SCHOOL-RELATED
DEATHS, SCHOOL SHOOTINGS, & SCHOOL VIOLENCE INCIDENTS
2003-2004
School Year Incidents
Identified by
National School Safety
and Security Services, Inc.*
Cleveland, Ohio
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* School-related deaths, school shootings, and school
crisis incidents have been identified through print and
electronic news sources, professional contacts, and other
nationwide sources, by Kenneth S. Trump, President, National
School Safety and Security Services, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio).
This is not presented as an exhaustive list or as a scientific
study. Additional incidents may be added pending review of
additional items on file and new information received during
the course of the school year.
For purposes of
this listing, the 2003-2004 school year
is considered to be from August 1, 2003, through July
31, 2004. In addition to school-related violent
deaths, this page provides a sample of school shootings that
did not result in death and a sample of other incidents of
school-related crime, violence, and crisis situations.
For
purposes of this monitoring report, school-related violent
deaths are homicides, suicides, or other violent,
non-accidental deaths in the United States in which a fatal
injury occurs:
1)
inside a school, on school property, on or immediately around
(and associated with) a school bus, or in the immediate area
(and associated with) a K-12 elementary or secondary public,
private, or parochial school;
2) on
the way to or from a school for a school session;
3)
while attending, or on the way to or from, a school-sponsored
event;
4)
as a clear result of school-related incidents/conflicts,
functions, activities, regardless of whether on or off actual
school property;
Identified School-Related
Violent Deaths: 2003-2004 School Year
Total Deaths: 49
Breakdown by Type:
Shooting: 23
Suicides: 5
Murder-Suicide: 6
Fight-Related:
4
Stabbing: 10
Other: 1
August 14, 2003: Columbus, GA
A 14-year-old female high school student, visiting her former
teachers at a middle school, is shot and killed by a
13-year-old male in a wooded area behind the middle school
School. Several youths went into the woods to see a fight
between two boys, according to police, when one pulled out a
gun and the observers fled and the female was shot.
August 19, 2003: Meraux, LA
A 39-year-old male was arrested
after a man holding his 2-year-old son was shot to death and
the child seriously wounded near a crowded school bus stop.
The suspect reportedly grabbed a shotgun out of his car and
started firing, according to police. Another man, who had
taken his son to get on a bus, was wounded in the leg.
August 28, 2003: Coralville, IA
A 24-year-old man was shot and killed by police following a
police chase onto an elementary school property. Students were
still on playground at the time of the incident and three
schools were subsequently called into a lockdown.
August 29, 2003: Georgetown, SC
A 22-year-old male was shot to death after an argument
following a football game at Georgetown High School. Police
say the fight started at the game, but that the victim was
killed in a nearby shopping center parking lot.
September 4, 2003: Brighton, CO
A 15-year-old male was killed and his 16-year-old brother was
injured in a shooting during school hours near Adams City High
School, triggering the lockdown of schools in the area.
September 5, 2003: San Diego, CA
A 14-year-old boy jogging with his
high school cross-country team is shot and killed in an ambush
by his father, who then killed himself after a standoff with
police.
September 5, 2003: Tucson, AZ
A 16-year-old boy died after a fistfight at Pueblo High Magnet
School. The boy had a heart
condition that contributed to his death, according to police.
September
10, 2003: Vicksburg, MS
A 20-year-old male high school junior was charged with murder
for allegedly shooting a 20-year-old non-student once in the
chest while on access road near the school's football field
around 2:30pm while school was still in session.
September 10, 2003: Chicago, IL
A 16-year-old male was charged with killing a 16-year-old male
Proviso East High School student. The victim was shot in the
chest after leaving the school, which had been dismissed early
for a staff development day.
September 10, 2003: Fort Worth,
TX
A 16-year-old boy allegedly fatally shot a classmate, then
dumped his body in a nearby construction site.
September 11, 2003: Tucson, AZ
A 17-year-old student at Tucson
High Magnet School was shot and killed off campus near an
underpass after school. A 15-year-old was also shot and
treated. Police said the shooting may be gang-related.
September 12, 2003: Green Cove
Springs, FL
A 15-year-old male high school student was hit by a single
sucker-punch to the head shortly after the final school bell
rang and subsequently died on September 19, 2003. A
17-year-old male student was charged as an adult for
manslaughter.
September 16, 2003: Hopkinsville,
KY
A 16-year-old girl fatally shot another teen and then killed
herself as the two sat in a car parked at a shopping center
across from their school.
September 24, 2003: Cold Spring,
MN
A 15-year-old allegedly shot two students at Rocori High
School. One student died the day of the shooting and the
second shot student died in the hospital on October 10, 2003.
September 30, 2003: Sacramento,
CA
A 15-year-old boy was shot to death after an argument near C.K.
McClatchy High School as dozens of students watched the
attack. Witnesses said the victim was standing near a sandwich
shop a block from the school when he began arguing with
another teenage boy who was exchanging insults with the
girlfriend of the victim's best friend. A school resource
officer ran to the victim and initiated CPR, but he was
pronounced dead at UC Davis Medical Center.
October 1, 2003: Ft. Worth, TX
A 17-year-old former high school student was fatally stabbed
and five others were injured after seven teens fought in a
vacant lot near Bowie High School, police say.
October 16, 2003: Roanoke, VA
A 55-year-old male middle school teacher accused of assaulting
a student leapt to his death from a bridge, one day after he
was exonerated but had never been informed that charges were
cleared. The incident had been reported by school officials
to child services officials, but not to police, until a school
resource officer overheard discussion of the incident and
pursued the matter. (Note: This incident is counted as a
school-associated death as it has a clear nexus to a school
incident as per criteria #4 above.)
October 23, 2003: Landover, MD
A man's body was found in the parking lot of an elementary
school by a school maintenance worker at 6:00am. The victim
had been shot multiple times. The elementary school was
closed for the day and students were bused to a nearby high
school to attend classes while police officials processed the
crime scene.
October 30, 2003: Washington, DC
A 16-year-old, 11th-grade male student was shot and killed
outside of the high school. The victim was shot by stray
bullet from a 15-year-old male who reportedly was attempting
to shoot at a vehicle containing members of a rival gang. A
15-year-old female was also shot in the wrist by a stray
bullet.
November 4, 2003: Bexar County, TX
A 17-year-old male high school student was charged with murder
for allegedly fatally shooting another 17-year-old male high
school student during a street brawl that stemmed from a
dispute that had started at Judson High School, according to
reports. Police said that around 3:45pm, a group of 8 to 12
males rode their bikes after school to the home of the suspect
and then ganged up on him near his home. As the group fought,
a resident came out of his home and fired two rounds in the
air from a rifle in order to frighten the fighters. The
resident put down the gun and the group went to beat up the
resident, during which time the suspect reportedly picked up
the rifle and fired a shot, hitting the victim in the stomach.
