Violence in Our Schools
August 1, 2009 through July 31,
2010
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I would like to thank all of the Survivors and others
who have contacted me with information about school violence. I
really do appreciate the help, for without their help, several of these occurrences
would not be here.
One other thing I would like to ask of those who read
over this list of tragedies is this: If you can provide me with any more
details of any of these incidents, I would greatly appreciate the
information. Or, if you know of another violent act at a school that is
not on this list, please forward that information to me as well.
The link to my e-mail is above.
Carolinum High School, Ansbach,
Bavaria, Germany
Thursday, September 17, 2009
At 8:35 this morning, an 18-year-old male student made his way
up to a third-floor eleventh-grade classroom and threw a Molotov cocktail into
it. The device struck a 15-year-old girl in the head and burned several
other students. However, a major conflagration did not occur. So our
young instigator turned to his back up weapon, an axe. He wounded six
female students with the axe and then threw another Molotov cocktail into a
ninth-grade classroom. It failed to ignite. A courageous student who
smelled the smoke called the police, pulled the fire alarm and extinguished the
flames. When the time the police arrived, the boy confronted them with the
axe, several knives and another Molotov cocktail. The police shot him five
times in the chest, wounding him, and then arrested him. The boy injured a
teacher and several eighth-grade students, including a 15-year-old girl with a
blow to the head from the axe. They, and the instigator, were all taken to
local hospitals. Police are investigating the boy on the suspicion of
attempted murder. In his room, they found today's date marked on his
calendar with the words "apocalypse today" and a hand written will.
Doctor's put him into a medically induced coma and plan to bring him out of it
tomorrow. However, it wasn't until Monday when the boy was finally
aroused. The school, founded in 1528, has 700 students. It is
Bavaria's second oldest public high school.
Source: Yahoo! News - Attacker Wounds 9 Students at German
School; Arkansas Democrat-Gazette - Ax, Firebomb Attack at School Injures 9;
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette - 'Apocalypse' Plan for School Reported; Yahoo! News -
German Teen Who Attacked School Awakes from Coma
University of California at Los Angeles, Los
Angeles, California
Thursday, October 8, 2009
For an unknown reason, 20-year-old Damon D. Thompson approached
a 20-year-old female student in an organic chemistry lab on the sixth floor of
Young Hall and began punching her. He ended his attack by slashing her
throat. Several other students were in the undergraduate teaching lab at
the time of the noon attack and were interviewed by the police as witnesses.
The injured co-ed was taken to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in critical
condition. Damon was arrested about 30 minutes after the attack and charged with
attempted murder.
Source: MSNBC - UCLA Student's Throat Slashed in Chemistry
Lab; Los Angeles Times - UCLA Student Brutally Attacked in Chemistry Lab
An Elementary School in Sadr City, Baghdad,
Iraq
Monday, December 7, 2009
Inside the Shiite district of Sadr City, a blast today killed
eight people at an elementary school. Six school children were killed,
ranging in age from 6 to 12, and 41 were injured. The blast partially
toppled a brick wall at the school, leaving a crater that filled up with water
from a broken line.
Source: Yahoo! News - Blast Outside Iraqi Elementary School
Kills 8
This afternoon, Principal Gary Catalano was
meeting with a 15-year-old boy in his office when
the young boy pulled out a pocket knife and stabbed
him. Gary was taken to the hospital with
superficial slash wounds. Our young instigator
was taken into policy custody. Don Bosco is an
all-boys Catholic school. This attack occurred
around 12:15 p.m.
Source: Los Angeles Times -
Principal at Rosemead School is Stabbed; Student
Arrested
Inskip Elementary School, Knoxville,
Tennessee
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Because of falling snow, school dismissed at noon today.
About an hour after the students left, there were still several faculty members
in the building. Fourth grader teacher Mark Stephen Foster, 48, was one of
them and he walked into the school's administrative offices just before 1 this
afternoon. He pulled out a revolver and shot Principal Elisa Luna and
Assistant Principal Amy Brace for an undisclosed reason. He then fled the
building, but was picked up by police at a highway construction road block.
Elisa and Amy were transported to University of Tennessee Medical Center and
treated for their wounds. Police charged Mark with two counts of attempted
first-degree murder.
