School Shootings Remembered

Since they first began in February 1996, there has been a rash of shootings in schools around the United States. Countless students and school staff have been killed in the those school shootings. Too many students have been killed. I pray God does not let any more students be killed.

This is one horror that you never want to happen in your neighborhood but how would you react if it did happen to the school your children attended? It most likely was not something the parents who live by the non-famous schools thought of either. Truth is a school shooting can happen anywhere.

This story is written in memory of all of those school students and staff members who have been killed in school shootings around American in the past 11 years. Some of the shootings you may remember but others have no doubt been forgotten in your mind. I am here to remind you, so lessons those families learned the hard way can be spared to the rest of us.

February 2, 1996, in Moses Lake, Washington, a 14-year-old student walked into his algebra class and began shooting. When the student was finished shooting two school students and a teacher lay dead, and one other student left wounded.

October 1 1997, in Pearl, Mississippi, two school students killed and seven wounded by 16-year-old student accused of killing his mother before the other shootings. December 1, 1997 in West Paducah Kentucky, three school students killed and five shot by a 14-year-old student while they stood in a prayer circle.

December 15, 1997 in Stamps, Arkansas, two school students shot as they stood in the parking lot of a school by a 14-year-old student who was hiding in woods. March 1998 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, 4 school students, 1-teacher dead, and 10 other school students wounded outside after a false fire alarm sounded and brought them out side. Boys 11 and 13 hiding in the woods shot at the people when school emptied.

April 1998 in Edinboro Pennsylvania, one teacher shot to death and two school students wounded at a school dance a 14-year-old male was charged. May 1998 in Fayetteville Tennessee, 1 student, soon to be graduating student killed by a romantic rival. May 1998 Springfield Oregon, 2 school students killed and 22 others wounded by a 15-year-old who was been arrested the day before the shooting for bringing a gun into school. He had shot his parents to death before he went to the school.

June 1998, in Richmond, Virginia, 1 teacher and a guidance counselor shot to death by a 14-year-old student. April 1999, in Littleton, Colorado, 12 school students, a teacher, and both of the student killers shot to death, and 22 wounded. This is the worst school shooting in history.

May 1999, in Conyers, Georgia, six school students shot and injured by a 15 year old who was depressed after breaking up with his girlfriend. November 1999 Deming New Mexico, a 12-year-old boy shoots a female student. December 1999 in Fort Gibson, four school students wounded as a 13-year-old opens fire in his school.

February 2000, a six-year-old boy who brought a gun to school killed Mount Morris Michigan, a six-year-old girl. March 2000, in Savannah, Georgia, 2 school students killed while leaving a school dance. May 2000, in Lake Worth, Florida, a 13-year-old student killed a teacher. September 2000 2 school students shot as they wrestled with a gun.

January 2001, in Baltimore, Maryland, one student shot and killed outside a high school. March 2001, Santee California 2 killed and 13 wounded by a 15 year old student shooting from a bathroom.

March 2001, in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, a 14-year-old student wounded a female classmate after being teased. March 2001, in Granite Hills, California, 1 teacher and 3 school students wounded by 18-year-old student. March 2001 Gary Indiana, one student killed by another student who had been expelled.

November 2001, Caro Michigan, a 17-year-old student took two school students as hostage before he killed himself. January 2002 New York, New York, a student wounds two other school students at a school. April 14, 2003 a 15 year old was killed and 3 other school students wounded by gunfire from other school students who did not attend that school. April 2003 a 14-year-old student killed his principal before killing himself.

March 2005 Red Lake Minnesota; a 16-year-old student killed himself after killing his grandpa, a companion, a teacher, a security guard and 5 other school students. November 2005 Jacksboro Tennessee a 15-year-old student killed an assistant principal, and wounded 2 other administrators.

September 2006, in Bailey, Colorado, a man held six school students hostage and then killed a 16-year-old female and then himself. September 2006, in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, a man entered an Amish schoolhouse and shot 10 female students, and him. Five of the students and the man died. January 200, in Tacoma, Washington, an 18-year-old student shot another student in the hallway.

The students who have been killed in school shootings around the United States will never grow up to have families of their own, or to see the sunrise again. Do not let their deaths be in vain, make sure your school has taken safety measures to keep your students safe in a school setting. Say a prayer for those who have been the victims of these school shootings and their families, let no other family feel that pain.

Information found around the web and here. Also from my recent memories.