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Monday, December 24, 2012

School shootings | 20 years of violence in the U.S.


Parents and children are reunited at Chardon Middle School in Chardon, Ohio Monday, Feb, 27, 2012, following a shooting at Chardon High School. A teenager described as an outcast at the suburban Cleveland high school opened fire in the cafeteria Monday, killing one student and wounding four others before he was chased from the building by a teacher and captured a short distance away, authorities said. (AP Photo/Ashtabula Star Beacon, Warren Dillaway)


Nancy Norsic, left, hugs her son after being reunited following a shooting Monday, Feb. 27, 2012 at Chardon High School in Chardon, Ohio. A teenager described as an outcast at the suburban Cleveland high school opened fire in the cafeteria Monday, killing one student and wounding four others before he was chased from the building by a teacher and captured a short distance away, authorities said. (AP Photo/The Star-Beacon, Warren Dillaway)


In this Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012 photo, seventeen-year-old T.J. Lane is led from Juvenile Court by Sheriff's deputies in Chardon, Ohio, after his arraignment in the shooting of five high school students Monday. Three of the five students wounded in the attacks have since died. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

 

S.W.A.T. members leave Chardon High School in Chardon, Ohio Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. A gunman opened fire inside the high school's cafeteria at the start of the school day Monday, wounding five students, officials said. Special Agent Vicki Anderson said Monday the shooter was taken into custody near his car about half a mile away from the high school. A spokeswoman for the Cleveland Clinic confirmed five students were being treated at two different hospitals. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

This still frame from a video tape release on Wednesday, April 26, 2000, by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department shows a destroyed computer, left, and broken windows, right, in the library at Columbine High School after the April 20, 1999 shooting. Jefferson County Sheriff's Department Monday, May 15, 2000, released a minute-by-minute account of the Columbine High bloodbath, showing that the 12 students killed by teen-age gunmen were dead within 16 minutes. The timeline appears to counter claimsby the victims' families that officers could have saved lives if they had acted more quickly. (AP Photo/HO

A distraught Ava Polaski, a sophomore, leaves school grounds with her mother Misty Polaski following a shooting in Chardon, Ohio on Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. A teenager described as a bullied outcast at Chardon High School opened fire in the cafeteria Monday morning, killing one student and wounding four others before being caught a short distance away, authorities said. The suspect, whose name was not released, was arrested near his car a half-mile away, the FBI said. He was not immediately charged. (AP Photo/The Plain Dealer, Thomas Ondrey)

Medics take a wounded student to an ambulance Thursday, May 21,1998, outside Thurston High School in Springfield, Ore., after a student who had been expelled for bringing a gun to class Wednesday, opened fire with a semiautomatic rifle in a high school cafeteria, killing at least one person and critically wounding seven others. (AP Photo/The Register-Guard, Paul Carter)

1/16/98  HEARING IN SCHOOL MURDERS: Michael Carneal (left) appears with his attorney, Charles Granner, at Carneal's arraignment Thursday in Paducah, Ky. He is accused of murdering three classmates in a shooting rampage at his high school. His lawyer suggested that the 14-year-old may have been mentally impaired but did not request a mental evaluation of his client. Circuit Judge Ron Daniels entered not-guilty pleas on the teen's behalf. (AP Photo/The Paducah Sun, Kenneth Holt)


Craighead County, Ark., Sherriff Deputies rush 12-year-old Andrew Golden into a back door of the county courthouse for his hearing in Jonesboro, Ark., Tuesday, Aug. 11, 1998. Golden, along with Westside Middle School classmate Mitchell Johnson, are accused of slaying four classmates and a teacher March 24, 1998. (AP Photo/Jonesboro Sun,Rodney Freeman)
12/02/97  A Heath High School student screams after seeing the scene of Monday's shooting in West Paducah, Ky. Two students were killed and six wounded when a 14-year-old freshman opened fire on classmates taking part in an informal prayer meeting before school. (AP Photo/The Paducah Sun/Steve Nagy)

Westside Middle School shooting suspect Mitchell Johnson is rushed into a backdoor of the Craighead County, Ark., Courthouse Tuesday, Aug. 11, 1998, for his hearing. Johnson, who turned 14 Tuesday, is acussed along with classmate Andrew Golden of slaying four classmates and a teacher in March. (AP Photo/Jonesboro Sun,Rodney Freeman) 



