2009 - In Winnenden, Germany, 17-year-old Tim Kretschmer opens fire at his former secondary school, killing nine students and three teachers. While attempting to flee, he kills three more people before shooting himself.
2008 - A gunman opens fire at a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University on February 14, leaving five students dead and 16 others wounded before killing himself. The shooter is identified as 27-year-old Steven P. Kazmierczak, a former student at the university.
*2007 - On November 7, 18-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen shoots and kills eight people at Jokela High School in Tuusula, Finland, and then turns the gun on himself. The shooting was planned in a YouTube video entitled "Jokela High School Massacre - 11/7/2007," which depicted a photo of the school and revealed Auvinen pointing a gun at the screen.
*2007 - On April 16th, 23-year-old Seung-Hui Cho, a senior at Virginia Tech University, shoots 32 students on campus before fatally turning the gun on himself.
*2006 - On April 20, five teenage boys are arrested hours before they planned to shoot fellow students at a local high school in Riverton, Kansas. An individual alerted the police after viewing a MySpace.com message hinting at the upcoming shooting.
*2005 - In late March, Jeffrey Weise, a student at Red Lake High School in Minnesota, enters the high school killing seven people and then himself.
2004 - In response to a $50 debt, 16-year-old Philadelphia, Pennsylvania student Desmond Keels shoots four students, killing one.
2003 - On April 24th, James Sheets, a 14-year-old student at a junior high school in Red Lion, Pennsylvania, shoots and kills the principal in the cafeteria before turning the gun on himself.
2000 - In Lake Worth, Florida, on May 26, 13-year-old Nathaniel Brazill murders his English teacher after the teacher asks him to stop talking to two girls in the classroom. Brazill is later convicted of murder.
*1999 - On April 20, students Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris attack fellow students at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Killing 15 people including themselves, their attack is the deadliest school shooting to date.
1998 - On March 24, an 11-year-old boy and a 13-year-old boy open fire near their middle school in Jonesboro, Arkansas, where they injure fifteen people; four girls and a teacher are fatally shot.
1997 - On October 1st, Luke Woodham, a 16-year-old from Pearl, Mississippi, shoots seven students, and kills two after fatally stabbing his mother.
1996 - A federal government report on school-related deaths shows that between 1992 and 1994, 105 people died at school or during a school-related event from either homicide or suicide.
*1994 - Congress passes the Gun-Free Schools Act requiring every state to enact a law requiring schools to expel students for bringing guns to school.
*1993 - The American Psychological Association estimates that children watch over 8,000 murders on television before leaving elementary school.
1993 - A paper by the National Education Association reports that an estimated 100,000 guns are brought to school every day in the United States.
1993 - President Bill Clinton begins his term with a strong emphasis upon school violence prevention.
1977 - The National Alliance for Safe Schools is founded to provide technical assistance to school districts with rising school violence.
Source: http://issues.abc-clio.com/Topics/Display/913445?cid=85&terms=school+violence
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