November 6, 2003: San Francisco,
CA
A 15-year-old male high school student on the way to an
after-school job was shot and killed two blocks from the
school on a city bus by a 16-year-old male. The victim was
reportedly an innocent bystander. The suspect allegedly fired
at someone else during a fight between students from two
separate high schools on the bus but the bullet struck the
victim in the face. School officials from both schools
subsequently canceled weekend football games in fear of
retaliation.
November 8, 2003: Sugar Land, TX
A 17-year-old female high school student, an innocent
bystander, was shot and killed as a fight broke out at the
side of a stadium at a high school football game. A
21-year-old male was subsequently arrested and charged.
November 10, 2003: Buffalo, NY
A teenage male was shot and killed in the back parking lot of
Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School around 4:00pm. All
students were gone but a teacher still working inside heard at
least three shots, looked outside, and observed the victim
laying in the lot next to his car.
December 2, 2003: Chicago, IL
A Chicago police officer shot and killed an 18-year-old male
after the suspect refused to put down his revolver after being
stopped on the playground of Fermi elementary school at
9:40pm. Police reportedly found five bags of crack cocaine,
one bag of suspected marijuana, and $260 in the suspect's
pocket. Police were said to be on alert in the area because
of several recent shooting incidents.
December 8, 2003: Porter, OK
A 16-year-old boy was stabbed to death on a school bus by a
fellow student, who was arrested after jumping out the rear
door of the bus and running away, according to police.
December 9, 2003: Bellevue, WA
An 18-year-old high
school senior, reportedly distraught over a breakup with his
girlfriend, drove his vehicle at high speed into a highway
median after threatening suicide. The male had reportedly
dropped his sister off at school and instead of gong to class,
left campus, communicated from home with his parents by phone,
and then left the house where he was later found in the
vehicle. The male had reportedly called his (ex)-girlfriend on
the cell phone and asked her if she would get back together
with him. When she reportedly said no, he said if she wouldn't
change her mind, he was going to drive on the freeway and kill
himself. She immediately told her teacher. The teacher told
the school counselor, who then told his father. The father was
reportedly at school making a report to the school resource
officer at the time the suicide was discovered by state patrol
officers.
January 13, 2004: Dallas, TX
A 14-year-old 7th grader was stabbed three times outside of a
Dallas middle school and later died at a hospital. The
suspect is reportedly older and not believed to be a student.
January 15, 2004: Elizabeth, NJ
A 15-year-old male high school student was stabbed to death by
two males while walking home from school. Initial reports
indicate that the incident occurred after a snowball fight.
Family members subsequently said they suspected a gang
initiation may have been involved.
January 20, 2004: El Paso, TX
A 17-year-old male high school student was arrested for
stabbing to death a 19-year-old male who had graduated from
the school in 2002. The incident, which occurred after school
about a half-block north of the Irvin High School campus, was
believed to be a continuation of a weekend altercation,
possibly over a girl. The suspect reportedly used a knife
which he had carried in his backpack during the school day.
January 21, 2004: Henderson, NV
Police shot and killed a 40-year-old male gunman outside an
elementary school after he allegedly shot a hostage in a car
and walked through the campus searching for his ex-girlfriend.
School administrators said 27 children were in an after-school
program for kindergarten through 5th graders when the gunman
at the time of the incident around 4:50pm. Police said the
gunman went through the campus but did not find his
ex-girlfriend, who reportedly had been at the school picking
up a child.
January 27, 2004: San Jose, CA
A 15-year-old male high school student was stabbed and killed
on the way to his high school. A 20-year-old male was
subsequently arrested for the murder. Police said the
incident was gang-related.
February 2, 2004: Elmira, NY
A custodian discovered an 18-year-old male high school
student's dead body in the school's rear parking lot near the
building housing the school's pool. Authorities ruled the
death a suicide as a result of asphyxiation by hanging. School
officials mobilized counselors for students the next day.
February 2, 2004: Washington, DC
A 17-year-old male high school student died after being shot
several times in the chest around 10:30am near the school's
cafeteria. An 18-year-old student was also grazed in the leg
by a bullet. All individuals involved were believed to be
students according to initial reports.
February 3, 2004: Palmetto Bay, FL
A 14-year-old male Miami-Dade middle school student was found
dead in a second-floor restroom around 8:30am. He was cut with
a sharp object and bled to death, according to reports. Police
found the weapon and have a 14-year-old fellow student suspect
was charged.
February 6, 2004: Kansas City, MO
A 19-year-old male was fatally stabbed during a fight in a
high school parking lot around 9:30pm.
February 11, 2004:
Philadelphia, PA
A 10-year-old male elementary school student was shot in the
face and died after five days in the hospital as one group of
men in a car and another group on foot exchanged gunfire
outside a Philadelphia elementary school around 8:30am. A
56-year-old female school crossing guard was also shot in the
foot. Police said the guard acted heroically to scurry
children across the street as bullets were flying and children
were on the playground.
February 20,
2004: St. Martinville, LA
A 41-year-old part-time city police officer, who was also a
school custodian at a city junior high school, allegedly
called his 19-year-old girlfriend outside of her father's
church and school where she worked, and then shot her to death
around 11:15am. The victim was reportedly shot several times,
just feet from the school full of children, who stood in a
doorway crying and holding on to each other.
March 10, 2004:
Atlantic City, NJ
A 52-year-old police sergeant died of a heart attack shortly
after intervening in a riot following a rival high school
basketball game. The officer, a 27-year-veteran of the police
department, had helped arrest one person after several fights
broke out following a boy's basketball semifinal championship
game. The officer left the scene after assisting with the
arrest a fell victim to the heart attack, with his car hitting
a pole, as he was driving back to police headquarters to file
reports on the incident.
March 17, 2004:
Joyce, WA
A 13-year-old male student shot and killed himself in a school
classroom where about 20 other students were present. The
male reportedly brought a .22-caliber rifle hidden in a guitar
case and pulled it out without notice or threat to others,
shooting himself in the chest at around 10:00am. The student
had been in the back corner of the classroom for about two
hours before the incident, according to the superintendent.
March 29, 2004:
Pharr, TX
A 15-year-old female high school student was stabbed to death
outside the Fine Arts building at PSJA High School around
7:30pm. Doctors reportedly told the family she had been
stabbed 12 times. Police took a 16-year-old male into custody.
Family members indicated that a school custodian allegedly
witnessed the attack.
