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Gun violence is the leading cause of death for children and teens under the age of 20 in the United States. [1] [failed verification – see discussion] Since the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, there have been 417 cases of gun violence in schools as of September 2024. [2]
School massacres # Name Date ... 2024 Apalachee High School shooting: Sept. 4: 2024: ... School shooting; School violence; References
Columbine High School massacre: 18-year-old Eric Harris and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold, students at Columbine High School, killed twelve students and one teacher; after killing two students in the schoolyard and fatally wounding a teacher in the hallway, they killed the rest of their victims in the school library. They also wounded 21 additional ...
In the Edweek statistics, a school shooting was defined as when a firearm was discharged and when any ... 999 children ages 11 and younger died of gun violence in all forms, compared with 603 in ...
Less than a week after Northern Illinois University solemnly marked the second anniversary of a mass shooting on campus that claimed the lives of five students, the DeKalb school was the scene of further gun violence. 24-year-old NIU student, Brian Mulder, refused entry to 22-year-old Zachary R. Isaacman, when he had tried to follow a female ...
Four school committee members in Brockton are requesting for the Massachusetts National Guard to assist in monitoring high school students following an increase in violence on campus.
Several hundred people attend a vigil for school shooting victims on Capitol Square in Madison, WI on Dec. 17, 2024. Natalie Rupnow, 15, shot and killed a student and teacher and wounded six ...
According to the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics, school violence is a serious problem. [1] [2] In 2007, the latest year for which comprehensive data were available, a nationwide survey, [3] conducted biennially by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and involving representative samples of U.S. high school students, found that 5.9% of students carried a weapon (e ...