Until the massacre at Colorado’s Columbine High School in 1999, the number of dead in U.S. school shootings tended to be in the single digits. Since then, the number of shootings that included schools and killed 10 or more people has mounted. The most recent two were both in Texas. In May 2022, an 18-year-old attacker killed 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. In May 2018, a 17-year-old killed 10 people at Santa Fe High School near Houston. Most of the victims were students.
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Three people have been killed and two others were wounded in a shooting late Sunday at the University of Virginia.
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A Virginia teacher who was shot by a 6-year-old student during class will sue the school district, the teacher's attorney announced Wednesday.
Police have identified the Michigan State University gunman. They said he shot himself miles away from campus while being confronted by police.
The suspect in a shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville on Monday is dead, officials said, and more information is unfolding about the victims, the motive, and the background.
Sorrow and sympathy are widespread after mass shootings. But what comes next from policymakers is likely to depend on which political party is in charge of a state.
Ethan Crumbley admitted to carrying out the shooting but, because he was 15 at the time, he can't automatically be given a life sentence.
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Marburger died Sunday morning after he was critically injured during the Jan. 4 attack. An 11-year-old was also killed in the shooting, and six other people were injured.
Prosecutors said Jennifer Crumbley was grossly negligent — she failed to tell Oxford High School officials that the family had a gun that her son, Ethan Crumbley, had used at a shooting range.