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Shooting timeline since Columbine 4/20/99
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Domitius Corbulo
Dec 15, 2012, 1:06:33 PM12/15/12
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On Friday morning, 27 people were reportedly shot and killed at Sandy
Hook elementary school in Newtown, CT. According to sources, 18 of these
casualties were children. This is the second mass shooting in the US
this week, after a gunman opened fire in an Oregon shopping mall on
Tuesday, killing 2. ABC News reports that there have been 31 school
shootings in the US since Columbine in 1999, when 13 people were killed.
The rate of people killed by guns in the US is 19.5 times higher than
similar high-income countries in the world. In the last 30 years since
1982, America has mourned at least 61 mass murders. Below is a timeline
of mass shootings in the US since the Columbine High massacre:
December 11, 2012. On Tuesday, 22-year-old Jacob Tyler Roberts killed 2
people and himself with a Stolen Rifle in Clackamas Town Center, Oregon.
His motive is unknown.
September 27, 2012. Five were shot to death by 36-year-old Andrew
Engeldinger at Accent Signage Systems in Minneapolis, MN. Three others
were wounded. Engeldinger went on a rampage after losing his job,
ultimately killing himself.
August 5, 2012. Six Sikh temple members were killed when 40-year-old US
Army veteran Wade Michael Page opened fire in a gurdwara in Oak Creek,
Wisconsin. Four others were injured, and Page killed himself.
July 20, 2012. During the midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises in
Aurora, CO, 24-year-old James Holmes killed 12 people and wounded 58.
Holmes was arrested outside the theater.
May 29, 2012. Ian Stawicki opened fire on Cafe Racer Espresso in
Seattle, WA, killing 5 and himself after a citywide manhunt.
April 6, 2012. Jake England, 19, and Alvin Watts, 32, shot 5 black men
in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in racially motivated shooting spree. Three died.
April 2, 2012. A former student, 43-year-old One L. Goh killed 7 people
at Oikos University, a Korean Christian college in Oakland, CA. The
shooting was the sixth-deadliest school massacre in the US and the
deadliest attack on a school since the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre.
October 14, 2011. Eight people died in a shooting at Salon Meritage hair
salon in Seal Beach, CA. The gunman, 41-year-old Scott Evans Dekraai,
killed six women and two men dead, while just one woman survived. It was
Orange County’s deadliest mass killing.
September 6, 2011. Eduardo Sencion, 32, entered an IHOP restaurant in
Carson City, NV and shot 12 people. Five died, including three National
Guard members.
January 8, 2011. Former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ) was shot in the head
when 22-year-old Jared Loughner opened fire on an event she was holding
at a Safeway market in Tucson, AZ. Six people died, including Arizona
District Court Chief Judge John Roll, one of Giffords’ staffers, and a
9-year-old girl. 19 total were shot. Loughner has been sentenced to
seven life terms plus 140 years, without parole.
August 3, 2010. Omar S. Thornton, 34, gunned down Hartford Beer
Distributor in Manchester, CT after getting caught stealing beer. Nine
were killed, including Thornton, and two were injured.
November 5, 2009. Forty-three people were shot by Army psychiatrist
Nidal Malik Hasan at the Fort Hood army base in Texas. Hasan reportedly
yelled “Allahu Akbar!” before opening fire, killing 13 and wounding 29
others.
April 3, 2009. Jiverly Wong, 41, opened fire at an immigration center in
Binghamton, New York before committing suicide. He killed 13 people and
wounded 4.
March 29, 2009. Eight people died in a shooting at the Pinelake Health
and Rehab nursing home in Carthage, NC. The gunman, 45-year-old Robert
Stewart, was targeting his estranged wife who worked at the home and
survived. Stewart was sentenced to life in prison.
February 14, 2008. Steven Kazmierczak, 27, opened fire in a lecture hall
at Northern Illinois University, killing 6 and wounding 21. The gunman
shot and killed himself before police arrived. It was the
fifth-deadliest university shooting in US history.
February 7, 2008. Six people died and two were injured in a shooting
spree at the City Hall in Kirkwood, Missouri. The gunman, Charles Lee
Thornton, opened fire during a public meeting after being denied
construction contracts he believed he deserved. Thornton was killed by
police.
December 5, 2007. A 19-year-old boy, Robert Hawkins, shot up a
department store in the Westroads Mall in Omaha, NE. Hawkins killed 9
people and wounded 4 before killing himself. The semi-automatic rifle he
used was stolen from his stepfather’s house.
