A Time Line of Recent Worldwide School Shootings (Psychotropic Medications)

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[sSRI-Research] A Time Line of Recent Worldwide School Shootings

 

 

http://www.holology.com/shooting.html#8

 

 

 

In 1999 I created the School Shootings Report you're reading here

because I wanted to explore alternative explanations for these

recurring events besides the pat answers of banning guns and violent

video games continually bouncing around in the mass-media mind vacuum.

I wanted to systematically study the major school shooting events to

find similarities and differences using tools like the Event Matrix.

 

 

 

 

 

Psychotropic Medications

 

 

 

Although certain similarities and differences did emerge, the

strongest correlation that I found was the use of anti-depressants by

these teenagers.

 

 

 

It's interesting to note that anti-depressants like Prozac, Ritalin,

Paxil and Luvox when used by teenagers have now, five years later,

been found to cause suicidal behavior. [1] Certain pharmaceutical

companies have been eager to expand their profits by finding and

exploiting new demographics for their existing drug line even to the

point of suppressing studies that proved their drugs were dangerous

when given to kids. [2] Medicating teens and even pre-teens with these

psychotropic drugs is a recent phenomenon and correlates quite well

with the new form of especially violent school shootings that have

occurred over the past ten years.

 

A Time Line of Recent Worldwide School Shootings

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0777958.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

Feb. 2, 1996

Moses Lake, Wash. Two students and one teacher killed, one other

wounded when 14-year-old Barry Loukaitis opened fire on his algebra class.

March 13, 1996

 

Dunblane, Scotland 16 children and one teacher killed at Dunblane

Primary School by Thomas Hamilton, who then killed himself. 10 others

wounded in attack.

Feb. 19, 1997

 

Bethel, Alaska Principal and one student killed, two others wounded by

Evan Ramsey,

16. March 1997

 

Sanaa, Yemen Eight people (six students and two others) at two schools

killed by Mohammad Ahman al-Naziri.

Oct. 1, 1997

 

Pearl, Miss. Two students killed and seven wounded by Luke Woodham,

16, who was also accused of killing his mother. He and his friends

were said to be outcasts who worshiped Satan.

Dec. 1, 1997

 

West Paducah, Ky. Three students killed, five wounded by Michael

Carneal, 14, as they participated in a prayer circle at Heath High School.

Dec. 15, 1997

 

Stamps, Ark. Two students wounded. Colt 14, was hiding in the

woods when he shot the students as they stood in the parking lot.

March 24, 1998

 

Jonesboro, Ark. Four students and one teacher killed, ten others

wounded outside as Westside Middle School emptied during a false fire

alarm. Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, shot at their

classmates and teachers from the woods.

April 24, 1998

 

Edinboro, Pa. One teacher, John Gillette, killed, two students wounded

at a dance at James W. Parker Middle School. Andrew Wurst, 14, was

charged.

May 19, 1998

 

Fayetteville, Tenn. One student killed in the parking lot at Lincoln

County High School three days before he was to graduate. The victim

was dating the ex-girlfriend of his killer, 18-year-old honor student

Jacob Davis.

May 21, 1998

 

Springfield, Ore. Two students killed, 22 others wounded in the

cafeteria at Thurston High School by 15-year-old Kip Kinkel. Kinkel

had been arrested and released a day earlier for bringing a gun to

school. His parents were later found dead at home.

June 15, 1998

 

Richmond, Va. One teacher and one guidance counselor wounded by a

14-year-old boy in the school hallway.

April 20, 1999

 

Littleton, Colo. 14 students (including killers) and one teacher

killed, 23 others wounded at Columbine High School in the nation's

deadliest school shooting. Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, had

plotted for a year to kill at least 500 and blow up their school. At

the end of their hour-long rampage, they turned their guns on themselves.

April 28, 1999

 

Taber, Alberta, Canada One student killed, one wounded at W. R. Myers

High School in first fatal high school shooting in Canada in 20 years.

The suspect, a 14-year-old boy, had dropped out of school after he was

severely ostracized by his classmates.

