2010 Hartford Connecticut Shooting, May 18, 1927: Andrew Kehoe, school board treasurer in Bath Township, Michigan, bombed three schools, killing 38 children, two teachers and four other adults, as well as himself, because he was enraged by higher taxes to fund a new school.
August 1, 1966: Charles Joseph Whitman, a student at the University of Texas and a former Marine, killed 13 people as he took over an observation tower on the campus, before a police officer shot and killed him.
April 20, 1999: Students Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, opened fire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., killing 12 classmates and a teacher and wounding 26 others before killing themselves in the school's library.
April 16, 2007: Student Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed 32 people on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, in Blacksburg, Va., before committing suicide.
Other School Shootings In The U.S. Since 1995
Oct. 1, 1997: Luke Woodham, 16, killed 2 students and injured seven others at Pearl High School in Pearl, Miss. He was also convicted of killing his mother, who he killed hours before the school shooting.
Dec, 1, 1997: Michael Carneal, 14, opened fire on a group of praying students at Heath High School in West Paducah, Kentucky, killing three and injuring five.
March 24, 1998: Middle school students Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden pulled a fire alarm at their school in a small rural Arkansas community and then opened fire on students and teachers using an arsenal they had stashed in the nearby woods. Four students and a teacher who tried to shield the children were killed and 10 others were injured.
May 21, 1998: Kip Kinkel, 15, killed two and wounded 25 others in a rampage in the cafeteria of Thurston High School in Springfield, Ore. His parents were found slain at their home.
May 26, 2000: Nathaniel Brazill, 13, shot and killed a teacher at Lake Worth Community Middle School in Lake Worth, Fla.
March 5, 2001: Charles Andrew Williams, 15, shot and killed two students and wounded 13 others at Santana High School in Santee, Calif.
Oct. 29, 2002: A failing student shot and killed three professors and then himself in a rampage at the University of Arizona School of Nursing in Tuscon, Ariz.
April 14, 2003: Four gunmen opened fire in the gymnasium of John McDonogh High School in New Orleans, killing one and wounding three others.
March 21, 2005: Jeff Weise, 15, shot and killed seven people, five students, a teacher, and a security guard, before killing himself at Red Lake High School in Red Lake, Minn. Weise had shot and killed his grandfather and a woman at his home before driving to school.
September 29, 2006: Eric Hainstock, 15, upset over a reprimand given by principal John Klang of Weston School in Cazenovia, Wisconsin, shot and killed the principal.
October 2, 2006: Charles Carl Roberts IV, a 32-year-old truck driver, shot 10 girls, killing five before turning the gun on himself in a rampage at a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa.
Feb. 14, 2008: Steven Kazmierczak, dressed all in black, stepped on stage in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University and opened fire on a geology class. Five students were killed and 16 wounded before Kazmierczak killed himself.
Feb 12, 2010: A University of Alabama professor opened fire at a faculty meeting, killing three colleagues and wounding three.
February 27, 2012: T.J. Lane, 17, killed three students and wounded two others during a shooting rampage at Chardon High School in Chardon, Ohio.
Other Mass Shootings In The U.S.
July 12, 1976: Edward Charles Allaway, a custodian in the library of California State University, Fullerton, fatally shot seven fellow employees and wounded two others.
July 18, 1984: James Oliver Huberty, an out-of-work security guard, killed 21 people in a McDonald's restaurant in San Ysidro, Calif. A police sharpshooter killed Huberty.
Aug. 20, 1986: Pat Sherrill, 44, a postal worker who was about to be fired, shot 14 people at a post office in Edmond, Okla. He then killed himself.
June 18, 1990: James Edward Pough shot people at random in a General Motors Acceptance Corp. office in Jacksonville, Fla., killing 10 and wounding four, before killing himself.
Oct. 16, 1991: A deadly shooting rampage took place in Killeen, Texas, as George Hennard opened fire at a Luby's Cafeteria, killing 23 people before taking his own life. 20 others were wounded in the attack.
