[123]
February 23, 2010	Littleton, Colorado	0	2	2	At Deer Creek Middle School, 32-year-old Bruco Strong Eagle Eastwood opened fire from a rifle in a parking lot, and wounded two eighth-graders Reagan Webber and Matt Thieu, before being restrained by 57-year-old Math teacher, David Benke, and held until his arrest. The boy's wounds were critical for the four days following the shooting.[124] In October 2011, Eastwood was found not guilty by reason of insanity.[125][126]
February 26, 2010	Tacoma, Washington	2[n 1]	0	2	A teacher was shot and killed by a stalker at Birney elementary school who was later killed by police in a shootout.[127]
May 11, 2010	Bladenboro, North Carolina	0	1	1	A West Bladen High School student was shot on campus as students were leaving school for the day. Investigators said the incident started when a fight broke out between two groups of students near the high school's entrance.[128]
September 8, 2010	Detroit, Michigan	0	2	2	Two students were wounded in front of Mumford High School by 17-year-old Steven Jamal Hare. He was tried as an adult and charged with assault with intent to kill. In 2012, Hare was sentenced to 27 years in prison.[129]
September 28, 2010	Austin, Texas	1[n 1]	0	1	A 19-year-old sophomore student Colton Tooley, wielding an AK-47 and wearing a ski mask, opened fire and then killed himself in a University of Texas library[130]
October 1, 2010	Salinas, California	1	0	1	15-year-old student Jose Daniel Cisneros was killed after being shot several times on an athletic field at Alisal High School while walking to school. Police said that the shooting was gang-related.[131]
October 8, 2010	Carlsbad, California	0	2	2	41-year-old Brendan O'Rourke climbed over a fence and opened fire with a handgun in a playground of Kelly Elementary School, which had 230 students; two second-grade female students were grazed in the arms before O'Rourke was subdued by a construction worker. He was found guilty of seven counts of attempted murder and was sentenced to 189 years to life in prison.[132]
October 23, 2010	Topeka, Kansas	1	1	2	Two victims went to meet the two suspects on a field just outside of Topeka West High School school property to purchase marijuana. However the deal either went bad or they were ambushed, but Samantha Lindsay Hochard and Austin Tabor were both charged in the murder of 20-year-old Matthew C. Mitchell, and the attempted murder of 17-year-old Treshawn Wynee, who was wounded. A total of four suspects were arrested and charged with various offenses.[133][134][135][136]
November 29, 2010	Marinette, Wisconsin	1[n 1]	0	1	15-year-old Samuel Hengel took 23 students and a teacher hostage inside a classroom of Marinette High School for five hours. He had stormed into the class, firing with a handgun at a movie projector. Police persuaded Hengel to release the hostages. After officers entered the building, Hengel shot himself in the head. He died the next day.[137]
December 6, 2010	Aurora, Colorado	0	1	1	In a gang-related attack outside Aurora Central High School, a 17-year-old girl was paralyzed. She was one of a group of students outside the school. 20-year-old Luis Enrique Guzman-Rincon, had fired shots from a car trying to hit gang rivals. Guzman-Ricon was sentenced to thirty-five years in prison.[138]
2011
January 5, 2011	Omaha, Nebraska	2[n 1]	2	4	At Millard South High School, 17-year-old student, Robert Butler Jr., killed assistant principal Dr. Vicki Kaspar and wounded principal Curtis Case before opening fire at police in the front office area, causing the school nurse to be wounded by gunshot debris. Butler then drove to a parking lot and shot himself as police cornered him.[139]
March 25, 2011	Martinsville, Indiana	0	1	1	Michael Phelps, a 15-year-old suspended student, returned to Martinsville West Middle School with a handgun. In the entrance of the school, Phelps shot 15-year-old Chance Jackson twice in the abdomen, critically wounding him. Phelps fled the school and dropped the handgun; he was arrested shortly after. Jackson had to undergo surgery three times to save his life; he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. Phelps was convicted of attempted murder in August 2011, and was sentenced to thirty years in prison and five years of probation.[140]
March 31, 2011	Houston, Texas	1	5	6	Multiple gunmen opened fire during a powder puff football game at Worthing High School. One man, an 18-year-old former student named Tremaine De Ante' Paul, died. Five other people were injured.[141]
April 19, 2011	Houston, Texas	0	3[n 1]	3	A 6-year-old boy took a semi-automatic pistol in his backpack to Ross Elementary, Later that morning as he and more than 40 other kindergartners were having lunch in a crowded cafeteria, the boy accidentally fired the gun as he was showing it off to friends. The boy, as well as another 6-year-old boy and a 5-year-old girl were injured. Houston police say the gun belonged to a friend of the boy's family.[142]
May 10, 2011	San Jose, California	3[n 1]	0	3	A man shot and killed two San Jose State University students in a campus parking garage, including his estranged wife. He then fatally shot himself.[143]
May 23, 2011	Pearl City, Hawaii	0	1	1	A 14-year-old male student was accused of firing a handgun on the campus of Highlands Intermediate School, wounding one student. The gunman was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. Two other suspects were arrested in connection with the shooting.[144]
August 19, 2011	Albany, Georgia	0	1	1	An Albany State University student was shot on campus.[145]
September 28, 2011	Jurupa Valley, California	2[n 1]	0	2	64-year-old Donaciano Aguirre fatally shot his 61-year-old wife and teacher's aide, Maria Celia Aguirre, in the parking lot of Patriot High School (California) at 10:40am. He then committed suicide and the school was put on lockdown. After being searched thoroughly, no other victims were found and students were let go late in the afternoon.[146]
October 24, 2011	Fayetteville, North Carolina	0	1	1	Cape Fear High School shooting: 15-year-old Catilyn Abercrombie, was shot in the neck with a rifle by fellow student, 15-year-old Charles Underwood, at Cape Fear High School. She was hospitalized for two months in a serious condition. Underwood was arrested and charged with attempted murder. He was convicted of attempted first-degree murder and sentenced to fifteen years in prison.[147]
December 8, 2011	Blacksburg, Virginia	2[n 1]	0	2	22-year-old Ross Truett Ashley, part-time business student at Radford University, killed a police officer engaged in an unrelated traffic stop on the campus of Virginia Tech. He then committed suicide in a nearby parking lot.[148]
December 9, 2011	Edinburg, Texas	0	2	2	Two students were shot after school at Harwell Middle School in Edinburg, Texas while trying out for their school's basketball team. The shooting allegedly was done by an adult off campus, who was shooting at a target range.[149]
December 28, 2011	Flint, Michigan	0	1	1	One person was shot and injured just behind Flint Northern High School as a basketball game was finishing inside.[150]
2012
January 10, 2012	Houston, Texas	0	1	1	A student opened fire with a handgun at North Forest High School, wounding another student. The shooter said that he had been confronted by three students who had been bullying him and he shot in self-defense. He hit a 16-year-old bystander in the leg. The 18-year-old suspect was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.[151]
February 23, 2012	Bremerton, Washington	0	1	1	Armin Jahr Elementary School:[152] A 9-year-old boy accidentally set off a firearm in class after slamming his backpack on a desk hitting 8-year-old Amina Kocer-Bowman in the abdomen causing her to spend 8 weeks in a hospital. The boy said he took the gun because he planned to run away from his uncle's house, where he lived, and that he planned to bring a gun with him for protection. The boy's mother, Jamie Lee Chaffin, a felon, eventually pleaded guilty to weapons charges and was sentenced to 14 months in prison.[153][154][155] The boy made a plea agreement with Kitsap County prosecutors, taking responsibility for bringing the handgun school to and was sentenced to a year of court-supervised probation.[155]
February 27, 2012	Chardon, Ohio	3	3	6	2012 Chardon High School shooting: 17-year-old Thomas "T. J." Lane, took a semi-automatic handgun and a knife to Chardon High School, where he fired ten shots at a group of students sitting in the cafeteria. He killed three boys and wounded three other students. One 16-year-old died immediately, two others died the following day. Lane was arrested early the next morning while standing near his car.[156] He was charged as an adult with murder, attempted murder, and firearms offenses. In March 2013, he was convicted and sentenced to three life sentences without the possibility of parole.[157]
March 6, 2012	Jacksonville, Florida	2[n 1]	0	2	Shane Schumerth, a fired teacher at Episocpal High School, shot Headmistress Dale Regan before killing himself.[158][159][160][161][162][163][164]
March 24, 2012	Oktibbeha County, Mississippi	1	0	1	Mississippi State University student John Sanderson was fatally shot by Mason Perry Jones.[165]
April 2, 2012	Oakland, California	7	3	10	2012 Oikos University shooting: 43-year-old One L. Goh, was accused of shooting dead seven students with a handgun and wounding three others at Oikos University, a Christian college. He fled the scene, stealing a victim's car, and was apprehended hours later nearby. Goh was charged with seven counts of murder. In January 2013, Goh was determined to be mentally unfit for trial and committed for treatment.[166]
August 16, 2012	Memphis, Tennessee	0	2	2	Two Hamilton High School students were wounded in the parking lot of the school. The attack was believed to be gang-related.[167]
August 27, 2012	Perry Hall, Maryland	0	1	1	15-year-old Robert Gladden, fired two shots with a shotgun inside the cafeteria at Perry Hall School. He hit a 17-year-old senior in the lower back, causing critical wounds. The youth has Down syndrome. Gladden was subdued by two school faculty members, and arrested. In February 2013, he was sentenced to thirty-five years in prison on attempted murder charges.[168]
September 7, 2012	Normal, Illinois	0	0	0	A 14-year-old student fired multiple gunshots in a classroom ceiling at Normal Community High School, and was tackled by a teacher. Nobody was injured. The student was arrested and charged with sixteen felony counts.[169][170]
October 19, 2012	Chicago, Illinois	1	0	1	18-year-old Banner Academy South student, Terrance Wright, was killed during an attempted robbery. Wright was approached by five would-be robbers as he left the school about 3:40 p.m.. He was shot in the chest as he fought back when one assailant was going through his pockets. Wright had been picked on at his previous high school because he was gay, which led him to transfer to Banner.[171]
October 31, 2012	Los Angeles, California	0	4	4	At a Halloween party on the University of Southern California campus, an argument escalated and 20-year-old Brandon Spencer, used a handgun to shoot rival gang member, Geno Hall, seven times, critically wounding him. Spencer wounded three other people, none were students at USC, they were hospitalized with less serious injuries. Spencer was arrested just minutes after the shooting, which took place outside USC's Grand Ballroom at around 11:30 p.m.[172] In April 2014, he was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to forty years to life in prison.[173]
December 14, 2012	Newtown, Connecticut	28[n 1]	2	30	Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed twenty-six people and himself. He first killed his mother at their shared home before taking four of her guns and driving to the school, where he killed 20 first-grade children aged six and seven along with six adults, including four teachers, the principal, and the school psychologist. Two other persons were injured. Lanza then killed himself as police arrived at the school.[156][174]
2013
January 10, 2013	Taft, California	0	2	2	16-year-old student, Bryan Oliver, entered a science classroom of Taft Union High School with a shotgun and opened fire, critically wounding 16-year-old student Bowe Cleveland. He shot at but missed another student. The classroom teacher Ryan Heber convinced Oliver, to drop his weapon. He was later arrested. On January 14, he was charged with two counts of attempted murder and assault with a firearm.[175] He was convicted and accepted a plea deal with a sentence of 27 years and 4 months.[176]
January 12, 2013	Detroit, Michigan	0	1	1	A 16-year-old Osborn High School student was shot and wounded after a basketball game.[175]
January 15, 2013	St. Louis, Missouri	0	2[n 1]	2	A 34-year-old gunman wounded an administrator in his office on the fourth floor of Stevens Institute of Business and Arts. The suspected gunman, Sean Johnson, a part-time student, wounded himself in a stairwell. Both the administrator and Johnson were hospitalized in stable conditions. Johnson was convicted of three felony charges, including assault and was sentenced to 60 years in prison.[177][178][179]
January 15, 2013	Hazard, Kentucky	3	0	3	Two people were killed and a third person was wounded at the parking lot of Hazard Community and Technical College.[180] The third victim, 12-year-old Taylor Cornett, died from her wounds the next day.[181] 21-year-old Dalton Lee Stidham, was arrested and charged with three counts of murder. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2014.[182]
January 16, 2013	Chicago, Illinois	1	0	1	A 17-year-old boy, Tyrone Lawson, was killed in a parking lot of Chicago State University. The shooting happened after high school basketball games held on the campus, where Lawson had been a spectator. Police arrested two brothers, Michael McNabb, 33, and Brian Hewlett (under the alias Stephen Gilbert), 30 after the shooting and recovered a weapon.[175][183][184]
January 22, 2013	Houston, Texas	0	3[n 1]	3	Lone Star College–North Harris shooting: Outside Lone Star College–North Harris, two men got into an argument. One wounded the other. He also wounded a maintenance man, and accidentally shot himself in the leg. The shooter fled into the woods and was arrested hours later. The charges against the initial suspect were dropped and another man was arrested.[185]
January 31, 2013	Atlanta, Georgia	0	2	2	A 14-year-old male student was wounded at Price Middle School. The gunman, a 15-year-old student, was believed to be arguing with the other student before using a handgun to shoot him. A teacher was also wounded. Afterward, the gunman was disarmed by a school resource officer and arrested; police charged him with aggravated assault.[186][187]
February 1, 2013	Detroit, Michigan	1	1	2	At Martin Luther King high school, a 15-year-old was injured and a 16-year-old was killed after they tried to rob a school coach who was walking to his car with two students after practice. The coach was the shooter and was a reserve police officer whom authorities ruled was acting in self defense.[188][189]
March 18, 2013	Orlando, Florida	1[n 1]	0	1	At the University of Central Florida, 30-year-old student James Oliver Seevakumaran pulled a fire alarm at the Tower One dormitory, to attract a crowd. He pointed a handgun at his roommate and threatened to shoot him in their room; he released the roommate, who ran out and called 9-1-1. Seevakumaran then fatally shot himself in the head. Authorities found an assault weapon, a couple hundred rounds of ammunition and four homemade bombs inside his backpack.[190]
April 12, 2013	Christiansburg, Virginia	0	2	2	New River Community College shooting incident: Two women were wounded during a shooting at the campus of New River Community College. 18-year-old Neil Allen MacInnis, was taken into custody. In June 2014, he was sentenced to 38 years in prison.[191]
April 16, 2013	Grambling, Louisiana	0	3	3	Three students were injured on the campus of Grambling State University.[192]
April 18, 2013	Cambridge, Massachusetts	2[n 2]	2[n 2]	4	Three days after committing the Boston Marathon bombing, while still at large, the brothers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev shot and killed Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus police officer Sean Collier[193] in his patrol car near MIT's Ray and Maria Stata Center.[194] About three hours after the MIT shooting and after carjacking a vehicle, Tamerlan died in a gunfight with police in Watertown, Massachusetts. Another officer was seriously wounded. Shot in the neck and hiding in a boat parked nearby, Dzhokhar was arrested 18 hours later, and hospitalized in critical condition.[194] He was sentenced to death in 2015.