May 20, 1999

 

Conyers, Ga. Six students injured at Heritage High School by Thomas

Solomon, 15, who was reportedly depressed after breaking up with his

girlfriend.

Nov. 19, 1999

 

Deming, N.M. Victor Cordova Jr., 12, shot and killed Araceli Tena, 13,

in the lobby of Deming Middle School.

Dec. 6, 1999

 

Fort Gibson, Okla. Four students wounded as Seth Trickey, 13, opened

fire with a 9mm semiautomatic handgun at Fort Gibson Middle School.

Dec. 7, 1999

Veghel, Netherlands One teacher and three students wounded by a

17-year-old student.

Feb. 29, 2000

 

Mount Morris Township, Mich. Six-year-old Kayla Rolland shot dead at

Buell Elementary School near Flint, Mich. The assailant was identified

as a six-year-old boy with a .32-caliber handgun.

March 2000

 

Branneburg, Germany One teacher killed by a 15-year-old student, who

then shot himself. The shooter has been in a coma ever since.

March 10, 2000

 

Savannah, Ga. Two students killed by Darrell Ingram, 19, while leaving

a dance sponsored by Beach High School.

May 26, 2000

 

Lake Worth, Fla. One teacher, Barry Grunow, shot and killed at Lake

Worth Middle School by Nate Brazill, 13, with .25-caliber

semiautomatic pistol on the last day of classes.

Sept. 26, 2000

 

New Orleans, La. Two students wounded with the same gun during a fight

at Woodson Middle School.

Jan. 17, 2001

 

Baltimore, Md. One student shot and killed in front of Lake Clifton

Eastern High School.

Jan. 18, 2001

 

Jan, Sweden One student killed by two boys, ages 17 and 19.

March 5, 2001

 

Santee, Calif. Two killed and 13 wounded by Charles Andrew Williams,

15, firing from a bathroom at Santana High School.

March 7, 2001

 

Williamsport, Pa. Elizabeth Catherine Bush, 14, wounded student

Kimberly Marchese in the cafeteria of Bishop Neumann High School; she

was depressed and frequently teased.

March 22, 2001

 

Granite Hills, Calif. One teacher and three students wounded by Jason

Hoffman, 18, at Granite Hills High School. A policeman shot and

wounded Hoffman.

March 30, 2001

 

Gary, Ind. One student killed by Donald R. Burt, Jr., a 17-year-old

student who had been expelled from Lew Wallace High School.

Nov. 12, 2001

 

Caro, Mich. Chris Buschbacher, 17, took two hostages at the Caro

Learning Center before killing himself.

Jan. 15, 2002

 

New York, N.Y. A teenager wounded two students at Martin Luther King

Jr. High School.

Feb. 19, 2002

 

Freising, Germany Two killed in Eching by a man at the factory from

which he had been fired; he then traveled to Freising and killed the

headmaster of the technical school from which he had been expelled. He

also wounded another teacher before killing himself.

April 26, 2002

 

Erfurt, Germany 13 teachers, two students, and one policeman killed,

ten wounded by Robert Steinhaeuser, 19, at the Johann Gutenberg

secondary school. Steinhaeuser then killed himself.

April 29, 2002

 

Vlasenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina One teacher killed, one wounded by

Dragoslav Petkovic, 17, who then killed himself.

April 14, 2003

 

New Orleans, La. One 15-year-old killed, and three students wounded

at John McDonogh High School by gunfire from four teenagers (none were

students at the school). The motive was gang-related.

April 24, 2003

 

Red Lion, Pa. James Sheets, 14, killed principal Eugene Segro of Red

Lion Area Junior High School before killing himself.

Sept. 24, 2003

 

Cold Spring, Minn. Two students are killed at Rocori High School by

John Jason McLaughlin, 15.

Sept. 28, 2004

 

Carmen de Patagones, Argentina Three students killed and 6 wounded by

a 15-year-old Argentininan student in a town 620 miles south of Buenos

Aires.

March 21, 2005

 

Red Lake, Minn. Jeff Weise, 16, killed grandfather and companion,

then arrived at school where he killed a teacher, a security guard, 5

students, and finally himself, leaving a total of 10 dead.