Police indicated that the students
were returning from a University Interscholastic League
competition that both of them had been participating in when
they arrived at the school by bus and unloaded in the parking
lot to wait for parents and family to pick them up.
April 23, 2004: Tampa, FL
A 54-year-old female custodian was found dead at her new job
at a middle school. She was found in a classroom by another
custodian around 7:35pm that evening. She was alive but
efforts to revive her were unsuccessful and she was pronounced
dead at the scene. Police said the victim suffered upper body
injuries and that she was not shot, but they were still
attempting to identify the weapon/method used in the attack. A
36-year-old male registered sex offender was later arrested
and charged.
April 27, 2004: Philadelphia,
PA
An 18-year-old male student reportedly hanged himself in a
high school auditorium. His body was found on a stage by a
group of 9th-grade students.
April 30, 2004: Boston, MA
A 19-year-old male non-student stabbed a 17-year-old female
high school student in the back outside of her high school
around 7:30am. The male then stabbed himself while the police
were pursuing him. He died the following day (May 1st) from
the stabbing injuries. The incident forced the school to
postpone its junior prom the evening of April 30th.
May 24, 2004: Salt Lake City,
UT
A 39-year-old female high school cafeteria worker was shot in
the chest and head as she walked out of the faculty parking
lot at the school around 6:00am. The suspect, her
52-year-old estranged husband, reportedly then shot and killed
himself with one shot to the head. The suspect
reportedly had walked up to the victim after she got out of
her vehicle in the faculty parking lot and a struggle ensued
after the male pulled out the gun. Both bodies were found on a
grassy area in front of the school's faculty parking lot.
Police cordoned off the area as students arrived and held up
sheets to block their view before the bodies were removed by
the medical examiner's office. Police later said the couple
was in the process of a divorce. Counselors were made
available at the school, which is located near downtown Salt
Lake City.
June 25, 2004: Omaha, NE
A 16-year-old female high school student, who had left the
school building to go to lunch during summer school, died
after reportedly being jumped and beaten by a group of
females in the parking lot after leaving a Burger King.
Reports indicate that the victim was a sophomore special-needs
student who was also a severe asthmatic. The victim's
16-year-old friend, who was with her at the time, reportedly
received a broken nose and several bruises. The deceased
victim had reportedly been the victim of bullying and
harassment during the school year, and reports indicate that
the school had taken action upon the report of such activity.
News accounts indicate that students were not authorized to
leave the summer school campus for lunch, but it would be easy
to do so due to the number of students coming and going during
that time.
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Sample of
Reported
School-Related Shootings Not Resulting in Deaths
A sample of school-related
shootings occurring nationwide in the 2003-2004 school year
not resulting in death is listed below. It should be noted
that this is only a sample and and is not intended to
include all of the many incidents involving firearms
confiscated but not used, and other weapons possession or use
that occur in U.S. schools.
List includes individuals shot but not killed and firearms
discharged in schools, on school campuses and buses, at
school-sponsored events, to and from school involving
students, and as a clear result of school-related
incidents/conflicts.
Total non-death shooting
incidents listed to date: 68
August 29, 2003: San Bernardino,
CA
An early-morning shooting near San Bernardino High startled
students playing on the football field. According to police,
one person in the neighborhood was shot.
September 4, 2003: Chicago, IL
A 15-year-old boy was shot and wounded by a stray bullet near
George Washington High School. Police said the boy was an
innocent bystander in an apparently gang-related shooting.
September 9, 2003: Los Angeles,
CA
Three teenage students were critically wounded outside Taft
High School in Woodland Hills when men in a car shouted a gang
challenge and fire into a crowd of students headed home from
school. According to police, the victims were the unintended
targets of an apparent gang attack.
September 9, 2002: Pittsburgh, PA
Gunfire erupted in the parking lot of a mini-mart across the
street from Peabody High School at dismissal time. One teen
was shot in the leg following a reported argument over a gold
chain necklace.
September 11, 2003: Jackson, MS
An argument between two elementary school girls ended after
one child’s mother shot the other near a school bus stop. The
35-yearold victim suffered a gunshot wound to the chest.
September 15, 2003: Honolulu, HI
A 27-year-old burglary suspect wanted on a warrant was shot by
police after pulling a fake handgun out of a fanny pack as
police approached following a minor accident where the suspect
pulled into a loading area outside of St. Patrick School.
School officials immediately went into a lockdown and no
students were injured.
September 15, 2003: Cypress
Hills, NY
Three students, two age 17 and the other age 16, were shot a
half-block from their Brooklyn/Queens high school after
dismissal in a possible gang-related attack.
September 16, 2003: Los Angeles,
CA
A teenage male student was wounded
while waiting for a bus outside Duke Ellington Continuation
High School. A gunman had stepped into the intersection and
fired multiple shots at a passing SUV.
September 17, 2003: New Orleans,
LA
A 15-year-old high school student was shot in the leg and
approximately 60 of his friends sought refuge with him in a
nearby bar following an altercation between students from two
high schools. Police were seeking a suspect believed to be a
student at one of the schools.
September 17, 2002: Boston, MA
A 15-year-old was shot in the leg and a school police officer
was injured from a flying bullet fragment after a man opened
fire at dismissal outside of Charlestown High School. Police
were investigating the incident as possible gang-related,
although the victims were innocent bystanders.
September 17, 2003: Eldersburg,
MD
A 13-year-old 8th-grade male student middle school student
fired a single shot from a .44 caliber gun belonging to his
father in an empty school bathroom in an apparent suicide
attempt between classes.
September 22, 2003: Spokane, WA
A 17-year-old male student with a gun barricaded himself in a
third-floor classroom at Lewis and Clark High School. Police
SWAT team members eventually had to shoot him to bring an end
to the situation. No students were injured.
September 25, 2003: Lawndale, NC
A male student allegedly fired two
shots inside Burns Middle School as students arrived for
class. No one was injured.
September 30, 2003: Cincinnati,
OH
Police questioned
three people in connection with a shooting that reportedly
took place right across the street from a local elementary
school moments before students were let out for the day.
October
1, 2003: Sacramento, CA
A 19-year-old male high school student, despondent over
a breakup with is girlfriend and armed with a shotgun, was
shot by police after a vice principal wrestled with him for
the gun and the suspect pointed a 12-gauge shotgun at police.
The administrator, a former police officer, was credited by
police for averting a deadly incident.
October 6, 2003: Detroit, MI
A 17-year-old male student was reportedly shot in the leg
while riding on a school bus to his regional vocational
training center school. The shooting appeared to be
accidental. The victim was treated and released at the
hospital.
October 7, 2003: Akron, OH
An 18-year-old man was shot
across the street from Kenmore High School just before 3pm.
