Police search students outside Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., on Thursday following a deadly shooting at the college.
Thursday’s shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon was just the latest in an ongoing string of school shootings.
This year alone there have already been 45 such tragedies, according to statistics compiled by the gun control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety.
Here are some of the bloodiest school shooting in recent years:
Littleton, Colo.: Columbine High School
On April 20, 1999, teenagers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went on what was then the highest fatality school shooting, killing 13 and wounding more than 20 others before turning the guns on themselves.
MEMOIR BY MOTHER OF COLUMBINE SHOOTER COMING IN FEBRUARY
The killers were already seen as outcasts and there was speculation that the pair — who called themselves “the trenchcoat mafia” — had been motivated from everything bullying to Goth culture to violent video games.
This year alone there have already been 45 such tragedies, according to statistics compiled by the gun control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety.
Here are some of the bloodiest school shooting in recent years:
Littleton, Colo.: Columbine High School
On April 20, 1999, teenagers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went on what was then the highest fatality school shooting, killing 13 and wounding more than 20 others before turning the guns on themselves.
MEMOIR BY MOTHER OF COLUMBINE SHOOTER COMING IN FEBRUARY
The killers were already seen as outcasts and there was speculation that the pair — who called themselves “the trenchcoat mafia” — had been motivated from everything bullying to Goth culture to violent video games.
Eric Harris, left, and Dlyan Klebold, carried out the Columbine massacre in 1999.
Santee, Calif.: Santana High School
On March 5, 2001, Charles Andrew Williams killed two and wounded 13 at his high school. The 15-year-old freshman had just moved from Maryland and, at a bigger school, fell in with a tougher group of kids.
Before the shooting, the teenager was struggling.
His parents divorced and a close friends died. Then, a teacher scolded him in front of the class. That was the last straw and just three days later, Williams took a gun to school.
Afterward, the teenage killer said he was “trying to prove a point” to kids who bullied him, but he ended up shooting friends and enemies alike.
Currently, Williams is serving a sentence of 50 to life.
On March 5, 2001, Charles Andrew Williams killed two and wounded 13 at his high school. The 15-year-old freshman had just moved from Maryland and, at a bigger school, fell in with a tougher group of kids.
Before the shooting, the teenager was struggling.
His parents divorced and a close friends died. Then, a teacher scolded him in front of the class. That was the last straw and just three days later, Williams took a gun to school.
Afterward, the teenage killer said he was “trying to prove a point” to kids who bullied him, but he ended up shooting friends and enemies alike.
Currently, Williams is serving a sentence of 50 to life.
Medical personnel load a student into an ambulance the shooting at Santana High School in Santee, California.
Red Lake, Mich.: Red Lake High SchoolJeff Wiese, 16, shot seven classmates, his grandfather and his grandfather’s partner on March 21, 2005. Wiese started the killing spree his family’s home on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, when he stole his grandfather’s guns, police-issued Kevlar vest and squad car.
Then, he made his way to the local high school where he opened the doors and began shooting.
Minutes later, the spree ended when tribal police arrived and Wiese shot himself.
A police officer gets in his car outside the Red Lake Senior High School in Red Lake, Minn.
In October 2006, Charles Carl Roberts IV barricaded himself in a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County. He tied up 10 young girls before he started shooting.
The small-town murder spree resulted in five deaths and five injuries before the 32-year-old shooter took his own life.
A gunman in Nickel Mines, Penn., carried out a massacre in a one-room schoolhouse in 2006.
Blacksburg, Va.: Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Thirty-two students and teachers died in the April 16, 2007 Virginia Tech massacre.
Shooter Seung Hui Cho started the killing in his dorm and then, two hours later, continued his rampage in a classroom building, where he chained and locked the main doors before firing at will for the next 10 minutes.
The spree ended when Cho shot himself.
Thirty-two students and teachers died in the April 16, 2007 Virginia Tech massacre.
Shooter Seung Hui Cho started the killing in his dorm and then, two hours later, continued his rampage in a classroom building, where he chained and locked the main doors before firing at will for the next 10 minutes.
The spree ended when Cho shot himself.
Injured occupants are carried out of Norris Hall at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va.
Steven Kazmierczak killed six people — including himself — during a mid-afternoon shooting at Northern Illinois University.
Dressed in black, the shooter — a former NIU grad student — stepped out from behind the curtain in an auditorium and opened fire on an oceanography class.
Rescue workers evacuate a victim of a shooting at a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill., on Feb. 14, 2008.
Oakland, Calif.: Oikos UniversityOne Goh, 43, opened fire on a classroom at a Christian school on April 2, 2012.
The former student interrupted a nursing test and killed seven people with a legally purchased handgun.
Crime scene investigators work the scene where One Goh, 43, is accused of killing seven people at Oikos University in Oakland, California.
Santa Monica, Calif.: Santa Monica CollegeOn June 7, 2013, John Zawahri opened fire on campus, killing five people.
The attack was carried out with an assault rifle the killer built himself. The 13-minute shooting spree ended when police shot him.
Newtown, Conn: Sandy Hook Elementary School
On Dec. 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and killed his mother. Then, he grabbed an AR-15 assault rifle and two pistols and headed to Sandy Hook Elementary School.
NEWTOWN KILLER ADAM LANZA'S HOUSE DEMOLISHED
The school door was locked, but Lanza shot his way into the building. He murdered 20 students and six teachers before committing suicide.
Shown is an aerial view of the scene at and near the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where gunman Adam Lanza killed students and teachers.
Isla Vista, Calif.: University of California, Santa BarbaraElliot Rodger, the son of a Hollywood director, killed six and injured 13 during a May 2014 shooting that started in his apartment building, then moved to a sorority house and finally ended in the shooter’s car.
The 22-year-old posted a murderous warning on YouTube beforehand, promising to exact vengeance on sorority women who scorned him.
The violence ended when Rodger shot himself.
Elliot Rodger was the gunman in the 2014 University of California at Santa Barbara shooting.
Marysville, Wash.: Marysville Pilchuck High School
On Oct. 24, 2014,15-year-old Jaylen Fryberg shot five of his classmates, killing four of them.
Though his friends described him as normal in the days leading up to the shooting, text messages later revealed that he may have been planning the massacre after the relationship with his 15-year-old girlfriend went south.
On Oct. 24, 2014,15-year-old Jaylen Fryberg shot five of his classmates, killing four of them.
Though his friends described him as normal in the days leading up to the shooting, text messages later revealed that he may have been planning the massacre after the relationship with his 15-year-old girlfriend went south.
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