WORLD / Past School Violences
A list of deadly U.S. campus shootings
(AP)
Updated: 2007-04-17 13:56
Fatal shootings at U.S. colleges or universities in recent years:
*April 16, 2007: A gunman fatally shoots 32 people in a dorm and a
classroom at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, The gunman kills
himself.
*August 1, 1966: Charles Whitman points a rifle from the observation deck
of the University of Texas at Austin's Tower and begins shooting in a
homicidal rampage that goes on for 96 minutes. Sixteen people are killed,
31 wounded.
*July 12, 1976: Edward Charles Allaway, a custodian in the library of
California State University, Fullerton, fatally shoots seven fellow
employees and wounds two others. Mentally ill, Allaway believed his
colleagues were pornographers and were forcing his estranged wife to
appear in their movies. He was found guilty of six counts of first-degree
murder and one count of second-degree murder and committed to the state
mental health system.
*November 1, 1991: Gang Lu, 28, a graduate student in physics from China,
reportedly upset because he was passed over for an academic honor, opens
fire in two buildings on the University of Iowa campus. Five University
of Iowa employees are killed, including four members of the physics
department, two people are wounded. The student fatally shoots himself.
*May 4, 1970: Four students are killed and nine wounded by National Guard
troops called in to quell anti-war protests on the campus of Kent State
University in Ohio.
*October 28, 2002: Failing University of Arizona Nursing College student
and Gulf War veteran Robert Flores, 40, walks into an instructor's office
and fatally shoots her. A few minutes later, armed with five guns, he
enters one of his nursing classrooms and kills two more of his
instructors before fatally shooting himself.
*September 2, 2006: Douglas W. Pennington, 49, kills himself and his two
sons, Logan P. Pennington, 26, and Benjamin M. Pennington, 24, during a
visit to the campus of Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West
Virginia.
*January 16, 2002: Graduate student Peter Odighizuwa, 42, recently
dismissed from Virginia's Appalachian School of Law, returns to campus
and kills the dean, a professor and a student before being tackled by
students. The attack also wounds three female students.
*August 15, 1996: Frederick Martin Davidson, 36, a graduate engineering
student at San Diego State, is defending his thesis before a faculty
committee when he pulls out a handgun and kills three professors.
*August 28, 2000: James Easton Kelly, 36, a University of Arkansas
graduate student recently dropped from a doctoral program after a decade
of study and John Locke, 67, the English professor overseeing his
coursework, are shot to death in an apparent murder-suicide.
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