May 14, 2013	Birmingham, Alabama	0	0	0	Allegedly responding to a student fight, a mother of a student fired a weapon on the campus of Ossie Ware Mitchell Middle School. No one was injured.[195]
June 7, 2013	Santa Monica, California	6[n 1]	4[n 5]	10	2013 Santa Monica shootings: 23-year-old John Zawahri, began a killing spree at his home. After killing his 55-year-old father, Samir "Sam" Zawahri, and 25-year-old brother, Chris Zawahri, he set the house ablaze. Dressed all in black with body armor and wielding an AR-15-type semi-automatic rifle, Zawahri carjacked 41-year-old Laura Siska, shooting 50-year-old Debra Fine, as she attempted to intervene, before forcing Siska to drive to Santa Monica College. Upon arriving on the college campus, Zawahri began shooting at passing vehicles, including a police car and a city bus, leaving three people with minor injuries. Zawahri next targeted a Ford Explorer, killing the driver, 68-year-old campus groundskeeper, Carlos Navarro Franco, and fatally wounding the passenger, his 26-year-old daughter Marcela Diaz-Franco, a student at the college, who died two days later. 68-year-old Margarita Gomez, who was collecting cans outside the library, died after being shot in the abdomen and chest. Zawahri opened fire on students who were trying to run away. It ended at the college library where he opened fire on students studying for finals, before being fatally wounded in an exchange of gunfire with responding police officers.[196]
August 20, 2013	Decatur, Georgia	0	0	0	Armed with a 7.62mm AK-47-type assault rifle and nearly 500 rounds of ammunition, 20-year-old Michael Brandon Hill entered the Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy shortly after 1:00 PM and took several employees hostage in the principal's office. Hill ordered his hostages to call local ABC News affiliate WSB-TV, declaring that he wanted a camera crew to record him killing police officers. When responding law enforcement officers arrived at the school, Hill exited the office and fired six rounds at police, who immediately returned fire; no one was injured in the exchange and Hill returned to the office with his hostages. During the resulting standoff with police, Hill claimed to have a bomb in his car and in the school and repeatedly threatened to kill himself and the hostages. During the standoff, police managed to evacuate the students and staff out the back of the school. Hill was eventually persuaded to surrender by one of the hostages, Antoinette Tuff, who shared stories with him and tried to keep him calm during the siege. After pleading guilty to numerous charges stemming from the incident, Hill was sentenced to 20 years in prison and 20 years of supervised probation in September 2014.[197][198]
August 22, 2013	Memphis, Tennessee	0	0	0	A 5-year-old kindergarten student fired a handgun in his elementary school cafeteria. The Westside Elementary School student brought the gun to school in his backpack. While waiting for the opening bell in the cafeteria, the gun accidentally discharged one time inside the boy's backpack. There was no evidence of harmful intent and nobody was injured. To date, the boy is the youngest documented school shooter.[199]
August 23, 2013	Sardis, Mississippi	1	2	3	15-year-old student, Roderick Bobo, was killed during a football game at North Panola High School in what was termed a gang-related shooting. Two others were injured in the shooting. Three men were charged as being responsible for the crime.[200]
August 30, 2013	Winston-Salem, North Carolina	0	1	1	A 15-year-old male student was shot at Carver High School, at 2:30 p.m.. He was hospitalized with minor injuries.[201] An 18-year-old male student was apprehended without further incident. The suspected gunman is charged with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, carrying a concealed gun, possessing and discharging a firearm, and carrying a firearm onto educational property. The shooting was believed related to a dispute between the suspect and the victim.[202]
October 4, 2013	Pine Hills, Florida	0	2	2	A 16-year-old student was shot in the hip outside Agape Christian Academy after a fight broke out at 2 p.m.. An innocent bystander was hit by a stray bullet or shrapnel. The two victims were treated for minor injuries. The suspected shooter reportedly fled in a car with several other males, and was not caught.[203]
October 21, 2013	Sparks, Nevada	2[n 1]	2	4	12-year-old seventh-grade student Jose Reyes opened fire with a handgun at the basketball courts of Sparks Middle School, injuring one student in the shoulder. Michael Landsberry, a teacher and veteran, tried to intervene and was killed by Reyes. Reyes also wounded a student trying to help the teacher. Reyes then committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.[156][201] The shooting happened before classes, and the school was evacuated and was closed for the week.
November 2, 2013	Greensboro, North Carolina	0	1	1	A 21-year-old student was wounded at North Carolina A&T State University. The victim was hospitalized for serious but non-life-threatening injuries. The university was temporarily locked down that night. No suspects are in custody.[204]
November 3, 2013	Lithonia, Georgia	0	2	2	A Stephenson High School student and a janitor were shot in an apparent confrontation between football team members and a group of teens who were not attending the school. Both were innocent bystanders.[205]
November 13, 2013	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	0	3	3	After classes ended, at least one gunman came out of the woods and opened fire on three students as they were walking to their cars at Brashear High School. One student was grazed in the head, another was struck in the neck and shoulder, and a third was hit in the leg and foot. Six people were taken into custody. The shooting is believed to be drug-related.[206]
December 4, 2013	Winter Garden, Florida	0	1	1	A 15-year-old student was wounded by a 17-year-old student near a soccer field on the campus of West Orange High School. The shooting occurred after a fight broke out between the two students. The 17-year-old suspected shooter was taken into custody several miles away from the school, and is charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery with a firearm, possession of a firearm by a minor and possession of a firearm on school grounds. In October 2014, the shooter was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison.[207]
December 13, 2013	Centennial, Colorado	2[n 1]	0	2	18-year-old Karl Pierson, shot 17-year-old student Claire Davis in the head, fatally injuring her, in a hallway in Arapahoe High School. Pierson then took his own life.[156] Pierson was armed with a shotgun, three Molotov cocktails, and a machete. His intention was to shoot the librarian who had disciplined him. Claire Davis died from her injuries on December 21, 2013.[208]
December 19, 2013	Fresno, California	0	1	1	Four teens (16, 16, 16 and 17 years old) entered Edison High School in what was believed as a gang-initiation process. After accosting a 62-year-old woman about a mile away from school grounds, they found an athletic trainer who taught at Edison High and shot him several times in the leg and stomach.[209]
2014
January 9, 2014	Jackson, Tennessee	0	1	1	A 16-year-old student was charged with bringing a gun to school at Liberty Technology Magnet High School and shooting a classmate in the thigh. The incident occurred outside the front of the school.[210]
January 13, 2014	New Haven, Connecticut	0	1	1	A 14-year-old boy was shot a few blocks away from the Hillhouse High School athletic facility, after a basketball game, and suffered wounds in his hand and leg.[211]
January 14, 2014	Roswell, New Mexico	0	3	3	Two people were wounded inside the gymnasium of Berrendo Middle School, at about 8:10 a.m.. An 11-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl were airlifted to a hospital in Lubbock, Texas in critical condition. The 12-year-old suspected shooter, Mason Campbell, a seventh grade student, was apprehended at the scene after he was talked down by a staff member and dropped the shotgun. A staff member received minor injuries. Campbell was charged with three counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. He was sentenced to a maximum sentence of confinement in a juvenile detention facility until he is twenty one years old.[212]
January 17, 2014	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	0	2	2	A student allegedly shot two other students in the gymnasium at Delaware Valley Charter School. Both victims, a male and a female, were shot in the arm. They were taken to a nearby hospital and are in stable condition, police say. Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said at a news conference that the shooter ran out of the school after the shooting but was taken into custody near his home. 17-year-old Raisheem Rochwell was arrested and charged as an adult for aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person and firearms offenses. Rochwell was sentenced to two years of juvenile detention.[213]
January 20, 2014	Chester, Pennsylvania	0	1	1	One person was critically injured at Widener University. The incident occurred around 10 p.m. outside the university sport's complex and led to an 8-hour university lock-down. The suspect was not immediately found.[214]
January 21, 2014	West Lafayette, Indiana	1	0	1	A 21-year-old student, Andrew Boldt, was killed in a classroom building on the campus of Purdue University. 24-year-old student Cody Cousins was found guilty of the murder and was sentenced to sixty-five years of prison. In October 2014, Cousins committed suicide in his cell.[215]
January 24, 2014	Orangeburg, South Carolina	1	0	1	A 20-year-old student was killed at South Carolina State University. A 19-year-old was arrested and charged with murder.[216]
January 25, 2014	Los Angeles, California	1	0	1	A man was killed at Los Angeles Valley College. Two suspects were arrested in the fatal shooting.[217]
January 27, 2014	Carbondale, Illinois	0	1	1	A group of students at Rebound High School got in an argument in the school's parking lot. One student pulled out a gun and shot another student in the ensuing altercation. An 18-year-old suspect is facing charges of attempted murder.[218]
January 28, 2014	Nashville, Tennessee	0	1	1	One student was shot in the leg in an apparent altercation over a gambling debt at Tennessee State University.[219]
January 30, 2014	Palm Bay, Florida	0	1	1	Three students were fighting in a parking lot of Eastern Florida State College and one pulled out a gun and shot another of the students. All three students claimed self-defense.[220]
January 31, 2014	Des Moines, Iowa	0	1	1	After a basketball game at North High School, there was gunfire in a parking lot of the school. Six males in a black jeep had come moments before the shooting and returned at the time it happened. A 15-year-old girl was injured by a ricocheting bullet. While officers were gaining control of the area, teachers on the scene led students into the school building for safety.[221]
February 10, 2014	Salisbury, North Carolina	0	1	1	A 16-year-old student was shot in the stomach on the campus of Salisbury High School during a dispute in the school gym. 17-year-old suspect was charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, possession of a firearm on school property and discharging a weapon on school property.[222]
February 10, 2014	Lyndhurst, Ohio	0	0	0	Five shots were fired in the parking lot of Charles F. Brush High School, including one which hit an unoccupied police car. No one was reported to be injured, though a school basketball game was going on at the time.[223]
February 12, 2014	Los Angeles, California	0	1	1	A male victim was shot in the back in a possible gang-related drive-by shooting near the University of Southern California. The suspect fled into the University Campus. The victim was last reported in stable condition before being transported to a local hospital.[224]
February 22, 2014	Augusta, Georgia	0	1	1	A shooting involving a campus police officer occurred at a Georgia Regents University dormitory complex. A male suspect entered a vehicle and nearly struck an officer, who opened fire. The suspect was taken to Georgia Regents Medical Center with injuries that were not believed to be critical.[225]
March 25, 2014	College Park, Georgia	0	0	0	An argument between students led to shots being fired in a Benjamin Banneker High School parking lot during the afternoon. Investigators believe multiple people were present when shots were fired, but it was not known how many could face charges for the incident. No one was injured in the shooting.[226]
April 11, 2014	Detroit, Michigan	1	0	1	After a Friday evening student awards ceremony called "Grammy Night", four men who were affiliated with a gang fired into a crowd in the parking lot of East English Village Preparatory Academy. One 19-year-old, Darryl Smith, was fatally shot in the head. Smith was not a student at the academy.[227]
May 4, 2014	Augusta, Georgia	0	1	1	Two men fired shots inside a dormitory at Paine College on Sunday, injuring one student in the head. Neither of the suspects were students at the college.[228]
May 5, 2014	Augusta, Georgia	0	1	1	An active shooter situation was reported at Paine College on Monday with one person reported to be shot. The suspect was apparently apprehended and in custody. It was the second shooting incident to occur at the college campus in two days.[229]
May 8, 2014	Lawrenceville, Georgia	0	1	1	A person was shot on a student parking lot roof at Georgia Gwinnett College, receiving an injury. The specific cause has not been identified.[230]
May 14, 2014	Richmond, California	0	1	1	A 14-year-old student was injured during a drive-by shooting in front of John F. Kennedy High School at 8:30 a.m.. He was shot as he was running towards the school campus after a fight took place. The student suffered a serious but stable injury to his leg. Police are searching for a suspect.[231]
June 5, 2014	Seattle, Washington	1	2	3	19-year-old students, Paul Lee and Sarah Williams, and 24-year-old student, Thomas Fowler, were shot inside a hallway of Otto Miller Hall at Seattle Pacific University.[232] Freshman Lee was rushed to Harborview Medical Center but later died. The shooter was subdued with pepper spray and tackled to the ground by student building monitor, Jon Meis, as he paused to reload his shotgun. 26-year-old Aaron Rey Ybarra was arrested at the scene and has been charged with premeditated and attempted murder.[233] Ybarra was convicted in November 2016 and in February 2017 was sentenced to 112 years in prison.[234]
June 10, 2014	Troutdale, Oregon	2[n 1]	1	3	At around 8:30 a.m. shots were fired at Reynolds High School. 14-year-old freshman Emilio Hoffman was killed, a physical education teacher was injured, and the gunman, 15-year-old Jared Padgett, exchanged gunfire with police officers and then committed suicide in a restroom stall.[156][235]
September 9, 2014	Miami, Florida	0	1	1	Towards the end of the school day, one alternative school student in Miami was shot as a small group of students tussled. The injury was minor, requiring hospitalization, and five young adults were later questioned.[236]
September 11, 2014	Taylorsville, Utah	0	1	1	An elementary school teacher with a concealed weapon permit had her gun fire accidentally in a faculty bathroom at Westbrook Elementary School. The bullet shattered a toilet, and fragments of both the bullet and the porcelain injured her leg.[237]
September 27, 2014	Terre Haute, Indiana	0	1	1	A 20-year-old Indiana State University student was shot by another student on Saturday inside a residence hall. The injuries were not fatal, and a full recovery was expected. The shooter was arrested on the following day.[238]
September 30, 2014	Albemarle, North Carolina	0	1	1	Two students got in an argument at Albemarle High School around 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, and one of the students shot the other twice including once in the leg. The student who committed the shooting was allegedly involved in a stabbing of a football player last year at West Montgomery High School, which is only 20 miles (32 km) away in Mount Gilead, North Carolina. The school had held an active shooter training over the summer, which prepared the school for this incident.[239]
September 30, 2014	Louisville, Kentucky	0	1	1	One student was injured at Fern Creek Traditional High School. The incident occurred around 1 p.m., reportedly after student became enraged in a hallway and pulled out a gun. The student was arrested later that day.[240]
October 3, 2014	Fairburn, Georgia	1	0	1	After a homecoming football game, a fatal shooting of 17-year-old Kristofer Hunter, occurred in the Langston Hughes High School parking lot. The assailant, 18-year-old Eric Dana Johnson Jr., turned himself in a week later.[241]
October 24, 2014	Marysville, Washington	5[n 1]	3[n 6]	8	2014 Marysville Pilchuck High School shooting. 15-year-old freshman, Jaylen Fryberg, shot five students in the school cafeteria of Marysville Pilchuck High School, four fatally, before committing suicide. An additional two were injured unrelated to the gunfire.[156][242]
November 20, 2014	Tallahassee, Florida	1[n 1]	3	4	At around 12:40 a.m. EST, a gunman opened fired in or near the Strozier Library at Florida State University. Three people suffered gunshot injuries and were taken to a local area hospital. One was in critical condition, another was in good condition, and the third was shortly released after treatment. The gunman, later identified as Myron May, an alumnus from the school, started firing towards responding police officers and was fatally shot by them on the steps of the library.[243]
November 20, 2014	Miami, Florida	1	1	2	Two teens were shot during a fight at Miami Carol City High School. One of the boys died.[244]
December 12, 2014	Portland, Oregon	0	4	4	Rosemary Anderson High School shooting: A gunman shot three students and a man outside Rosemary Anderson High School in north Portland. A 16-year-old girl was in critical condition, while the others suffered minor injuries. Two men, aged eighteen and twenty-two, were arrested in connection with the shooting.[245]
December 17, 2014	Wyoming, Michigan	0	1	1	At Godfrey High School, a basketball player was shot in the leg at the school parking lot after leaving basketball practice.[246]
2015
January 15, 2015	Milwaukee, Wisconsin	0	3	3	A 15-year-old boy, a student's father, and a teacher were each injured in the school parking lot at Wisconsin Lutheran High School. The student had unspecified injuries that were treated. The father was shot in the knee and the teacher was grazed in the toe. 36-year-old Michael Riley was charged in the shooting.[247] In June 2016, Riley pled guilty to first degree reckless injury, use of a dangerous weapon, and felon in possession of a firearm and on September 2, 2016, Riley was sentenced to six years in prison and six years of extended supervision.[248]
January 16, 2015	Ocala, Florida	0	2	2	Two were injured in gunfire that occurred after a Friday night basketball game at Vanguard High School. One was injured directly by a bullet, the other by ricocheting glass.[249]
February 4, 2015	Frederick, Maryland	0	2	2	Two students were shot near the gymnasium of Frederick High School during a junior varsity (JV) boys' basketball game. Approximately two hundred students, staff, and faculty were placed on lockdown for several hours after the shooting while police searched for the suspects. Brandon Earl Tyler, 21, and Chandler Tristan Davenport, 19 were charged with the shooting.[250][251]
February 14, 2015	Merced, California	1	0	1	16-year-old Benito Aguirre was found dead in the parking lot of Tenaya Middle School. The shooting was reported to have occurred after school hours.[252][253]
February 23, 2015	Daytona Beach, Florida	0	3	3	Two students argued outside the music building at Bethune-Cookman University when one pulled out a gun. Both had guns and it is not disclosed who did the shooting, injuring three students. A reward was offered to help solve this case.[254]
March 30, 2015	University City, Missouri	0	1	1	Police said one person has been arrested for a shooting at Pershing Elementary School. The shooting occurred in the parking lot, with a 34-year-old-man being shot in the buttocks.[255]
April 13, 2015	Goldsboro, North Carolina	1	0	1	A faculty member was killed with a rifle in the school library of Wayne Community College. The 20-year-old gunman, Kenneth Stancil, was arrested in Florida the next day. As of January 2017, Stancil, an admitted Neo-Nazi is being investigated for a hate crime.[256] Stancil was later sentenced to life without parole for the murder.[257]
April 16, 2015	Paradis, Louisiana	0	1	1	A police officer was shot outside a school in a school zone while he was directing school buses into J.B. Martin Middle School, and the suspect was apprehended at the scene.[258]
May 12, 2015	Jacksonville, Florida	0	2	2	Police report that a 16-year-old shot five bullets into a school bus and injured two students. Apparently, there was an argument that touched on previous events.[259]
May 14, 2015	Vallejo, California	1	0	1	A student, 17, was killed in a robbery on a trail by the campus of Jesse M. Bethel High School; two men were arrested, non-students of the school, and sentenced to 21 years for manslaughter.