A 17-year-old male was arrested and charged with attempted
murder, felonious assault, carrying a concealed weapon,
possessing a firearm in a school safety zone and tampering
with evidence.
October 12, 2003: Syracuse, NY
A 17-year-old male was shot in the buttocks and a
16-year-old male was stabbed in the leg after a fight broke
out between two groups during a high school football game at
a Syracuse high school football field.
November 10, 2003: Dallas, TX
A 15-year-old male student was expelled and faces criminal
charges for allegedly firing a sawed-off shotgun near the
school's tennis courts. A parent who witnessed the incident
reported it to school officials and the principal locked
down the building. The weapon was found in a trash can in a
boys' restroom and two unfired shells were found in the
trash.
November 13, 2003: Charlotte,
NC
A 15-year-old high school student was arrested after a
.25-caliber handgun accidentally discharged while the
student carried it in his pocket. The bullet grazed the
clothing of two students, one in the calf and one in the
heel. Both students returned to class after being checked
by emergency medical workers.
November 18, 2003: York, VA
A 13-year-old high school student was arrested for allegedly
firing a shotgun through the principal's office window at a
middle school on November 11th. One gunshot round reportedly
went through the window. No students were in the school at
the time, but cleaning staff were in the building.
November 20, 2003: Jersey City,
NJ
Gunfire broke out in a Jersey City park, an apparent
continuation of a gang violence that erupted inside and
outside of Lincoln High School earlier in the day, according
to police. Two groups fled as police arrived. Police said
that around 8:30am that morning, eight boys began beating up
one boy in a high school hallway, and a dozen police
officers responded to break up the fight. One male was
arrested for assaulting a teacher who tried to break up the
fight, and a girl was arrested for assaulting a police
officer.
November 20, 2003: Tempe, AZ
A man driving a blue van through a neighborhood near Marcos
de Niza High School reportedly attempted to lure a female
student into the car as she was walking to the school around
8:15am. The female refused and joined a group of other
students walking to school and shots were subsequently fired
from the van. Police found six 9mm shell casings in the
area.
November 24, 2003: San
Francisco, CA
A high school dropout fired several rounds at a city bus
filled with students from nearby International Studies
Academy. No one was hurt. The school district's
superintendent subsequently began preparing a proposal for
weapons checks as students entering schools as this was the
second shooting in less than three weeks.
November 25, 2003: Bristol, PA
An elementary school was locked
down around 2:30pm after the principal heard multiple shots
fired outside of the school and shouting from the street
that someone had a gun.
November 26, 2003: St. Paul, MN
Two males approached the truck of a parent waiting to pick
up a student outside of Humboldt High School and one fired a
shot at the truck. The shot pierced the passenger-side
window of the truck but nobody was injured. Police
reportedly believe that the incident may have been
gang-related.
December 3, 2003: Aurora, CO
A group of four or five males entered Smoky Hill High School
and assaulted a high school senior student around 7:20pm
during a girls' basketball game. School administrators
broke up the fight. Several shots were fired into the air
as the suspects drove away. Police subsequently arrested a
17-year-old male in connection with the incident.
December 4, 2003: Oklahoma City,
OK
An 18-year-old female student was injured by a gunshot fired
outside a high school gym around 2:10pm, just after the
final school bell. A male and female reportedly walked onto
the grounds and began fighting with some students, during
which time the male suspect shoot a gun once into the air.
The suspect was still at large at the time of the report,
but police had a description and license plate on the auto
used by the suspects.
December 5, 2003: San Antonio,
TX
Three shots were fired in a drive-by shooting outside of St.
Francis Academy charter school at dismissal in a suspected
gang-related shooting, but the quick action of teachers and
police were credited with preventing anyone of being
injured. A 16-year-old student just missed being hit as a
bullet sliced the front of his jacket, missing his stomach
by inches. Police took five males and two females, all in
their late teens, into custody just after the shooting after
two teachers chased the shooters long enough to get their
car's license number. The suspects, allegedly known gang
members, and two handguns were quickly recovered.
December 5, 2003: Carbondale, IL
A 17-year-old male non-student was arrested for allegedly
shooting and wounding an assistant football coach outside
Carbondale Community High School. The victim was shot in
the thigh. The shooting occurred during a high school
basketball game.
December 8, 2003: Charlotte, NC
A 13-year-old male middle school student was suspended after
a gun fired from his pocket in a middle school classroom.
The weapon was not discovered until lunchtime, however, as
the students and teacher in the room apparently did not
realize what it was that had gone off in the classroom. One
bullet was fired and hit the floor, ricocheted and hit a
wall. Nobody was injured.
December 9, 2003: Fort Worth, TX
A 16-year-old student told
police he was walking from the school about 3:30pm as
students left campus for the day when a car knocked him to
the ground. He reportedly got into another vehicle, at
which time the driver of the first car reportedly fired
several shots at him. Police beefed up patrols due to this
apparent gang-related incident.
December 17, 2003:
Millersville, MD
Old Mill High School (Anne Arundel County Public Schools)
was locked down for approximately two hours after a gunshot
went off in a hallway around 11:30am, according to reports.
A 38-caliber revolver was found hidden in a men's bathroom
and police had no suspects as of the evening of the
shooting.
December 17, 2003: Columbus, OH
Two school buses were found to have bullet marks near the
taillights during maintenance inspections. South-Western
City Schools closed the following two days. The incidents
were being investigated in connection with the Columbus-area
highway shootings which had resulted in one woman being
killed.
December 22, 2003: Odebolt, IA
A 63-year-old male was arrested
for allegedly shooting into the home of a school bus driver
who had turned him in for passing a stopped school bus
earlier in the day.
December 22, 2003: Woodbridge,
NJ
Three males, ages 23, 22, and 17, were arrested in
connection with the shooting of an 18-year-old male in a
high school parking lot around 10:00pm following a
basketball game held earlier at the school. The victim was
struck three times by shots reportedly from a Tech 9
handgun.
January 8, 2004: Huntingtown,
MD
A 16-year-old male was arrested for allegedly shooting at a
school bus filled with 25 children around 2:45pm in the
afternoon. The male also allegedly shot an adult male
driving his vehicle in an unrelated incident earlier in the
day.
January 9, 2004: Memphis, TN
Police say a 14 year old male
middle school student fired two shots at several students
with a .38 caliber handgun. When the principal learned of
the incident the following week, the student was reportedly
suspended, but police were not notified until a pupil
services coordinator contacted them more than two weeks
later.
January 12, 2004: Durham, NC
A 15-year-old boy stepped off a
city bus after a dispute with another 15-year-old boy,
pulled a gun and fired inside the crowded bus. The incident
nearly became a shootout as the other boy, also 15, pulled
out a gun and stood from his seat to fire back, but his
weapon jammed. Both students had been suspended and sent
from the school for fighting.