April 16, 2007. Virginia Tech became the site of the deadliest school
shooting in US history when a student, Seung-Hui Choi, gunned down 56
people. Thirty-two people died in the massacre.
February 12, 2007. In Salt Lake City’s Trolley Square Mall, 5 people
were shot to death and 4 others were wounded by 18-year-old gunman
Sulejman Talović. One of the victims was a 16-year-old boy.
October 2, 2006. An Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster, PA was gunned down
by 32-year-old Charles Carl Roberts, Roberts separated the boys from the
girls, binding and shooting the girls. 5 young girls died, while 6 were
injured. Roberts committed suicide afterward.
March 25, 2006. Seven died and 2 were injured by 28-year-old Kyle Aaron
Huff in a shooting spree through Capitol Hill in Seattle, WA. The
massacre was the worst killing in Seattle since 1983.
March 21, 2005. Teenager Jeffrey Weise killed his grandfather and his
grandfather’s girlfriend before opening fire on Red Lake Senior High
School, killing 9 people on campus and injuring 5. Weise killed himself.
March 12, 2005. A Living Church of God meeting was gunned down by
44-year-old church member Terry Michael Ratzmann at a Sheraton hotel in
Brookfield, WI. Ratzmann was thought to have had religious motivations,
and killed himself after executing the pastor, the pastor’s 16-year-old
son, and 7 others. Four were wounded.
July 8, 2003. Doug Williams, a Lockheed Martin employee, shot up his
plant in Meridian, MI in a racially-motivated rampage. He shot 14
people, most of them African American, and killed 7.
September 15, 1999. Larry Gene Ashbrook opened fire on a Christian rock
concert and teen prayer rally at Wedgewood Baptist Church in Fort Worth,
TX. He killed 7 people and wounded 7 others, almost all teenagers.
Ashbrook committed suicide.
July 29, 1999. Mark Orrin Barton, 44, murdered his wife and two children
with a hammer before shooting up two Atlanta day trading firms. Barton,
a day trader, was believed to be motivated by huge monetary losses. He
killed 12 including his family and injured 13 before killing himself.
April 20, 1999. In the deadliest high school shooting in US history,
teenagers Eric Harris and Dylan Kiebold shot up Columbine High School in
Littleton, CO. They killed 13 people and wounded 21 others. They killed
themselves after the massacre.
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Semper Paratus
Hook elementary school in Newtown, CT. According to sources, 18 of these
casualties were children. This is the second mass shooting in the US
this week, after a gunman opened fire in an Oregon shopping mall on
Tuesday, killing 2. ABC News reports that there have been 31 school
shootings in the US since Columbine in 1999, when 13 people were killed.
The rate of people killed by guns in the US is 19.5 times higher than
similar high-income countries in the world. In the last 30 years since
1982, America has mourned at least 61 mass murders. Below is a timeline
of mass shootings in the US since the Columbine High massacre:
December 11, 2012. On Tuesday, 22-year-old Jacob Tyler Roberts killed 2
people and himself with a Stolen Rifle in Clackamas Town Center, Oregon.
His motive is unknown.
September 27, 2012. Five were shot to death by 36-year-old Andrew
Engeldinger at Accent Signage Systems in Minneapolis, MN. Three others
were wounded. Engeldinger went on a rampage after losing his job,
ultimately killing himself.
August 5, 2012. Six Sikh temple members were killed when 40-year-old US
Army veteran Wade Michael Page opened fire in a gurdwara in Oak Creek,
Wisconsin. Four others were injured, and Page killed himself.
July 20, 2012. During the midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises in
Aurora, CO, 24-year-old James Holmes killed 12 people and wounded 58.
Holmes was arrested outside the theater.
May 29, 2012. Ian Stawicki opened fire on Cafe Racer Espresso in
Seattle, WA, killing 5 and himself after a citywide manhunt.
April 6, 2012. Jake England, 19, and Alvin Watts, 32, shot 5 black men
in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in racially motivated shooting spree. Three died.
April 2, 2012. A former student, 43-year-old One L. Goh killed 7 people
at Oikos University, a Korean Christian college in Oakland, CA. The
shooting was the sixth-deadliest school massacre in the US and the
deadliest attack on a school since the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre.
October 14, 2011. Eight people died in a shooting at Salon Meritage hair
salon in Seal Beach, CA. The gunman, 41-year-old Scott Evans Dekraai,
killed six women and two men dead, while just one woman survived. It was
Orange County’s deadliest mass killing.