Cora Reeder, left, her father Joe Lynch, and her sister Tiffany Lynch, right, console each other accross the street from Santana High School in Santee, Calif., after a student shot 15 people on the campus, Monday, March 5, 2001. Two teen-agers died and the suspect, a ninth-grader, was apprehended. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)



Emergency personnel sit at the back of an ambulance following the shootings at Westside Middle School near Jonesboro, Ark., Tuesday, March 24, 1998. Two boys in camouflage lay in wait behind their middle school and opened fire on their classmates and teachers during a fake fire drill Tuesday. Four were killed and 12 others were wounded, officials said. (AP Photo/Jonesboro Sun, Bill Templeton)

In a photo made available by Image Photography, Jeff Weise is seen in a 2005 class photo. Several students from Red Lake High School identified Weise in the photo as the gunman who killed nine people at the high school on Monday before killing himself. (AP Photo/HO, Image Photography)



Unidentified parents are reunited with their children across the street from Santana High School, after a student opened fire at the school, Monday, March 5, 2001, in Santee, Calif. A student opened fire at Santana High School Monday, according to police, smiling as he shot 15 people, killing two teen-agers, in a rampage that sent students running for cover to nearby homes and a shopping center. (AP Photo/San Diego Union-Tribune, Nadia Borowski)

 

Christopher Morrison, 16, a 10th-grader at Red Lake High School, speaks to the media at North Country Regional Hospital in Bemidji, Minn., Tuesday, March 22, 2005. Morrison was checking on friends injured Monday when Jeff Weise killed nine people at the school, including five students, before killing himself. (AP Photo/Pioneer Press, John Doman)

** FILE ** A helicopter takes off from the West Nickel Mines Amish School, in which a gunman killed five girls and injured five more, in Nickel Mines, Pa., Oct. 2, 2006. The most severely injured survivor of last year's Amish school shooting is totally dependent on her family for care, but has shown slow and steady progress in the year since the attack, according to a statement Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007 from the community.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Youth Outreach counselors Eileen Cassidy, left, and Matt Wickstrom sit across from Santana High School in Santee, Calif., Monday, March 5, 2001, after a 15-year-old freshman, according to police, opened fire at the school, killing two youths and wounding 13 others. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Gina Ferazzi)



Parents and children are reunited at Chardon Middle School in Chardon, Ohio Monday, Feb, 27, 2012, following a shooting at nearby Chardon High School. A teenager described as an outcast at the suburban Cleveland high school opened fire in the cafeteria Monday, killing one student and wounding four others before he was chased from the building by a teacher and captured a short distance away, authorities said. (AP Photo/Ashtabula Star Beacon, Warren Dillaway)



San Diego County Sheriff's Department SWAT team members move through the parking lot of Santana High School in Santee, Calif., after a student opened fire at the school, Monday, March 5, 2001. One person was dead at the scene and 14 others were injured, Santee Fire Department spokesman Jeff Fehlberg said. Later, a second victim died at Grossmont Hospital, according to officials. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)



Students and others wait outside a shopping center to which they were evacuated, across the street from Santana High School, in Santee, Calif., Monday, March 5, 2001. A student opened fire at the school Monday, killing two people and wounding 13 others, police said. A suspect, a male student, was taken into custody at the school, according to authorities. (AP Photo/San Diego Union-Tribune, John McCutchen)



** RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATE CROP ** An injured occupant is carried out of Norris Hall at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., Monday, April 16, 2007. A gunman opened fire in a dorm and classroom on the campus, killing at least 30 people in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history. The gunman is killed but it's unclear if he was shot by police or took his own life. (AP Photo/The Roanoke Times, Alan Kim)



A body is carried from a schoolhouse, in which police say a gunman killed several people, in Nickel Mines, Pa. on Monday, Oct. 2, 2006. A 32-year-old milk truck driver took about a dozen girls hostage in the one-room Amish schoolhouse Monday, barricaded the doors with boards and shot several people, killing at least three of the girls and apparently himself, authorities said. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)



Peggy Merlow waits for her son, Timothy Merlow, outside Campbell County High School in Jacksboro, Tenn. on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2005. Timothy Merlow is a student at the school, where, according to officials, another student shot three administrators. (AP Photo/The Knoxville News Sentinel, Jeff Adkins)



