* School-related deaths, school
shootings, and school crisis incidents have
been identified through print and electronic
news sources, professional contacts, and
other nationwide sources, by Kenneth S.
Trump, President, National School Safety and
Security Services, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio).
This is not presented as an exhaustive list
or as a scientific study. Additional
incidents may be added pending review of
additional items on file and new information
received during the course of the school
year.
For purposes of this listing, the
2009-2010 school year is considered
to be from August 1, 2009, through
July 31, 2010. In addition to
school-related violent deaths, this page
provides a sample of school shootings that
did not result in death and a sample of
other incidents of school-related crime,
violence, and crisis situations.
For purposes of
this monitoring report, school-related
violent deaths are homicides, suicides, or
other violent, non-accidental deaths in the
United States in which a fatal injury
occurs:
1) inside a
school, on school property, on or
immediately around (and associated with) a
school bus, or in the immediate area (and
associated with) a K-12 elementary or
secondary public, private, or parochial
school;
2) on the way to
or from a school for a school session;
3) while
attending, or on the way to or from, a
school-sponsored event;
4) as a clear
result of school-related
incidents/conflicts, functions, activities,
regardless of whether on or off actual
school property;
Identified School-Related Violent Deaths:
2009-2010 School Year
Total
Deaths: 9
Breakdown
by Type:
Shooting:
5
Suicides:
0
Murder-Suicide: 0
Fight-Related: 1
Stabbing: 3
Other:
0
September 14, 2009: Charlotte, NC
A 15-year-old pregnant female student was
shot and killed at her school bus stop on
the way to school. A 36-year-old male was
subsequently a person of interest in the
raping and shooting death of the girl, who
was his adopted sister.
September 15, 2009: Coral Gables, FL
A 17-year-old high school student was
stabbed to death during a fight in a school
courtyard around 9:00am.
September 23, 2009: Tyler, TX
A 16-year-old male high school student was
arrested after reportedly stabbing a
50-year-old special education teacher in the
neck with an edged weapon. The teacher later
died after the attack. The student was
apprehended by a paraprofessional in the
room, taken into the hallway and turned over
to a school police officer who was nearby.
September 24, 2009: Chicago, IL
A 16-year-old male high school student was
beaten and died on his way home from school.
The victim was reportedly pulled into an
altercation which was occurring in a vacant
lot as he walked home. Reports
indicate he was an innocent victim passer-by
and had nothing to do with the large fight,
which is believed to be gang-related.
September 24, 2009: Mesa, AZ
A 15-year-old male charter high school
student was stabbed during a fight and died
near a parking garage entrance following a
fight in an outdoor corridor of the school.
The suspect is allegedly a gang member,
according to reports.
September 25, 2009: Tulsa, OK
A 16-year-old male high school student was
shot three times in the back of his head,
neck and back while walking home after being
dropped off at his school bus stop.
Police believe gangs may be involved.
October 16, 2009: Conway, SC
A 16-year-old male high school student was
shot and killed by a school resource officer
following an altercation with the student in
which the student allegedly stabbed the
officer with a knife. The student had
reportedly asked to speak with the officer
and was taken into the officer’s school
office.
October 30, 2009: Long Beach, CA
A 16-year-old female high school honors
student was shot and killed while leaving a
high school homecoming game. Police
reported the victim was an innocent
bystander in the middle of two rival gangs engaged in a conflict.
November 10, 2009: Michigan City, IN
A woman was shot and killed in front of her
two children, allegedly by her boyfriend who
was the father of the children, at a school
bus stop. The suspect later reportedly
shot and killed himself. The incident
occurred as the woman got out of her car
when a school bus with K-5 elementary
students arrived at the stop. Students were
taken to the school where they met with
counselors.
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Sample of
Reported
School-Related Shootings Not Resulting in
Deaths in 2009-2010
A sample
of school-related shootings occurring
nationwide in the 2009-2010 school year not
resulting in death is listed below. It
should be noted that this is only a
sample and and is not intended to
include all of the many incidents involving
firearms confiscated but not used, and other
weapons possession or use that occur in U.S.
schools. List includes individuals shot but
not killed and firearms discharged in
schools, on school campuses and buses, at
school-sponsored events, to and from school
involving students, and as a clear result of
school-related incidents/conflicts.