September 6, 2011. Eduardo Sencion, 32, entered an IHOP restaurant in
Carson City, NV and shot 12 people. Five died, including three National
Guard members.
January 8, 2011. Former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ) was shot in the head
when 22-year-old Jared Loughner opened fire on an event she was holding
at a Safeway market in Tucson, AZ. Six people died, including Arizona
District Court Chief Judge John Roll, one of Giffords’ staffers, and a
9-year-old girl. 19 total were shot. Loughner has been sentenced to
seven life terms plus 140 years, without parole.
August 3, 2010. Omar S. Thornton, 34, gunned down Hartford Beer
Distributor in Manchester, CT after getting caught stealing beer. Nine
were killed, including Thornton, and two were injured.
November 5, 2009. Forty-three people were shot by Army psychiatrist
Nidal Malik Hasan at the Fort Hood army base in Texas. Hasan reportedly
yelled “Allahu Akbar!” before opening fire, killing 13 and wounding 29
others.
April 3, 2009. Jiverly Wong, 41, opened fire at an immigration center in
Binghamton, New York before committing suicide. He killed 13 people and
wounded 4.
March 29, 2009. Eight people died in a shooting at the Pinelake Health
and Rehab nursing home in Carthage, NC. The gunman, 45-year-old Robert
Stewart, was targeting his estranged wife who worked at the home and
survived. Stewart was sentenced to life in prison.
February 14, 2008. Steven Kazmierczak, 27, opened fire in a lecture hall
at Northern Illinois University, killing 6 and wounding 21. The gunman
shot and killed himself before police arrived. It was the
fifth-deadliest university shooting in US history.
February 7, 2008. Six people died and two were injured in a shooting
spree at the City Hall in Kirkwood, Missouri. The gunman, Charles Lee
Thornton, opened fire during a public meeting after being denied
construction contracts he believed he deserved. Thornton was killed by
police.
December 5, 2007. A 19-year-old boy, Robert Hawkins, shot up a
department store in the Westroads Mall in Omaha, NE. Hawkins killed 9
people and wounded 4 before killing himself. The semi-automatic rifle he
used was stolen from his stepfather’s house.
April 16, 2007. Virginia Tech became the site of the deadliest school
shooting in US history when a student, Seung-Hui Choi, gunned down 56
people. Thirty-two people died in the massacre.
February 12, 2007. In Salt Lake City’s Trolley Square Mall, 5 people
were shot to death and 4 others were wounded by 18-year-old gunman
Sulejman Talović. One of the victims was a 16-year-old boy.
October 2, 2006. An Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster, PA was gunned down
by 32-year-old Charles Carl Roberts, Roberts separated the boys from the
girls, binding and shooting the girls. 5 young girls died, while 6 were
injured. Roberts committed suicide afterward.
March 25, 2006. Seven died and 2 were injured by 28-year-old Kyle Aaron
Huff in a shooting spree through Capitol Hill in Seattle, WA. The
massacre was the worst killing in Seattle since 1983.
March 21, 2005. Teenager Jeffrey Weise killed his grandfather and his
grandfather’s girlfriend before opening fire on Red Lake Senior High
School, killing 9 people on campus and injuring 5. Weise killed himself.
March 12, 2005. A Living Church of God meeting was gunned down by
44-year-old church member Terry Michael Ratzmann at a Sheraton hotel in
Brookfield, WI. Ratzmann was thought to have had religious motivations,
and killed himself after executing the pastor, the pastor’s 16-year-old
son, and 7 others. Four were wounded.
July 8, 2003. Doug Williams, a Lockheed Martin employee, shot up his
plant in Meridian, MI in a racially-motivated rampage. He shot 14
people, most of them African American, and killed 7.
September 15, 1999. Larry Gene Ashbrook opened fire on a Christian rock
concert and teen prayer rally at Wedgewood Baptist Church in Fort Worth,
TX. He killed 7 people and wounded 7 others, almost all teenagers.
Ashbrook committed suicide.
July 29, 1999. Mark Orrin Barton, 44, murdered his wife and two children
with a hammer before shooting up two Atlanta day trading firms. Barton,
a day trader, was believed to be motivated by huge monetary losses. He
killed 12 including his family and injured 13 before killing himself.
April 20, 1999. In the deadliest high school shooting in US history,
teenagers Eric Harris and Dylan Kiebold shot up Columbine High School in
Littleton, CO. They killed 13 people and wounded 21 others. They killed
themselves after the massacre.
--
Semper Paratus
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