July 1, 1993: Gian Luigi Ferri, 55, killed eight people in an office building in San Francisco's financial district. His rampage began in the 34th-floor offices of Pettit & Martin, an international law firm, and ended in a stairwell between the 29th and 30th floors where he encountered police and shot himself.
Dec. 7, 1993: Colin Ferguson shot and killed six passengers and wounded 19 others on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train before being stopped by other riders. Ferguson was later sentenced to life in prison.
July 29, 1999: Mark Orrin Barton, a 44-year-old chemist-turned-day trader, strolled into two investment offices in Atlanta, Ga. and opened fire on fellow investors and office workers. The shootings at All-Tech Investment and Momentum Securities Inc., across the street from each other, left nine people dead and 12 wounded. Barton eluded a manhunt for six hours before killing himself.
Dec. 26, 2000: Michael McDermott, a 42-year-old software tester shot and killed seven coworkers at the Wakefield, Mass. Internet consulting firm where he was employed. McDermott, who was arrested at the offices of Edgewater Technology Inc., apparently enraged because his salary was about to be garnished to satisfy tax claims by the Internal Revenue Service.
July 8, 2003: Doug Williams, 48, a production assemblyman for 19 years at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., went on a rampage at the defense plant in Meridian, Miss., fatally shooting five and wounding nine before taking his own life with a shotgun.
Feb. 12, 2007: Sulejman Talovic, 18, wearing a trenchcoat and carrying a shotgun, sprayed a popular Salt Lake City shopping mall. Witnesses said he displayed no emotion while killing five people and wounding four others. An off-duty police officer eaing dinner with his wife exchanged gunfire with the Bosnian refugee before other officers arrived and fatally wounded Talovic.
Dec. 5, 2007: Robert Hawkins, 19, sprayed an Omaha shopping mall with gunfire as holiday shoppers scattered in terror. He killed eight people and wounded four others before taking his own life. Authorities reported he left several suicide notes.
March 10, 2009: Michael McLendon, 28, killed 10 people — including his mother, four other relatives, and the wife and child of a local sheriff's deputy — across two rural Alabama counties. He then killed himself.
April 3, 2009: Jiverly Voong, 41, shot and killed 13 people and seriously wounded four others before apparently committing suicide at the American Civic Assn., an immigration services center in Binghamton, N.Y.
Nov. 5, 2009: Thirteen soldiers and civilians were killed and more than two dozen wounded when a gunman walked into the Soldier Readiness Processing Center at Fort Hood, Texas, and opened fire. Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan was charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder.
Oct. 12, 2011: Scott Dekraai, 41, apparently enraged over a custody dispute, allegedly walked into a crowded Seal Beach, Calif. hair salon where his former wife worked and opened fire. Eight people were killed, including a man sitting in a truck outside the salon. Another person was critically wounded. Dekraai has pleaded not guilty in the case.
July 20, 2012: At least 12 people were killed when a gunman entered an Aurora, Colo., movie theater, released a canister of gas and then opened fire during opening night of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises." James Holmes, a 24-year-old former graduate student at the University of Colorado, has been charged in the deaths.
August 5, 2012: Army veteran Wade Michael Page killed five men and one woman and wounded three other people, including a police officer, before taking his own life at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin outside Milwaukee.
Sept. 28, 2012: Andrew Engeldinger, 36, broke into a sign company's offices in Minneapolis, Minn. and opened fire, killing the owner and three others before turning the gun on himself. Four others were wounded.
Oct. 21, 2012: A shooter opened fire inside the Azana Salon and Spa in Brookfield, Wis., killing three and injuring at least four others.
Worldwide School Killings
June 11, 1964: Walter Seifert killed eight students and two teachers using a self-made flamethrower, a lance and a mace at a Catholic elementary school in Volkhoven, a suburb of Cologne, Germany.
Dec. 6, 1989: Marc Lepine, 25, burst into Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique college, shooting at women he encountered, killing nine and then himself.
