College and University School Incidents

Date Location Attacker(s) Casualties Description

March 11, 1908	Boston, Massachusetts, United States	Sarah Chamberlain Weed	2 dead	Elizabeth Bailey Hardee is shot to death by Sarah Chamberlain Weed at the Laurens School, a finishing school in Boston. Weed then turns the gun on herself and commits suicide.
April 2, 1921	Syracuse, New York, United States	Holmes Beckwith	2 dead	Professor Holmes Beckwith shot and killed dean J. Herman Wharton in his office at Syracuse University before committing suicide.
June 7, 1925	Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States		1 dead	Oscar B. Turner, a professor of agronomy, is murdered by an axe-wielding assailant on the campus of Louisiana State University.
June 4, 1930	Cambridge, United Kingdom	Douglas Newton Potts, 19	3 dead	Student Douglas Potts shot dead Dr. Alexander Wollaston and Detective Sergeant Willis at King's College before committing suicide
August 12, 1930	Chemnitz, Germany		2 dead	A teacher named Queck shot and killed one of his colleagues in a classroom at a vocational school in Chemnitz before committing suicide.
December 12, 1935	New York City, New York, United States	Victor Koussow, 52	3 dead, 1 injured	Victor Koussow, a Russian laboratory worker at the School of Dental and Oral Surgery, shot dead Prof. Arthur Taylor Rowe, Prof. Paul B. Wiberg, and wounded Dr. William H. Crawford at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, before committing suicide.
April 27, 1936	Lincoln, Nebraska, United States	John P. Weller, 40	1 dead, 1 injured	Prof. John Weller shot and wounded Prof. Harry Kurz in a corridor of the University of Nebraska, apparently because of his impending dismissal at the end of the semester. After shooting Kurz Weller tried to escape, but was surrounded by police on the campus, whereupon he killed himself with a shot in the chest.
June 4, 1936	Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States	Wesley Crow	2 dead	Wesley Crow shot and killed his Lehigh University English instructor, C. Wesley Phy. Crow went to Phy's office and demanded that Mr. Phy change his grade to a passing mark. Crow committed suicide after shooting Phy.
June 22, 1936	Vienna, Austria	Johann Nelböck, 33	1 dead	Johann Nelböck shot and killed Moritz Schlick at the University of Vienna.
February 24, 1939	Los Angeles, California, United States	De Witt Clinton Cook, 20	1 dead	32-year-old drama student Anya Sosoyeva was bludgeoned to death by De Witt Clinton Cook on the campus of Los Angeles City College.
November 13, 1949	Columbus, Ohio, United States	James Heer	1 dead	Ohio State University freshman James Heer of Euclid, Ohio grabbed a .45 caliber handgun from the room of a Delta Tau Delta fraternity brother and shot and killed Jack McKeown, 21, of Norwood, Ohio, an Ohio State senior and fraternity brother.
July 14, 1952	New York City, New York, United States	Bayard Peakes	1 dead	Bayard Peakes walked in to the offices of the American Physical Society at Columbia University and shot and killed secretary Eileen Fahey with a .22 caliber pistol. Peakes was reportedly upset that the APS had rejected a pamphlet he had written.
May 15, 1954	Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States		1 dead, 2 injured	Putnam Davis Jr. was shot and killed during a fraternity house carnival at the Phi Delta Theta house at the University of North Carolina. William Joyner and Allen Long were shot and wounded during the exchange of gunfire in their fraternity bedroom. The incident took place after an all-night beer party. Mr. Long reported to the police that, while the three were drinking beer at 7 a.m., Davis pulled out a gun and started shooting with a gun he had obtained from the car of a former roommate.
January 11, 1955	Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States	Robert Bechtel, 20	1 dead	After some of his dorm mates urinated on his mattress Bob Bechtel, a 20-year-old student at Swarthmore College, returned to his dorm with a shotgun and used it to shoot and kill fellow student Holmes Strozier.
August 1, 1966	Austin, Texas, United States	Charles Whitman, 25	18 dead, 31 injured	University of Texas Clock Tower shootings. After killing his wife and mother, Charles Whitman pointed a rifle from the observation deck of the University of Texas at Austin's Tower and began shooting for 96 minutes. He killed fifteen people and wounded 31 others before being shot dead by police. David Gunby was wounded in the shooting but died 35 years later after ceasing kidney dialysis treatments stemming from the shooting.
November 12, 1966	Mesa, Arizona United States	Robert Benjamin Smith, 18	5 dead, 2 injured	Bob Smith, 18, took seven people hostage at Rose-Mar College of Beauty, a school for training beauticians. Smith ordered the hostages to lie down on the floor in a circle. He then proceeded to shoot them in the head with a 22-caliber pistol. Four women and a three-year-old girl died, one woman and a baby were injured but survived. Police arrested Smith after the massacre. Smith had reportedly admired Richard Speck and Charles Whitman.
February 8, 1968	Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States	Nine patrolmen	3 dead, 27 injured	Orangeburg massacre. In the days leading up to February 8, 1968, about 200 mostly student protesters gathered on the campus of South Carolina State University, located in the city of Orangeburg, to protest the segregation of the All Star Bowling Lane. The bowling alley was owned by the late Harry K. Floyd. That night, students started a bonfire. As police attempted to put out the fire, an officer was injured by a thrown piece of banister. The police said they believed they were under attack by small weapons fire. The officers fired into the crowd, killing three young men: Samuel Hammond, Delano Middleton, and Henry Smith, and wounding twenty-seven others.