Total
non-death shooting incidents listed to date:
22
August 11,
2009: Charlotte, NC
A 24-year-old private security guard was
shot in the chest at the construction site
of a new elementary school.
August 25,
2009: Macon, GA
A 13-year-old middle school student was
expelled and faced criminal charges in
connection with a firearm discharge
occurring inside a school classroom.
September 1,
2009: East Rockhill-Perkasie, PA
A 78-year-old male shot himself in an
attempted suicide at the entranceway to the
high school around 11:00am. No
students were said to have observed the
shooting, although school was in session
September 8,
2009: Stamford, CT
A 16-year-old male was arrested for
discharging a firearm after a group of
students were allegedly coming after him in
front of the charter high school. The
shot reportedly
ricocheted off a school bus. Police
later accused school officials of delaying a
call to police on the incident by 35
minutes.
September 14,
2009: Grand Rapids, MI
A 16-year-old male high school student was
arrested after firing a “warning shot”
outside of the school after 20 rival gang
members were approaching him in front of the
school around 3:10pm.
September 16,
2009: Glen Allen, VA
A 16-year-old male student was arrested for
firing shots in a high school parking lot
around 12:30pm. No one was injured.
September 16,
2009: Antioch, CA
A male high school student was shot twice
near the school around 8:30am. He was
walking to the school with friends when an
altercation occurred with individuals in a
car with loud music which pulled up near the
victim. The suspect reportedly is a
non-student.
September 18,
2009: Tacoma, WA
Shots were fired in the parking lot during a
high school football game. Police
found two shell casings in the parking.
No one was injured.
September 25,
2009: Kansas City, MO
A 13-year-old student was injured when nine
shots were fired at the building he was in
at
the Afrikan-Centered Collegium Campus.
Three shots reportedly hit the building.
October 8, 2009: Southold, NY
An 18-year-old high school student was
struck in the head by a bullet when a shot
fired from outside the school went through
his classroom window. Reports indicate
he received minor injuries. Police
reportedly took a 28-year-old male in
custody from the community.
October 9, 2009: Pittsburgh, PA
A 17-year-old male high school student was
the target of a shooting outside the school
after dismissal. A car reportedly
pulled up to the corner where he was
standing, and eight shots were fired by
someone in the car. The intended
victim was not struck.
October 9, 2009: Washington, DC
A 21-year-old male was shot in the arm and
leg near the gates to the high school as he
was leaving the homecoming game around
11:30pm.
October 13, 2009: Los Angeles, CA
A 16-year-old female high school student was
shot in the hip while walking home about two
blocks from the school. Police believe
she was caught in the crossfire of shots
from rival gangs.
October 13, 2009: Salinas, CA
A 49-year-old male elementary school
custodian was shot in the upper torso around
6:30am. No students were present or
involved. School was canceled for the day.
Police were investigating if robbery was a
motive and if it was gang-related, according
to reports.
October 15, 2009: North Las Vegas, NV
Three male high school students were injured
during a conflict several blocks from the
school. One student was hit with a
heavy object, another was stabbed, and the
third was shot.
October 19, 2009: North St. Louis, MO
A 17-year-old male high school student was
shot and ran back into the school. His
injuries were not life threatening according
to reports.
October 23, 2009: Norfolk, VA
A juvenile male was shot in the leg around
9:50pm after a high school football game.
November 5, 2009: Philadelphia, PA
A 17-year-old student was shot in the back
of the head, allegedly by a 15-year-old
student, on board a school bus around
8:00am. The victim was originally in
critical, and later stable, condition at the
hospital. The suspect fled the bus but
was captured not far from incident.
November 9, 2009: Kansas City, MO
Three girls were shot and an adult male
grazed by a bullet in a neighborhood
shooting which followed a fight inside a
high school involving four to five students.
One student and a security officer suffered
minor injuries as a result of the fight in
the school, according to reports.
November 10, 2009: Tulsa, OK
Elementary school students and staff were in
the line of fire as one man was killed and
another injured in a shooting which occurred
around 4:00pm as students and staff were
exiting the school. No one was
injured.
November 13, 2009: Las Vegas, NV
Two 7-year-old second graders were involved
in a shooting incident at a school bus stop.