March 13, 1996: Thomas Watt Hamilton, 43, kills 16 children and one teacher and wounds 12 others at Dunblane Primary School in Dunblane, Scotland, before shooting himself. It is the worst school shooting in British history.
April 26, 2002: Robert Steinhaeuser, 19, who had been expelled from school in Erfurt, Germany, killed 13 teachers, two former classmates and policeman, before committing suicide.
Nov. 7, 2007: After revealing plans for his attack in YouTube postings, 18-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen shot and killed 6 fellow students, the head teacher and the school nurse at Jokela School in Tuusula, Finland, before turning the gun on himself
Sept. 23, 2008: Matti Saari, 22, walked into a vocational college in Kauhajoki, Finland, and opened fire, killing 10 people and burning their bodies with firebombs before shooting himself fatally in the head.
March 11, 2009: Tim Kretschmer, 17, shot and killed 9 students and three teachers at his former school in Winnenden, Germany. He shot three more people as he fled before killing himself.
April 7, 2011: Wellington Menezes de Oliviera, 23, shot and killed 12 children and woulded 12 others at his former primary school in Rio de Janiero, Brazil.
March 19, 2012: A gunman on a motorcycle killed a rabbi and three children in front of a Jewish school in Toulouse, France.
Other Mass Shootings Outside The U.S.
Aug. 19, 1987: Michael Ryan, 27, killed 16 people in small market town of Hungerford, England, and then shot himself dead after being cornered by police.
April 28, 1996: Martin Bryant, 29, burst into the cafeteria in the seaside resort of Port Arthur in Tasmania, Australia, shooting and killing 20 people. He killed 15 others while driving away. He was captured and imprisoned.
April 30, 2009: Farda Gadyrov, 29, entered the prestigious Azerbaijan State Oil Academy in the capital, Baku, armed with an automatic pistol and clips. He killed 12 people before killing himself as police closed in.
July 22, 2011: Confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 in Norway in twin attacks: a bombing in downtown Oslo and a shooting massacre at a youth camp outside the capital. The self-styled anti-Muslim militant admitted to both attacks.
March 11, 2012: Sixteen Afghan villagers, including nine children, were killed during a predawn attack in which Army prosecutors have charged Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, 39.
August 1, 1966: Charles Joseph Whitman, a student at the University of Texas and a former Marine, killed 13 people as he took over an observation tower on the campus, before a police officer shot and killed him.
April 20, 1999: Students Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, opened fire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., killing 12 classmates and a teacher and wounding 26 others before killing themselves in the school's library.
April 16, 2007: Student Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed 32 people on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, in Blacksburg, Va., before committing suicide.
Other School Shootings In The U.S. Since 1995
Oct. 1, 1997: Luke Woodham, 16, killed 2 students and injured seven others at Pearl High School in Pearl, Miss. He was also convicted of killing his mother, who he killed hours before the school shooting.
Dec, 1, 1997: Michael Carneal, 14, opened fire on a group of praying students at Heath High School in West Paducah, Kentucky, killing three and injuring five.
March 24, 1998: Middle school students Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden pulled a fire alarm at their school in a small rural Arkansas community and then opened fire on students and teachers using an arsenal they had stashed in the nearby woods. Four students and a teacher who tried to shield the children were killed and 10 others were injured.
May 21, 1998: Kip Kinkel, 15, killed two and wounded 25 others in a rampage in the cafeteria of Thurston High School in Springfield, Ore. His parents were found slain at their home.
May 26, 2000: Nathaniel Brazill, 13, shot and killed a teacher at Lake Worth Community Middle School in Lake Worth, Fla.
March 5, 2001: Charles Andrew Williams, 15, shot and killed two students and wounded 13 others at Santana High School in Santee, Calif.
Oct. 29, 2002: A failing student shot and killed three professors and then himself in a rampage at the University of Arizona School of Nursing in Tuscon, Ariz.
April 14, 2003: Four gunmen opened fire in the gymnasium of John McDonogh High School in New Orleans, killing one and wounding three others.