January 17, 1969	Los Angeles, California, United States	Claude Hubert, 21	2 dead	Two student members of the Black Panther Party, Alprentice Carter and John Huggins, were fatally shot during a student meeting inside Campbell Hall at the University of California, Los Angeles. The motive of the shooting regarded who would own the school's African American Studies Center. The shooter, Claude Hubert, was never to be found but three other men were arrested in connection with the shooting.
August 24, 1969	Alor Akar, Malaysia	..., 23	3 dead, 2 injured	A 23-year-old teacher at a vocational school in Alor Akar, Kuantan attacked several sleeping students in the school hostel. He killed three students and wounded two others, one of them critically, with a dagger. The teacher surrendered when confronted by a 17-year-old student and was later handed over to police.
November 28, 1969	State College, Pennsylvania, United States		1 dead	22-year-old graduate student Betsy Aardsma is stabbed to death in the Pattee Library at the Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania. Her killer is never apprehended.
May 4, 1970	Kent, Ohio, United States	Ohio Army National Guard	4 dead, 10 injured	Ohio Army National Guard open fire on student protesters at Kent State University during an anti-Vietnam War/Cambodian Campaign rally, killing 4 and wounding 10. See Kent State University shootings for more information.
May 14-15, 1970	Jackson, Mississippi, United States	Jackson Police Department and Mississippi Highway Patrol	2 dead, 12 injured	Jackson State killings. Police kill two and injure twelve students during student demonstrations against the Vietnam War.
August 24, 1970	Madison, Wisconsin, United States	Karleton Armstrong, Dwight Armstrong, David Fine and Leo Burt	1 dead, 4 injured	Sterling Hall bombing. A bombing occurred on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. It was committed by four young people as a protest against the University's research connections with the US military during the Vietnam War. It resulted in the death of Robert Fassnacht, a university physics researcher, and severe injuries to four other building occupants.
November 13, 1971	Guatemala City, Guatemala	..., 21	2 dead, 15 injured	A 21-year-old student killed two people with a machete at an agricultural school near Guatemala City. 15 others were also wounded before the man could be overpowered by other students.
January 30, 1974	New Orleans, Louisiana, United States	Paul D. Caldwell, 20	1 dead	20-year-old Paul Caldwell shot out several windows and held three students hostage, one of them for 45 minutes, in the library of Louisiana State University, before committing suicide.
October 12, 1974	Stanford, California, United States		1 dead	19-year-old Arlis Perry was stabbed to death with an ice pick in Stanford Memorial Church on the grounds of Stanford University by an unknown assailant.
November 7, 1974	New York City, New York, United States	Gerald Melton, 27	1 dead	Gerald Melton stabbed 19-year-old Helen Surgan to death on the campus of Wagner College.
December 24, 1974	Sofia, Bulgaria	Branimir Donchev, 17	6 dead, 10 injured	6 students were killed and 10 others wounded, among them several foreign students, when 17-year-old Branimir Donchev began shooting with a pistol in a university hostel in Sofia. Donchev was then subdued and arrested by police.
February 17, 1976	Beirut, Lebanon	Najim Najim	2 dead, 1 injured	Robert Najemy and Raymond Ghosn, two deans at the American University of Beirut, were shot and killed by former student Najim Najim, who had been expelled for radical activity. Najim then took six people hostage, after unsuccessfully trying to locate Samuel Kirkwood, the president of the university, and threatened to kill the hostages and himself with hand grenades. Three hours later he surrendered to police. When Najim was led out of the building he was shot and wounded by Joseph Cherbeka, a friend of dean Ghosn.
February 19, 1976	Los Angeles, California, United States	Neil Jordan Liebeskind, 18	1 dead, 8 injured	During a test Neil Liebeskind, a student at a Los Angeles computer school, opened fire at his fellow students with a shotgun, killing Fernando E. Alcivar, 24, and wounding several others. Alcivar was an innocent bystandard who sat next to the intended target. When trying to escape, he was apprehended by Howard Barnes, a security guard working with a television crew filming nearby. When he was told to drop his gun, Liebeskind fired a shot at Barnes, hitting him in the thigh. Barnes returned fire and hit the gunman twice in the chest, leaving him critically wounded. The shooting was apparently sparked, because of a dispute between Liebeskind and another student who left his motorcycle helmet in his seat.
July 12, 1976	Fullerton, California, United States	Edward Charles Allaway, 37	7 dead, 2 injured	California State University, Fullerton library massacre. A custodian opens fire on his fellow workers in the California State University, Fullerton library, killing seven and injuring two.
October 6, 1976	Bangkok, Thailand	Thai military and police	46 dead	6 October 1976 Massacre. At least 46 people were killed when Thai military and police units opened fire on students protesting at Thammasat University. The students were demonstrating against the return to Thailand of Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn.
January 15, 1978	Tallahassee, Florida, United States	Ted Bundy, 31	2 dead, 2 injured	Ted Bundy entered the Florida State University Chi Omega sorority house at approximately 3 a.m. and killed two sleeping women, Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman. Bundy bludgeoned and strangled Levy and Bowman; he also sexually assaulted Levy. He also bludgeoned two other Chi Omegas, Karen Chandler and Kathy Kleiner. Bundy was a serial killer and had killed several other people before this event.
