They targeted a student standing in front of the school, but bullets penetrated the building, striking two students sitting inside.Ī similar situation unfolded outside Roxborough High in Philadelphia in October. The district attorney described the case as one of the most complex murder investigations their office has ever conducted, partly because six handguns were used.Īt Miami Gardens High in Florida that same month, two teens are alleged to have sprayed more than 100 rounds with a rifle and handgun modified for fully automatic fire. The hail of gunfire killed one boy and critically injured two female bystanders. At East High in Des Moines, Iowa, in March 2022, for example, six teens allegedly fired 42 shots in an incident that took place during school dismissal time. Many of these incidents have been simple disputes turned deadly because teenagers came to school angry and armed. 24, there have been 257 shootings on school campuses – passing the 250 total for all of 2021. With more than two months left, 2022 is already the worst year on record. That’s double the annual number of shooting incidents recorded in the previous three years – in both 20, 119 shootings were logged, and there were 114 incidents in 2020. schools almost every year since 1966, but in 2021 there were a record 250 shooting incidents – including any occurrence of a firearm being discharged, be it related to suicides, accidental shootings, gang-related violence or incidents at after-hours school events. Rather, they were an extension of rising everyday gun violence. Many of these shootings were not the mass killing events that schools typically drill for. schools on football fields and in classrooms, hallways, cafeterias and parking lots. Since the February 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, moreover, more than 700 people have been shot at U.S. schools between 20 – a total of 52 – than in the previous 18 years combined since the watershed 1999 Columbine High School massacre. Our records show that seven more people died in mass shootings at U.S. As criminologists who have built a comprehensive database to log all school shootings in the U.S., we know that deadly school gun violence in America in now a regular occurrence – with incidents only becoming more frequent and deadlier. The fact that yet another school shooting took place within hours of a gunman in a separate case appearing in court underscores how often these events take place in the U.S.
Louis, where a former student opened fire, killing two and injuring at least seven others before dying in a shootout with police.
This time, it was a performance arts high school in St. 24, 2022, to killing four students in a December 2021 attack, America was learning of yet another school shooting. As a Michigan teen pleaded guilty on Oct.
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