March 21, 2005: Jeff Weise, 15, shot and killed seven people, five students, a teacher, and a security guard, before killing himself at Red Lake High School in Red Lake, Minn. Weise had shot and killed his grandfather and a woman at his home before driving to school.
September 29, 2006: Eric Hainstock, 15, upset over a reprimand given by principal John Klang of Weston School in Cazenovia, Wisconsin, shot and killed the principal.
October 2, 2006: Charles Carl Roberts IV, a 32-year-old truck driver, shot 10 girls, killing five before turning the gun on himself in a rampage at a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa.
Feb. 14, 2008: Steven Kazmierczak, dressed all in black, stepped on stage in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University and opened fire on a geology class. Five students were killed and 16 wounded before Kazmierczak killed himself.
Feb 12, 2010: A University of Alabama professor opened fire at a faculty meeting, killing three colleagues and wounding three.
February 27, 2012: T.J. Lane, 17, killed three students and wounded two others during a shooting rampage at Chardon High School in Chardon, Ohio.
Other Mass Shootings In The U.S.
July 12, 1976: Edward Charles Allaway, a custodian in the library of California State University, Fullerton, fatally shot seven fellow employees and wounded two others.
July 18, 1984: James Oliver Huberty, an out-of-work security guard, killed 21 people in a McDonald's restaurant in San Ysidro, Calif. A police sharpshooter killed Huberty.
Aug. 20, 1986: Pat Sherrill, 44, a postal worker who was about to be fired, shot 14 people at a post office in Edmond, Okla. He then killed himself.
June 18, 1990: James Edward Pough shot people at random in a General Motors Acceptance Corp. office in Jacksonville, Fla., killing 10 and wounding four, before killing himself.
Oct. 16, 1991: A deadly shooting rampage took place in Killeen, Texas, as George Hennard opened fire at a Luby's Cafeteria, killing 23 people before taking his own life. 20 others were wounded in the attack.
July 1, 1993: Gian Luigi Ferri, 55, killed eight people in an office building in San Francisco's financial district. His rampage began in the 34th-floor offices of Pettit & Martin, an international law firm, and ended in a stairwell between the 29th and 30th floors where he encountered police and shot himself.
Dec. 7, 1993: Colin Ferguson shot and killed six passengers and wounded 19 others on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train before being stopped by other riders. Ferguson was later sentenced to life in prison.
July 29, 1999: Mark Orrin Barton, a 44-year-old chemist-turned-day trader, strolled into two investment offices in Atlanta, Ga. and opened fire on fellow investors and office workers. The shootings at All-Tech Investment and Momentum Securities Inc., across the street from each other, left nine people dead and 12 wounded. Barton eluded a manhunt for six hours before killing himself.
Dec. 26, 2000: Michael McDermott, a 42-year-old software tester shot and killed seven coworkers at the Wakefield, Mass. Internet consulting firm where he was employed. McDermott, who was arrested at the offices of Edgewater Technology Inc., apparently enraged because his salary was about to be garnished to satisfy tax claims by the Internal Revenue Service.
July 8, 2003: Doug Williams, 48, a production assemblyman for 19 years at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., went on a rampage at the defense plant in Meridian, Miss., fatally shooting five and wounding nine before taking his own life with a shotgun.
Feb. 12, 2007: Sulejman Talovic, 18, wearing a trenchcoat and carrying a shotgun, sprayed a popular Salt Lake City shopping mall. Witnesses said he displayed no emotion while killing five people and wounding four others. An off-duty police officer eaing dinner with his wife exchanged gunfire with the Bosnian refugee before other officers arrived and fatally wounded Talovic.
Dec. 5, 2007: Robert Hawkins, 19, sprayed an Omaha shopping mall with gunfire as holiday shoppers scattered in terror. He killed eight people and wounded four others before taking his own life. Authorities reported he left several suicide notes.
March 10, 2009: Michael McLendon, 28, killed 10 people — including his mother, four other relatives, and the wife and child of a local sheriff's deputy — across two rural Alabama counties. He then killed himself.