January 13, 2004: Detroit, MI
An 18-year-old male was shot six times in the leg inside a
Detroit High School around 3:15pm as students were leaving
the building. The victim and the shooter, both non-students,
were in the school prior to a rival basketball game when an
argument broke out. According to reporters, the shooter
left and then came back, shooting the victim.
January 15, 2004: Pomona, CA
A female high school student was shot in the back when a gun
accidentally discharged in class. Two male students were
expected to be charged by authorities.
January 16, 2004: Forestville,
MD
Four Suitland High School students were shot at a Metro bus
stop when an assailant fired into the crowd around 1:15pm.
A man with a handgun reportedly approached the
students and demanded that two of them give him their coats
according to police. The students complied, but a third
student argued with the suspect and the suspect
fired at least two shots into the crowd, and everyone ran.
January 26, 2004: Bloomington,
IL
A 10-year-old male elementary student reportedly took a gun
from a relative's home and the gun fired when a fellow
11-year-old male student handled it on the school bus.
February 3, 2004: Houston, TX
A 12-year-old male fifth-grade
elementary student accidentally shot himself in the groin
with a .380 semiautomatic handgun tucked in his pants which
had been brought from home. The student reportedly showed
the gun to another student and then put it back in his
pants, at which time it discharged. The bullet went through
is groin and exited his body.
February 4, 2004: Spring Hill,
FL
A 37-year-old female was shot at
several times allegedly by her 36-year-old estranged
boyfriend as she attempted to pick up their daughter at an
elementary school. The incident began at the school's bus
loop according to reports. The suspect was charged with
murder, kidnapping, and trespassing on school property with
a firearm. Approximately 50 to 100 children were at or near
the school, in the media center, or at several after-school
programs when the confrontation began around 4:50pm.
February 6, 2004: Shreveport, LA
A 16-year-old male high school
student went to his high school, after having not attended
classes during the day, and got into a fight with other
students. As the School Resource Officer approached him in
the parking lot, the male drove what turned out to be a
stolen vehicle toward the officer. The officer fired and
struck the car as the officer believed his life was in
danger. The student was apprehended.
February 9, 2004: Rochester, NY
A 13-year-old male was stabbed
in the chest and cuts on the arms in a high school parking
lot around 6:50pm. The male then went to a recreation center
where someone called police. The victim had been walking
with a friend when a group approached them and someone in
the group asked if they wanted to buy marijuana, then
stabbed the 13-year-old.
February 9, 2004: East
Greenbush, NY
A 16-year-old student shot and wounded a special-education
teacher in the leg after firing three shotgun blasts in a
high school hallway around 10:30 a.m. The suspect allegedly
fired three rounds from a pump-action 12-gauge shotgun, and
one round hit the teacher in the leg. An assistant principal
stopped the suspect and held him for police.
February 13,
2004: Dayton, OH
A 17-year-old male high school student was shot in the leg
while sitting in a friend's car in the school parking lot.
Police reported that another individual attempted to carjack
the vehicle and the victim pulled out a fake gun, leading to
the carjack suspect pulling out a real gun and shooting the
victim.
February 13,
2004:
Pequannock, NJ
A 53-year-old male was arrested after showing up at a Roman
Catholic High School in a diaper and pink stretch pants
seeking a job application. When his request was denied, he
defecated in the diaper and fled on foot. He was
apprehended shortly thereafter at a nearby supermarket.
February 18,
2004: San Francisco, CA
A gun packed in the backpack of
a 17-year-old male Downtown High School student accidentally
discharged during a Wednesday night class at the nearby
Mission High School.
February 18,
2004: Little Rock, AR
An 18-year-old male former high school student was shot in
the leg by a 15-year-old male suspended high school student
while walking on the school parking lot near the football
field. Campus security
officials reported seeing the 15-year-old male fire
approximately four shots on the opposite side of the track,
according to police. The school's 1,000 students were
dismissed about around 3:45 p.m., approximately 10 minutes
before the shooting. A number of students were leaving
campus through the parking lot at the time of the incident.
The school's track team was also practicing at the time of
the shooting, and a group of girls were playing softball on
the east side of the field.
February 23, 2004: Randolph, MA
A 17-year-old male turned himself in to police for
reportedly shooting a 14-year-old male in the face with a BB
gun at a school bus stop in the morning around 7:20am. The
victim, a middle school student, was shot just below his
eye.
February 23, 2004:
Philadelphia, PA
A 20-year-old male allegedly pointed and fired a gun at
three school police officers and a high principal outside
the school at approximately 3:20pm. The suspect reportedly
fired two to four shots, but no one was hit. He then
dropped the revolver and a bag of crack, and ran, according
to reports. School officials recognized him from a previous
incident and a warrant was put out for his arrest.
February 25,
2004: Decatur, GA
Two 9th grade high school students were arrested after a
.25-caliber gun discharged in a bathroom at the school. One
student reportedly brought the gun to school and was handing
it to the other when it discharged in a modular building
with multiple classrooms outside of the main building. No
injuries were reported.
March 2, 2004:
Centre, AL
A county school bus was hit by at least six bullets fired at
the bus while the bus was taking students home. No suspects
were in custody at the time of the report.
March 2, 2004:
Indianapolis, IN
Two male teens, ages 14 and 17, were arrested after firing
eight shots outside of a middle school just after 11am. No
one was injured. The 14-year-old was a suspended student
from the middle school and the 17-year-old attended a high
school in another area district. A .22-caliber handgun was
confiscated.
March 5, 2004:
Los Angeles, CA
Two charter
school students were wounded in a drive-by shooting outside
of their school at 7:40am. A 16-year-old male was struck in
the back and a 17-year-old female was struck in the leg.
Police said the male was the intended target and that the
incident may have been gang-related.
March 9, 2004:
Fortuna, CA
A 16-year-old male high school student was shot twice in the
legs around 3:20pm in an alley adjacent to his high school.
The superintendent described the incident as a long-standing
dispute over money.
March 9, 2004:
Lewiston, NY
A 17-year-old
male high school student was arrested after he allegedly
shot himself in his right wrist while showing a shotgun to
another student in the school parking lot around 3:38pm.
The student had stashed the gun, which had reportedly been
given to him by a friend, in the trunk of his car.
According to reports, investigators also found a handgun in
his bedroom at home. The handgun reportedly belonged to his
father, who was unaware it was missing from a collection.
March 19, 2004:
Charlotte, NC
A man started shooting as a school bus pulled up to its stop
in a south Charlotte neighborhood to drop off students.
