During the ensuing siege, Morrison sexually assaulted all of the girls. Two killed (including the gunman), none injuredĪ 53-year-old drifter named Duane Roger Morrison walked into Platte Canyon High School and took six girls hostage. The pair committed suicide in the library after a brief gunfight with police at the end of the massacre. They injured 21 additional people, and three more were injured while attempting to escape the school.
Rocha was tried as an adult and sentenced to twelve years in prison, plus one year of parole, but was instead released in 1987 at the age of twenty.įifteen killed (including the gunmen), 21 injuredĮighteen-year-old Eric Harris and seventeen-year-old Dylan Klebold, students at Columbine High School, killed twelve students and one teacher. Thirteen-year-old Deer Creek Junior High School student Scott Darwin Michael was killed by fourteen-year-old classmate Jason Price Rocha. He was later found not guilty by reason of insanity. Another shot fatally struck fourteen-year-old Deborah Faith Humphrey. Briggs, in the head while on a school field trip, killing him.įourteen-year-old Tennyson Beard got into an argument with fifteen-year-old William Hachmeister at Morey Junior High School, shooting and wounding him. Walter Harris, an eleven-year-old student, accidentally shot his teacher, B. Here are the eleven school shootings in the state, complete with crowd-sourced descriptions. Many of the pre-Columbine incidents in Colorado have been forgotten, too, as more recent tragedies have grabbed headlines. But almost a decade would pass before the 1998 shooting at a Craighead County, Arkansas, middle school in which five people died and ten were injured - a terrible incident largely forgotten in the wake of the Columbine carnage. Two years later, in 1988, a nineteen-year-old murdered two people and wounded nine in Greenwood, California - and in 1989, a racist attack on a school in Stockton, California, killed six and injured 32 more. In 1986, two people were killed and 74 were injured during a hostage standoff in Cokeville, Wyoming. But that began to change in the twenty years or so before Columbine. The overwhelming majority of school shootings between 18 targeted individuals rather than random groups of students and/or teachers as a result, the number of casualties in the incidents tended to be small. Contrast that with the number of school shootings since the first was recorded on Novemwhen University of Virginia student Joseph Semmes shot and killed law professor John Anthony Gardner Davis - to the Columbine tragedy almost 160 years later: 320. In the succeeding thirteen months, there have been 48 school shootings, including the one in Uvalde, essentially doubling the pace from April 20, 2019, to April 20, 2021, and bringing the total since Columbine to 332.
By the time we published an update two years later, on April 20, 2021, there had been another 44 school shootings. Westword published a roundup of school shootings twenty years after the Columbine attack, on Apthe country had added another 240 shootings during those two decades. The oldest school shooting in Colorado dates back to 1909, with two more before Columbine since then, seven have occurred in this state. Since the April 20, 1999, massacre at Columbine High School, in which two teenage gunmen killed twelve students and a teacher and injured 21 others before committing suicide, incidents like these have become all too common.Īccording to a mammoth list of such attacks in America, more school shootings have taken place in the 23 years from Columbine to Uvalde than during the entire history of the United States before 1999. But while the loss of life is shocking, the fact that another school shooting took place certainly isn't.
The death toll from the horrific assault on Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, currently stands at 21, including nineteen children and two adults.