August 18, 1978	Stanford, California, United States	Theodore Streleski, 42	1 dead	Theodore Streleski murdered his mathematics professor, Karel deLeeuw at Stanford University by bludgeoning him with a ball-peen hammer. He was also found with a hit list containing deLeeuw's name.
October 6, 1979	Columbia, South Carolina, United States	Mark Houston, 19	2 dead, 5 injured	Mark Houston opens fire inside a dormitory where a party is taking place at the University of South Carolina, He kills two partygoers and injures five.
December 1979	Seattle, Washington, United States	Roger Cutsinger, 21	1 dead	Roger Cutsinger, 21, fatally shot his roommate and lover, Larry Duerkson, hoping to collect $500,000 from Duerkson's life insurance policy in which Cutsinger was named beneficiary. Duerkson, a University of Washington library employee, was walking between Parrington Hall and the Henry Art Gallery when Cutsinger shot him. Cutsinger was later convicted of first-degree murder
April 17, 1981	Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States	Leo Kelly, 22	2 dead	Psychology Major Leo Kelly set off several Molotov Cocktails into the hallway of Bursley Residence Hall at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, setting off the fire alarm. He then took a sawed-off shotgun from his room, and began firing shots at fleeing residents. Freshman Edward Siwik and resident advisor Douglas McGreaham would ultimately die from gunshot wounds. Kelly was found guilty on two murder counts, and was sentenced to life in prison.
April 5, 1982	Hot Springs, Arkansas, United States	Kelvin Love	2 dead	Kelvin Love, a student at Garland County Community College, killed an instructor and another student.
December 17, 1983	Ithaca, New York, United States	Su Yong Kim	2 dead	Non-student Su Yong Kim enters the Low Rise 7 dormitory and kills Cornell University freshmen Young Hee Suh and Erin Nieswand with a rifle.
August 12, 1985	New York City, New York, United States	Van Anthony Hull, 29	1 dead, 4 injured	Student Van Hull shot one person dead, injured another four at the New York City Technical College and kept police at bay for about an hour, before being taken into custody. The shooting was apparently related to a dispute over financial aid.
September 8, 1986	New Orleans, Louisiana, United States	Cindy Marie Piccot, 21	2 dead	Cindy Marie Piccot entered the Coastal Training Institute and shot dead 20-year-old student Shamette Allen with a .38 caliber pistol before committing suicide. The motive for the shooting was revenge for an earlier attack in which Shamette Allen set Cindy Marie Piccot on fire.
July 1989	Seattle, Washington, United States	Azizolla Mazooni	2 dead	Azizolla Mazooni shot and killed his ex-girlfriend, Marjan Mohseninia, and her friend, Abraham Sharif-Kashani, in the University of Washington parking lot. Mazooni had hired a private detective to locate Mohseninia, who was a summer student at the university. Mazooni was later convicted on two counts of second-degree murder.
November 16, 1989	San Salvador, El Salvador		8 dead	Six Jesuit priests, their cook and his 15-year-old daughter were shot to death, when 30 men in military uniforms raided the Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas".
December 6, 1989	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	Marc Lépine, 25	15 dead, 14 injured	École Polytechnique massacre. Marc Lépine took a hunting rifle into École Polytechnique de Montréal. He began his attack by entering a classroom at the university, where he separated the male and female students. After claiming that he was "fighting feminism", he shot all nine women in the room, killing six. He then moved through corridors, the cafeteria, and another classroom, specifically targeting women to shoot. He killed fourteen women and injured four men and ten women in just under twenty minutes before turning the gun on himself. It remains to this day the worst mass killing in Canadian history, on or off a school campus.
November 27, 1990	Heraklion, Crete, Greece	Giorgos Petrodaskalakis, 32	3 dead	Theoretical physicist Basilis C. Xanthopoulos and his colleague Stephanos Pnevmatikos were shot to death by 32-year old post-graduate student Giorgos Petrodaskalakis at the University of Crete. Petrodaskalakis then committed suicide.
November 1, 1991	Iowa City, Iowa, United States	Gang Lu, 28	6 dead, 1 injured	After his dissertation did not win a certain academic award, Ph.D. physics student Gang Lu shot six people before committing suicide. Five were killed, including three professors. A student employee was paralyzed.
August 24, 1992	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	Valery Fabrikant, 52	4 dead, 1 injured	Former professor Dr. Valery Fabrikant killed four colleagues and injured another at Montreal's Concordia University.
December 14, 1992	Great Barrington, Massachusetts, United States	Wayne Lo, 18	2 dead, 4 injured	Armed with an SKS carbine, 18-year-old Simon's Rock College of Bard student Wayne Lo killed a professor and a student and wounded several others. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.
July 8, 1993	Ogden, Utah, United States	Mark Duong, 28	1 dead, 3 injured	28-year old student Mark Duong shot and injured three people, one of them a Weber State police officer, at a grievance hearing at Weber State University before the injured officer was able to shoot him. Doung died at the scene
April 4, 1994	Aarhus, Denmark	Flemming Nielsen, 35	3 dead, 2 injured	A 35-year old student at Aarhus University entered the cafeteria of his University armed with a shotgun. He shot and killed two female students and wounded two others. Soon afterwards he went to the men's room where he committed suicide.
