Here's a list. It includes accidents and suicides.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/school-shootings-year-article-1.3821162
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/school-shootings-year-article-1.3821162
Jan. 3, St. Johns, Mich. The first school shooting took place just three days into the new year, at East Olive Elementary School in St. Johns, Mich.The first one on the list was a closed school with no students there for over six months.A 31-year-old man died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the former school’s parking lot.
The man is a military veteran who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, a traumatic brain injury and depression, according to police.
East Olive Elementary has been closed since June and no children or staff were on scene at the time of the incident.
This is not 18 “school shootings” in the sense that normal people think of school shootings.
Three drive-bys, a fight between adults near the school, and a robbery well after the school day: 5
University shootings (one negligent, two drive-by, and one drunken fight): 4
Suicides at a school or building that used to be a school: 2
Negligent discharges at a school: 2
Shots fired with no indication that they were intended to hit anyone: 2
Real school shootings: 3
Jan. 3, East Olive Elementary School
School closed at the end of the previous year. This is the parking lot suicide of a 31 year-old man; no connection to schools.
Jan. 4, New Start High School
This is a random drive-by shooting off school property that hit the school office.
Jan, 10, Coronado Elementary School
A teenager committed suicide at an elementary school; no one else was injured.
Jan. 10, Cal State University, San Bernardino
This was a shooting at a university parking garage. No one was hurt.
Jan. 10, Grayson College Criminal Justice Center
Criminal Justice Club advisor put his real firearm in a box so it wouldn’t be used by mistake during training. After he left the room, a student assumed the firearm in the box was a training weapon and fired it through the classroom wall.
Jan. 15, Wiley College
During a drive-by shooting in a parking lot, one bullet went through a dorm window.
Jan. 20, Wake Forest University
Football player from another college shot and killed at a party.
Jan. 22, Italy High school
This is an actual school shooting, the first of the year! A 16-year-old boy fired a handgun in the cafeteria and hit a 15-year-old girl.
Jan. 22, NET Charter High School
During a drive-by shooting in a parking lot, one bullet caused an “abrasion” to a 14-year-old.
Jan. 23, Marshall County High School
This is an actual school shooting, the second of the year! A 16-year-old boy shot and killed a 15-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl, and injured 18 others.
Jan. 25, Murphy High School
A student with a gun threatened several administrators before going outside and firing into the air.
Jan. 26, Dearborn High School
Another drive-by shooting in a parking lot. No injuries.
Jan. 31, Lincoln High School
During a fight between adults outside a school, at a basketball game, one adult shot and killed the other adult.
Feb. 1, Salvador B. Castro Middle School
The story is that a 12-year-old girl brought a gin to school, didn’t know it was loaded, and accidentally shot five students. I would count this as a school shooting (#3 for the year).
Feb. 5, Oxon Hill High School
A student was lured to the school parking lot at 5:15 pm by an ex-girlfriend to be robbed, and was shot and wounded there.
Feb. 5, Harmony Learning Center
A third-grade student pulled the trigger on a police officer’s gun.
Feb. 8, Metropolitan High School
A teen fired a shot inside a classroom; no one was injured.
Feb. 14, Stoneman Douglas High
A former student shot and killed about 17 students and injured about 14 more, at a high school during the school day. I would call this the third school shooting of the year.
Three school shootings is more than I would like, but it’s completely different from 18 in six weeks.