An
SUV carrying four people was struck and one woman inside was
injured when glass from one of the windows shattered,
hitting her. No one was reported as being struck by a
bullet.
August 5, 2003: Otay Mesa, CA
A 13-year-old 8th grade middle school student was stabbed in
science class by a fellow student after they engaged in
horseplay. The victim suffered a stab wound in one leg that
punctured the femoral artery, according to police.
August 15, 2003: Dacula, GA
A 16-year-old male high school student stabbed a 15-year-old
in the abdomen after a fight.
August 20, 2003: Oakdale, CA
Three juvenile high school students were stabbed during a
fight in a high school parking lot.
August 27, 2003: New Orleans,
LA
Two men carrying assault rifles robbed a credit union, stopped
their getaway briefly to exchange gunfire with police, and
then surrendered after crashing into Frederick Douglass Senior
High School, according to police.
August 28, 2003: Houston, TX
About a dozen police were on campus following fights
reportedly due to tensions between Hispanic and black
students.
September 1, 2002: Woonsocket,
RI
Two teenage males, ages 15 and 15, were charged with making
threats to commit a "Columbine-style" killing spree at
Woonsocket High School. Police said they told a friend during
an Internet chat that they were going to get guns and shoot
everybody at school.
September 3, 2003: Glen Burnie,
MD
A former Glen Burnie High student was arrested after allegedly
stabbing a 13-year-old student on high school grounds,
according to police. The Anne Arundel County School District
victim was stabbed once in the lower abdomen.
September 3, 2003: Chicago, IL
A teenage who
dropped a loaded handgun while being chased by police briefly
sought refuge inside a West Side elementary school. No
students were injured.
September 9, 2003: Durham, NC
Police charge 24 people in a
gang-related brawl outside a high school. The 24 suspects were
described by police as a mixture of the high school's students
and outsiders that came onto the campus.
September 10-11, 2003:
Manchester, CT
Seven high school students were
arrested during two related fighting incidents on consecutive
days. On Sept. 10, four students were arrested after a fight
in the cafeteria in which a staff member's nose is broken. On
Sept. 11, three students were arrested after a disturbance in
the school parking lot, during which a teenage girl kicked a
police officer.
September 15, 2003: Omaha, NE
An elementary school teacher was robbed and carjacked at
gunpoint in her school's parking lot while taking supplies
from the trunk of her car around 8:00am.
September 15, 2003:
Pascagoula, MS
Police arrested a 35-year-old mother in front of an elementary
school for allegedly attacking another mother, age 24, with a
meat cleaver. The two mothers were believed to have been
fighting over something to do with their children.
September 15-29, 2003: New
York, NY
On September 29th, a 15-year-old male student was stabbed in
the back with a knife at 9:45am by an intruder while outside
of the cafeteria at Murrow school. The victim required three
stitches. Just 15 minutes after this incident, at another
school, Bowne in Flushing, a 17 year old allegedly stabbed
another student in the neck and on the left ear during a fight
over a girl. On Sept. 17, two boys were slashed outside
Brandeis High School on the upper West Side. The same day, a
student was hurt in a cafeteria box-cutter attack at Forest
Hills High School in Queens. On Sept. 15, a man opened fire on
a group of brawling boys near Franklin K. Lane High School in
Queens, wounding three teens.
September 16, 2003: Erie, PA
An 11-year-old 6th grade male was suspended after showing a
fake grenade and threatening to blow up his school bus.
September 18, 2003: Helena, MT
A 17-year-old male high school student was charged for
bringing a loaded .25 caliber handgun to school with the
intent to "harm or kill" another student.
September 23, 2003: Davis, CA
An elementary school and a middle school were evacuated after
two male students, ages 11 and 13, allegedly brought pipe
bombs to the schools.
September 25, 2003: Boston, MA
A 12-year-old 6th grader was arrested and charged for stabbing
a 12-year-old 7th grade male in the chest during a fight while
on a bus full of students arriving at their middle school
around 7:20am.
September
30, 2003: Mount Vernon, NY
A 16-year-old male student was threatened by another
teen with a handgun. In an unrelated incident, an 18-year-old
student was threatened by another teen with a gun in the
school parking lot.
September 30, 2003: Westfield,
IN
A 15-year-old high school student was suspended pending an
expulsion hearing for possessing a hit list with the names of
60 individuals, including the principal.
September 30, 2003: Wickenburg,
AZ
A 16-year-old male was taken into custody and subsequently
charged for plotting a massacre at a high school, narrowly
avoiding a tragedy according to officials. The student was
arrested after police got a tip from a resident who logged
onto an Internet chat room the boy frequented. The boy
reportedly did not attend the school where the plot was to
occur. Authorities said the arrest was based upon information
from notebooks, numerous weapons, and other evidence seized
from the youth.
October 1, 2003: Lovejoy, GA
A
14-year-old male high school student was charged for plotting
a Columbine-like killing. The male allegedly had detailed
plans to block the fire exits and then pull the alarm and
shoot people as they tried to leave. Students told authorities
that the boy was trying to recruit them and had diagrams and
notes. No weapons were found at the school, but police
reported that the student had access to his father's handgun.
Police seized the boy's notebook, which contained his plans
for the killings, including a photocopy of the school's fire
evacuation plan.
October 1, 2003: Farmington
Hills, MI
Three teenage males, two age 18 and one age 19, climbed onto
the roof of an elementary school armed with a high-powered
rifle and drunk, according to police. The suspects reportedly
planned to target cars going by in the area, police said.
October 3, 2003: Charlotte, NC
Four high school students were arrested and two police
officers were injured during a fight that broke out during a
homecoming pep rally, according to police. The fight started
on a school field and moved across campus to the bus parking
lot.
October 3, 2003: Idaho Fallls,
ID
Students
at two high schools reportedly were involved in numerous
fights. A student required stitches after one fight and in
another that was not on school grounds, someone fired a rifle
into the air, according to police.
October
3, 2003: Tampa, FL
A 14-year-old being pursued by police on felony warrants ran
through an elementary school, causing school officials to go
into "lockdown" for 45 minutes.
October
8, 2003: Des Moines, IA
Police report that parents of nine high schools were advised
of a suspected suicide pact involving their children a week
after a 15-year-old classmate hanged himself. Five girls and
four boys, many freshmen and sophomores, were reportedly
involved. The 15-year-old hanged himself the week prior
following a car crash that killed three of his friends on
September 23rd.
October 10, 2003: New Orleans,
LA
One adult and eight juvenile
high school students were arrested
for allegedly beating five other students in the parking lot
at John F. Kennedy High School in connection with neighborhood
rivalry altercations. The fight reportedly started inside the
school and end in the parking lot where school security
officials intervened and call police shortly before 3:00p.m.