December 8, 1994	Quezon City, Philippines		1 dead	Dennis Venturina, a Sigma Rhoan, was beaten to death by members of Scintilla Juris, a rival fraternity, on the campus of the University of the Philippines
January 26, 1995	Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States	Wendell Williamson	2 dead, 2 injured	Wendell Williamson, a law student and schizophrenic, opened fire on Franklin Street with an M1 rifle, killing two and injuring two others, including a Chapel Hill police officer.
May 28, 1995	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States	Sinedu Tadesse, 20	2 dead, 1 injured	Sinedu Tadesse stabbed her roommate, 20-year-old Trang Phuong Ho, to death with a hunting knife inside a dormitory at Harvard University. Tadesse also attacked one of Ho's visiting friends, 26-year-old Thao Nguyen, severely injuring her as well. Tadesse then hanged herself.
August 15, 1996	San Diego, California, United States	Frederick M. Davidson, 36	3 dead	San Diego State University shooting. Frederick M. Davidson, shot Dr. Chen Liang, Dr. Constantinos Lyrintzis, and Dr. D. Preston Lowrey during a meeting at which he was to defend his master's thesis. He pleaded guilty to three counts of murder and is serving a life term in state prison.
September 17, 1996	University Park, Pennsylvania, United States	Jillian Robbins, 19	1 dead, 1 injured	Hetzel Union Building shooting. 19 year old Jillian Robbins opened fire on students walking to classes at The Pennsylvania State University, killing one student and wounding another.
October 16, 1996	West Lafayette, Indiana, United States	Jarrod Allen Eskew, 19	2 dead	On October 15, 1996 Jay Severson, 27 a Wiley Hall counselor at Purdue University caught Jarrod Allen Eskew, 19 of Crawfordsville, Indiana cutting cocaine in his dorm room. Severson called the Purdue Police Department but when they arrived Eskew had fled. Eskew returned the next day at 2:50 pm with a sawed off 12-gauge shotgun while under the influence of both marijuana and cocaine. Eskew went to Severson's Wiley Hall dorm room and fatally shot Severson in the head. He then barricaded himself in his third floor dorm room. A janitor found the body a short time later. SWAT and police took up positions around Wiley Hall. Police evacuated Wiley Hall, attempted to negotiate, fired tear gas, and stormed the room to find Eskew had killed himself with the shotgun.
March 8, 1997	Kamyshin. Russian Federation	Sergei Lepnev	6 dead, 2 injured	First year cadet Sergei Lepnev of the Russian Military School opened fire on his classmates, killing six and wounding two.
September 3, 1998	San Bernardino, California. United States	Jesus "Jesse" Morfe, 50	2 dead	An employee who recently resigned returned to campus, shot and killed his former boss, then turned the gun on himself. Jesus "Jesse" Morfe, 50, of Colton shot and killed Jerry Morrison, 55, director of the campus' Computing Services Center, at San Bernardino Valley College. Although police did not immediately determine a motive, Morfe had submitted his resignation Aug. 28. He was officially on paid vacation until the resignation took effect Sept. 30.
February 19, 1999	Quezon City, Philippines		1 dead	Niño Calinao, a senior journalism major at the University of the Philippines was shot dead by suspected UP Sigma Rho fraternity members after being mistaken for a member of a rival fraternity.
July 10, 1999	Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria	Black Axe Confraternity	8 dead, 11 injured	Obafemi Awolowo University massacre. An organized death squad of 30 members of the Black Axe Confraternity orchestrated a series of shootings and murders which took place against students of Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria . It resulted in the deaths of eight people and injuring of 11, all of them students at OAU.
August 3, 1999	Latrobe University, Melbourne, Australia	Jonathon Brett Horrocks, 38	1 dead, 1 injured	La Trobe University shooting. The shooting took place at 11:05 am when a man walked into the Eagle Bar on the La Trobe Bundoora campus armed with a .38 caliber revolver and shot and wounded a young woman before shooting bar manager Leon Capraro, killing him instantly. He then attempted to shoot at others but was restrained by patrons until police came and arrested him.
February 10, 2000	Quezon City, Philippines		1 dead	Den Daniel Reyes was stabbed to death during a fight between two rival fraternities at the University of the Philippines.
June 28, 2000	Seattle, Washington, United States	Jian Chen, 42	2 dead	Jian Chen entered the University of Washington Medical Center around 3:45 pm and went to the office of his former supervisor, 57-year-old Dr. Rodger Haggitt. Chen closed the door to Haggett's office and pulled out a gun and killed Haggett. Chen then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide.
August 28, 2000	Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States	James Easton Kelley	2 dead	James Easton Kelley shot and killed professor John Locke in his office at the University of Arkansas before committing suicide.
September 28, 2000	Washington, District of Columbia, United States	Joseph Mesa Jr., 20	2 dead	19-year-old Eric Franklin Plunkett was found beaten to death inside his dorm room at Gallaudet University. Shortly afterward, 19-year-old Benjamin Varner, an RA in the same dorm, was found stabbed to death. An investigation led authorities to Joseph Mesa Jr., and Mesa was found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder.
January 19, 2001	Toronto, Ontario, Canada		1 dead	Professor David Buller, 50, was stabbed to death outside his office at the University of Toronto by an unknown assailant.