Members of the Virginia Tech Marching Band, Alyson Tylus, from Midlothian, Va., left, Alex Scalco, of Stevensville Md., center, and Lisa Cowley, of Bridgewater N.J., right console each other during the dedication of the memorial for the victims of the Virginia Tech shooting in Blacksburg, Va., Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007. More than 10,000 people gathered on the main campus lawn Sunday as Virginia Tech dedicated 32 memorial stones for those killed by a student in a mass shooting on campus last April. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)



An aerial view shows a triage area near Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., Tuesday April 20, 1999. Two young men in fatigues and black trench coats opened fire at the suburban Denver high school Tuesday in what police called a suicide mission,and the sheriff said 25 people may have been killed. (AP Photo/Rocky Mountain News, Rodolfo Gonzalez)



[SCHOOL SHOOTING ]Crime scene investigators go through the task of marking crime scene evidence Wednesday, April 21, 1999, in the doorway where two assailants entered Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., on their shooting rampage Tuesday. Bomb squad officers checked lockers and backpacks for booby traps as investigators tried to piece together one of the deadliest school massacres in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Rocky Mountain News, Dennis Schroeder)



[SCHOOL SHOOTING ]An injured person is loaded into an ambulance outside of Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., Tuesday, April 20, 1999. Three young men in fatigues and black trench coats opened fire at the suburban Denver high school Tuesday in what police called a suicide mission, and the sheriff said 25 people may have been killed. Two of the suspects were found dead in the library. (AP Photo/Rocky Mountain News, Linda McConnell)



FILE -- In an April 20, 1999 file photo rescuers tend to the wounded at a triage area near Columbine High School in Littleton Colo., during a shooting rampage by two students. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and a teacher before taking their own lives in what remains on of the deadliest school attack in U.S. history. (AP Photo/The Denver Rocky Mountain News, George Kochaniec)



[SCHOOL SHOOTING ]A student is overcome with emotion as he sits down next to a police officer near the triage scene at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., Tuesday, April 20, 1999. Three young men in fatigues and black trench coats opened fire at the suburban Denver high school Tuesday in what police called a suicide mission. The sheriff said 25 people may have been killed, and that two of the suspects were found dead in the library. (AP Photo/Rocky Mountain News, George Kochaniec)



[SCHOOL SHOOTINGS Q ]Students gather outside Heath High School following a shooting at the school that left two dead and six students injured on Monday, Deec. 1, 1997 in Paducah, Ky. A 14-year-old boy who warned last week that ``something big's going to happen'' inserted earplugs, drew a gun and shot eight students who just ended a prayer meeting in a high school lobby Monday. Two girls died and a third was in critical condition. (AP Photo/Paducah Sun, Steve Nagy)



FILE--This is a file photo of Frontier Junior High school student Barry Loukaitas, 14, from the 1995 Moses Lake, Wash., school yearbook. Loukaitas was arrested as a suspect in a shooting at the school Friday, Feb. 2, 1996, in which three people were killed. (AP Photo/HO)



[SCHOOL SHOOTING ]RESENDING FOR ALTERNATE CROP: Unidentified students run away from Columbine High School after they were evacuated from the school in Littleton, Colo., Tuesday, April 20, 1999. Two young men in fatigues and black trench coats opened fire at the suburban Denver high school Tuesday in what police called a suicide mission, and the sheriff said 25 people may have been killed.(AP Photo/David Zalubowski)



Kipland Kinkel is escorted to an arraignment in Lane County Circuit Court in Eugene, Ore., June 16, 1998, where he faced four counts of aggravated murder, 26 counts of attempted aggravated murder, six counts of first-degree assault, 18 counts of second-degree assault and unlawful possession of a firearm in the May shootings at Thurston High School in Springfield, Ore. (AP Photo/ The Register-Guard, Chris Pietsch)



A wounded student is helped to an waiting ambulance outside Thurston High School in Springfield, Ore., May 21, 1998, after a student who had been expelled for bringing a gun to class, opened fire with a semiautomatic rifle in a high school cafeteria, killing at least one person and critically wounding seven others. (AP Photo/The Register-Guard, Paul Carter)



Backpacks and cleaning supplies lie in the hallway of Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Ark., Wed., March 25, 1998. The view is from a door used by students to leave the building during a false fire alarm Tuesday. Two boys hidden in a wooded area opened fire on the students leaving the school, killing four girls and one teacher and injuring 11 others. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) 

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