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On December 14, 2012, a mass shooting occurred at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, United States. The perpetrator, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, shot and killed 26 people. 20 of the victims were children between six and seven years old, and the other six were adult staff members. Earlier that day, before driving to the school ...
List of school shootings by death toll (four or more deaths) Virginia Tech shooting: 23-year-old student Seung-Hui Cho killed thirty-two students and faculty members in two separate attacks on the campus of Virginia Tech and then committed suicide. In a dorm room, he first shot one student, then another who came to help; two hours later, he ...
The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut. The perpetrator, Adam Lanza, fatally shot his mother before murdering 20 students and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and later committed suicide. [ 1] A number of fringe figures have promoted conspiracy theories that doubt or ...
The perpetrator's father was found dead at his home soon after the shooting. One of the victims, six-year-old Jacob Hall, died 3 days after the shooting. [293] [294] October 11, 2016 Mobile, Alabama: 0 1 1: A student was shot in the abdomen and wounded at Vigor High School. The suspect, a 16-year-old boy, turned himself in and was charged with ...
The Hartford Distributors shooting was a mass shooting that occurred on August 3, 2010, in Manchester, Connecticut, United States. The location of the crime was a warehouse owned by Hartford Distributors, a beer distribution company. The gunman, former employee Omar Sheriff Thornton (born April 25, 1976) [ 1] shot and killed eight male ...
Killed a friend in 1971, then went on a shooting rampage in 1990 [551] Powers, Harry: 1931 5 5+ Executed 1932 Known as "The West Virginia Bluebeard"; Dutch immigrant who lured victims through "lonely hearts" advertisements, murdering them for their money [552] Presley, Aeman: 2014 4 4 Sentenced to life imprisonment
Megan Meier (2006), American high school student and victim of bullying, hanging [831] Ulrike Meinhof (1976), German RAF terrorist, hanging [832] David Meirhofer (1974), American serial killer, hanging [833] Joseph Meister (1940), French caretaker who was the first person to be inoculated against rabies, gas furnace [834]
Mass shootings in Connecticut. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Mass shootings in the United States. It includes mass shootings that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.