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March
7, 2001: WILLIAMSPORT, Pennsylvania
-- An eighth-grade girl has been arrested after a shooting at a Bishop
Neumann Junior-Senior High School, a Roman Catholic school in
Williamsport, Pennsylvania that left another 8th grade girl
wounded. She says that the shooting was due to repeated teasing. BACK TO MAP

May
11, 2000: A seventh-grade student who left the Prairie Grove
Junior High school Prairie Grove, Arkansas in an apparent fit of rage
and a police officer were injured Thursday after shooting each other
in an altercation in a hay field north of the student's school.
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February 29, 2000: 6-year-old Kayla Rolland
shot dead at Buell Elementary School near Flint, Mich. The assailant
is identified as a 6-year-old boy with a .32-caliber handgun. Mount
Morris Township, Mich. BACK TO MAP

Dec. 6, 1999: A 13-year-old student in Fort
Gibson, Okla., allegedly arrived at school and opened fire with
his father's 9 mm semiautomatic handgun. There were no
life-threatening injuries but five of his classmates were injured, four
from gunshot wounds and a fifth who suffered bruises in the chaos.
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Nov. 19, 1999: A 12-year-old boy allegedly shot
and killed a female classmate at the end of lunch hour outside a
middle school in Deming, N.M., about 33 miles from the Mexican
border. The boy was wearing a camouflage jacket when he allegedly
fired the single shot from a .22-caliber handgun. BACK TO MAP

April 20, 1999: Two young men wearing long, black
trench coats opened fire in a suburban high school in Littleton,
Colo., injuring as many as 20 students. In all, 15 were killed,
including the two gunmen. BACK TO MAP

June 15, 1998: A male teacher and a female
guidance counselor are shot in a hallway at a Richmond, Va.,
high school. The man suffers an injury to the abdomen that wasn’t
life threatening; the woman is reportedly grazed. BACK TO MAP

May 21, 1998: 15-year-old boy
shot six classmates at Heritage High School in Conyers, Georgia
a suburban of Atlanta. He used weapons he stole from a locked
gun cabinet in his home. BACK TO MAP

May 21, 1998: A 15-year-old student in Springfield,
Ore., expelled the day before for bringing a gun to school,
allegedly opens fire in the school cafeteria. Two students are killed.
The suspect’s parents are later found shot dead in their home.
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May 21, 1998: Three sixth-grade boys had a “hit
list” and were plotting to kill fellow classmates on the last day of
school in a sniper attack during a false fire alarm, police in St.
Charles, Mo., say.
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May 21, 1998: A 15-year-old boy dies from a
self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in Onalaska, Wash.
Earlier in the day, the boy boarded a high school bus with a gun in
hand, ordered his girlfriend off the bus and took her to his home,
where he shot himself. BACK TO MAP

May 21, 1998: A 15-year-old girl is shot and
wounded at a suburban Houston high school when a gun in the
backpack of a 17-year-old classmate goes off in a biology class. The
boy is charged with a third-degree felony for taking a gun to school.
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May 19, 1998: Two boys are suspended from school
in Johnston, R.I., after being accused of writing and handing
out threatening notes to classmates. The notes said things such as,
“All your friends are dead.” The boys are ordered to remain out of
school until they have been evaluated to determine whether they are
dangerous. BACK TO MAP

May 19, 1998: Three days before his graduation,
an 18-year-old honor student allegedly opens fire in a parking lot at
Lincoln County High School in Fayetteville, Tenn., killing a
classmate who was dating his ex-girlfriend.
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April 28, 1998: Two teenage boys are shot to
death and a third is wounded as they played basketball at a Pomona,
Calif., elementary school hours after classes had ended. A
14-year-old boy is charged; the shooting is blamed on rivalry between
two groups of youths.
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April 24, 1998 : A 48-year-old science teacher is
shot to death in front of students at graduation dance in Edinboro,
Pa. A 14-year-old student at James W. Parker Middle School is
charged. BACK TO MAP

March 24, 1998: Four girls and a teacher are shot
to death and 10 others wounded during a false fire alarm at Westside
Middle School in Jonesboro, Ark., when two boys, ages 11 and
13, open fire from the woods. Both are convicted in juvenile court of
murder and can be held up to age 21. BACK TO MAP

Dec. 15, 1997: Stamps, Arkansas
- An AR eighth grader was arrested and charged as an adult after he
confessed to shooting and wounded two of his fellow students as he hid
in the woods outside of a high school.
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Dec. 1, 1997: Three students are killed and five
others wounded while they take part in a prayer circle in a hallway at
Heath High School in West Paducah, Ky. A 14-year-old student
pleads guilty but mentally ill to murder and is serving life in
prison. One of the wounded girls is left paralyzed. BACK TO MAP

Oct. 1, 1997: A 16-year-old outcast in Pearl,
Miss., is accused of killing his mother, then going to Pearl High
School and shooting nine students. Two of them die, including the
suspect's ex-girlfriend. The 16-year-old is sentenced to life in
prison. Two others await trial on accessory charges.
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Feb. 19, 1997: A 16-year-old student opens fire
with a shotgun in a common area at the Bethel, Alaska, high
school, killing the principal and a student. Two other students are
wounded. Authorities later accuse two other students of knowing the
shootings would take place. Evan Ramsey was sentenced to two 99-year
terms. BACK TO MAP

Feb. 2, 1996: A 14-year-old boy wearing a trench
coat walks into algebra class with a hunting rifle and allegedly opens
fire, killing the teacher and two students. A third student is injured
during the shooting at a junior high school in Moses Lake, Wash.
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