Deadly US shootings
2007-04-16 21:12
Washington - At least 33 people were killed at
Virginia Tech University on Monday in the deadliest shooting
rampage at a US university campus for more than 40 years.
It was the worst since Charles Whitman went to the top of a
tower at the University of Texas campus in Austin on August 1
1966, and opened fire.
He killed 15 people, including his
mother and wife the night before, and wounded 31 others.
Here is a chronology of some of the major shootings inside
US schools and universities in more recent years:
March 1998 - At Westside Middle School in Jonesboro,
Arkansas, two boys aged 13 and 11 set off the fire alarm and
killed four students and a teacher as they left the school.
April 1999 - Two student gunmen killed 12 other students
and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado,
before killing themselves.
January 2002 - A student who had been dismissed from the
Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia, killed the dean,
a professor and a student, and wounded three others.
March 2005 - A 16-year-old high school student gunned
down five students, a teacher and a security guard at Red Lake
High School in far northern Minnesota before killing himself.
He also killed his grandfather and his grandfather's companion
elsewhere on the Chippewa Indian reservation.
September 27 2006 - A drifter took six female high school
students hostage in Bailey, Colorado, molested them and then
shot one to death and killed himself as police closed in.
September 29, 2006 - A 15-year-old student killed his
school's principal in western Wisconsin after telling another
student "you better run".
October 2 2006 - Charles Carl Roberts, a local milk truck
driver, entered the West Nickel Mines School and shot 10 girls
aged 6 to 14 before killing himself. Five girls died.
- Reuters