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On January 16, 2002, a school shooting occurred at the Appalachian School of Law, an American Bar Association accredited private law school in Grundy, Virginia, United States. Three people were killed, and three others were wounded when a former student, 43-year-old Nigerian immigrant Peter Odighizuwa, opened fire in the school with a handgun.
The shooting was the first U.S. school shooting of 2023, [1] but the third incident of gun violence in Newport News Public School district in seventeen months. [2] The shooting was one of sixteen U.S. school shootings perpetrated by shooters under the age of ten years since 1970. [3]
Fort Hill, photographed in 1887, was the home of John C. Calhoun and later Thomas Green Clemson and is at the center of the university campus.. Thomas Green Clemson, the university's founder, came to the foothills of South Carolina in 1838, when he married Anna Maria Calhoun, daughter of John C. Calhoun, the South Carolina politician and seventh U.S. Vice President. [15]
The Virginia Tech shooting was a spree shooting that occurred on Monday, April 16, 2007, comprising two attacks on the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States.
John McDonogh High School shooting. 18-year-old Steven Williams, and 17-year-old James Tate, opened fire with an AK-47 and a handgun in the gymnasium of John McDonogh High School, killing a 15-year-old student and wounding three female students. Williams was sentenced to life imprisonment, and Tate was sentenced to fifteen years.
On Clemson's death in 1888, he willed the land to the state of South Carolina for the creation of a public university. The university was founded in 1889, and three buildings from the initial construction still exist today: Hardin Hall (built in 1890), Main Building (later renamed Tillman Hall) (1894), and Godfrey Hall (1898). Other periods of ...
2024 Apalachee High School shooting: Georgia State Police responded to a school shooting at the Apalachee High School near Winder, Georgia. Two teachers and two students were killed, while seven others were injured. A suspect, 14-year-old student Colt Gray, was taken into custody. [48] [49] February 13, 2023: East Lansing, Michigan
The 2022 Aracruz school shootings in Brazil – a former student killed three teachers and one 6th-grader.. A school shooting is an armed attack at an educational institution, such as a primary school, secondary school, high school or university, involving the use of a firearm.