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Deadly college shootings in U.S.
Some deadly shootings at U.S. colleges or universities, listed by number of
fatalities:
April 16, 2007
A gunman kills 32 people in a dorm and a classroom building at Virginia Tech
in Blacksburg, Va. The suspect then dies by gunshot himself.
Aug. 1, 1966
Charles Whitman points a rifle from the observation deck of the University
of Texas at Austin's Tower and begins shooting in a homicidal rampage that
goes on for 96 minutes. Sixteen people are killed, 31 wounded.
Nov. 1, 1991
Gang Lu, 28, a graduate student in physics from China, reportedly upset
because he was passed over for an academic honor, opens fire in two
buildings on the University of Iowa campus. Five University of Iowa
employees killed, including four members of the physics department, two
other people are wounded. The student fatally shoots himself.
May 4, 1970
Four students were killed and nine wounded by National Guard troops called
in to quell anti-war protests on the campus of Kent State University in
Ohio.
Oct. 28, 2002
Failing University of Arizona Nursing College student and Gulf War veteran
Robert Flores, 40, walks into an instructor's office and fatally shoots her.
A few minutes later, armed with five guns, he enters one of his nursing
classrooms and kills two more of his instructors before fatally shooting
himself.
Sept. 2, 2006
Douglas W. Pennington, 49, kills himself and his two sons, Logan P.
Pennington, 26, and Benjamin M. Pennington, 24, during a visit to the campus
of Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, W.Va.
Jan. 16, 2002
Graduate student Peter Odighizuwa, 42, recently dismissed from Virginia's
Appalachian School of Law, returns to campus and kills the dean, a professor
and a student before being tackled by students. The attack also wounds three
female students.
Aug. 15, 1996
Frederick Martin Davidson, 36, a graduate engineering student at San Diego
State, is defending his thesis before a faculty committee when he pulls out
a handgun and kills three professors.
Jan. 26, 1995
Former law student Wendell Williamson shoots two men to death and injures a
police officer in Chapel Hill, N.C.
April 2, 2007
University of Washington researcher Rebecca Griego, 26, is shot to death in
her office by former boyfriend Jonathan Rowan who then turned the gun on
himself.
Aug. 28, 2000
James Easton Kelly, 36, a University of Arkansas graduate student recently
dropped from a doctoral program after a decade of study and John Locke, 67,
the English professor overseeing his coursework, are shot to death in an
apparent murder-suicide.
Deadly college shootings in U.S.
Some deadly shootings at U.S. colleges or universities, listed by number of
fatalities:
April 16, 2007
A gunman kills 32 people in a dorm and a classroom building at Virginia Tech
in Blacksburg, Va. The suspect then dies by gunshot himself.
Aug. 1, 1966
Charles Whitman points a rifle from the observation deck of the University
of Texas at Austin's Tower and begins shooting in a homicidal rampage that
goes on for 96 minutes. Sixteen people are killed, 31 wounded.
Nov. 1, 1991
Gang Lu, 28, a graduate student in physics from China, reportedly upset
because he was passed over for an academic honor, opens fire in two
buildings on the University of Iowa campus. Five University of Iowa
employees killed, including four members of the physics department, two
other people are wounded. The student fatally shoots himself.
May 4, 1970
Four students were killed and nine wounded by National Guard troops called
in to quell anti-war protests on the campus of Kent State University in
Ohio.
Oct. 28, 2002
Failing University of Arizona Nursing College student and Gulf War veteran
Robert Flores, 40, walks into an instructor's office and fatally shoots her.
A few minutes later, armed with five guns, he enters one of his nursing
classrooms and kills two more of his instructors before fatally shooting
himself.
Sept. 2, 2006
Douglas W. Pennington, 49, kills himself and his two sons, Logan P.
Pennington, 26, and Benjamin M. Pennington, 24, during a visit to the campus
of Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, W.Va.
Jan. 16, 2002
Graduate student Peter Odighizuwa, 42, recently dismissed from Virginia's
Appalachian School of Law, returns to campus and kills the dean, a professor
and a student before being tackled by students. The attack also wounds three
female students.
Aug. 15, 1996
Frederick Martin Davidson, 36, a graduate engineering student at San Diego
State, is defending his thesis before a faculty committee when he pulls out
a handgun and kills three professors.
Jan. 26, 1995
Former law student Wendell Williamson shoots two men to death and injures a
police officer in Chapel Hill, N.C.
April 2, 2007
University of Washington researcher Rebecca Griego, 26, is shot to death in
her office by former boyfriend Jonathan Rowan who then turned the gun on
himself.
Aug. 28, 2000
James Easton Kelly, 36, a University of Arkansas graduate student recently
dropped from a doctoral program after a decade of study and John Locke, 67,
the English professor overseeing his coursework, are shot to death in an
apparent murder-suicide.
