On September 2, 2006, Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, was shaken by a rare and tragic act of violence when a father turned his visit into a murder-suicide. At…
Douglas Pennington
Elliot Rodger
On May 23, 2014, 22-year-old Elliot Rodger launched a calculated killing spree in Isla Vista, California, near the University of California, Santa Barbara. His rampage unfolded over the course of…
Dalton Lee Stidham
On January 15, 2013, the parking lot of Hazard Community and Technical College in Hazard, Kentucky, became the setting for a deadly domestic shooting. Just after 6:00 p.m., 21-year-old Dalton…
Christopher Harper-Mercer
On October 1, 2015, 26-year-old Christopher Harper-Mercer entered Snyder Hall at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, carrying six firearms and extra ammunition. He walked into his writing class around…
Charles Carl Roberts
On October 2, 2006, a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania became the site of a targeted and deeply disturbing shooting. The gunman, 32-year-old Charles Carl Roberts IV, was…
Dimitrios Pagourtzis
On May 18, 2018, 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis entered Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, armed with a shotgun and a .38-caliber revolver. Both weapons belonged to his father….
Seung-Hui Cho
On April 16, 2007, Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia became the site of the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history. The gunman, 23-year-old Seung-Hui Cho, was a senior at the…
Christopher Darnell Jones
On the night of November 13, 2022, the University of Virginia was rocked by a targeted shooting that left three students dead and two others wounded. The incident occurred just…
Tyrone Mitchell
On February 24, 1984, gunfire erupted just outside 49th Street Elementary School in South Central Los Angeles. The shooter was 28-year-old Tyrone Mitchell, a local resident who lived in a…
William Atchison
On December 7, 2017, Aztec High School in the rural town of Aztec, New Mexico, became the site of a calculated school shooting carried out by a former student. At…