A 15-year-old male was knocked unconscious, an 18-year-old had
a knot on his head and swollen mouth, and three others
complained of minor pain, according to police.
October 10, 2003: Los Angeles,
CA
A San Fernando Middle School sixth-grade teacher was beaten
and robbed at gunpoint in her classroom around 4:30p.m. when a
male stranger approached her and struck her on the head and
face with a gun. The male then stole her purse and fled.
October 14, 2003: Cocoa, FL
Nearly a dozen Cocoa High School students
were injured, four arrested and two subdued by stun guns after
a brawl broke out during the school's fifth bomb threat in
eight days.
October 14, 2003:
Arlington, TX
A 16-year-old male high school student was arrested for
allegedly stabbing a 14-year-old male student in the school's
gym locker room. The attack reportedly stemmed from a
conflict about the theft of the victim's cell phone a week
earlier.
October 15, 2003: New Orleans,
LA
A 15-year-old female high school student was arrested for
allegedly slashing a fellow female student on the buttocks
with a box cutter while on her way to homeroom around 8:30am.
October 16, 2003: New
Carrolton, MD
A 14-year-old
Charles Carroll Middle School student suffered a punctured
lung after being stabbed during what police believe was a
gang-related fight. A 13-year-old suspect was arrested.
October 17, 2003: Richmond, VA
A 15-year-old male high school student was arrested for
allegedly assaulting a 32-year-veteran female physics and
biology teacher. The teacher was hospitalized after she
reportedly was knocked to the ground and repeatedly kicked and
hit in her face and body. The teacher took a classroom
telephone away from the student after he allegedly ignored
three directives to end a telephone conversation.
October 22, 2003: Hopkinton,
MA
A freshman female high school student reportedly confessed to
school officials that she scrawled a hit list in a high
school's girls' restroom. The hit list reportedly threatened
10 students and a teacher and included racial slurs.
October 22, 2003: Howard, MD
Five male high school students were arrested for reportedly
being involved in a plot to buy a handgun after the unloaded
weapon was found inside a locker on campus.
October 22, 2003: Nehawka, NE
A middle school was locked down after a woman ran into the
school claiming that her husband was chasing her and that he
was armed with a gun. Sheriff's deputies arrested an adult
male with a loaded firearm in his vehicle for carrying a
concealed weapon and making terroristic threats. The male was
found sitting in a truck parked outside the school by the
school principal who went outside to investigate and got the
male to move away from the school, talking to the male for 10
to 15 minutes before deputies arrived, according to reports.
October 22, 2003: New York, NY
Two male alleged gang members, ages 16 and 18, were arrested
for allegedly slashing a 15-year-old student in the face
outside of a high school in an incident reportedly triggered
by the victim having grabbed a female's buttocks.
October 22, 2003: Concord, NC
A 15-year-old male high school student was arrested for an
alleged plot to detonate explosive at his school and on school
buses. Police reportedly found detailed plans, maps,
instructions on building explosives and homemade napalm in his
possession at his home. The male also allegedly had a "corpse
list" with more than 20 nicknames and descriptions of people
who would be killed, including himself.
October 23, 2003: Yreka, CA
A 12-year-old male student was stabbed by a 12-year-old male
following an argument on an elementary school playground. The
victim suffered injuries to his rib cage.
October 26, 2003: Baltimore, MD
The FBI is investigating a Saudi college student and his
American wife who recently videotaped a Jewish school in
Baltimore and said they sent the footage to Saudi Arabia,
according to law enforcement officials. The Saudi man and his
wife were seen videotaping an Orthodox school for girls, Beit
Yakov, on Oct. 26 and fled after witnesses wrote down their
automobile's license plate number. Law enforcement officials
were contacted and later interviewed the couple, who said the
video was intended for the man's parents in Saudi Arabia. The
couple has not been charged, and law enforcement officials
have declined to identify them. Federal and local law
enforcement officials emphasized that they have not uncovered
any reason to believe the couple was casing the school. The
inquiry has been broadened to Saudi Arabia, where the FBI is
trying to recover the tape, and to the woman's home state,
Utah, the officials said.
October 29, 2003: Newark, NJ
Three teenage high school students, ages 17, 15, and 14, were
hospitalized after being attacked inside a high school around
9am by 15 other students and possibly non-students. The
incident was believed to have stemmed from a dispute the prior
day, although it was not reported to be gang-related. Two
juveniles suspects were later arrested.
October 29, 2003: Marion, LA
A 14-year-old male student brought a semiautomatic pistol to
school, robbed his teacher of his car keys, and took a
12-year-old male student hostage before leading deputies on a
high-speed chase. The chase, which reached up to 90mph, ended
without injury after about 20 minutes.
October 30, 2003:
Guntersville, AL
A 17-year-old female student at a technical school allegedly
gave birth to a child and abandoned the baby covered with
toilet paper in a school restroom.
November 6, 2003: Omaha, NE
A 41-year-old male was arrested for allegedly throwing a pipe
bomb into a year, causing evacuation of a nearby school. The
device was reportedly thrown into a backyard of a home because
the relative of the person living there allegedly owned the
suspect money. School officials reportedly locked down the
school and then left the building once police told them it was
safe.
November 10, 2003: St. John
the Baptist Parish, LA
Sheriff's officials were investigating the theft of
approximately $10,000 in cash from a West John High School
safe. A school employee reported the theft around 7:23am
after finding the safe open and its contents scattered. The
safe reportedly contained revenue primarily from the school's
Friday night homecoming game.
November 10, 2003: Washington,
DC
A 16-year-old student assaulted a 17-year-old student, and
then 15 to 20 other students joined the brawl in a
gang-related dispute inside a high school cafeteria around
12:15pm. Two 16-year-old students were reportedly taken to
the hospital for a checkup and a police officer with an
accelerated heartbeat was taken as well.
November 10, 2003: Vidor, TX
Five high school students were barred from school and two of
the five were in custody, according to the school's
superintendent, for allegedly plotting to shoot more than 20
students and four school administrators.
November 10, 2003: Charlotte,
NC
A shooting near an elementary school left a man with two
gunshot wounds and prompted a lockdown of the elementary
school.
November 11, 2003: Detroit, MI
The mother of an 11-year-old student allegedly walked into a
classroom full of students and began choking and pushing her
daughter's teacher. Police were still looking for the parent
at the time of the report.
November 13, 2003: Hayward, CA
Hayward High School was ordered locked down for about two
hours after police received a report of a possibly armed
non-student youth on campus. Police did not locate the
suspect.