Source: MSNBC - 2 Shot at Tenn. Elementary School; Arrest
Made
University of Alabama in Huntsville,
Huntsville, Alabama
Friday, February 12, 2010
This afternoon around 4 in the Shelby Center, a faculty meeting
was taking place. During the meeting, 42-year-old biology professor Amy Bishop learned
she was not going to be given tenure. She is a Harvard-educated
neuroscientist who invented a portable cell-growth incubator with her husband
Jim Anderson. At the university, professors without tenure can only teach
for six years, and this would be her last semester. She didn't take the bad news well, as she pulled out a gun
and started firing. Her shots struck down chairman of the biological
sciences department Gopi K. Podila, and two faculty members: Maria Ragland Davis
and Adriel D. Johnson Sr. Amy's bullets also wounded Luis Rogelio
Cruz-Vera and Joseph G. Leahy, department members and Stephanie Monticello, a
staff member. All three of the wounded were taken to Huntsville Hospital
for treatment. Amy was arrested by the police and charged with one count of
capital murder. This is not the first time Amy Bishop has killed someone.
In 1986, she fired three shots at her brother Seth, hitting him once in the
chest while the two were inside their Braintree, Massachusetts home. The
shooting was ruled accidental.
Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette - Fellow Teacher Kills 3
on Alabama Campus; New York Times - Professor Said to be Charged After 3 are
Killed in Alabama; Arkansas Democrat-Gazette - Professor Shot, Killed Sibling in
'86, Police Say
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New
Mexico
Monday, February 15, 2010
At 7:55 this evening, a 41-year-old female student, and employee
of the school, burst into her music appreciation classroom, clutching her throat
and saying she had been stabbed. She was taken to the University of New
Mexico Hospital and listed in satisfactory condition. The student,
whom her family did not want her name released to the press, was stabbed twice
in the neck in front of the north entrance of the Anthropology Building.
The assailant's knife came within a millimeter of her carotid artery, severed
her jugular vein, cut a lymph node and damaged neck muscle tissue. Police are
still looking for her assailant, a black 6-foot tall man, who is in his early
20s and wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with a ball cap.
Source: New Mexico Daily Lobo - Reports of Stabbing in
Anthropology Building; KRQE - Police Looking for Man in UNM Stabbing; New Mexico
Daily Lobo - Stabbing Victim Recalls Trauma
Deer Creek Middle School, Littleton,
Colorado
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Three miles away from Columbine High School, school violence
strikes again in this suburb southwest of Denver. Just after classes had
ended for the day, a little after 3 p.m., 32-year-old Bruco Strong Eagle
Eastwood walk across the parking lot with a bolt action 30-06 rifle. He
opened fire on the students, striking down Reagan Webber and Matt Thieu.
57-year-old Math teacher David Benke was monitoring the parking lot when Bruco
started firing. He approached him, struggled with him and then tackled
him. Math teacher Norm Hanne quickly joined in to help hold Bruco on the
ground until the police arrived. Reagan and Matt, both eighth-graders,
were transported to Littleton Adventist Hospital where Reagan was treated for
her wounds and then released. Matt was transferred to The Children's
Hospital and listed in stable condition. The police arrested Bruco and he
now faces two counts of attempted murder.
Source: Yahoo! News - Teacher Tackles Gunman Suspected in
School Shooting; Denver Post - Gunfire Hits 2 Kids at Deer Creek Middle School
in Littleton; Denver Post - Hailed as Hero, Math Teacher Leapt to Stop Attack
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
The Ohio State University maintenance department hired
51-year-old Nathaniel Brown in October 2009. Earlier this month he
received a bad job evaluation. This morning when he came to work, around
3:30, he was carrying two handguns in his backpack. He opened fire on two
of his co-workers, building services manager Larry Wallington, 48, and
operations shift leader Henry Butler, 60. Nathaniel then shot himself.
Larry died at the scene, the maintenance building, which is adjacent to a
classroom building near Ohio Stadium. Henry and Nathaniel were transported
to Ohio State University Medical Center where Nathaniel died from his wounds.
Henry was in stable condition by the time this news story went to press.