May 24, 2015	Flint, Michigan	0	7	7	In the early morning hours of Memorial Day weekend, a group of people were at Southwestern Classical Academy in the parking lot. Shots rang out and seven were injured, with two men being apprehended and charged.[260]
August 27, 2015	Savannah, Georgia	1	0	1	22-year-old student Christopher Starks was fatally shot in a student union building at Savannah State University. Justin Stephens was charged with the murder.[261][262]
September 3, 2015	Sacramento, California	1	2	3	A man was arguing with at least one other person escalated into a physical fight on the parking lot of Sacramento City College. A man opened fire, killing a 25-year-old student and wounding two others. The shooting suspects: Tevita Kaihea and Charlie Hola (both 19 years old) were not arrested for the shooting until December of that year and in 2018 Kaihea was sentenced to 112 years to life in prison and Hola was sentenced to 49 years to life.[263][264][265][266]
September 14, 2015	Cleveland, Mississippi	3[n 1]	0	3	A man killed a woman at his home before fatally shooting an American history professor on the Delta State University campus. The shooter later committed suicide after a chase.[267]
September 30, 2015	Harrisburg, South Dakota	0	1	1	A principal was shot in the arm and wounded at Harrisburg High School after an argument with a student. The suspect, 16-year-old Mason Buhl at the school, was taken into custody and was charged with first-degree attempted murder and sentenced to 25 years with 15 years suspended on supervised probation.[268][269]
October 1, 2015	Roseburg, Oregon	10[n 1]	9	19	2015 Umpqua Community College shooting: At around 10:40 a.m. PDT, a gunman, later identified as 26-year-old student Christopher Harper-Mercer, opened fire in a hall on the Umpqua Community College campus, killing eight students and a teacher, and injuring nine others. The gunman later committed suicide after engaging responding police officers in a brief gunfight.[270]
October 9, 2015	Flagstaff, Arizona	1	3	4	2015 Northern Arizona University shooting: One student died and three others were wounded in a shooting at Northern Arizona University. It is unclear what sparked the shooting, which took place near Mountain View Hall, a dormitory that houses most of the campus' students involved in Greek organizations. An 18-year-old student was arrested and charged with murder and aggravated assault.[271]
October 9, 2015	Houston, Texas	1	1	2	One person died and another person was injured after someone opened fire outside a Texas Southern University dorm.[272]
October 22, 2015	Nashville, Tennessee	1	3	4	One person was killed and three others were wounded in a shooting at an outdoor courtyard at Tennessee State University. The shooting may have stemmed from an argument over a dice game. A suspect has not been identified or arrested.[273]
November 1, 2015	Winston-Salem, North Carolina	1	1	2	One person died and another person was injured, after someone opened fire on the campus of Winston-Salem State University. A 21-year-old non-student suspect is sought.[274]
November 20, 2015	North Las Vegas, Nevada	1	0	1	A 16-year-old student was fatally shot during a fight after school hours that involved multiple people on the campus of Mojave High School.[275]
December 20, 2015	Wichita, Kansas	0	1	1	At Wichita West High School, an armed 17-year-old gang member ran toward the gymnasium while being followed by police after fleeing a traffic stop, the boy was then shot by an officer.[276][277]
2016
January 22, 2016	Indianapolis, Indiana	0	1	1	A 15-year-old male was shot in the leg and injured during a night-time basketball game at Lawrence Central High School.[278]
January 29, 2016	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	0	0	0	A gunshot was fired during a fight in a stairwell at Franklin High School, and no injuries were reported. Three people were detained.[279]
February 9, 2016	Muskegon Heights, Michigan	0	4	4	Four people, including two students, were injured during a basketball game event in the parking lot of Muskegon Heights High School.[280]
February 12, 2016	Glendale, Arizona	2[n 1]	0	2	Two 15-year-old girls died in an apparent murder-suicide at Independence High School.[281]
February 29, 2016	Middletown, Ohio	0	4	4	15-year-old Cameron Smith, and 14-year-old Cooper Caffrey, were shot when 14-year-old James Austin Hancock, opened fire in the Madison High School cafeteria with a .380 caliber handgun. 15-year-old Brant Murray, and 14-year-old Katherine Douchette, also suffered shrapnel injuries.[282] Hancock was apprehended in a nearby wooded field.[283]
April 23, 2016	Antigo, Wisconsin	1[n 1]	2	3	Two students at a prom at Antigo High School were shot and injured by 18-year-old former student Jakob Wagner. Wagner later exchanged fire with a school resource officer in the school's parking lot, and was captured after being shot and wounded by police. He died hours later in a hospital.
April 26, 2016	Dodge City, Kansas	0	0	0	Uriel Adame, Juan Buendia, and Jose Guzma were arrested for a shooting at Dodge City Community College. Guzman shot at three students in a campus parking lot. No one was injured, but a car was struck by a gunshot. Guzman was arrested for attempted first degree murder and conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery. Adame and Buenida were arrested for conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery.[284][285]
May 15, 2016	Augusta, Kansas	0	2[n 1]	2	During the Augusta High School graduation ceremony when a man armed with a licensed and concealed handgun tucked in his sock tried to adjust it and accidentally fired it, injuring himself and a woman.[286][287]
June 1, 2016	Los Angeles, California	3[n 1]	0	3	2016 UCLA shooting. Mainak Sarkar, age 38, a Ph.D. student, killed his former professor, William S. Klug, age 39, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, in an engineering building at UCLA. Sarkar then killed himself. Sarkar, who lived in Minnesota, also killed his ex-wife, Ashley Hasti, age 31, in her Brooklyn Park, Minnesota home.[288][289]
June 8, 2016	Boston, Massachusetts	1	3	4	One student was killed and three other individuals were injured when gunfire erupted outside of the Jeremiah Burke High School following a fire-alarm causing an evacuation of the school. Two suspects have been arrested.[290]
July 7–8, 2016	Dallas, Texas	2[n 1]	1	3	After killing four police officers during a protest, a gunman fled into the nearby El Centro College and got into a shootout with officers, wounding one, before firing out a window and killing a fifth police officer. After an hours-long standoff, police killed the gunman with a bomb robot.[291]
September 7, 2016	Detroit, Michigan	0	0	0	At Detroit Collegiate Preparatory High School, The principal was pulling into the school parking lot when somebody fired shots at his vehicle.[292]
September 9, 2016	Alpine, Texas	1[n 1]	2	3	A 14-year-old female student shot a 16-year-old girl in an Alpine High School restroom before committing suicide. A police officer accidentally shot another officer during the incident.[293]
September 28, 2016	Townville, South Carolina	2	3	5	2016 Townville Elementary School shooting: Three students and a teacher were wounded after a teen opened fire at Townville Elementary School. The perpetrator's father was found dead at his home soon after the shooting. One of the victims, six-year-old Jacob Hall, died 3 days after the shooting.[294][295]
October 11, 2016	Mobile, Alabama	0	1	1	A student was shot in the abdomen and wounded at Vigor High School. The suspect, a 16-year-old boy, turned himself in and was charged with assault.[296]
October 13, 2016	Columbus, Ohio	0	2	2	Two students were shot and wounded on the front lawn of Linden McKinley STEM Academy. One was shot in the shoulder and the other shot in the chest; both were hospitalized in stable condition.[297]
October 18, 2016	San Francisco, California	0	4	4	Four students were shot outside June Jordan High School for Equity, a San Francisco public high school. One female victim was in critical condition, while three male victims suffered minor injuries.[298] Two people were arrested in the shooting.[299]
October 25, 2016	Sandy, Utah	0	1	1	Police say the two teens ages 14 and 16 were involved in a confrontation on the far north end of Union Middle School. The boys got into an argument. The argument lead to a shooting. The 14-year-old shot the 16-year-old twice. He was sent to the hospital in critical but stable condition.[300]
November 11, 2016	Auburn, Michigan	0	1	1	At Bay City Western High School, a sheriff's deputy who served as the school resource officer accidentally fired his gun inside a classroom. The stray bullet went through a wall, ricocheted, entered a classroom and hit a teacher in the neck, causing a minor laceration.[301]
December 1, 2016	Bountiful, Utah	0	0	0	At Mueller Park Junior High School, a 15-year-old student fired one shot into the ceiling and then pointed the weapon at his own neck. The student was confronted verbally by a teacher and another student and later arrested in possession of a shotgun, a handgun, and ammunition for each and was sentenced to spend time in a Juvenile Justice Services facility.[302][303]
2017
January 20, 2017	West Liberty, Ohio	0	1	1	A 17-year-old student was charged with attempted murder and other crimes after bringing a gun to West Liberty-Salem High School and firing two shots at a 17-year-old student in a bathroom with a shotgun. The victim was injured. The student "also is accused of discharging the weapon in the school's hallway before returning to the bathroom, where he was eventually taken into custody."[304]
January 20, 2017	Seattle, Washington	0	1	1	A 34-year-old man was shot in Red Square at University of Washington while protesting the visit of controversial journalist Milo Yiannopoulos. The shooter turned himself in to the university police and was later questioned and released without being charged with a crime.[305]
January 27, 2017	Naperville, Illinois	1	0	1	A 37-year-old Oswego man, Matthew Lange, was shot at Scullen Middle School, which is a part of Indian Prairie School District 204, at about 7:30 PM. At the time of the shooting, there were two non-district organizations renting the building out. The victim was killed in his car while waiting to pick his son up from a weekly Polish culture class.[306][307]
March 21, 2017	King City, California	0	1	1	An 18-year-old King City High School student was shot outside the school's auditorium. The gunman ran across the school's campus and baseball field, and fled the area. The school was then placed on lockdown. The victim was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.[308] A suspect was arrested in August 2017.[309]
April 10, 2017	San Bernardino, California	3[n 1]	1	4	2017 North Park Elementary School shooting: Cedric Anderson, age 53, of Riverside, California, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after shooting and killing his estranged wife, Karen Elaine Smith, age 53, in a classroom. An eight-year-old student was also fatally shot, and a seven-year-old student was injured.[310]
May 4, 2017	Irving, Texas	2[n 1]	0	2	North Lake College: Adrian Victor Torres killed a 20-year-old student, Janeera Nickol Gonzalez, whom he was stalking. He fatally shot her three times and the college went into lockdown before discovering that the suspect had died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.[311]
June 14, 2017	Chicago, Illinois	0	2	2	Two girls, 7 and 13, were shot and wounded on a playground of Warren Elementary during an end-of-the-year picnic. Police speculated they may have been bystanders. Three arrests were made.[312]
September 13, 2017	Rockford, Washington	1	3	4	Freeman High School: Three students were injured and one killed after a shooter opened fire. The suspect was armed with an AR-15 and a Pistol. He shot one student with the AR-15, but the gun jammed so he switched to his pistol. He killed one student after shooting him twice in the stomach and once in the head. He was stopped by a janitor. The suspect, a 15-year-old student, (Caleb Sharpe) was taken into police custody.[313]
September 20, 2017	Mattoon, Illinois	0	1	1	Mattoon High School: A 14-year-old male student was subdued by a female teacher when he attempted to open fire in the school cafeteria at 11:33 a.m. Multiple shots were fired in the process, and one student was struck in the chest and was driven to a nearby hospital suffering non-life-threatening wounds. The student was taken into custody without further incident.[314][315]
October 3, 2017	Oxford, Michigan	0	0	0	At Oxford High School, an 18-year-old male assaulted a school administrator and when the police responded, the 18-year-old tried to grab the officer's gun and the gun discharged. No one was injured.[316]
October 11, 2017	Easton, Massachusetts	0	1	1	A Stonehill College employee was arrested after he accidentally shot a coworker in the leg at the David Ames Clock Farm.[317]
October 19, 2017	Lubbock, Texas	1	0	1	After being taken into custody at his dorm, a student at Texas Tech University shot a university police officer at the campus police station before stealing his body-camera and fleeing. He was captured 90 minutes later and later pled guilty to murder.[318]
October 25, 2017	Grambling, Louisiana	2	0	2	Two men were shot and killed on the Grambling State University campus.[319]
November 3, 2017	Lansing, Michigan	0	1	1	A 15-year-old girl was shot inside an SUV in the parking lot of Pattengill Academy.[320]
November 13, 2017	Albany, Georgia	0	2	2	Two people were shot on the Albany State University campus.[321]
November 14, 2017	Rancho Tehama, California	6[n 1]	18[n 7]	24	Rancho Tehama shootings: Neighbor on a rampage injured one student at Rancho Tehama Elementary School and fatally shot five adults at several locations.[322] The secretary heard the gunfire near the school and ordered the school to go on lockdown. After a custodian and the teachers put it into action, 43 year-old Kevin Neal rammed a truck into the gate of the school and fired at the classrooms hitting one student when a bullet pierced the wall. Neal fatally shot himself after sheriff's deputies rammed his vehicle during a pursuit.[322][323]
December 7, 2017	Aztec, New Mexico	3[n 1]	0	3	2017 Aztec High School shooting: William Atchison, 21-year-old former male student sneaked into Aztec High School disguised as a student and hid in an unlocked washroom with a Glock 9mm handgun hidden in his bag. He retreated from the washroom after being spotted by a school custodian who chased him shouting "active shooter" and "lockdown". Atchinson was able to shoot and kill two students who were caught in the hallway before he killed himself.[324][325] He had been investigated in 2016 by the FBI when he asked "where to find cheap assault rifles for a mass shooting" on an online forum.[326]
December 19, 2017	Mount Morris Township, Michigan	0	1	1	At Beecher High School, a teenage male was shot in the parking lot when about six to eight rounds were fired after a high school basketball game.[327]
2018
January 10, 2018	Denison, Texas	0	0	0	A criminal justice club student picked up a loaded gun, belonging to an advisor, which the student thought was an unloaded training weapon. She then shot at a wall target, unintentionally firing a bullet, which went through the wall and broke a window. The advisor was a licensed peace officer permitted to carry a firearm on campus.[328]
January 20, 2018	Winston-Salem, North Carolina	1	0	1	A student was fatally shot at a party at 1 a.m. on the campus of Wake Forest University.[329]
January 22, 2018	Italy, Texas	0	1	1	A 16-year-old male student fired at a 15-year-old female classmate that he had briefly dated in the cafeteria of Italy High School. The gunman left the school immediately after opening fire and was arrested.[330][331][332]
January 22, 2018	New Orleans, Louisiana	0	1	1	Shots were fired from a truck in the parking lot of NET Charter High School, targeting a crowd of students during lunch time. One student was slightly injured, apparently from injuries unrelated to gunfire. One person was arrested in connection with the shooting.[329]
January 23, 2018	Marshall County, Kentucky	2	18[n 8]	20	2018 Marshall County High School shooting: Gabriel Ross Parker,[333] a 15-year-old male student shot 16 people in the lobby at Marshall County High School and caused non-gunshot injuries to four others. Two 15-year-old students died: one killed at the scene, another died of wounds at Vanderbilt Medical Center.[334][335][336]
January 26, 2018	Dearborn, Michigan	0	0	0	At Dearborn High School an assailant fired shots from a car at in the parking lot during a basketball game. Nobody was injured.[337][338]
January 31, 2018	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	1	0	1	A fight began in the school parking lot outside a basketball game at Lincoln High School, and the school went into lockdown after shots were fired. A 32-year-old male was transported by private vehicle to Nazareth Hospital with two gunshot wounds in his leg. He was transferred by helicopter to another hospital, but died from his injuries. Police announced that they are searching for an adult male suspect.[339]
February 1, 2018	Los Angeles, California	0	5[n 5]	5	Two 15-year-old students, a boy and a girl, were shot and injured inside a classroom at Sal Castro Middle School, which shares a campus with Belmont High School. Three other people suffered injuries unrelated to gunfire. A 12-year-old girl was arrested and charged with negligent discharge of a firearm.[340]
February 5, 2018	Oxon Hill, Maryland	0	1	1	A student was taken to the hospital after exiting Oxon Hill High School and going to speak to individuals in a vehicle who then attempted to rob, and subsequently shot and wounded him in the school's parking lot. Two other students were arrested and charged with attempted murder and robbery.[341]
February 9, 2018	Nashville, Tennessee	0	1	1	Pearl-Cohn High School: A student was shot five times in the parking lot.[342]
February 14, 2018	Parkland, Florida	17	17	34	Parkland high school shooting: A 19-year-old former student (Nikolas Cruz) whose behavior had led to his expulsion began shooting students and staff members with a semi-automatic rifle at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Seventeen people were fatally shot, consisting of 14 students and 3 staff members, and 17 others were injured. The perpetrator shot the students in hallways and classrooms on the first and third floor of the complex and blended in with the crowd of fleeing students and was arrested in a residential area of neighboring Coral Springs after walking away from the school.[343] He was later charged with murder and attempted murder.[344] The perpetrator had sat down at a McDonald's, then went to a nearby Subway. It is the deadliest mass shooting at a high school in U.S. history, surpassing the Columbine High School massacre in April 1999.