November 17, 2003: Hyde Park,
NY
A 35-year-old male assistant high school principal was charged
with falsely reporting a November 3rd incident where he
alleged he was stabbed in a school restroom. Police alleged
that the administrator inflicted stab wounds on himself.
November 17, 2003: Charlotte,
NC
A 44-year-old high school principal was taken to the hospital
for treatment of knife wounds, bruises, and possible broken
bones after being found by staff on an athletic field around
8:20am. The administrator stated that he was making a routine
walk around the campus, saw three people spray painting
bricks, and confronted them. He stated that one of the
individuals pulled a knife and tried to stab him, and during
the struggle another pulled out a chrome handgun, pointed the
gun at him, and another hit him in the head with a blunt
object. He stated that they then dragged him 500 yards to a
softball field dugout where they kicked, stabbed, and punched
him. Police investigations were ongoing as there reportedly
were difficulties in verifying the above reported nature of
the alleged attack.
November 18, 2003: Miami, FL
A 20-year-old male was arrested after hijacking a school bus
with 38 students on board and ordering the driver to take him
to a stadium to save the kids from terrorists. A high school
assistant principal coincidentally driving near the bus
observed unusual conduct, cut in front of the bus, and got
onboard the bus after it stopped, talking to the hijacker
until police arrived.
November 20-21, 2003:
Stillwater, MN
Multiple fights involving exchanges of racial epithets and
physical altercations occurred over a two day period at a high
school, resulting in 16 students being suspended. Police and
school officials were investigating the incidents.
November 22, 2003: Redmond, WA
Five high school students were arrested on suspicion of using
or selling drugs after a two-month undercover police
investigation using a 22-year-old rookie police officer.
November 24, 2003: New York,
NY
Two 15-year old male high school students were stabbed near
their Manhattan high school when a fight broke out outside a
subway entrance. One student was stabbed twice, the other had
a puncture wound, according to officials.
December 1, 2003: Vandalia, OH
A 16-year-old male student was stabbed twice in his leg
allegedly by someone wearing a black ski mask as the student
entered his high school restroom around 7:40am. The suspect
fled but police recovered a knife on scene.
December 2, 2003: Jersey City,
NJ
A 13-year-old male charter school student was allegedly
stabbed six times in the chest, back, shoulder, and side
during a street fight while walking home from school. Three
teens, ages 13, 15, & 17, were subsequently arrested.
December 2, 2003: Detroit, MI
A 17-year-old male was reportedly beaten by a group of three
suspects, at least one believed to be another student, outside
of a high school. Two students witnessed the attack and came
to the victim's aid. The attackers reportedly kicked the
victim in the head while one beat him with a pipe. The father
of the suspect reportedly said that the attack may be related
to an alleged sexual assault involving a female.
December 4, 2003: Augusta, GA
A high school student was stabbed multiple times by another
student on his school bus, according to police. The students,
both juveniles, reportedly confronted each other on the bus
and one student pulled a knife, stabbing the other student
several times.
December 5, 2003: Newburgh, NY
A fight involving at least 150 teenagers, some armed with golf
clubs, metal rods, and tree limbs, broke out in front of
Newburgh Free Academy. One 18-year-old who was arrested in
the rumble told police that he was forced to defend himself
from friends of another 18-year-old who was stabbed the day
before in the city.
December 8, 2003: Tucson, AZ
Approximately 1,500 magnet school students were held inside
their school in a lockdown while people searched for two
suspects in the robbery of a nearby credit union. The school
normally dismisses at 3:50pm, but students were held until
around 4:40pm because of the incident. One of the suspects
was found a short distance from the school, according to
police.
December 8, 2003: Nassau
County, NY
An argument during a lunch break between two alternative
school students, both age 16, escalated into a shoving match
and ended with police arresting 14 people for disorderly
conduct and trespassing. The two students originally in the
fight had been sent home separately but returned with others,
many of them not students. Some who were arrested have
previously been identified by police as gang members,
according to police.
December 9, 2003: Palm Beach
Gardens, FL
An 18-year-old high school student was stabbed three times
during a lunchtime fight with another 18-year-old student.
The suspect would be charged with attempted murder, according
to police. The suspect reportedly pulled out a jackknife with
a four-inch blade during an argument in a courtyard.
December 9, 2003: Sacramento,
CA
A 14-year-old female student pulled out a steak knife and
stabbed a 15-year-old female student in the side of the chest
during a lunchtime altercation in their high school cafeteria,
according to school security officials. Both students were
taken in ambulances to a hospital where the female with the
stab wound underwent exploratory surgery. The other female
reportedly was treated for a broken nose. Reports indicate
that the altercation was over a boy.
December 9, 2003: Cleburne, TX
Three middle school students were reportedly stabbed and
received what school officials described as "puncture wounds"
by another student. Doctors reportedly believed that the
wounds were caused by a small blade, possibly a utility knife
type weapon. The suspect was suspended and police will file
charges.
December 11, 2003: Annandale,
VA
A 15-year-old male high school student was stabbed in the neck
after school. The student was first attacked near the school
but got away, but the attackers caught up with him at a
shopping center parking lot and stabbed him in the neck.
Police reportedly believe that the student may have been a
victim of gang-related violence.
December 11, 2003: New York,
NY
A 15-year-old ninth-grade high school student was stabbed in
the bicep by a 16-year-old classmate. In unrelated incidents
in NYC Schools this same week, an eighth-grade male punched a
teacher in the jaw, chest, and groin in a detention room at a
junior high school. Three students were also arrested at a
high school for fighting with two school security officers.
December 12, 2003: New York,
NY
Seven students were arrested at a Queens high school during a
9:50am disturbance which reportedly began as a fight among
four high school females. Police arrested the girls but a
group of boys began running back and forth on the second floor
of the schools, causing police to spray the hallway with
pepper spray. The boys continued and were eventually arrested
for disorderly conduct, according to reports.
December 16, 2003: Detroit, MI
Sic weapons, including knives and razor blades, were
confiscated as police and school officials conducted an
unannounced weapons sweep at Henry Ford High School.
December 16, 2003: Las Cruces,
NM
A high school student and a school security officer were
hospitalized after a fight involving 80 to 100 students broke
out near the school gym. The student was treated for head
injuries and the teacher was treated for leg and head
injuries. Four suspects were detained.
December 17, 2003: New Orleans,
LA
A 17-year-old suspended student reportedly attacked a school
security officer, sending the security officer to the hospital
after he was repeatedly punched and kicked.
December 17, 2003: Conyers, GA
A 51-year-old male, the estranged husband of a high school
Spanish teacher, was arrested for allegedly bursting into her
classroom during a final exam and attempting to stab the
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