Source: MSNBC - Ohio St.: Employee Kills Co-Worker, Then
Self
Nanping Experimental Elementary School,
Nanping, Fujian Province, China
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
This morning as dozens of students and parents waited for the
gates to the elementary school to open, former medical worker Zheng Minsheng,
41, attacked them with a knife. In sixty seconds, he killed four boys and four
girls, ages 6 to 11, and wounded five more. Passers-by and school security
guards were able to subdue Zheng and end the attack. Four of the wounded
children were rushed to the hospital and placed in intensive care. Zheng
was arrested and told the authorities that his girlfriend did not want to marry
him and he could not find a job, hence his life was "meaningless."
Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram - Life 'Meaningless' for
China School Attack Suspect
Leicheng No. 1 Primary School, Leizhou City,
Guangdong Province, China
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
The Chinese carry out swift justice as Zheng Minsheng, from the
previous entry, was executed today for his school attack. Unfortunately,
the lesson was not learned by a 33-year-old Guangdong Province male teacher.
The unnamed teacher, who was on sick leave due to mental illness, broke into the
primary school around 3 p.m. and stabbed 15 children and one teacher.
Eight students were stabbed in the head, but none of the stabbings were not
life-threatening. He was subdued by the police. Leizhou People's
Hospital treated eight of the students while Leizhou Hospital of Chinese
Medicince treated seven.
Source: MSNBC - Man Stabs 15 Students, 1 Teacher in South
China; Aljazeera.net - Children Stabbed in China School; Yahoo! News - Man Stabs
28 Children at Kindergarten in China; Yahoo! News - China Tightens School
Security After 3rd Attack
Zhongxin Kindergarten, Taixing, Jiangsu
Province, China
Thursday, April 29, 2010
The next day, another man failed to learn the lesson of Zheng
Minsheng. This morning, Xu Yuyuan, an unemployed 47-year-old, burst into a
classroom at the kindergarten waving an eight-inch knife. He stabbed the
security guard and then went on to stab 28 students, all of them 4-years-old,
and two teachers.
Source: Yahoo! News - Man Stabs 28 Children at Kindergarten
in China
Shangzhuang Primary School, Weifang,
Shandong Province, China
Friday, April 30, 2010
The next day, a deranged farmer, Wang Yonglai, used a motorcycle
to breakdown the gate at Shangzhuang Primary School. He struck a teacher
who was trying to stop him and then attacked five students with a hammer.
He then grabbed two of the children, poured gasoline over his body and set
himself on fire. Fortunately, teachers were able to pull the students away
from Wang, who ended up being burned to death.
Source: Yahoo! News - China Tightens School Security After
3rd Attack
Shengshui Temple
Kindergarten, Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province, China
Wednesday, May
12, 2010
This morning children began arriving at the
private Shengshui Temple Kindergarten around 8:20
when they were attacked by Wu Huanming, a
48-year-old male. Upon his arrival, he used a
meat cleaver to kill the school's administrator, Wu
Hongying, and an unnamed student. He then
started chopping and hacking at 18 other students
and adults. Six students, and Wu Hongying's
80-year-old mother died at the hospital from their
wounds. Of the seven children killed, five
were boys and two were girls. The wounds of the
other eleven students were minor and non-life
threatening. Wu Huanming then returned to his
home where he committed suicide. Although a motive
was not immediately given, it is speculated that Wu
Huanming went after Wu Hongying and his mother for
not paying the rent they owed him for the school
property. The area, in northwest China, is on the
city's rural outskirts in a relatively poor part of
the country.
Source: Yahoo! News - 9 Killed in Latest Attack at China
School; MSNBC - 7 Kids, Teacher Hacked to Death in China School; Yahoo! News -
Rent Dispute Preceded Deadly China School Attack
Hainan Institute of Science and Technology
(College), Haikou, Hainan Province, China
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Yesterday evening, a confrontation arose between a group of
college kids eating at an off-campus food stall and a group of men from the
surrounding villages. The confrontation escalated into violence when four of the
students were slashed by the men. The police responded to the food stall,
questioned the students and then left. The unidentified men then went into
the villages, got their buddies to join them and attacked the school around 2:30
this morning. At least five, possibly ten, of the unidentified village men
burst into a dormitory at the Hainan Institute of Science and Technology.
They were armed with knives and slashed nine of the sleeping students, cutting
off the hand of one of the students. The report does not say why the
unidentified village men stopped, or if they were captured by the authorities.
Source: Yahoo! News - Report Says 13 Hurt in Latest China
Knife Attack; Sky News - Hand Hacked Off in China School Knife Attack
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