One fired a 9mm gun with the bullet striking
an unoccupied car along the road.
November 16, 2009: Dallas, TX
A 52-year-old Dallas school maintenance
employee who was visiting an elementary
school accidentally shot himself in the
upper leg while the custodian’s office.
He was transported by an ambulance.
The male reportedly was on leave and being
recommended for termination from his job,
according to reports.
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Sample of
Other Reported Higher-Profile
School Crime, Violence, and Crisis Incidents
in 2009-2010
Total incident
listing to date: 60
August 19, 2009: Lakeville, IN
A State Police SWAT team assembled in a
junior-senior high school parking lot, while
the school was held on lockdown, in
connection with police activity involving a
homicide in the nearby community.
August 21, 2009: Cleveland, TN
An elementary school was put into a
precautionary lockdown due to shooting
nearby the school. No incident
occurred at the school.
August 24, 2009: San Mateo, CA
A 17-year-old male high school student
detonated two pipe bombs in a hallway near
the library. The male had a total of
10 pipe bombs, a sword, and a chainsaw,
according to reports. A 35-year-old
male teacher tackled the student and was
credited with likely saving lives at the
school. Police officers took the
student into custody.
August 27, 2009: Atlanta, GA
A 23-year-old male was arrested for
hijacking a school bus with 13 students
(grades 7-12 school) and a bus driver on
board. He reportedly climbed in the
bus by a window, took control of the bus,
and then left the bus driverless as it went
down a hill. Two students and the bus driver
reportedly suffered minor injuries.
September 1, 2009: Yazoo City, MS
A 17-year-old male high school student was
credited with saving the lives of 22
students after he wrestled a .380-caliber
semi-automatic gun away from a 14-year-old
female student who was threatening other
students aboard the bus who she claimed has
been harassing her.
September 8, 2009: Mount Prospect, IL
Police were seeking a suspect who placed a
small homemade improvised explosive device
in a park adjoining the school.
September 8, 2009: La Habra, CA
A high school was briefly put on lockdown
while school officials and police searched
for the person who stabbed a 17-year-old
student around 7:40am on the grounds of the
school. No suspects were immediately
apprehended.
September 11, 2009: Owosso, MI
Schools were locked down after a 63-year-old
abortion protester was gunned down in a
drive-by shooting in the area of the high
school. School was in session but no
students were involved or injured in the
shooting.
September 11, 2009: Tulsa, OK
A fight broke out at a high school football
game resulting in three arrests and several
injuries. School officials
subsequently beefed up security at games the
following week including requiring student
IDs, metal detection and increased security
involvement.
September 15, 2009: Bolingbrook, IL
A 16-year-old student was stabbed several
times during a gang-related altercation at
his high school. The male reportedly
fled the building and was picked up by
police and taken to the hospital.
September 17, 2009: Los Angeles, CA
A 16-year-old high school student was
stabbed in his hip several blocks from the
school around 7:25am. Police were
searching for the suspect.
September 17, 2009: Bridgeton, NJ
Two students, ages 16 and 17, were stabbed
during an altercation after they exited the
school bus around 3:15pm. One was
reportedly stabbed in the back and the other
twice in the chest.
September 17, 2009: Delray Beach, FL
A riot broke out a high school football
game. School police called in other
local police for assistance. Four
arrests were made and police reportedly used
Tasers and pepper spray to break up some of
the fighters.
September 18, 2009: Manatee County, FL
Security was heightened at high school
football games following the shooting death
of two students in the community in
unrelated incidents in the prior weeks.
Additional police officers and metal
detectors reportedly would be used at the
games.
September 21, 2009: Greenville, MS
Six high school students were arrested in
connection with a fight on campus stemming
from a weekend conflict. The school
was put on lockdown while police searched
for weapons, according to reports. No
weapons were found.
September 21, 2009: Longwood, FL
A private school went into lockdown after a
200-pound bear was going through its garbage
bin on campus. Deputies and Wildlife
officials responded.
September 22, 2009: York, PA
An elementary school went into lockdown as a
man with a BB gun was around the school
shooting cats that were trying to kill birds
he raised for a living. Police
received reports of a man with a gun outside
the school and the school went into a
lockdown, with anxious parents outside
according to reports.