May 18, 2001	Pierce County, Washington, United States	Donald D. Cowan, 55	2 dead	Donald D. Cowan walked onto the Pacific Lutheran University campus armed with a 9mm handgun and a .22 caliber handgun, and then shot and killed music professor James D. Holloway, who was standing outside a residence hall, and then killed himself after leaving a 16-page suicide note behind.
January 16, 2002	Grundy, Virginia United States	Peter Odighizuwa, 43	3 dead, 3 injured	Appalachian School of Law shooting. Peter Odighizuwa, a 43-year-old Nigerian national in the U.S. on a student visa and former student, shot and killed the dean, a professor, and a student at the Appalachian School of Law, in Grundy, Virginia; three other students were wounded. The attack was ended after Odighizuwa had run out of ammunition and when students subdued the shooter. The fact that two of those who subdued the shooter had firearms has been used to argue the benefit of carrying firearms in preventing violent crime. Odighizuwa was sentenced to multiple life terms in prison. The school later settled a lawsuit by some of the surviving victims and their families brought over the school's failure to take action earlier, when the student had shown signs of psychosis and had made threats.
October 21, 2002	Melbourne, Australia	Huan Xiang	2 dead, 5 injured	Monash University shooting. Huan Xiang, a commerce student at the university, armed with five loaded handguns, opened fire in a tutorial room. Two students, William Wu and Steven Chan, were killed and five others seriously wounded. Xiang was found not guilty of murder due to mental illness, and was ordered to be sent to a psychiatric hospital.
October 28, 2002	Tucson, Arizona, United States	Robert Flores, 41	4 dead	Robert J. Flores, Jr., 40, a failing nursing student and ex-Gulf War veteran, had shot and killed three professors before turning the gun onto himself and committing suicide. One professor was shot in her office, and two others were shot in a classroom.
May 9, 2003	Cleveland, Ohio, United States	Biswanath Halder, 62	1 dead, 2 injured	Biswanath Halder, a former student of Case Western Reserve University, opened fire with an automatic firearm on campus, killing one student and wounding two others. After vigorous and bullet-ridden gun battles with school police and SWAT officers, Halder surrendered.
September 13, 2003	Nanning, China		8 injured	A female student, who was suspended for one year after trying to commit suicide, stabbed eight classmates in a dormitory at Guangxi Teachers' College. Three of the victims were critically injured.
February 4, 2004	Remanso, Brazil	..., 17	2 dead, 3 injured	A 17-year-old boy took a motorcycle taxi to the town center of Remanso where he shot and killed 13-year-old Farlley Bastos Almeida, who had previously ridiculed him, and then forced the driver at gunpoint to take him to a nearby EDP school. There he killed 23-year-old Ana Paula Feitosa de Almeida and wounded two others before he had emptied his revolver and could be subdued by two students. Another woman, afraid of getting shot, jumped out of a window in the third floor and broke her legs. In custody the boy stated that he sympathized with islamic terrorists and had intended to kill at least a hundred people.
Feb. 13-15, 2004	Kunming, China	Ma Jiajue, 23	4 dead	Biochemistry student Ma Jiajue stabbed four other students to death in a dormitory at Yunnan University. He was found guilty of the crime and executed on June 17, 2004.
August 4, 2004	Beijing, China	Xu Heping, 51	1 dead, 17 injured	Xu Heping, a 51-year-old doorman with a history of mental illness, stabbed several students and teachers in Beijing University's Number One Hospital, killing a child and wounding 17 others, 14 of whom were children.
September 3, 2006	Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States	Douglas W. Pennington, 49	3 dead	Douglas W. Pennington, 49, killed his sons Logan P. Pennington, 26, and Benjamin M. Pennington, 24, during a visit to the campus at Shepherd University before shooting and killing himself.
September 13, 2006	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	Kimveer Gill, 25	2 dead, 19 injured	Dawson College shooting. Kimveer Gill had opened fire at Dawson College, a CEGEP in Westmount near downtown Montreal. Gill began shooting outside the de Maisonneuve Boulevard entrance to the school, and moved towards the atrium by the cafeteria on the main floor. One victim died later in the next day due to her serious injuries at the hospital, while another 19 were injured, eight of whom were listed in critical condition with six requiring surgery. The gunman later committed suicide by shooting himself in the head, after being shot in the arm by police.
September 17, 2006	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States		5 injured	Shots were fired outside the campus of Duquesne University, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, after a dance party sponsored by the Black Student Union which several non-students were attending. Five members of the Duquesne Dukes basketball team were injured during the shooting includng one who sustained critical injuries after an argument between one individual and two students.
January 16, 2007	Baghdad, Iraq	Iraqi militants	70 dead, 169 injured	Mustansiriya University bombings. Three explosions consisting of two car bombs and a suicide bomber occurred on the campus of the largely Shiite Mustansiriya University in Baghdad, Iraq. 70 people were killed and 169 were wounded in the attack.
January 25, 2007	Beirut, Lebanon	Pro-government attackers	4 dead, approximately 200 wounded	Four people were shot dead in clashes between pro- and anti-government activists on Thursday and about 200 were hurt in the violence that flared after a scuffle between students at the Beirut Arab University.
April 2, 2007	Seattle, Washington, United States	Jonathan Rowan, 41	2 dead	Rowan entered Gould Hall on the University of Washington's Seattle Campus and headed to the fourth floor where he entered the office of his ex-girlfriend Rebecca Griego, 26, a program coordinator for the College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Rowan fired two shots, the first taking Griego's life and the second taking his own life.