April 3, 2009: Jiverly Voong, 41, shot and killed 13 people and seriously wounded four others before apparently committing suicide at the American Civic Assn., an immigration services center in Binghamton, N.Y.
Nov. 5, 2009: Thirteen soldiers and civilians were killed and more than two dozen wounded when a gunman walked into the Soldier Readiness Processing Center at Fort Hood, Texas, and opened fire. Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan was charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder.
Oct. 12, 2011: Scott Dekraai, 41, apparently enraged over a custody dispute, allegedly walked into a crowded Seal Beach, Calif. hair salon where his former wife worked and opened fire. Eight people were killed, including a man sitting in a truck outside the salon. Another person was critically wounded. Dekraai has pleaded not guilty in the case.
July 20, 2012: At least 12 people were killed when a gunman entered an Aurora, Colo., movie theater, released a canister of gas and then opened fire during opening night of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises." James Holmes, a 24-year-old former graduate student at the University of Colorado, has been charged in the deaths.
August 5, 2012: Army veteran Wade Michael Page killed five men and one woman and wounded three other people, including a police officer, before taking his own life at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin outside Milwaukee.
Sept. 28, 2012: Andrew Engeldinger, 36, broke into a sign company's offices in Minneapolis, Minn. and opened fire, killing the owner and three others before turning the gun on himself. Four others were wounded.
Oct. 21, 2012: A shooter opened fire inside the Azana Salon and Spa in Brookfield, Wis., killing three and injuring at least four others.
Worldwide School Killings
June 11, 1964: Walter Seifert killed eight students and two teachers using a self-made flamethrower, a lance and a mace at a Catholic elementary school in Volkhoven, a suburb of Cologne, Germany.
Dec. 6, 1989: Marc Lepine, 25, burst into Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique college, shooting at women he encountered, killing nine and then himself.
March 13, 1996: Thomas Watt Hamilton, 43, kills 16 children and one teacher and wounds 12 others at Dunblane Primary School in Dunblane, Scotland, before shooting himself. It is the worst school shooting in British history.
April 26, 2002: Robert Steinhaeuser, 19, who had been expelled from school in Erfurt, Germany, killed 13 teachers, two former classmates and policeman, before committing suicide.
Nov. 7, 2007: After revealing plans for his attack in YouTube postings, 18-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen shot and killed 6 fellow students, the head teacher and the school nurse at Jokela School in Tuusula, Finland, before turning the gun on himself
Sept. 23, 2008: Matti Saari, 22, walked into a vocational college in Kauhajoki, Finland, and opened fire, killing 10 people and burning their bodies with firebombs before shooting himself fatally in the head.
March 11, 2009: Tim Kretschmer, 17, shot and killed 9 students and three teachers at his former school in Winnenden, Germany. He shot three more people as he fled before killing himself.
April 7, 2011: Wellington Menezes de Oliviera, 23, shot and killed 12 children and woulded 12 others at his former primary school in Rio de Janiero, Brazil.
March 19, 2012: A gunman on a motorcycle killed a rabbi and three children in front of a Jewish school in Toulouse, France.
Other Mass Shootings Outside The U.S.
Aug. 19, 1987: Michael Ryan, 27, killed 16 people in small market town of Hungerford, England, and then shot himself dead after being cornered by police.
April 28, 1996: Martin Bryant, 29, burst into the cafeteria in the seaside resort of Port Arthur in Tasmania, Australia, shooting and killing 20 people. He killed 15 others while driving away. He was captured and imprisoned.
April 30, 2009: Farda Gadyrov, 29, entered the prestigious Azerbaijan State Oil Academy in the capital, Baku, armed with an automatic pistol and clips. He killed 12 people before killing himself as police closed in.
July 22, 2011: Confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 in Norway in twin attacks: a bombing in downtown Oslo and a shooting massacre at a youth camp outside the capital. The self-styled anti-Muslim militant admitted to both attacks.
March 11, 2012: Sixteen Afghan villagers, including nine children, were killed during a predawn attack in which Army prosecutors have charged Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, 39.
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