February 24, 2018	Savannah, Georgia	1	0	1	Savannah State University: A non-student was shot on campus and later died.[345]
February 27, 2018	Itta Bena, Mississippi	0	1	1	Mississippi Valley State University: A person was shot in a recreation center. The injury was not life-threatening.[346]
February 27, 2018	Norfolk, Virginia	0	1	1	Norfolk State University: A student was shot from an adjacent dorm room while doing homework. He was not seriously injured.[347]
March 2, 2018	Mount Pleasant, Michigan	2	0	2	Central Michigan University shooting: 19-year-old student James Eric Davis Jr. shot and killed his parents when they came to campus to take him home for spring break. After the shooting Davis fled and the campus was placed on lockdown. Around 15 hours later police arrested him and took him to a local hospital. The incident disrupted the travel plans of students and campus activities for several days. Davis was charged with two counts of murder and one count of unlawful possession of a firearm used to commit murder however the judge found Davis insane and was put in a Psychiatric facility.[348][349][350][351]
March 7, 2018	Birmingham, Alabama	1	2	3	Huffman High School: One student was killed and another injured when shots were fired in the school building, prompting the school to go into lockdown shortly after the bell rang for school dismissal. Law enforcement originally labeled the shooting as "accidental".[352] Subsequently, 17-year-old male student Michael Barber was charged with manslaughter and was charged as "being a certain person forbidden to possess a pistol".[353] Although the school has metal detectors, they were not being used that day.[354] School resource officers were onsite at the time of the shooting.[353] Barber was sentenced to 12 months in jail.[355]
March 7, 2018	Jackson, Mississippi	0	1	1	Jackson State University: A student was shot inside a dormitory. His injuries were not life-threatening.[356]
March 8, 2018	Mobile, Alabama	0	1	1	University of South Alabama: One person was hospitalized after a shooting on campus.[357]
March 9, 2018	Lexington, Kentucky	0	1[n 1]	1	Frederick Douglass High School: A 16-year-old male student unintentionally shot himself with a gun he had smuggled into a classroom, sustaining an injury to his left thumb. Police announced they were charging him with wanton endangerment and possession of a weapon on school property. After the shooting, the school superintendent announced that stationary metal detectors would be installed and all students would be required to enter through them.[358]
March 13, 2018	Seaside, California	0	1	1	Seaside High School: A teacher accidentally discharged a firearm while teaching a public safety class, injuring one student.[359]
March 20, 2018	Great Mills, Maryland	2[n 1]	1	3	Great Mills High School: The school was placed on lockdown after a shooting occurred in the morning. A 17-year-old male student, armed with a handgun, shot and fatally injured a female student (with whom he had a prior relationship) and wounded a male student. The student shot himself in the head, fatally, while the school resource officer simultaneously shot at him. [360]
April 12, 2018	Raytown, Missouri	0	1	1	South Middle School: A man was shot in the stomach in the parking lot during a track meet.[361]
April 19, 2018	Jackson, Michigan	0	0	0	Several shots were fired outside of Jackson High School, and two bullets shot through windows of two separate classrooms, both of which were occupied. No one was injured. The rounds were believed to be discharged from an apartment complex across the street.[362]
April 20, 2018	Ocala, Florida	0	1	1	Forest High School: A student shot through the door of the school with a Sawed-off shotgun shortly before a national school walkout for gun control measures. The student had recently dropped out and had planned a much more serious school shooting. His injuries were not life-threatening. Sky Bouche, the 19-year-old former student was arrested.[363]
May 5, 2018	Fowlerville, Michigan	0	0	0	A Flint Police Department officer who was off-duty accidentally fired his gun into a gymnasium floor at a wrestling tournament at Fowlerville High School.[364][365]
May 11, 2018	Palmdale, California	0	1	1	Highland High School: A 14-year-old former student allegedly fired a semi-automatic rifle shortly before classes were to begin. A 15-year-old was struck in the shoulder but went into surgery and was expected to recover fully. The suspect ditched the gun in a field and was arrested nearby, and faces a charge of attempted murder.[366]
May 16, 2018	Dixon, Illinois	0	1[n 1]	1	Dixon High School: A 19-year-old student recently kicked off the football team allegedly fired shots prior to graduation rehearsal. A school resource officer shot the suspect, who suffered non-life-threatening injuries.[367][368]
May 18, 2018	Santa Fe, Texas	10	14[n 1]	24	2018 Santa Fe High School shooting: The school was evacuated when fire alarms were pulled at 7:45 am after a gunman opened fire on multiple students and staff with a Remington 870 shotgun and a .38 caliber revolver, and shot 23 people, killing 10 and injuring 13 others. The accused shooter, 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis, started shooting in the art room, then went through the art hallway. Responding police officers then engaged Pagourtzis in a gunfight which lasted for 25 minutes, before Pagourtzis was wounded and taken into custody.[369] Multiple IEDs, pressure cookers, Molotov cocktails, pipe bombs, propane tanks, and other homemade explosives were also found around the school and parking lot.[370] Pagourtzis is currently awaiting trial for capital murder and faces a sentence of up to 40 years to life in prison.
May 18, 2018	Jonesboro, Georgia	1	3	4	Mount Zion High School: An argument led to a shooting in a parking lot after a high school graduation ceremony for graduates of Perry Learning Center, killing a person and injuring three others. Mount Zion High School provided overflow parking for people attending the ceremony.[371]
May 25, 2018	Noblesville, Indiana	0	2	2	2018 Noblesville West Middle School shooting: Two people were shot and injured in a shooting at Noblesville West Middle School in Noblesville, Indiana. The shooter is an unnamed middle school student who exited his science classroom and re-entered with a gun. When he returned, he shot a female student and the science teacher, identified as Jason Seaman. Seaman was shot in the abdomen, hip, and forearm. The gun was wrestled away by Seaman after both he and the female student were shot.[372][373]
July 3, 2018	Overland Park, Kansas	1	1	2	At Sunrise Point Elementary School, two construction workers at the school playground were shot, one fatally during an argument over tools between the workers and another worker. the shooter then fled the scene and attempted to carjack a vehicle at a nearby car wash, Police say shots were fired at the car wash but no one was hit. The shooter then successfully carjacked another vehicle and the suspect was later arrested outside of a home.[374][375][376]
August 4, 2018	Edgewood, Maryland	1	0	1	19-year-old Thailek Jacob Willis was found in a car in the parking lot of Edgewood High School suffering from a gunshot wound to the upper torso and later died at a local hospital.[377] 15-year-old Jaylin Jerome Brown and 16-year-old Yasin Wallace Powell were later charged with murder and armed robbery as they each were accused of shooting the victim in after attempting to rob him during a drug deal.[378] Brown was found guilty and convicted of second-degree murder, first-degree assault, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony or violent crime, and the possession of a firearm by a person under age 21 and was sentenced to 65 years in prison with all but 20 years suspended and Powell plead guilty to armed robbery and use of a handgun in a felony and was sentenced to 20 years in prison with all but five years suspended.[379][380]
August 17, 2018	Wellington, Florida	0	2	2	Two people were shot and injured at a football game in Palm Beach Central High School in Wellington, Florida.[381]
August 20, 2018	Atlanta, Georgia	0	0	0	A shootout erupted on the campus of Georgia State University the night before classes started.[382]
August 30, 2018	San Francisco, California	0	1	1	One student was injured when two students were joking around about guns, and one student discharged a firearm at Balboa High School in San Francisco, California. 4 students were arrested in this incident, and 2 were allowed to go back to school. The school was on lockdown along with three other schools in the area for two hours.[383]
September 5, 2018	Providence, Rhode Island	1	1[n 1]	2	William Parsons, a 15-year-old student at Central High School, was shot and killed outside Providence Career and Technical Academy in Providence, Rhode Island. Police said that two young men got into an altercation and shots were fired, hitting the victim, who was uninvolved. The 16-year-old shooter Joel Leocra accidentally shot and injured himself while trying to get away, under a mile from the scene.[384] Leocra was sentenced to life in prison plus 10 years and must serve at least 25 years before being eligible for parole.[385]
September 10, 2018	Memphis, Tennessee	0	1	1	A teen girl was injured after shots were fired into school bus full of students attending Fairley High School.[386]
September 11, 2018	North Las Vegas, Nevada	1	0	1	18-year-old student Dalvin Brown was shot at Canyon Springs High School near the baseball field and later died of his injuries at a hospital.[387] 16-year-old Kayin French was arrested in connection to Brown's death shortly after the incident. His trial was scheduled for February 3, 2020.[388]
October 12, 2018	Battle Creek, Michigan	0	0	0	At Battle Creek Academy, a gunshot was fired and one round went into a school building. Nobody was injured.[389][390][391]
October 25, 2018	Detroit, Michigan	0	0	0	A 15-year-old student was shot at but not injured on the property of Cody High School. Three people were arrested for the shooting.[392]
October 29, 2018	Matthews, North Carolina	1	1	2	A David W. Butler High School freshman, 16-year-old Jatwan Craig Cuffie, fatally shot sophomore Bobby McKeithen. Cuffie is in custody and charged with first-degree murder.[393][394] Cuffie was sentenced to 80 to 108 months in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter.[395]
November 21, 2018	Pentwater, Michigan	0	0	0	A man fired at Pentwater Public School with a BB gun which shattered the windows of a door during which he also smashed windows of vehicles. The incident took place in the evening when school was not in session.[396][397]
December 13, 2018	Richmond, Indiana	1[n 1]	0	1	14-year-old Brandon Clegg[398] attempted a shooting on Dennis Intermediate School. He took two guns and threatened to kill his mother's ex-boyfriend if he did not drive him to the school.[399] After his mother called 911, police arrived just before he was able to begin his attack. After exchanging shots with officers, Clegg shot his way through a locked glass door and entered the school, where he continued to shoot at officers. After he was cornered in one of the school's stairwell, Clegg committed suicide by shooting himself.[400]
2019
January 2, 2019	Jersey City, New Jersey	0	0	0	School resource officer Dana Jackson, assigned to Snyder High School, was cleaning his service weapon when it discharged. No injuries were reported. Jackson was removed from his assignment at the school.[401]
January 3, 2019	Miami, Florida	0	0	0	Two men were involved in an altercation on the campus of Florida International University when one of the men pulled out a gun and fired into the air. Both men were detained, and no injuries were reported.[402]
January 4, 2019	Columbus, Mississippi	0	1	1	A former student at the Mississippi University for Women was shot and injured, causing a multi-hour lockdown and a search for a gunman. Police stated they were investigating whether the wound was self-inflicted. No one has been detained in relation to the crime.[403]
January 7, 2019	Belmont, California	1	0	1	Seventeen-year-old Mohammad Othman was fatally shot in the parking lot of Central Elementary School. Police believe the shooter had a connection to Othman, but neither the shooter nor Othman had a relation to the elementary school.[404]
January 11, 2019	Eugene, Oregon	1[n 1]	0	1	A man involved in a custody battle arrived at Cascade Middle School and became enraged. As he was being escorted from the school by police, he began struggling and pulled a gun, according to authorities. The man was shot and killed by the officers. No one else was injured.[405]
January 19, 2019	Overland Park, Kansas	0	2	2	A 16-year-old boy was shot in the head, and a 15-year-old boy was also injured, in a possible robbery incident in a parking lot of Lakewood Middle School in Overland Park, Kansas. The school was not in session at the time. Both victims are expected to recover.[406]
January 25, 2019	Mobile, Alabama	0	2	2	Two males were wounded after basketball game at Davidson High School, but between Blount High School and Murphy High School, the 15-year-old suspect fled the scene before law enforcement arrived and was not arrested until February 8. His mother was arrested for harboring a fugitive.[407][408]
January 30, 2019	Lithonia, Georgia	0	1	1	A man running on the Miller Grove High School track saw someone trying to break into his car, which was parked on school property. When the man confronted the person breaking into his car, he was shot once. The man was taken to a local hospital and listed in stable condition.[409]
January 30, 2019	Prairie View, Texas	0	0	0	Shots were fired at Prairie View A&M University's Village 1 basketball court, according to officials. No injuries were reported.[410]
January 31, 2019	Memphis, Tennessee	0	1	1	At Manassas High School, a 14-year-old student was shot by a pellet gun.[411]
January 31, 2019	Humble, Texas	0	1	1	Seventeen-year-old Mikael Neciosup, a student at Atascocita High School, was arrested after shooting a 16-year-old classmate who was trying to buy marijuana from him. The victim suffered wounds to the foot and torso which were not life-threatening. Neciosup posted Snapchat videos mocking deputies and bragging about the shooting as he was being arrested. He was charged with aggravated assault and is being held on bond.[412]
February 8, 2019	Baltimore, Maryland	0	1	1	A 25-year-old was confronted by an adult staff member of Frederick Douglass High School as to his purpose on being on school grounds. In response, the gunman shot and injured the staff member.[413]
February 11, 2019	Seaside, California	0	0	0	A student fired a gun in Seaside High School during a verbal altercation with other students. Nobody was injured in the incident.[414]
February 12, 2019	Kansas City, Missouri	1	0	1	During a basketball game at the Central Academy of Excellence, an argument between two groups led to the groups being escorted out in a staggered fashion. However, as the second group was being escorted out 15-year-old Anjanique Wright in the group was shot and later pronounced dead at the hospital. Two female students (Jamya D. Norfleet, 21 and Taylor McMillon, 18) were charged with her murder.[415][416][417][418] In February 2021 Norfleet pled guilty to second degree murder and unlawful use of a weapon and was sentenced in April to 28 years in prison. McMillon pled guilty in March to voluntary manslaughter and was scheduled for sentencing in June.[419] McMillon ultimately was sentenced to 5 years in prison.[420]