September 22, 2009: Miami, FL
A suspicious box outside the front door of
an elementary school sent the school into
lockdown as a police bomb squad robot was
called in to the scene. Students were
later dismissed from an alternate location.
September 24, 2009: Weirton, WV
Two 19-year-old high school seniors were
arrested in connection with an alleged plot
involving a suicide note, bomb-making
materials, and instructions on how to make
bombs. Police became alerted to the
threat when students started receiving text
messages that something “big” going to
happen at the school.
September 25, 2009: Virginia Beach, VA
A fight between two students at a high
school escalated into a large scale fight
resulting in police arresting 17 students.
September 25, 2009: Houston, TX
A high school was locked down at around
9:40am for approximately three hours due to
assault rifle gunfire in the surrounding
community. A suspect was later
arrested.
September 28, 2009: Palisades, CO
An 18-year-old male who was enrolled at a
high school was arrested for an alleged plot
to attack the school with weapons and
explosives.
September 29, 2009: Allentown, PA
Three high school students were stabbing
victims following a fight involving 30
people which occurred as students were
walking home from the school.
September 29, 2009: Corpus Christi: TX
A 16-year-old reported fired 15 shots at a
21-year-old victim, possibly in a case of
mistaken identity, sending area schools into
a lockdown most of the afternoon. The
shooting itself did not involve students,
according to reports.
September 30, 2009: Princeton, MN
A suspicious device was found at the high
school, post office and public utility
building. The school district closed
all three district schools, sending 3,500
students home.
September 30, 2009: Oklahoma City, OK
A high school was briefly locked down while
police searched for a gunman who fired shots
at a car at a nearby car wash. The
owner of the car, who was not a student,
went to the school after the shots were
fired at his car.
September 30, 2009: Roanoke, VA
A 16-year-old high school student will be
charged for having an explosive device at
the school. School officials
found an object containing firecrackers and
metal objects inside an Axe body spray can
during a search of the student. A portion of
the school was closed and the Virginia State
Police bomb squad was called as a
precaution. The materials were
reportedly determined to be explosive.
September 30, 2009:
Anchorage, AK
Two elementary schools were briefly put into
lockdown in West Anchorage due to a police
pursuit of a suspect in a stolen car in the
community. A suspect was arrested and
charged with multiple felony counts,
according to reports.
October 1, 2009: Boston, MA
Three schools were locked down following
gunshots in the community as students were
arriving at school in the morning. No
students were injured.
October 2, 2009: Tulsa, OK
Police arrested 11 high school students
after fights broke out about noon in a
school hallway and commons area where
students eat lunch.
October 2, 2009: Nashville, TN
Police arrested six students after two major
gang-related fights this week at a high
school. Police beefed up presence on
campus and at an evening football game
following the conflicts.
October 2, 2009: Washington, DC
DC Public Schools lost 300 security guards
after the private security company used by
the district went out of business overnight.
October 5, 2009: Cleveland, OH
The Plain Dealer reported Cleveland Police
are stationing ten officers a day to assist
school security and administrators with
dismissal at one high school due to gang
activity. A pep rally was cancelled and a
homecoming dance postponed due to conflicts.
October 6, 2009: Jackson, MS
One of three males fleeing from a car
stopped by police ran into an elementary
school, where officers caught him. The
school went into a lockdown which was later
lifted and students were released.
October 6, 2009: Lakeland, FL
A middle school went into lockdown after two
suspects fled from a police traffic stop in
the area.
October 7, 2009: Evansville, IN
Two women, one the mother of a student, were
arrested at a middle school after shouting
obscenities at the principal, refusing to
leave the grounds, and resisting arrest by a
police officer. Police later found three
pills and $1,600 in the bra of one of the
women.
October 7, 2009: Ft. Wayne, IN
Two guns, one a handgun and the other a
rifle, were found in the trunk of a car of a
high school student after school officials
received a tip the male was involved in a
threat with a student at another school.
School and police officials acted quickly
and four people were taken into custody for
questioning.
October 8, 2009: San Antonio, TX
One high school and one middle school went
into lockdown after a male reportedly fired
shots after entering an area apartment
building leasing office demanding money.
The male was caught by police and the
lockdown subsequently lifted.