April 16, 2007	Blacksburg, Virginia, United States	Seung-Hui Cho, 23	33 dead, 25 injured	Virginia Tech massacre. Thirty-two people (27 students and five faculty members) were killed by Seung-Hui Cho, a 23-year-old senior English major, on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in two separate locations, about two hours apart: West Ambler Johnston Hall dormitory, where two were shot dead, and Norris Hall, where the remaining 30 were shot in an attack lasting nine minutes. Cho committed suicide in a classroom after law enforcement officers breached the main entrance doors of Norris Hall, which Cho had chained shut. Police reported that 25 others were injured, some in the Norris Hall shooting, while others when they jumped from second-story windows to escape. The attack is the deadliest peacetime shooting incident by a single gunman in United States history, on or off a school campus.
May 8, 2007	Bundoora, Victoria Australia	Sarah Jean Cheney, 23	1 injured	Sarah Jean Cheney stabbed Jemma Clancy, a 27-year-old behavioral science student, three times with a steak knife. The incident occurred in the Borchardt library at the Bundoora campus of La Trobe University. Sarah Jean Cheney did not know Jemma Clancy personally and expressed that she just desired to kill someone. Jemma Clancy was taken to hospital in a serious but stable condition.
July 3-11, 2007	Islamabad, Pakistan	hundreds of Islamic militant students	154 dead, ~44 injured	Lal Masjid siege. Pro-Taliban students barricaded themselves in the Lal Masjid mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan. The mosque is attached to a religious school for women (the Jamia Hafsa madrasah) and a male madrasah. The Pakistani government sieged the mosque for 8 days, having numerous gun battles in heavy, room-to-room fighting until all the defenders were killed, captured, or had surrendered.
September 21, 2007	Dover, Delaware, United States	Loyer D. Braden, 18	1 dead, 1 injured	An 18-year old Delaware State University student shot two 17-year old female students; one shooting victim, 17-year old Shalita Middleton, died from injuries sustained in the shootings 32 days later while in the hospital.
September 30, 2007	Memphis, Tennessee, United States	Devin Jefferson, 20; DaeShawn Tate, 21; Victor Trezevant, 21; Courtney Washington, 22	1 dead	A University of Memphis football player, 21-year-old Taylor Bradford, was fatally shot on campus in what was believed to be a targeted attack. Bradford was shot near his campus apartment. He then got into his car and drove a short distance before crashing into a tree where police found him dead from the gunshot wound. Bradford was rumored to have won more than $3,000 at a nearby casino the night before, which Four suspects were charged, with Jefferson being credited as the primary conspirator.
December 9, 2007	Arvada, Colorado, United States	Matthew J. Murray, 24	5 dead, 5 injured	Matthew J. Murray attacked the Youth With A Mission missionary training school in Arvada, Colorado, killing two and wounding two others. He then drove to the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado where an additional two people were killed and three people were wounded before Murray was shot by a church security guard. Murray then committed suicide. Murray had previously attended the same YWAM Missionary Center where he began his shooting spree. Murray was expelled from the school due to "strange behavior", which included playing frightening rock music and claiming to hear voices.
February 8, 2008	Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States	Latina Williams, 23	3 dead	Latina Williams, a 23-year-old nursing student, opened fire of six rounds with a .357-caliber revolver in a second-floor classroom at Louisiana Technical College, in Baton Rouge, before committing suicide. The two victims were classmates Karsheika Graves and Taneshia Butler, who were both fatally shot.
February 14, 2008	DeKalb, Illinois, United States	Steven Phillip Kazmierczak, 27	6 dead, 21 injured	Northern Illinois University shooting. 27-year-old former student Steven Kazmierczak opened fire with a shotgun and three semi-automatic handguns at Cole Hall on the campus of Northern Illinois University, in DeKalb, killing five students and wounding 20 other students and the class instructor. 17 of the injuries were determined to be gunshot-related, while the others were injured escaping the scene. Kazmierczak then fatally shot himself.
March 6, 2008	Jerusalem, Israel	Alaa Abu Dhein, 26	9 dead, 11 injured	Mercaz HaRav massacre. Alaa Abu Dhein, a 26-year-old Palestinian, fired approximately 600 bullets from an AK-47 assault rifle at the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, a religious school in the Kiryat Moshe neighborhood in Jerusalem, Israel. Eight students were killed and a further eleven were wounded. The attack ended about twenty minutes later when the gunman was shot to death by a part-time student and an officer of the Israel Defense Forces.
September 23, 2008	Kauhajoki, Finland	Matti Juhani Saari, 22	11 dead, 1 injured	Kauhajoki school shooting. 22-year-old culinary arts student Matti Saari opened fire at the Kauhajoki School of Hospitality of Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences, in Kauhajoki, Finland, using a semi-automatic .22-caliber Walther P22 pistol. Nine students and a teacher died in the shooting, and their bodies along with school property inside the building were set ablaze. Saari then shot himself in the head, later dying at Tampere University Hospital. It was the second school shooting to have occurred in Finland in less than a year, with the first one being the Jokela High School shooting in November 2007.
October 27, 2008	Conway, Arkansas, United States	Kawin Brockman, 19; Kelcey Perry, 19; Mario Toney, 20, and Brandon Wade, 20	2 dead, 1 injured	2008 University of Central Arkansas shootings. A shooting took place on the campus of University of Central Arkansas, in Conway, outside the Arkansas Hall dormitory. Two students--Ryan Henderson, 18, and Chavares Block, 19--were both fatally shot. A third person, a 19-year-old campus visitor, was shot and wounded in the leg.
