Month: July 2025

On September 4, 2024, Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia became the scene of a deadly school shooting. At around 10:20 a.m., 14-year-old freshman Colt Gray entered the school’s J…

On the morning of February 27, 2012, 17-year-old Thomas “T.J.” Lane walked into the cafeteria at Chardon High School in Chardon, Ohio, just after 7:30 a.m. Students were gathered before…

On August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman carried out one of the earliest and most infamous mass shootings in American history. Shortly before noon, Whitman, a 25-year-old former Marine and student…

On March 27, 2023, a mass shooting occurred at the Covenant School, a private Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee. At approximately 10:11 a.m., Audrey Hale, a 28-year-old former student,…

On February 2, 1996, Frontier Middle School in Moses Lake, Washington, became the site of a brutal classroom execution carried out by a boy not yet old enough to drive….

On the evening of February 13, 2023, Michigan State University’s normally calm campus was shattered by gunfire. At around 8:18 p.m. EST, an alert was issued for an active shooter…

On December 30, 1974, at approximately 2:50 p.m., Olean High School in Olean, New York, became the site of one of America’s first modern school massacres. The shooter was Anthony F. Barbaro, a 17-year-old…

On April 20, 1999, the ordinary rhythms of a spring morning at Columbine High School dissolved into chaos and horror. What began with what sounded like firecrackers and the shuffle…

Dylan Bennet Klebold was the quieter of the two Columbine shooters, but no less dangerous. He was 17 years old, tall and lanky, with a boyish face that gave little…

As the older of the two Columbine shooters, 18-year-old Eric David Harris carried himself with the confidence of someone who believed he was always the smartest person in the room….