February 14, 2019	Rio Rancho, New Mexico	0	0	0	Sixteen-year-old student Joshua Owen discharged a single shot in the hallway of Cleveland High School prior to classes beginning. The school was evacuated to a soccer field and then to a nearby arena where students were reunited with their parents. Authorities have not commented on whether Owen was targeting anyone or a possible motive. Owen faced charges of attempted murder, unlawful carrying of a deadly weapon, and unlawful possession of a handgun. Owens suffers from mental illness and was found not fit to stand trial. No injuries were reported.[421][422][418]
February 17, 2019	Arapahoe County, Colorado	1	0	1	Two adult men in an ongoing dispute about a parking space agreed to meet at Eaglecrest High School to settle the dispute. During the argument, 31-year-old Marcus Johnson produced a handgun and shot 46-year-old Anthony "T.J." Cunningham. Johnson then fled the campus, returned home and called 911 to report the shooting. He was arrested when deputies arrived at his home. Cunningham, a former CU football player drafted by the Seattle Seahawks, died the next day of his wounds. Johnson is charged with first-degree murder.[421][423][424]
February 26, 2019	Montgomery, Alabama	0	1	1	At Robert E. Lee High School, Michael Woods a 17-year-old student was shot and wounded in the arm. The gunman, a fellow student, had previously shot another student at the school in less than a two-year period.[411][418]
February 28, 2019	Cheyenne, Wyoming	0	0	0	A 17-year-old student at Cheyenne South High School fired a gun toward an unoccupied vehicle in the school parking lot, shattering its window. The student was arrested on suspicion of discharging a firearm in city limits, misdemeanor possession of marijuana, felony burglary, and larceny. No injuries were reported.[421][425]
March 1, 2019	Mission, Kansas	0	1[n 1]	1	A suicidal man who planned to commit suicide by cop went on a shooting spree and shot at cars and homes and Highlands Elementary School then fired several shots at the police when they arrived, the police returned fire and struck the shooter.[426]
March 7, 2019	Grambling, Louisiana	0	1	1	A Grambling State University student was injured after an accidental discharge in a dorm by a friends gun.[427]
March 22, 2019	Blounstville, Alabama	0	1	1	A substitute teacher at Blountsville Elementary School, unlawfully brought a small-caliber weapon into the classroom, which discharged while in his pocket. One student reportedly had minor injuries, and the substitute was arrested.[428]
March 27, 2019	Holmes County, Mississippi	0	1	1	A 10-year-old student was struck in the hand by gunfire that some claim was fired by another student on a Holmes County elementary school bus, while school district officials claim it was a drive-by shooting.[429]
April 1, 2019	Prescott, Arkansas	0	1	1	A 14-year-old male student with a concealed weapon shot a 14-year-old classmate at Prescott High School in what police described as a "premeditated attack". The victim was airlifted to a nearby hospital and is in stable condition. The shooter was apprehended by school resource officers.[430] the shooter was charged as a juvenile.[418]
April 17, 2019	Flint, Michigan	0	0	0	A 16-year-old male who was in the parking lot of Flex High School fired a shot into the School. The shooter had been in a fight with other students.[431]
April 25, 2019	Texas City, Texas	0	3	3	At College of the Mainland, a police cadet student, 21-year-old Clayton Whatley, reached into his backpack and accidentally discharged a loaded handgun. Two other students were shot in the leg, and a third was grazed.[432]
April 25, 2019	Stone Mountain, Georgia	0	10	10	A teen armed with a pellet gun fired at Wynbrooke Elementary School inflicting minor injuries on 10 children. The shooter pled guilty to 10 counts of aggravated assault.[433][434]
April 30, 2019	Charlotte, North Carolina	2	4	6	2019 University of North Carolina at Charlotte shooting: A shooter on the University of North Carolina at Charlotte campus shot six people, killing two and injuring four on the last day of classes.[435] Riley Howell, a student in the classroom, was credited with stopping the shooter.[411]
May 4, 2019	Eugene, Oregon	1	0	1	A 21-year-old Lane Community College student was killed outside a fraternity house at the University of Oregon.[436]
May 6, 2019	Riverview, Florida	0	0	0	A person shot through a window of an elementary school bus with 11 kids inside.[437]
May 7, 2019	Highlands Ranch, Colorado	1	8	9	2019 STEM School Highlands Ranch shooting: A school shooting was reported at STEM School Highlands Ranch, around 1:50 p.m, two shooters targeted separate locations and killed a student and injured eight more before being arrested.[438]
May 7, 2019	Savannah, Georgia	0	1	1	A man who was not a student at Savannah State University shot and wounded a student at a residence hall.[411]
May 8, 2019	Chicago, Illinois	0	1	1	A 19-year-old student was shot in the neck and jaw at Second Chance High School when he and two friends were leaving the school by 18-year-old student Andres Salazar who was driving a car. Salazar was charged with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery with a firearm.[439]
May 17, 2019	Jacksonville, Florida	0	1	1	Arthur Davin Jones III, a 19-year-old student shot Shamon Micken, a 16-year-old student at Raines High School. Jones fled the state and was arrested days later in Georgia.[440] Jones is being charged with attempted murder and pled not guilty.
June 21, 2019	Flint, Michigan	0	1	1	During a basketball competition in the gym of Carman-Ainsworth High School during a fight involving dozens of people, shots were fired and Eithan Williams, a 15-year-old student was hit in the chest. Williams left the hospital four days later and doctors said he was lucky to be alive. Four students aged 14–16 were arrested.[441]
July 2, 2019	Anchorage, Alaska	0	1	1	At Williwaw Elementary School, a fight broke out on the basketball court which resulted in a teen being shot and injured.[442]
July 19, 2019	San Diego, California	0	0	0	At Monroe Clark Middle School, a teen fired a BB gun at the school, causing minor damage to the campus, then fled the scene, nobody was killed or injured in the incident.[443]
August 8, 2019	Montgomery, Alabama	0	0	0	38-year-old Isaiah Johnson, dropped his son off at Blount Elementary School, and then got into an argument with another father over a traffic dispute. He discharged a firearm into the father's vehicle.[444][445][446][411]
August 27, 2019	Los Angeles, California	0	1	1	A Hollenbeck Middle School student was standing in the lunch line was struck in the jaw by a bullet fired from off campus.[447][448]
August 30, 2019	Toledo, Ohio	0	1	1	As spectators were leaving a football game Central Catholic High School. a 16-year-old boy was shot by another teen, neither of the students attended Central Catholic High School and no fights happened before the shooting, no arrests were made.[449][450]
August 31, 2019	Mobile, Alabama	0	10	10	17-year-old Deangelo Dejuan Parnell shot 10 people during a confrontation at a stadium where a high school football game was being played. A tenth person suffered a stroke.[451]
September 6, 2019	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	1	0	1	Near the end of a football game at Jeannette High School, Damien Williams and Greg Harper got into an argument outside the stadium, the argument escalated to the point where Williams was shot in the chest by Harper after Williams allegedly punched Harper twice. Williams died and Harper is charged with homicide and reckless endangerment. Harper pled not guilty and is claiming he acted in self-defense.[452]
September 12, 2019	Manhattan, Kansas	0	3	3	At the Manhattan High School parking lot, shots were fired between two groups during a botched drug deal.[453][454][455]
September 13, 2019	Newport News, Virginia	0	3	3	After a football game at Todd Stadium, the school stadium, shots were fired and three teens ages 14 and 19 were injured. No arrests have been made.[456]
September 14, 2019	Fort Worth, Texas	0	2	2	As a youth football game was happening at Eastern Hills High School, parents got into a fight and shots were fired, injuring a woman and her 12-year-old daughter. Thirty-nine-year-old Chanita Holly was arrested and charged with making terroristic threats; a man who was reportedly wearing a skeleton mask is also a suspect in the incident and is believed to be the trigger man.[457]
September 20, 2019	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	0	2	2	During the second quarter of a football game between Imhotep Institute Charter High School and Mastery Gratz high school at Marcus memorial stadium, multiple gunshots were fired, a 15-year-old was shot in the thigh and a 14-year-old in the foot. The Police said multiple shell casings were found but it is unclear if the shooting happened in or outside the stadium. No suspects have been arrested.[458]
September 27, 2019	Richmond, California	0	3	3	As people were leaving a football game at De Anza High School against Pinole Valley High School, police responded to reports of a fight across the street. Three teens were injured with gunshot wounds, two seriously. No arrests were made and police have no motive for the shooting.[459]
October 13, 2019	Nashville, Tennessee	1	0	1	A 19-year-old student was found unconscious with a bullet wound to his abdomen. Authorities said there were no reports of a shooting or suspicious activity on campus. Another student George Wells was later charged with reckless homicide.[460][461]
October 22, 2019	Santa Rosa, California	0	1	1	A 16-year-old student was shot twice, at least once in the abdomen, by a 17-year-old classmate across the street from Ridgway High School, an alternative school next to Santa Rosa High School. The victim was hospitalized in stable condition. The 17-year-old was arrested in a classroom, and the gun used was found later that night in a bush three miles away. He is charged with attempted murder.[462][463]
November 5, 2019	Hazleton, Pennsylvania	0	1	1	Four people were charged after a fight at Hazleton Area High School in Luzerne County that left three students hurt, one of them 19-year-old Noberto Polanco-Rodriguez admitted to shooting one of the students with an orange flare gun that caused a serious injury to one of the student's arms and is charged with aggravated assault. Luis Arizmendy-Nunez, 22; Christhofany Maria, 19; and Jose Antonio Vargas,19, were charged with simple assault.[464]
November 11, 2019	Baltimore, Maryland	0	1	1	A 19-year-old student who was outside Reginald F. Lewis High School was approached by a masked man who shot him in the leg.[465]
November 13, 2019	Los Angeles, California	1	0	1	A man who was carrying a sword was fatally shot by a deputy at the courtyard of Esteban Torres High School.[466]
November 14, 2019	Pasadena, California	0	3	3	At Washington Elementary STEM Magnet School, a 9-year-old boy who brought a BB gun to the school shot and injured three classmates.[467][468][469]
November 14, 2019	Santa Clarita, California	3[n 1]	3	6	2019 Saugus High School shooting: Five people were shot, two fatally and injuring three in a shooting at a courtyard of Saugus High School. The shooter, a 16-year-old male student, attempted suicide by shooting himself in the head. He was taken into custody and died the next day during hospitalization. The gun used was suspected by police to be a privately made firearm.[470][471]
November 15, 2019	Pleasantville, New Jersey	1	2	3	Five men opened fire during a playoff game between the Camden Panthers and the Pleasantville Greyhounds at Pleasantville High School, injuring a 15-year-old boy, a 27-year-old male, and fatally injuring a 10-year-old boy. All five were later arrested for the random act of violence however the injured 27 year-old (who is believed to be the shooters target) has also been charged with unlawful possession of a handgun.[472][473][474][418] The alleged shooter Alvin Wyatt has been charged with murder and attempted murder.[463]
November 19, 2019	Chicago, Illinois	1[n 1]	2	3	Police from Des Plaines pursued a bank robbery suspect into UpBeat Music and Arts, a music school in Chicago's Old Irving Park neighborhood. The bank robber and police engaged in a shootout, during which the bank robber was killed and a teenager interning at the school was shot in the arm by police. Prior to entering the school the bank robber also shot and wounded a Chicago Police officer.[475]
November 23, 2019	Union City, California	2	0	2	Two boys, aged 11 and 14-years-old were shot in the parking lot of the Searles Elementary School around 1 am, while sitting in a minivan. Both boys died of their wounds, one at the scene and the other at the hospital.[476] 18-year-old Jason Cornejo of Castro Valley and a 17-year-old juvenile from Hayward were arrested on February 14, 2020. The shooing had possible gang motivations.[477]
November 26, 2019	Salmon Creek, Washington	2[n 1]	1	3	At Sarah J. Anderson Elementary school, Keland Hill shot and killed his estranged wife Tiffany and wounded Tiffany's mother in while Tiffany and Keland's three children were with them while they were in a vehicle in the schools parking lot. Tiffany had a restraining order against Keland for domestic violence. Keland shot and killed himself after a short car chase with deputies.[478]
December 2, 2019	Waukesha, Wisconsin	0	1[n 1]	1	A 17-year-old male student who brought a handgun to Waukesha South High School was shot by a police officer after pointing his gun at him and was in stable condition. The gun was later determined to be a pellet gun.[479]
December 3, 2019	Oshkosh, Wisconsin	0	2[n 1]	2	Grant Fuhrman, a 16-year-old male student at Oshkosh High School was shot by resource officer Mike Wissink after stabbing him with a barbecue fork and was in stable condition. Fuhrman was charged with attempted intentional homicide.[480][481]
December 4, 2019	Jackson, Mississippi	0	1	1	An individual who was not a student was shot at the edge of campus by a shooter driving a Honda Accord. This resulted in a campus lockdown. One person was injured and transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.[482]
December 10, 2019	Kansas City, Kansas	0	0	0	At J.C. Harmon High School, a drive-by shooting occurred outside the school and one of several bullets fired hit a school bus, Nobody was injured.[483][484]
December 11, 2019	Topeka, Kansas	0	0	0	A Chase Middle School school bus was shot at by a BB gun, no one was injured.[485]
December 16, 2019	New Haven, Connecticut	0	1	1	A man dropping off his child at the Catholic Academy of New Haven was shot and wounded, and 7 of 10 bullets that were fired in the incident struck the school building. A bullet tore into the walls of a pre-school classroom; no children were hurt.[486]
December 19, 2019	Naples, Florida	1	0	1	A 28-year-old woman was shot and killed at Lely High School and her shooter, 50-year-old Jose Alfredo Avila Pena who was in a relationship with the victim was charged with second-degree murder. The principal of the school said the shooting was the result of a domestic violence incident.[482][487] Pena was sentenced to life in prison.[488]

2010s US school shooting statistics by year

Year	Total number dead (including the shooters)	Total number wounded (including the shooters)
2010	7	12
2011	10	17
2012	41	17
2013	19	37
2014	15	39
2015	23	41
2016	10	28
2017	19	32
2018	43	82
2019	20	80
Total	207	385

224 incidents.