January 21, 2009	Blacksburg, Virginia, United States	Haiyang Zhu, 25	1 dead	Yang Xin, a 22-year-old graduate student from Beijing, China, was decapitated with a kitchen knife by fellow student Zhu Haiyang, in a cafe on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). It is the second murder to have occurred on campus since April 2007, in which a 23-year-old student killed 32 people before committing suicide.
February 7, 2009	Houston, Texas, United States	Jeremy Lee Pierce, 32	1 dead	Jeremy Lee Pierce, a 32-year-old student at University of Houston, fatally shot Joe Tall, a 47-year-old homeless man, on the campus bus stop. Pierce has been charged with murder.
April 2, 2009	Radford, Virginia, United States	Phillip Eugene Beale Sr., 42;	1 dead	Phillip Beale and another unidentified individual murdered a drug dealer near the campus of Radford University after getting into an argument with him. Radford police arrested Beale and are seeking to identify his accomplice.
April 9, 2009	Agios Ioannis Rentis, Athens, Greece	Dimitris Patmanidis, 19	1 dead, 3 injured	OAED Vocational College shooting. Dimitris Patmanidis, a 19-year-old car electronics student at the Manpower Employment Organisation of Greece (OAED), a vocational college in the Agios Ioannis Rentis suburb of Athens, Greece, walked onto campus armed with two pistols and a knife. Patmanidis shot an 18-year-old student on a staircase three times; he was carried to Nikaia General Hospital with serious injuries. Patmanidis then confronted two pedestrians alerted by the gunfire, and shot both of them, and then fled to a park where he committed suicide. The incident of a school shooting is one of the first to ever occur in Greece.
April 10, 2009	Dearborn, Michigan, United States	Anthony Powell, 28	2 dead	28-year-old Anthony Powell fatally shot his classmate, 20-year-old Asia McGowan, before committing suicide on the campus of Henry Ford Community College.
April 26, 2009	Hampton, Virginia, United States	Odane Maye, 18	3 injured	Odane Maye, an 18-year-old former student, entered Hampton University, in eastern Virginia, while armed with three handguns. Maye stalked a pizza delivery man, who he then shot while entering Harkness Hall dormitory. Maye then entered the dormitory and shot its manager, and then shot himself in an unsuccessful suicide attempt; both victims survived. Maye was arrested three days later after being hospitalized and was arraigned the next day on seven counts--aggravated malicious wounding and various firearms offenses.
April 28, 2009	Richmond, Virginia, United States		2 injured	Early on the morning of April 28, two students at Virginia Union University were stabbed. Police say the suspect, whose name has not been released, is not a VUU student.
April 30, 2009	Baku, Azerbaijan	Farda Gadirov, 29	13 dead, 10 injured	Azerbaijan State Oil Academy shootings. Farda Gadirov, a 29-year-old Georgian citizen, opened fire with a Makarov PM semi-automatic pistol at the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy, in Baku. Seven students and five faculty members died, another 10 were injured. Gadirov committed suicide after the attack.
May 6, 2009	Middletown, Connecticut, United States	Stephen P. Morgan, 29	1 dead	Stephen P. Morgan allegedly used a CZ-USA 9 mm semi-automatic pistol to shoot and kill 21-year-old Wesleyan University student Johanna Justin-Jinich at the off-campus bookstore where she was working. Morgan purportedly previously had been stalking Johanna Justin-Jinich and leaving her harassing phone calls and e-mail messages (prior to her matriculation at Wesleyan when they were both attending classes at New York University). After arresting Morgan, police purportedly found a journal in Morgan's car that supposedly stated Morgan's plans might have been allegedly to rape and kill Johanna Justin-Jinich and then allegedly go on a killing spree at Wesleyan University.
May 18, 2009	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States	Jabrai Jordan Copney, 20; Two other unknown perpetrators	1 dead	Justin Cosby, 21, was shot and killed inside a dormitory at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by three men looking to rob him of money and drugs. Police arrested 20-year-old Jabrai Jordan Copney after the shooting. It was not clear which of the three assailants actually shot Cosby.
September 2, 2009	San Bruno, California, United States	Germaine Benjamin, 18; Dimaryea McGhee, 20; Jacori Bender, 18	1 injured	A student was shot in the abdomen and buttocks after an argument escalated between two groups of young males in the parking lot of Skyline College, in San Bruno, a suburb of San Francisco, California. The victim was transported to San Francisco General Hospital and the campus was subsequently placed on lockdown. Police arrested three suspects on September 3.
September 8, 2009	New Haven, Connecticut, United States	Raymond Clark, 24	1 dead	24-year-old doctoral student Annie Le was strangled to death inside a research building on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. On September 17, police arrested lab technician Raymond Clark and charged him with murder.
October 8, 2009	Los Angeles, California, United States	Damon Thompson, 20	1 injured	A 20-year-old female student of a chemistry laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles was stabbed multiple times, including having her throat slashed, during class. A teaching assistant stopped the bleeding and called for help. The victim was transported to the hospital and needed surgery but was expected to recover. Police arrested Damon Thompson after the attack.