October 8, 2009: Richmond, KY
A 17-year-old student was stabbed by a
fellow student in a classroom at his high
school. The victim was hospitalized
and the suspect arrested.
October 12, 2009: Marietta, GA
Two schools were put into a lockdown as a
precautionary measure after three males
fired shots at a man getting into his car in
the area.
October 13, 2009: Newport News, Va
A 19-year-old male with a gunshot wound to
the leg was found in the parking lot of an
elementary school. The incident
reportedly happened at a nearby convenience
store and the victim made his way to the
school lot. The school went into
lockdown as a precaution.
October 15, 2009: Milford, CT
A 17-year-old male high school student was
arrested for a posting on Facebook
threatening to bring a gun to school and
shoot up the school.
October 16, 2009: Bayonne, NJ
Two high school students were stabbed during
an altercation after school which involved
up to 30 people.
October 20, 2009: Monroe, NY
A 15-year-old male was taken into custody
and held in a psychiatric facility for
allegedly plotting an attack on his former
high school. Police reportedly found
four bottles filled with gasoline, a torch,
machete, black trench coat, and three
propane tanks.
October 22, 2009: Manchester, NH
Two schools were put on a lockdown and then
later evacuated due to a shooting in the
community.
October 23, 2009: Franklin, NJ
Following a conflict between a police
officer and student returning into a high
school homecoming dance, a large altercation
broke out. Additional police
responded, police used pepper spray, five
police officers were injured, and a total of
12 individuals, including students and
parents, were arrested.
October 24, 2009: Richmond, CA
A 15-year-old female high school student was
gang-raped by as many as 10 individuals
while as many as 20 onlookers stood by and
did not call police.
October 30, 2009: Toledo, OH
Three schools were put on lockdown after a
fatal shooting in the neighborhood.
November 4, 2009: Yakima, WA
Three schools went into lockdown following a
shooting which started at a neighborhood car
wash
November 4, 2009: Birmingham, AL
A 14-year-old middle school student was
arrested for bringing an unloaded shotgun
into the school, hiding it in a bathroom
ceiling, and then later carrying it on
himself with the gun hidden in his pants
leg.
November 5, 2009: Chicago, IL
A food fight at a middle school resulted in
the arrest of 25 students.
November 5, 2009: Arlington, WA
A high school was put on lockdown after
gunfire from the community later reported to
be someone taking target practice.
November 5, 2009: Killeen, TX
Nine schools were locked down for five hours
following a shooting rampage by a gunman at
Fort Hood Army base. Students and staff,
along with a number of parents who went to
pick up their children, remained in
windowless areas of the school. School
staff scrambled for food, serving students
dinner at the school.
November 10, 2009: Portland, OR
Hundreds of elementary students were
evacuated from a three-alarm fire. No
students were reported as injured.
Credit was given to practice drills for
students safely getting out. Two
portions of the roof reportedly collapsed.
November 10, 2009: Baltimore, MD
A high school student was attacked by six
individuals, five of them non-students, and
stabbed in the upper back while in the
school cafeteria around 1:30pm.
November 10, 2009: Pine Plains, NY
A 42-year-old male took a middle
school principal hostage at a combined
middle and high school around the start of
school about 8:00am. The incident was
contained in one classroom. The
suspect eventually surrendered to police
without anyone harmed. Students and
staff were locked down during the incident.
Police searched room-by-room after the
suspect was removed from the building.
Parents were directed to a nearby restaurant
parking lot several blocks away during the
incident. The male reportedly brought a
disassembled shotgun into the school, signed
in the office as required, asked to use the
restroom, and reassembled the gun in the
restroom before taking the principal
hostage. The male reportedly did this
to get media attention about his concerns of
wrongful treatment of military personnel.
November 11, 2009: Jackson, MS
A burglar being pursued by police for an
incident in a surrounding community
subdivision ran into an elementary school
around 8:45am. A teacher and student
teacher stopped the male and made him leave.
The school temporarily went into lockdown
and a message was sent out to parents.
November 14, 2009: San Diego, CA
A 19-year-old male slashed a victim he
engaged in a fight with during a high school
homecoming football game. The two
engaged in a conflict at the game and then
took the conflict into the community where
the stabbing occurred.
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