Date	Location	Deaths	Injuries	Total	Description
2020
January 8, 2020	Belle Glade, Florida	0	1	1	An individual who was not a student accidentally shot himself in the leg in the parking lot of Glades Central High School.[489]
January 11, 2020	Dallas, Texas	1	1	2	A 15-year-old was arrested after two people were wounded by gunfire during a fight at a high school basketball game between South Oak Cliff and Kimball High School. An 18-year-old man was badly wounded in the shooting, and a Dallas ISD police officer was grazed by a bullet fragment. The 15-year-old suspect, who turned himself in at Dallas police headquarters, was initially charged with aggravated assault;[490] however, after the 18-year-old student died from his injuries, the suspect was charged with murder.[491]
January 14, 2020	Bellaire, Texas	1	0	1	A 19-year-old student was shot in the chest and killed at Bellaire High School. A 16-year-old student was arrested and charged with manslaughter.[492][493]
January 14, 2020	Fort Worth, Texas	0	2	2	An adult male and a 10-year-old child were injured at North Crowley Ninth Grade Campus after a youth basketball game.[494][495]
January 17, 2020	Howell, Michigan	0	1	1	A father accidentally shot himself while in the Three Fires Elementary School parking lot and was picking up his child when his gun went off by mistake when the man was adjusting himself inside his car.[496][497][498]
January 23, 2020	Oxnard, California	0	1	1	A stray bullet fired during a street altercation struck a 9-year-old student at McAuliffe Elementary School.[499]
January 23, 2020	Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands	0	0	0	A woman fired two shots in the air at the Antilles School before pointing her gun at another woman.[500]
January 31, 2020	Antioch, California	1	0	1	A 16-year-old student was killed after a large fight broke out after a basketball game at Deer Valley High School.[501]
February 3, 2020	Commerce, Texas	2	1	3	Jacques Dshawn Smith, 21, gained access to Pride Rock Residence hall at Texas A&M University–Commerce, where he is suspected of shooting his ex-girlfriend Abbaney Matts, 20, and her sister Deja Matts, 19, to death. Abbaney's two-year-old son was also injured during the shooting.[502][503]
February 4, 2020	Baton Rouge, Louisiana	1	0	1	A 22-year-old employee of the Louisiana Culinary Institute was killed in the institute's parking lot by the ex-boyfriend of his girlfriend. The ex-boyfriend was later arrested, and claimed he did not know the weapon was loaded and planned to use it as a scare tactic.[504]
March 5, 2020	Weston, Florida	0	1	1	A school security officer was with a school maintenance worker in the parking lot of Sagemount School when he unintentionally shot the worker in the eye. The officer was unauthorized to have the weapon on campus.[505]
March 11, 2020	Shenango Township, Pennsylvania	0	2	2	A school van carrying seven elementary school students was shot at by Byron Benetas. Two bullets hit the van. Nobody was hit although two children were injured by flying glass. Benetas was arrested a short time after and later pled guilty to aggravated assault and reckless endangerment in exchange for other charges, including attempted murder, being dropped. He was sentenced to three to six years imprisonment and two years' probation.[506][507]
March 15, 2020	Humble, Texas	1	0	1	A large group of men jumped a fence to gain access to Atascocita High Schools football field, when an argument escalated and a 19-year-old was killed.[508]
July 14, 2020	Sterling Heights, Michigan	0	0	0	At the Willow Woods Elementary School parking lot somebody fired a round into the air. Investigators stated there was a fight before the shooting and they believe the people involved in the fight had no affiliation with the school.[509]
July 27, 2020	Oro Valley, Arizona	1	0	1	A worker fixing the roof of Canyon del Oro High School was fatally wounded after his unholstered weapon accidentally discharged.[510]
July 29, 2020	Collinsville, Illinois	0	1	1	Responding officers to a report of a student in distress at Collinsville High School, opened fire after a 17-year-old pointed a weapon at them, wounding the teenager.[511]
September 16, 2020	Sonora, California	1	0	1	At Sonora High School in downtown Sonora, a student named Eric Aguiar, 17, was shot and killed in the High School's parking lot.[512]
September 16, 2020	Macomb, Illinois	0	1	1	Kavion Poplous, 18, was arrested and charged with attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery, and aggravated discharge of a firearm in the shooting of a student in a dorm at Western Illinois University.[513][514]
September 19, 2020	San Francisco, California	0	0	0	At Krouzian-Zekarian-Vasbouragan Armenian School, a shooting happened which was believed to be a hate crime targeting the Armenian people. Nobody was killed or injured in the shooting.[515][516]
November 25, 2020	Garden City, Kansas	0	1	0	A man was arrested after a 4-year-old girl was shot and killed at a house and a 16-year-old was injured nearby in the Abe Hubert Elementary School parking lot.[517]
December 17, 2020	Birmingham, Alabama	1	0	1	A 20-year-old University of Alabama at Birmingham student was shot and killed in a campus parking lot outside the student center. Investigators believed the shooting occurred during an arranged meeting to sell headphones.[518]
2021
February 26, 2021	New Orleans, Louisiana	1	0	1	A Tulane University police officer was shot and killed after trying to break up a fight at a high school basketball game at George Washington Carver High School.[519]
March 1, 2021	Pine Bluff, Arkansas	1	0	1	A 15-year-old student was killed in a targeted shooting at Watson Chapel Junior High School.[520] The shooter pled guilty to first degree murder and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.[521]
March 8, 2021	Chesterfield, South Carolina	0	1	1	A woman wounded her son-in-law in the parking lot of Edwards Elementary School while school was in session, before fleeing the area.[522]
April 12, 2021	Knoxville, Tennessee	1[n 1]	1	2	A student armed with a handgun was shot and killed after a confrontation with a police officer at Austin-East High School. One officer was shot but survived.[523]
April 26, 2021	Plymouth, Minnesota	0	0	0	An unidentified 6th-grade student fired several shots from a handgun into the ceiling in a hallway within Plymouth Middle School. He was taken into custody by police without incident. There were no reported casualties.[524]
April 27, 2021	Smyrna, Delaware	1	0	1	A man shot and killed his wife in the parking lot of Smyrna Middle School after an argument prior to their picking up their child for a doctor's appointment. Police later determined that he had killed a female friend of his wife. The man was killed in a car crash attempting to flee from police.[525]
May 6, 2021	Rigby, Idaho	0	3	3	Two students and one custodian were shot and wounded by a 6th-grade female student who opened fire inside Rigby Middle School in the morning hours of May 6, 2021. The perpetrator was disarmed by a teacher and taken into custody by police.[526]
June 8, 2021	Kansas City, Kansas	1	0	1	A 15-year-old boy was walking in front of Hazel Grove Elementary school when a vehicle stopped next to him. The shooter called out to the victim and then fatally shot him.[527][528][529]
July 9, 2021	Wichita, Kansas	1[n 1]	0	1	Following a police chase, a man driving a vehicle crashed onto a field in front of Campus High School. He then fires shots from the vehicle at officers then vehicle caught fire and he died inside of it.[530]
August 13, 2021	Albuquerque, New Mexico	1	0	1	A 13-year-old student allegedly shot and killed another 13-year-old student, Bennie Hargrove, during a lunch hour at Washington Middle School.[531][532]
August 18, 2021	Orangeburg, South Carolina	0	3	3	A 14-year-old student allegedly opened fire in the parking lot of Orangeburg-Wilkinson High School while students were leaving for the day, wounding three.[533]
August 27, 2021	Woodridge, Virginia	0	2	2	A teenager wounded two people in the parking of Freedom High School after two groups got into a fight after a football game.[534]
August 27, 2021	Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania	1	4	5	A drive by shooting following a high school football game at Academy Park High School wounded a civilian, resulting in police at the game firing back. Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer says there is a "high probability" that the police gunfire struck four people, including an 8-year-old girl who was killed.[535][536]
August 27, 2021	Wilmington, North Carolina	0	1	1	A student was shot during a fight at New Hanover High School. Another student, Chance Debalo was charged with attempted murder.[537] Deablo plead guilty to intent to kill with a deadly weapon, resulting in injury, and discharging a firearm on school grounds and he was sentenced to over four years in prison.[538]
September 1, 2021	Winston-Salem, North Carolina	1	0	1	A student was shot and killed at Mount Tabor High School. Suspect, another student at the school, has been taken into custody.[539]
September 4, 2021	Towson, Maryland	0	3	3	Three people, including one student, were shot on the campus of Towson University during a gathering at 2 am. The gathering was not organized by the university or any student organization.[540]
September 7, 2021	Buena Park, California	1[n 1]	0	1	Cedric Baxter drove his SUV into a school bus driven by his estranged wife then opened fire on it, a six-year-old child was also on the bus though neither the child or the driver were injured by the gunfire, Baxter then drove away from the scene which resulted in a high speed chase until the car crashed and Baxter was killed by the police in a shootout.[541]
September 9, 2021	Royal Oak Township, Michigan	0	0	0	At the Tri-County Education Center, two groups of teenagers got into a fight when one of the teens went home, obtained a firearm and then fired a shot into the ground in the school parking lot.[542]
September 20, 2021	Newport News, Virginia	0	4	4	Two people were wounded after a shooting at Heritage High School. Another two students were hospitalized for non-shooting injuries.[543]
September 21, 2021	Wichita, Kansas	0	3	3	Two students were shot and a third grazed outside Wichita East High School.[544]
September 24, 2021	Fairfield, Alabama	0	1	1	A man was wounded during a football game at Fairfield High Preparatory School, while tailgating in the parking lot. The gunfire seemed to come from off of the school campus.[545]
September 30, 2021	Memphis, Tennessee	0	1	1	One student was shot in Cummings Elementary School.[546]
September 30, 2021	Newton, Mississippi	0	1	1	A 7-year-old student was injured after a gun accidentally discharged from the backpack of another student at Newton Elementary School.[547]
October 1, 2021	Houston, Texas	0	1	1	A former student walked into the YES Prep Southwest school and opened fire wounding the principal as he attempted to lock down the school.[548]
October 6, 2021	Arlington, Texas	0	4	4	An adult shooter opened fire in Mansfield Timberview High School after a fight escalated; four people were injured, including a 15-year-old and a teacher.[549]
October 12, 2021	Chicago, Illinois	0	2	2	Someone across the street from Wendell Phillips Academy High School in Bronzeville opened fire during dismissal, wounding a student and a security guard.[550]
October 13, 2021	Grambling, Louisiana	1	1	2	An eighteen-year-old opened fire at Grambling State University killed a 19-year-old and wounded a 16-year-old before fleeing campus.[551]
October 17, 2021	Grambling, Louisiana	1	7	8	A gunman opened fire at Grambling State University in the early morning outside a dining hall where students were celebrating homecoming. One person was killed and seven wounded.[552]
November 1, 2021	Madison, Mississippi	0	0	0	A woman accidentally fired her gun while reaching for her phone during a basketball game at the Rosa Scott School. No one was injured.[553]
November 19, 2021	Aurora, Colorado	0	3	3	Three students were shot in the parking lot of Hinkley High School. No fatalities were reported.[554]
November 26, 2021	Campbell, California	0	2	2	Two men were wounded in the parking lot of Westmont High School during a football game.[555]
November 29, 2021	Phoenix, Arizona	0	1	1	A student wounded another in a bathroom of Cesar Chavez High School after a gun-sale gone bad. The wounded individual realized that the money he received in the sale was fake and was shot in the argument.[556]
November 30, 2021	Oxford Township, Michigan	4	7	11	2021 Oxford High School shooting: A 15-year-old sophomore was taken into custody. Seven people, including a teacher, were injured, and four died, all of whom were students. An investigation is ongoing as of December 1, 2021.[557]
November 30, 2021	Humboldt, Tennessee	1	2	3	A man was killed and two others wounded two hours into a pair of basketball games between Humboldt High School and North Side. The shooting occurred outside the gym near the concessions.[558]
December 6, 2021	Wilmington, California	1	2	3	A 12-year-old was killed and his step-mother wounded when a teenager opened fire on their vehicle outside the Wilmington Park Elementary School. A 9-year-old in the playground was also injured.[559]
December 8, 2021	Kansas City, Missouri	0	2	2	Two teenagers were wounded in the parking lot of Ewing Marion Kauffman School during a basketball game.[560]
2022
January 4, 2022	Rockford, Illinois	0	2	2	Two 17-year-olds were wounded while sitting in a car, in the parking lot of Auburn High School around 1pm. Three juveniles fled and were later arrested.[561]
January 9, 2022	Murfreesboro, North Carolina	0	0	0	An unknown individual discharged a gun in a Chowan University dorm room, no injuries were reported and the bullet was located later in a fridge.[562]
January 11, 2022	Albuquerque, New Mexico	0	0	0	A shooting occurred in the parking lot of Valley High School during a basketball game, no injuries were reported.[563]
January 19, 2022	Sanford, Florida	0	1	1	A 16-year-old student wounded an 18-year-old student around noon at Seminole High School over a disagreement about a dead relative.[564]
January 19, 2022	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	1	0	1	A 15-year-old boy boarded a school van to go home when school was being dismissed at Oliver Citywide Academy. Two masked gunmen approached the van and shot the boy twice in the chest. The boy was taken to the hospital where he later died.[565] The shooter, Eugene Watson and his younger brother were not arrested until April 2023.[566] Eugene pled guilty to third-degree murder, conspiracy and firearms violations and was sentenced to 20 to 40 years in prison while the younger brother was adjudicated delinquent in juvenile court on one conspiracy count.[567]
January 21, 2022	Derwood, Maryland	0	1	1	A 17-year-old boy shot and wounded a 15-year-old boy in a bathroom at Colonel Zadok Magruder High School. The victim was hospitalized, and the shooter was taken into custody.[568]
January 29, 2022	Beloit, Wisconsin	1	0	1	A 19-year-old man (suspected to be Amaree Goodall) shot and killed another 19-year-old man, Jion Broomfield in the parking lot of Beloit Memorial High School. The victim was admitted to a nearby hospital around 9:07 P.M. CST with a gunshot wound to his leg and died shortly after. Goodall, a native of Madison, was not captured until March 30.[569][570][571][572][573]
February 1, 2022	Richfield, Minnesota	1	1	2	At the South Education Center, a fight broke out which resulted in 15-year-old student Jahmari Rice being killed and a 17-year-old student critically injured.[574][575]
February 1, 2022	Bridgewater, Virginia	2	1[n 1]	3	Two campus police and security officers were shot and killed at Bridgewater College. The shooter was taken into custody and hospitalized for non-life-threatening injuries.[576]
February 6, 2022	Morgantown, West Virginia	0	0	0	A member of the Phi Sigma Phi fraternity fired a gun into the air following a fight with Delta Chi members at West Virginia University.[577]
February 8, 2022	Catonsville, Maryland	0	1	1	A 16-year-old was wounded in an apparent targeted shooting in Catonsville High Schools parking lot shortly after 3pm.[578]
February 9, 2022	Minneapolis, Minnesota	0	1	1	A moving school bus was fired at which resulted in the bus driver being non-fatally shot in the head.[579][580][581][582]
March 4, 2022	Olathe, Kansas	0	3[n 1]	3	An 18-year-old senior at Olathe East High School, identified as Jaylon Elmore, was called to the office on suspicion of carrying a gun. Upon arriving an assistant principal demanded he be allowed to search the student's backpack. When the student refused, a School Resource Officer (SRO) was called. After the SRO arrived, four bullets were fired from each of two guns, one by the SRO and another by the student. The SRO, the assistant principal, and the student were all injured.[583] However, the Kansas City Defender has raised numerous questions about the official narrative, including whether the student or the SRO shot first. They also claim that there likely would not have been a shooting at all if the student had not been challenged about carrying a weapon in his backpack.[584]