October 18, 2009	Storrs, Connecticut, United States	John William Lomax III, 21	1 dead	Jasper Howard, a 20-year-old cornerback for the UConn Huskies, was stabbed to death on the campus of the University of Connecticut, outside the Student Union Center where an on-campus dance was held to celebrate the Huskies' homecoming victory over the Louisville Cardinals. On October 21, police arrested John William Lomax III, 21, and charged him with murder. Three other men were also arrested in connection with the murder.
November 26, 2009	Pécs, Hungary	..., 23	1 dead, 3 injured	A 23-year-old pharmacology student at the University of Pécs opened fire inside the biophysics research institute at the university. A 19-year-old student was killed and a student, a teacher and a cleaning woman were wounded in the shooting. The gunman was arrested by police about one hour after the attack.
December 4, 2009	Vestal, New York, United States	Abdulsalam S. al-Zahrani, 46	1 dead	Richard T. Antoun, 77, a professor of anthropology and specialist in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, is stabbed to death inside his office at Binghamton University. Police arrested 46-year-old graduate student Abdulsalam S. al-Zahrani after the stabbing and charged him with second-degree murder.
January 13, 2010	Perpignan, France	..., 26	1 dead, 3 injured	A 26-year-old Chinese sociology student killed a secretary and wounded three teachers with a knife at the University of Perpignan. The student, who was said to have been treated for behavioural problems previously, was arrested by police.
February 12, 2010	Huntsville, Alabama, United States	Amy Bishop, 44	3 dead, 3 injured	University of Alabama in Huntsville shooting. Amy Bishop, a biology professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, shot six faculty members at a faculty meeting. Three professors died in the shooting. Bishop was arrested after the shooting and charged with capital murder.
February 19, 2010	DeKalb, Illinois, United States	Zach R. Isaacman, 22	1 injured	Following an argument outside of Stevenson Towers North at Northern Illinois University, an off campus student shot and injured a resident of Stevenson North. 22-year-old Zach R. Isaacman was arrested after the shooting. This was the second shooting to occur on the NIU campus since February 2008, when a 27-year-old former student killed five people before committing suicide.
March 9, 2010	Columbus, Ohio, United States	Nathaniel Brown, 51	2 dead, 1 injured	Nathaniel Brown, a 51-year-old custodian at Ohio State University, fatally shot one co-worker and wounded another after he was told that he was being fired from his custodial job at the university. Brown then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide.
May 18, 2010	Hainan, China		10 injured	A group of men armed with knives attacked college students at the Hainan Institute of Science and Technology. The attack began when the assailants disabled a security camera and stabbed a guard. The assailants then entered the dormitories and attacked students at random. Nine students were injured in the attack, including one who had his hand slashed off. Three of the attackers were arrested
September 28, 2010	Austin, Texas, United States	Colton Tooley, 19	1 dead	A man identified as 19-year-old sophomore Colton Tooley opened fire with an assault rifle on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin before fleeing into a library where he committed suicide. No one else was injured.
October 3, 2010	Elizabeth City, North Carolina, United States	Christopher David Amyx, 23	1 dead	Jonathan Schipper, a student at Mid-Atlantic Christian University was shot to death inside Pearl A. Presley Hall, a campus dormitory. Police arrested 23-year-old student Christopher David Amyx after the shooting and charged him with first-degree murder. It was reported that the shooting was the result of a personal matter between the shooter and the victim.
February 6, 2011	Youngstown, Ohio, United States	Columbus E. Jones Jr., 22 Braylon L. Rogers, 19	1 dead, 11 injured	Two men opened fire inside a fraternity house where a party was taking place on the campus of Youngstown State University. Jamail E. Johnson, a 25-year-old student, died in the shooting and eleven other people were injured. Six students were among those injured. Two men were arrested on charges of aggravated murder.
April 6, 2011	Opelika, Alabama, United States	Thomas Franklin May, 34	1 dead, 3 injured	A gunman opened fire on a minivan in the car park of Southern Union Community College killing a 63-year-old woman and wounding a 93-year-old woman and a 36 year-old woman. A four-year-old girl also received injuries from flying glass. The gunman, identified as 34-year-old Thomas Franklin May, was arrested after he returned to the scene and told journalists at the scene that he was the shooter. The journalists then called police. It was reported that one of the injured women was May's estranged wife.
August 8, 2011	Atizapán de Zaragoza, Mexico		2 injured	A homemade bomb explodes at Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Estado de México Campus in Atizapán de Zaragoza. The bomb was sent to a professor of robotics who was injured along with a guard at the university. Personnel of Mexican Army, Attorney General for Justice of the State of Mexico and State Security Agency discovered that the device came with Fedex stamps and it was addressed to the academic. State of Mexico Governor Enrique Peña Nieto calls the incident as an "isolated incident but serious."
November 15, 2011	Berkeley, California	Christopher Travis/UCPD, Berkeley	1 dead	Three campus police officers shot and wounded an undergraduate student who brandished a gun in a Haas Business School computer lab at UC Berkeley; the student later died in the hospital. The incident has been described as a "suicide-by-cop."
December 8, 2011	Blacksburg, Virginia, United States	Ross Truett Ashley, 22	2 dead	Ross Truett Ashley shot and killed Virginia Tech Police officer Deriek Crouse during the course of a traffic stop, fled the scene and then took his own life in a nearby parking lot after changing his clothes.