Key points: Swatting–false reports of school violence intended to trigger a police response–continues to increase across the country. During the 2022–2023 school year, nearly 64 percent of reported…
Read more Preventing harm by connecting the dots in school safetyEditor’s Note: (6/27/24) Since this story was published in August 2023, the case against Nathan James Cruz was dismissed due to a missing witness, according to court records…
Read more Case dismissed against teenage cousin of Uvalde school shooter for allegedly threatening school shooting | CNNCNN — Here is some background information about the deaths of 13 people at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, on April 20, 1999. Twelve students and one…
Read more Columbine High School Shootings Fast Facts | CNNCNN — Here is some background information about the shootings at Virginia Tech in April 2007, one of the deadliest mass shootings in US history. Twenty-three-year-old Seung-Hui Cho…
Read more Virginia Tech Shootings Fast Facts | CNNCNN — Here is a list of incidents of elementary, middle and high school violence with at least one fatality, from 1927 to the present. Suicides, gang-related incidents…
Read more US School Violence Fast Facts | CNNCNN — Here is a look back at the events of 2023. January 3 – Republican Kevin McCarthy fails to secure enough votes to be elected Speaker of…
Read more 2023 In Review Fast Facts | CNNCNN — Here’s a look at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Newtown, Connecticut. On December 14, 2012, six adults and 20 children were killed by Adam…
Read more Sandy Hook School Shootings Fast Facts | CNNCNN — A California man who sent hundreds of harrowing messages to an activist against gun violence whose daughter was killed in the 2018 Parkland, Florida, school shooting…
Read more California man sentenced to 1-year in federal prison for cyberstalking, harassing parent of Parkland school shooting victim | CNNCNN — Police have arrested a 17-year-old in connection with the mass shooting at Morgan State University in Baltimore on October 3 that injured five people, the Baltimore…
Read more A 17-year-old has been arrested in connection with a mass shooting at Morgan State University | CNNCNN — Five people were shot Tuesday night at Morgan State University in Baltimore and police have yet to locate a suspect as the investigation into the shooting…
Read more 5 people were shot at Morgan State University and police have yet to locate a suspect, officials say | CNNCNN — The suspect in the fatal shooting of a faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Monday is a graduate student at…
Read more UNC graduate student arrested on murder charge in fatal shooting of faculty member, police say | CNNCNN — A federal hate crime investigation is underway after a White gunman with a swastika-emblazoned assault rifle killed three Black people at a Dollar General store in…
Read more A federal hate crime investigation is underway after a racially motivated shooting left 3 people dead in Jacksonville, officials say. Here’s what we know | CNNCNN — The gunman who killed three people Saturday at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, in what authorities said was a racist attack against Black people…
Read more Jacksonville gunman was turned away from historically Black university before killing 3 in racist shooting at nearby store, authorities say | CNNCNN — A Florida judge tentatively agreed Thursday that live ammunition could be used in a reenactment of 2018’s mass shooting inside Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School…
Read more Judge tentatively OKs live ammunition for Parkland school shooting reenactment in civil case | CNNCNN — The trial of the former school resource officer who remained outside a Parkland, Florida, high school five years ago while 17 people were gunned down inside…
Read more Opening statements begin in the trial of Parkland school resource officer who stayed outside during shooting | CNNCNN — A shooting after a high school commencement ceremony in Richmond, Virginia, killed two people Tuesday evening – an 18-year-old man on his graduation day and a…
Read more A mass shooting after a high school commencement ceremony leaves 2 dead, including an 18-year-old graduate | CNNCNN — The mother of a 6-year-old boy who brought a gun to school and shot his first-grade teacher in January in Newport News, Virginia, will plead guilty…
Read more Mother of 6-year-old who shot teacher will plead guilty to federal felony charges in deal with prosecutors | CNNCNN — When news broke of a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, one year ago, President Joe Biden was on his way back from Tokyo…
Read more White House expands its playbook for responding to mass shootings in the year after Uvalde | CNN PoliticsCNN — A student in Phoenix faces “a number of serious felony charges” after police accused him of bringing an AR-15 weapon and ammunition to a high school,…
Read more Arizona student arrested and accused of bringing AR-15 and ammunition to high school | CNNCNN — A 98-year-old woman and her 73-year-old daughter were among the three people killed by an 18-year-old high school student who roamed through his neighborhood Monday firing…
Read more 98-year-old woman and her daughter among 3 victims killed by New Mexico student who fired randomly, hitting cars and homes | CNN