March 7, 2022	Des Moines, Iowa	1	2	3	Around 2:42 P.M. CST, shooters from multiple vehicles opened fire on a group of teenagers in front of East High School in a drive-by shooting. 3 teenagers, a 15-year-old targeted male, a 16-year-old female, and an 18-year-old female, were shot and transferred to hospitals where they were reported to be in critical condition. The targeted victim died from his injuries shortly thereafter. 6 teenagers were arrested in the following hours and were later charged as adults for murder.[585]
March 31, 2022	Greenville, South Carolina	1	0	1	A 12-year-old student shot and killed another student at Tanglewood Middle School. The shooter was found under a deck at a nearby home.[586]
April 5, 2022	Erie, Pennsylvania	0	1	1	A student was wounded after multiple shots were fired at Erie High School around 9:20 am. No perpetrator was immediately identified and police were searching for a person who had fled campus shortly after the shooting.[587]
April 8, 2022	Bronx, New York City, New York	1	2	3	A shooting around the school property of University Prep High School in the Bronx killed a 17-year-old girl and wounded two others a school stairway; the victim was not the intended target, according to investigators. A 17-year-old boy was arrested.[588]
April 14, 2022	Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania	0	0	0	A 13-year-old was arrested and charged with institutional vandalism and possession of a weapon on school property after being seen firing a gun just above a door at the main enterprise of Western Wayne Middle School by surveillance footage.[589]
April 22, 2022	Washington, D.C.	1[n 1]	4	5	A resident of an adjacent apartment building fired more than 239 shots indiscriminately toward the Edmund Burke School in the Van Ness neighborhood of Washington, D.C., wounding a 12-year-old, two adults in their vehicles, and a school security guard. The shooting took place across the street from the student center of the University of the District of Columbia. Multiple law enforcement agencies led an intensive area lockdown for more than five hours that ended after the 23 year-old suspect died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound as police breached the apartment door.[590]
May 9, 2022	Suwanee, Georgia	0	1	1	A woman fired 12 shots at a moving school bus. Nobody was shot but the bus driver was injured by shattered glass.[591]
May 17, 2022	Chicago, Illinois	0	1	1	An 8-year-old child found his mother's gun under his mother's bed and brought it to his school in his backpack. On Tuesday, May 17 at around 10 AM the gun accidentally discharged in the students backpack in the classroom and injured a 7-year old classmate. The mother, 28-year-old Tatanina Kelly is charged with three counts of child endangerment.[592] The incident took place at Walt Disney Magnet school in the Buena Park neighborhood located at 4140 N. Marine Drive.[593]
May 18, 2022	Murfreesboro, Tennessee	1	1	2	Following a graduation ceremony for Riverdale High School on the campus of Middle Tennessee State University a fight began in which two people were shot. A graduate of Riverdale was killed, a student was wounded, and another teenager was arrested.[594]
May 19, 2022	Hammond, Louisiana	0	3	3	Three people were hospitalized after a shooting at Southeastern Louisiana University, where students at Hammond High Magnet School were leaving their graduation ceremony.[594]
May 19, 2022	Kentwood, Michigan	0	2	2	On May 19, 2022, two people, (a 16-year-old boy, and a 40-year-old woman) were shot outside East Kentwood High School's football stadium during a graduation ceremony. According to the Kent County Sheriff [594] the shooting started thirty minutes after the ceremony ended when families were leaving, at that time a white Hyundai drove by and an individual inside the car opened fire upon the families, they ended up hitting bystanders instead of their alleged target. Another group (the alleged targets) returned fire on the car, and were later arrested and charged with weapons violations, police believe there may have been as many as 5 total accomplices.[595][596]
May 24, 2022	Uvalde, Texas	22[n 1]	18	40	Robb Elementary School shooting: An 18-year-old gunman entered his former elementary school and opened fire killing 21 people; consisting of 19 students and 2 teachers, and wounding 17 others. Earlier that day, he had shot his grandmother at her home, severely wounding her. It is the third-deadliest school shooting in U.S. History.[597] The gunman was killed in a shootout with responding police officers.[598]
May 31, 2022	New Orleans, Louisiana	1	2[n 9]	3	Three people, including two of the shooters were shot after a graduation ceremony for Morris Jeff Community School on the campus of Xavier University of Louisiana. One of the victims, an elderly woman, died from her injuries.[599][600]
June 1, 2022	Los Angeles, California	0	1	1	Both Los Angeles School police and officers from the Los Angeles Police Department responded to the scene, and believe the incident might have been gang-related. According to police, a male student was shot in the leg, in the area of Oxnard St. and Coldwater Canyon, in front of the school, and was transported to Cedars Sinai Hospital in stable condition.[601]
June 8, 2022	Little Rock, Arkansas	0	0	0	A school bus that was taking a student home from a summer program was hit by a bullet. No one was injured in the incident.[602][603][604][605]
June 9, 2022	Byhalia, Mississippi	0	0	0	A minor was arrested after firing a gun at Byhalia High School.[606]
August 3, 2022	Oakland, California	0	3	3	At Oakland Tech High School, three people were shot, including a 6-year-old girl.[607]
August 19, 2022	Clarksville, Tennessee	0	0	0	A teenager fired multiple gunshots during a football game at West Creek High School. Three people were arrested in connection with the incident.[608]
August 19, 2022	Groveport, Ohio	0	0	0	A man fired six shots during a fight at a football game at Groveport Madison High School. No injuries were reported.[609]
August 25, 2022	Bismarck, North Dakota	0	0	0	A man fired multiple gunshots on the campus of United Tribes Technical College. Two people, brothers, were charged in connection with the shooting.[610]
August 29, 2022	Oakland, California	0	1	1	At Madison Park Academy, police responded to a report about a shooting, a 13-year-old boy was shot and a 12-year-old boy fled after the shooting but was quickly arrested and charged with assault with a firearm and other weapons charges. Police say the victim was not the intended target.[611][612][613]
September 3, 2022	Dover, Delaware	0	4	4	A non-student shot four people near basketball courts on the Delaware State University campus, including two students.[614]
September 20, 2022	South Bend, Indiana	0	0	0	A juvenile suspect was detained after a shot was fired on board a Jackson Middle School school bus.[615][616]
September 24, 2022	Richfield, Minnesota	0	2	2	Two people were shot following a fight near a Richfield High School football game. Two juveniles were arrested in connection with the shooting.[617]
September 27, 2022	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	1	4	5	Following a football scrimmage at Roxborough High School two shooters fired at a group of football players from a car, killing a 14-year-old boy and wounding four others.[618]
September 28, 2022	Oakland, California	1	5	6	2022 Oakland school shooting: Six adults were wounded in a shooting at a Rudsdale Newcomer High School, in a block of East Oakland that houses four schools. One victim died of his injuries in November 2022.[619]
September 30, 2022	Newburgh, New York	0	3	3	Three people were shot in the parking lot of Newburgh Free Academy following a football game.[620]
September 30, 2022	Tulsa, Oklahoma	1	3	4	Four people were shot, one fatally, near the tennis courts of McLain High School during a homecoming game.[621][622]
October 5, 2022	Tucson, Arizona	1	0	1	Professor Thomas Meixner, the department head of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Arizona, was shot and killed on campus. A former student was arrested in connection with the shooting.[623]
October 7, 2022	Toledo, Ohio	0	3	3	Three people were shot outside a football game at Whitmer High School.[624]
October 8, 2022	Baltimore, Maryland	0	1	1	A man was shot during an unsanctioned party on the Morgan State University campus.[625]
October 24, 2022	St. Louis, Missouri	3[n 1]	7	10	2022 Central Visual and Performing Arts High School shooting: A 19-year-old man armed with a semi-automatic rifle entered the Central Visual and Performing Arts High School just after 9 am and opened fire. At least two people were killed, and seven others were injured. The shooter was killed in an exchange of gunfire with police.[626]
November 4, 2022	West Hartford, Connecticut	0	1	1	An individual was shot in a parking lot on the University of Saint Joseph campus. The suspected shooter is also accused of causing a car accident and shooting at the driver.[627]
November 8, 2022	Seattle, Washington	1	0	1	A student of Ingraham High School was shot inside the school. Another student was arrested for the shooting.[628]
November 12, 2022	Orlando, Florida	1	2	3	Three people were shot in the parking lot of Jones High School during a football game. A 19-year-old was killed.[629]
November 13, 2022	Charlottesville, Virginia	3	2	5	University of Virginia shooting: A student at the University of Virginia shot several students, killing three. The suspected gunman is a former member of the university's football team, and several of the victims were current members of the team.[630]
November 17, 2022	Clinton, Indiana	0	1	1	A sheriff's deputy teaching a vocational law enforcement class accidentally discharged his weapon, grazing a student.[631]
November 19, 2022	Albuquerque, New Mexico	1[n 1]	1	2	A student at the University of New Mexico (UNM) lured visiting New Mexico State University basketball power forward Mike Peake on campus and shot him. Peake then returned fire, killing the UNM student.[632]
November 27, 2022	Tallahassee, Florida	1	4	5	One person was killed and four others were injured when a shooter opened fire in the outdoor basketball court of Florida A&M University.[633]
December 8, 2022	Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina	0	0	0	A 12-year-old student at Fuquay-Varina Middle School fired a gun at a window in a classroom where several students were present. Shortly after, a teacher who heard the shot entered the room and convinced the student to give her the firearm.[634]
December 16, 2022	Chicago, Illinois	2	2	4	Four students were shot, two fatally, as students left Benito Juarez High School. In February 2023 a 16-year-old boy was arrested for the shooting.[635]
2023
January 4, 2023	Detroit, Michigan	1	0	1	A man was shot to death in front of Trix Academy. At least 20 rounds were fired at him.[636]
January 5, 2023	Rochester, New York	0	0	0	A man got out of a car and approached Franklin High School and fired several shots at three students who were walking into the building. No one was injured.[637]
January 6, 2023	Newport News, Virginia	0	1	1	Shooting of Abby Zwerner: A 6-year-old male student at Richneck Elementary School shot teacher Abby Zwerner, wounding her.[638]
January 7, 2023	Portland, Oregon	0	1	1	A teenager was grazed by a bullet in the parking lot of Franklin High School during a basketball game. A teenager was arrested nearby for possession of an unlawful gun, though they did not say if he was the shooter.[639]
January 10, 2023	Stanford, Kentucky	0	1	1	A maintenance worker at Stanford Elementary School accidentally shot himself while working at around 11 p.m. The worker did not notify anyone of the shooting, which was discovered the next day after a trail of blood was found in a staff break room. He was charged with unlawful possession of a weapon on school property.[640]
January 20, 2023	Saint Paul, Minnesota	0	1	1	A man got into a fight outside the Washington Technology Magnet School as he picked up his sister, which ended with the man firing three gunshots. One bullet grazed a nearby staff member. The man, a member of a Karen American gang, also admitted involvement in three other shootings.[641]
January 23, 2023	Des Moines, Iowa	2	1	3	Two students were killed and the program director was wounded after a shooting at a charter school. Multiple suspects were arrested in connection with the shooting.[642]
February 6, 2023	Middletown, Delaware	0	0	0	A gun was fired during a fight near a basketball game at Appoquinimink High School. No injuries were reported.[643]
February 13, 2023	East Lansing, Michigan	4[n 1]	5	9	2023 Michigan State University shooting: A man shot several people on the Michigan State University campus, killing three and wounding five before killing himself after being confronted by police. The man was not associated with the university.[644]
February 13, 2023	New York City, New York	0	0	0	Bullets struck two windows of classrooms at PS 78 in the Stapleton neighborhood of Staten Island. One classroom was occupied by ten adults, but no bullets entered the classrooms.[645]
February 14, 2023	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	0	4	4	Four students were shot outside Westinghouse Academy as students were dismissed for the day.[646]
February 24, 2023	Daytona Beach, Florida	0	0	0	A man fired a shot inside a room at Bethune–Cookman University. The suspected shooter attempted to leave but was apprehended after falling down some stairs. Police found a wall in the suspect's room that had multiple bullet holes from over a period of time.[647]
March 3, 2023	Orangeburg, South Carolina	0	1	1	A student at South Carolina State University was shot on campus.[648]
March 11, 2023	Waterville, Maine	0	1[n 1]	1	During a party on the Colby College campus, an altercation broke out and a man not affiliated with the college fired two rounds into a hallway wall. No one was hit by gunfire, though the suspected shooter was treated for head injuries sustained during the fight.[649]
March 20, 2023	Arlington, Texas	1	1	2	In the parking lot of Arlington Lamar High School, two students were shot, one fatally and a teen who was not a student was arrested for the shooting.[650][651]
March 22, 2023	Dallas, Texas	0	1	1	As classes let out for the day, a student was injured at the parking lot of Thomas Jefferson High School in a drive-by-shooting.[652]
March 22, 2023	Denver, Colorado	1[n 1]	2	3	17-year-old Austin Lyle, a student at East High School, was required to be pat down by administrators at the start of each day as part of a safety plan. During one pat-down, Lyle pulled out a gun and shot and wounded two administrators. Lyle fled and was later found dead near Bailey, having shot himself.[653][654]
March 25, 2023	Orangeburg, South Carolina	0	0	0	South Carolina State University was placed on lockdown after reports of shots fired.[655]
March 27, 2023	Nashville, Tennessee	7[n 1]	1	8	2023 Covenant School shooting: A shooting occurred at Covenant School in the Green Hills neighborhood. Six people were killed, consisting of three students and three staff members, and a police officer was injured by shattered glass. The shooter was killed by two responding Metropolitan Nashville Police Department officers.[656]
March 30, 2023	Winston-Salem, North Carolina	0	1	1	Shots were fired on the Forsyth Technical Community College campus. One person was injured.[657]
April 10, 2023	Louisville, Kentucky	1	1	2	Two people were shot outside a building on the Jefferson Community and Technical College campus. The shooting occurred on the same day as a separate shooting in Louisville, though the two were unrelated.[658]
April 15, 2023	Chester County, Pennsylvania	0	2	2	Two non-students were shot during a "Yardfest" celebration on the Lincoln University campus.[659]
April 24, 2023	Midwest City, Oklahoma	1	0	1	A man shot and killed another man at Rose State College.[660]
April 27, 2023	Richmond, Virginia	0	2	2	Two students at George Wythe High School were shot in a school parking lot.[661]
April 28, 2023	Knoxville, Tennessee	0	1	1	A teacher at West High School was grazed by a bullet after a gun fired while a student was reaching into his backpack. The 14-year-old student was taken into custody.[662]
April 29, 2023	Tallahassee, Florida	0	1	1	A man fired several shots following a fight outside a dormitory at Florida State University, hitting one person.[663]
May 1, 2023	Flint, Michigan	0	1	1	A woman waiting to pick her child up outside the International Academy of Flint was shot after an argument. Another mother was arrested for the shooting.[664]
May 12, 2023	Chadron, Nebraska	0	0	0	A man fired several shots on the Chadron State College campus.[665]
May 12, 2023	Lenoir City, Tennessee	1	0	1	A man carrying a gun on school property accidentally shot himself while leaving a graduation ceremony at Lenoir City High School.[666]
