Major Shooting Sprees in the United States
Source: Associated Press | San Francisco Chronicle, Friday, December 14, 2012
Dec. 14, 2012 A 20-year-old man enters a Connecticut elementary school and shoots dead 20 students and six adults before killing himself. His primary targets were kindergarteners and first-graders. Earlier, he had killed his mother at her Newtown home.
July 20, 2012 Twelve people are killed when a gunman enters an Aurora, Colo., movie theater, releases a canister of gas and then opens fire during opening night of the Batman movie “The Dark Knight Rises.” James Holmes, a 24-year-old former graduate student at the University of Colorado, has been charged in the deaths.
April 2, 2012 Seven people are fatally shot at Oikos University in Oakland. The alleged killer, One Goh, 43, was a former vocational nursing student at the school. He faces seven counts of murder and other charges.
Jan. 8, 2011 A gunman kills six people and wounds 13 others, including then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, in a shooting spree outside a grocery store in Tucson, Ariz. Doctors say Jared Lee Loughner, who has been sentenced to life in prison, suffers from schizophrenia.
Aug. 3, 2010 Omar Thornton shoots 10 people, eight of them fatally, within three minutes at the Hartford Distributors warehouse in Manchester, Conn., before killing himself in what was the worst mass shooting in Connecticut before Friday’s school shootings in Newtown.
Nov. 5, 2009 Thirteen soldiers and civilians were killed and more than two dozen wounded when a gunman walked into the Soldier Readiness Processing Center at Fort Hood, Texas, and opened fire. Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder.
April 3, 2009 A 41-year-old man opened fire at an immigrant community center in Binghamton, N.Y., killing 11 immigrants and two workers. Jiverly Wong, a Vietnamese immigrant and former student at the center, kills himself as police rush to the scene.
April 16, 2007 Seung-Hui Cho, 23, kills 32 people and himself on Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va.
April 20, 1999 Students Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, open fire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., killing 12 classmates and a teacher and wounding 26 others before killing themselves in the school’s library.
Oct. 16, 1991 A deadly shooting rampage takes place in Killeen, Texas, as George Hennard opens fire at a Luby’s Cafeteria, killing 23 people before taking his own life. Twenty others are wounded in the attack.
July 18, 1984 James Oliver Huberty, an out-of-work security guard, kills 21 people in a McDonald’s restaurant in San Ysidro (San Diego County). A police sharpshooter kills Huberty.
Jan. 17, 1989 Four girls and a boy, ranging in age from 6 to 9, are killed and 30 others are injured at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton. The gunman, Patrick Edward Purdy, 27, fatally shot himself.
Aug. 1, 1966 Charles Whitman opens fire from the clock tower at the University of Texas at Austin, killing 16 people and wounding 31.
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Major Shooting Sprees in the United States
Source: Associated Press | San Francisco Chronicle, Friday, December 14, 2012
Dec. 14, 2012 A 20-year-old man enters a Connecticut elementary school and shoots dead 20 students and six adults before killing himself. His primary targets were kindergarteners and first-graders. Earlier, he had killed his mother at her Newtown home.
July 20, 2012 Twelve people are killed when a gunman enters an Aurora, Colo., movie theater, releases a canister of gas and then opens fire during opening night of the Batman movie “The Dark Knight Rises.” James Holmes, a 24-year-old former graduate student at the University of Colorado, has been charged in the deaths.
April 2, 2012 Seven people are fatally shot at Oikos University in Oakland. The alleged killer, One Goh, 43, was a former vocational nursing student at the school. He faces seven counts of murder and other charges.
Jan. 8, 2011 A gunman kills six people and wounds 13 others, including then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, in a shooting spree outside a grocery store in Tucson, Ariz. Doctors say Jared Lee Loughner, who has been sentenced to life in prison, suffers from schizophrenia.
Aug. 3, 2010 Omar Thornton shoots 10 people, eight of them fatally, within three minutes at the Hartford Distributors warehouse in Manchester, Conn., before killing himself in what was the worst mass shooting in Connecticut before Friday’s school shootings in Newtown.
Nov. 5, 2009 Thirteen soldiers and civilians were killed and more than two dozen wounded when a gunman walked into the Soldier Readiness Processing Center at Fort Hood, Texas, and opened fire. Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder.
April 3, 2009 A 41-year-old man opened fire at an immigrant community center in Binghamton, N.Y., killing 11 immigrants and two workers. Jiverly Wong, a Vietnamese immigrant and former student at the center, kills himself as police rush to the scene.
April 16, 2007 Seung-Hui Cho, 23, kills 32 people and himself on Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va.
April 20, 1999 Students Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, open fire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., killing 12 classmates and a teacher and wounding 26 others before killing themselves in the school’s library.
Oct. 16, 1991 A deadly shooting rampage takes place in Killeen, Texas, as George Hennard opens fire at a Luby’s Cafeteria, killing 23 people before taking his own life. Twenty others are wounded in the attack.
July 18, 1984 James Oliver Huberty, an out-of-work security guard, kills 21 people in a McDonald’s restaurant in San Ysidro (San Diego County). A police sharpshooter kills Huberty.
Jan. 17, 1989 Four girls and a boy, ranging in age from 6 to 9, are killed and 30 others are injured at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton. The gunman, Patrick Edward Purdy, 27, fatally shot himself.
Aug. 1, 1966 Charles Whitman opens fire from the clock tower at the University of Texas at Austin, killing 16 people and wounding 31.
Written by Ron Greene
December 15, 2012 at 12:26 pm
Posted in Social Commentary
Tagged with Columbine High School, Connecticut School Massacre, Gun control, Newtown, Sandy Hook Elementary School