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List of school shootings by death toll (four or more deaths) Date Location Deaths Injuries Description April 16, 2007: Blacksburg, Virginia: 33 [n 1] 17: Virginia Tech shooting: 23-year-old student Seung-Hui Cho killed thirty-two students and faculty members in two separate attacks on the campus of Virginia Tech and then committed suicide. In a ...
Wealthy students at University of Chicago kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks [76] [77] John M. Bolton: Chicago: 1936-07-09: Businessman and Illinois legislator reportedly assassinated by organized crime due to his efforts to legalize some forms of betting [78] Carl Choisser: Ozark: 1939-09-25
Two high fatality events after 1953 occurred in Mississippi (23 in 1955) and Illinois (13 in 1967); accounting for 82% of 1952–2006 deaths, both from violent class tornadoes. More tornadoes with deaths in schools have occurred in the Southeastern United States —23 events or over half the national total—than any other region.
This is a list of mass/spree killers who attacked schools. A mass murderer is typically defined as someone who kills three or more people in one incident, with no "cooling off" period. [ 76 ] [ 77 ] A mass murder typically occurs in a single location where one or more persons kill several others.
Two students at Southern Illinois University were killed Monday in a head-on collision in Carbondale. Wolfgang W. Gustaveson, 19, of Park Ridge, and Francis M. Martinez, 18, of Des Plaines ...
Best was a student at O’Fallon Township High School who played for the Panthers’ girls tennis team and served on student council, according to a statement issued Monday by the school.
Five people, including three young children, have been killed in western Illinois after a school bus collided with another vehicle, authorities have said.. The incident occurred on a highway near ...
The 1995 Fox River Grove bus–train collision was a grade crossing collision that killed seven students riding aboard a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, on the morning of October 25, 1995.