May 24, 2023	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	1	0	1	A 15-year-old student shot and killed another student outside of Oliver Citywide Academy before class.[667]
June 2, 2023	Worcester, Massachusetts	0	1	1	A man was shot on Worcester Technical High School property.[668]
June 6, 2023	Richmond, Virginia	2	5	7	2023 Richmond shooting: Seven people were shot, two fatally, after a high school graduation ceremony was held on the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University.[669]
July 5, 2023	Washington, D.C.	1	0	1	A Kentucky schoolteacher was shot and killed during a robbery on the Catholic University of America campus.[670]
July 13, 2023	Washington, D.C.	1	0	1	A construction worker was shot and killed during a robbery on the Howard University campus.[671]
August 16, 2023	Augusta, Georgia	0	1	1	A student shot another student following a fight at T. W. Josey High School.[672]
August 18, 2023	Columbus, Georgia	2[n 1]	0	2	A Columbus State University student shot and killed another student before killing himself.[673]
August 22, 2023	Seguin, Texas	0	0	0	A student at Jefferson Elementary School accidentally fired a gun on a school bus as it pulled into the parking lot.[674]
August 22, 2023	Huntsville, Alabama	0	2	2	Two people were shot during a fight outside an Alabama A&M University residence hall.[675]
August 25, 2023	Choctaw, Oklahoma	1	4	5	A 16-year-old Midwest City High School student was killed, two people were nonfatally shot, and two other students sustained broken bones while fleeing after a fight at a Choctaw High School football game against Del City High School.[676][677][678]
August 25, 2023	Greensboro, North Carolina	0	1	1	A non-student was shot on the campus of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.[679]
August 28, 2023	Chapel Hill, North Carolina	1	0	1	Shooting of Zijie Yan: A graduate student shot and killed Zijie Yan, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty member.[680]
September 5, 2023	Oakland, California	0	0	0	At Skyline High School, shots were fired near the theater area, no one was injured.[681]
September 9, 2023	Little Rock, Arkansas	1	0	1	A student at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock was shot and killed at his on-campus apartment. One suspect was arrested for the shooting and another is at large.[682]
September 12, 2023	Greensburg, Louisiana	1	2	3	Three people were shot at the St. Helena College & Career Academy. A 16-year-old boy was killed and three more people were injured.[683][684][685] The suspect was 16 years old at the time.[683]
September 15, 2023	Country Club Hills, Illinois	1	0	1	A 14-year-old boy was fatally shot following a homecoming football game at Hillcrest High School in Country Club Hills, Illinois.[686]
September 24, 2023	Tuskegee, Alabama	0	2	2	Two people were shot during a party at a Tuskegee University housing complex.[687]
September 29, 2023	Wasilla, Alaska	0	0	0	A man accidentally dropped a rifle which caused it to fire a shot into a school bus.[688]
October 3, 2023	Baltimore, Maryland	0	5	5	Five people, including four students, were shot near Morgan State University shortly after the conclusion of homecoming week.[689]
October 12, 2023	Framingham, Massachusetts	0	0	0	A gunshot was fired into the side of a Framingham State University residence hall. The shooting is believed to be connected to a physical altercation that occurred around the same time as the shooting.[690]
October 15, 2023	Kirkwood, Missouri	0	0	0	A man being disruptive at a Trunk-or-Treat event at Kirkwood North Middle School fired several shots into the air before being tackled and detained by other eventgoers.[691]
October 15, 2023	Jackson, Mississippi	1	0	1	A Jackson State University student was shot and killed on campus.[692]
October 17, 2023	Stanford, California	0	1	1	A 47-year-old female was shot and injured by Robert Daniels, 43 at Stanford University Arboretum.[693]
October 23, 2023	Germantown, Wisconsin	1[n 1]	0	1	Police responded to reports of a suspicious man near Kennedy Middle School. When officers arrived the man climbed onto the school's roof and fired at police. Following a shootout police shot and killed the gunman. Approximately 70 students were in the school at the time, which was placed on lockdown.[694]
October 28, 2023	Worcester, Massachusetts	1	1	2	Two people were shot, one fatally, following a fight on the Worcester State University campus.[695]
November 3, 2023	Las Vegas, Nevada	0	2	2	A 16-year-old male and an adult got in a fight on a city bus, then the 16-year-old shot the adult and ran to Foundations Preschool where he jumped the wall and dropped the gun on the daycare property then left the school. After the teen left, a 2-year-old girl at the school found the gun and accidentally discharged it and critically injured herself.[696]
November 13, 2023	Victoria, Texas	0	1	1	A Victoria College student was shot on a campus parking lot.[697]
November 13, 2023	Prairie View, Texas	1	0	1	An employee at Prairie View A&M University's farm research center was shot and killed on campus. The suspected gunman, a former coworker of the victim, fled the scene but was apprehended later that day.[698]
November 27, 2023	Chicago, Illinois	0	0	0	A woman fired several shots during a fight on the Northwestern University Chicago campus.[699]
November 28, 2023	Newport News, Virginia	0	0	0	A man fired several shots near the Christopher Newport University student union. No injuries were reported.[700]
December 6, 2023	Las Vegas, Nevada	4[n 1]	3	7	2023 University of Nevada, Las Vegas shooting: A man shot and killed three faculty members at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas before being killed by police as he exited a building. The gunman was a professor who had been turned down for a job at the university.[701]
2024
January 4, 2024	Perry, Iowa	3[n 1]	6	9	Perry High School shooting: One student was killed and four other students and three staff members were injured. The principal later died of his injuries. The shooter, a 17-year-old student at the school, committed suicide.[702]
January 17, 2024	Gary, Indiana	0	0	0	A student at Lighthouse College Prep Academy fired a gunshot inside a boys' bathroom.[703]
January 29, 2024	Austin, Texas	0	1	1	A 17-year-old John B. Connally High School student allegedly shot and ran over another student in the school's parking lot.[704]
January 30, 2024	Mobile, Alabama	0	2	2	Two students were shot at LeFlore Magnet High School following an argument.[705]
February 6, 2024	Orangeburg, South Carolina	0	1	1	A student at South Carolina State University (SCSU) allegedly fired a gunshot in an academic building. No one was struck by gunfire, but one student suffered minor injuries from broken glass. That student fled from SCSU to a dining hall at nearby Claflin University, with both it and SCSU being placed on lockdown for about an hour.[706]
February 9, 2024	Saco, Maine	0	0	0	Shots were fired outside Thornton Academy, coming from two separate cars shooting at each other. It was unsure if they were students or had any connection to the school. No known injuries are reported, and the suspects immediately fled off. A school bus was also careened by one of the two evading cars, with no reported injuries as of Feb. 10.[707]
February 9, 2024	Berkeley, California	0	0	0	An individual fired several shots into the air after an altercation on the University of California, Berkeley campus.[708]
February 14, 2024	Atlanta, Georgia	0	4	4	Four students at Benjamin E. Mays High School were shot in a parking lot.[709]
February 16, 2024	Colorado Springs, Colorado	2	0	2	Two people were shot and killed in a University of Colorado, Colorado Springs dorm room.[710]
February 19, 2024	Mesquite, Texas	0	1	1	A student at Pioneer Technology and Arts Academy was shot by police officers after flashing a gun at them.[711]
February 25, 2024	Evanston, Illinois	0	0	0	Shots were fired on the Northwestern University campus.[712]
February 26, 2024	Odessa, Texas	0	1	1	A student at Odessa High School was shot in the foot at the school parking lot.[713]
March 11, 2024	Springfield, Massachusetts	0	0	0	A man fired a single shot through a window at the Springfield High School of Science and Technology after being let in by a student.[714][715]
March 18, 2024	Huntsville, Alabama	0	1[n 1]	1	A campus police officer and a man exchanged gunfire in an Alabama A&M University building. The gunman was injured, while the police officer was not.[716]
April 2, 2024	Cambridge, Massachusetts	0	0	0	A school resource officer at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School accidentally discharged their firearm in a school bathroom.[717]
April 2, 2024	Durham, North Carolina	0	1	1	A student at North Carolina Central University was shot in a dorm building. Three other students were charged in connection with the shooting.[718]
April 12, 2024	Dallas, Texas	0	1	1	A student at Wilmer-Hutchins High School shot another student in a targeted shooting.[719]
April 15, 2024	Greensboro, North Carolina	0	0	0	A North Carolina A&T University student was arrested for firing a gunshot in a dorm building during an argument with an acquaintance.[720]
April 21, 2024	Dover, Delaware	1	0	1	A woman was shot and killed outside of a dormitory on the Delaware State University campus.[721]
April 22, 2024	West Richland, Washington	1	0	1	A woman was shot and killed outside Wiley Elementary School during dismissal. The shooter, a former police officer and her ex-husband, became a fugitive after allegedly killing a 17-year-old girl and abducting his child with his ex-wife.[722] He was later spotted near Eugene, Oregon where he shot himself as police closed in. The child was physically unharmed.[723]
April 23, 2024	Raleigh, North Carolina	0	0	0	A man in his 70s was arrested for allegedly firing several gunshots following an argument near the International Studies Building at Shaw University.[724]
April 24, 2024	Arlington, Texas	1	0	1	An 18-year-old Bowie High School student was shot and killed on campus. Another student was arrested for the shooting.[725]
April 30, 2024	New York City, New York	0	0	0	An NYPD officer accidentally fired his gun while clearing a hall at Columbia University of protesters occupying the building.[726]
May 1, 2024	Mount Horeb, Wisconsin	1[n 1]	0	1	A 14-year-old student with a pellet rifle was fatally shot by police while attempting to enter Mount Horeb Middle School in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin.[727]
May 1, 2024	Syracuse, New York	0	0	0	A bullet was fired through a dorm window at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.[728]
May 3, 2024	Washington, D.C.	0	1	1	A 17-year-old female student was injured when a bullet fired from outside hit and grazed her in a classroom at Dunbar High School. Two suspects, a 17-year old and an 18-year old were charged with the shooting.[729]
May 18, 2024	Kennesaw, Georgia	1	0	1	A woman was shot and killed outside a residence hall on the Kennesaw State University campus. A non-student was charged with murder.[730]
May 19, 2024	Cape Girardeau, Missouri	0	2	2	Two people were shot during a graduation ceremony for Cape Girardeau Central High School held at the Show Me Center on Southeast Missouri State University's campus.[731]
June 6, 2024	Seattle, Washington	1	0	1	A 17-year-old Garfield High School student was shot and killed outside the campus while trying to break up an altercation between one individual and a suspected shooter.[732]
August 10, 2024	Nashville, Tennessee	0	2	2	Two people were injured in a shooting near a dorm building at Vanderbilt University. The shooting was sparked by a dispute over employment between construction workers.[733]
August 14, 2024	Ettrick, Virginia	0	4	4	Four people were injured and two arrested after a shooting on the Virginia State University campus. None of the injured were students at the university.[734]
August 18, 2024	Itta Bena, Mississippi	0	2	2	Two people were shot in the parking lot of the Mississippi Valley State University student union.[735]
August 26, 2024	Houston, Texas	2[n 1]	0	2	A man shot his girlfriend, a student at Rice University, before killing himself.[736]
August 30, 2024	Huntsville, Alabama	0	1	1	A student at the University of Alabama in Huntsville accidentally shot themselves in a car on campus.[737]
August 21, 2024	San Francisco, California	0	1	1	During a physical altercation involving two people occurring near by Galileo Academy of Science and Technology, a student, 16, was shot in the shoulder and wounded adjacent to the school's athletic field area. It happened around 12:35 p.m. by a liquor store, and one shot was believed by authorities to have been fired. The suspect has not yet been identified or arrested, as of September 2024. According to the victim's relatives, he was reportedly pressured to join the suspect's gang and refused.[738][739]
September 2, 2024	Las Vegas, Nevada	1	0	1	While not occurring at a high school, a 15-year-old boy believed by authorities to be visiting from North Dakota, was shot multiple times during afternoon inside an apartment, and later died; some gunfire hit the school zone of nearby Sunrise Mountain High School but no students or additional people were injured. Police and media are told by witnesses that the shooting was a result of play-fighting, and it is reported that the shooting could be either a result of accidental gunfire and/or an altercation escalation into the gun being fired. A male suspect, 18, was arrested four days later and charged with open murder.[740]
September 3, 2024	Huntsville, Alabama	0	1	1	Three students at Alabama A&M University attacked another student inside a living complex, with one beating the victim with a gun. At one point, the gun went off, but no one was struck by gunfire.[741]
September 4, 2024	Winder, Georgia	4	9[n 10]	13	2024 Apalachee High School shooting: Georgia State Patrol responded to a school shooting at the Apalachee High School near Winder, Georgia. Two teachers and two students were killed while nine others were injured. A suspect, 14-year-old Colt Gray, was taken into custody.[742]
September 4, 2024	New York City, New York	0	1	1	A gunshot, suspected by police to come from an adjacent apartment complex, hit a teacher at MS 391 in her hand while she was in a sixth-floor classroom; it happened one day before the scheduled start of the school year.[743]
September 6, 2024	Joppatowne, Maryland	1	0	1	A student at Joppatowne High School was shot and killed in a bathroom. Another student was arrested for the shooting.[744]
September 10, 2024	Omaha, Nebraska	0	1	1	A 15-year-old was shot inside Omaha Northwest High School.[745]
September 19, 2024	Atlanta, Georgia	0	0	0	A catering employee at Emory University fired a shot at a colleague and pointed his gun at another coworker. He fled the scene but was later arrested.[746]
September 22, 2024	Tucson, Arizona	1	0	1	A Pima Community College student was shot and killed at a volleyball court on the University of Arizona campus.[747]
October 5, 2024	Colorado Springs, Colorado	1	0	1	A man was shot and killed on the Atlas Preparatory School campus during a youth football game.[748]
October 10, 2024	Coatesville, Pennsylvania	0	0	0	A Coatesville Area School District school bus carrying high school students was shot at while moving nobody was hit by bullets however the windshield was hit which sent glass into the face of the bus driver.[749] One male Coatesville High School student was arrested and three more suspects are being sought.[750]
October 14, 2024	Santa Monica, California	2[n 1]	0	2	An employee was shot at Santa Monica College's Media and Design campus, dying of her injuries two days later. The next day, the shooter, surrounded by police after a chase, committed suicide in his vehicle.[751][752]
October 17, 2024	Louisville, Kentucky	0	1	1	A student at Atherton High School accidentally shot himself in the leg in a parking lot.[753]
October 19, 2024	Albany, Georgia	1	5	6	Six people were shot during a homecoming celebration at Albany State University.[754]
October 29, 2024	Bridgeport, Connecticut	0	1	1	A man shot another man at a University of Bridgeport dining hall. Neither the suspected shooter nor the victim were affiliated with the university.[755]
October 31, 2024	Painesville Township, Ohio	0	0	0	An off-duty Cleveland Police officer was arrested for allegedly firing a handgun in the Riverview Elementary School parking lot in a domestic incident.[756]
November 6, 2024	Wilmington, Delaware	0	0	0	A constable accidentally fired his weapon in a Stanton Middle School hallway.[757]
November 8, 2024	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	0	1	1	A woman was shot in the knee during a road rage shooting on the Temple University campus.[758]
November 10, 2024	Tuskegee, Alabama	1	16	17	Tuskegee University shooting: One person was killed and 16 others were injured after a shooting during a homecoming event on the Tuskegee University campus.[759]

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