List of school massacres by death toll

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This is a list of school massacres by death toll.

School massacres

#	Name	Date	Year	Location	Country	Killed	Injured	W	Perpetrator	Terroristic organisations act	Fate of perpetrator(s)	Ref.
1.	Santa María School massacre	Dec. 21	1907	Iquique	Chile	2,000	?	F	Chilean Army	No	300 killed
2.	Beslan school siege	Sept. 1	2004	Beslan, North Ossetia-Alania	Russia	334	800+	FME	Riyad-us Saliheen Brigade of Martyrs	Yes	Most killed by special forces, one captured and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment
3.	Dacca University massacre	March 25	1971	Dhaka	East Pakistan	200	?	FA	Al - Badr	No		[1] [2]
4.	Eastern University massacre	Sept. 5	1990	Chenkalady	Sri Lanka	158	?	F	Sri Lankan Army	No	None	[3]
5.	Peshawar school massacre	Dec. 16	2014	Peshawar	Pakistan	149	114	FME	Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan	Yes	Killed by special forces
6.	Garissa University College attack	April 2	2015	Garissa	Kenya	148	79	F	al-Shabaab	Yes	4 killed and 5 arrested
7.	Kabul school bombing	May 8	2021	Kabul	Afghanistan	90	240	E	Disputed	Yes
8.	Nagerkovil school bombing	Sept. 22	1995	Jaffna	Sri Lanka	71	150	O	Sri Lanka Air Force	No	None
9.	Walisongo School Massacre	May 28	2000	Poso, Central Sulawesi	Indonesia	70	?	FM	Catholic militants	Yes	Executed	[4]
10.	Kyanguli Fire Tragedy	March 24	2001	Machakos County	Kenya	67	?	A	Davis Onyango Opiyo, Felix Mambo Ngumbao (school students)	No	Arrested
11.	Buni Yadi Federal Government College massacre	Feb. 25	2014	Yobe State	Nigeria	59	?	FMA	Boko Haram suspected	Yes
12.	Thammasat University massacre	Oct. 6	1976	Sanam Luang	Thailand	46–100+	167	FO	Police, army and right-wing paramilitary: Red Gaurs, Nawaphon, and Village Scouts	No	None
13.	Chencholai bombing	Aug. 14	2006	Mullaitivu	Sri Lanka	61	155	O	Sri Lanka Air Force [5]	No	None
14.	Aleppo Artillery School massacre	June 16	1979	Aleppo	Syria	50–83	?	FE	Muslim Brotherhood	Yes	Escaped
15.	Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing	April 8	1970	Bahr el-Baqar, Sharqia	Egypt	46	50+	E	Israeli Air Force	No	None
16.	Bath School disaster [a]	May 18	1927	Bath Township, MI	United States	44	58	E	Andrew Kehoe, 55	No	Suicide
19.	Fanglin Village primary school explosion	March 6	2001	Wanzai County, Jiangxi	China	42	27	E	Li Chuicai, 33	No	Suicide
	Mpondwe school massacre	June 16	2023	Mpondwe	Uganda	42	8	EM	Allied Democratic Forces	Yes	2 terrorists killed, 20 people who collaborated with the ADF arrested
	Mamudo school massacre	July 6	2013	Mamudo, Yobe State	Nigeria	42	6+	FA	Boko Haram	Yes	Escaped
21.	Nong Bua Lamphu massacre	Oct. 6	2022	Na Klang district, Nong Bua Lamphu	Thailand	36	10	FMV	Panya Khamrab (ปัญญา คำราบ)	No	Suicide
	September 2022 Kabul school bombing	Sept. 30	2022	Kabul	Afghanistan	36	82	E		Yes	Suicide
22.	Virginia Tech shooting	April 16	2007	Blacksburg, VA	United States	32	17	F	Seung-Hui Cho (조승희), 23	No	Suicide
24.	Ma'alot massacre	May 15	1974	Ma'alot	Israel	31	70	FM	Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine	Yes	Killed by police
	Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting [a]	Dec. 14	2012	Newtown, CT	United States	27	2	F	Adam Lanza, 20	No	Suicide
25.	Gîsca school bombing	April 4	1950	Gîsca, Moldavia	Soviet Union	23	?	E	Vladimir Tatarnikov, 29	No	Suicide
26.	Bacha Khan University attack	Jan. 20	2016	Charsadda	Pakistan	22+	?	FE	Tehrik-i-Taliban	Yes	N	[6]
27.	Uvalde school shooting	May 24	2022	Uvalde, TX	United States	21	18	F	Salvador Rolando Ramos, 18	No	Killed by border patrol tactical team	[7]
28.	Kerch Polytechnic College massacre	Oct. 17	2018	Kerch, Crimea	Russia /   Ukraine	20	70	FE	Vladislav Roslyakov, 18	No	Suicide
30.	2004 Dhemaji school bombing	Aug. 15	2004	Dhemaji, Assam	India	18	40	E	United Liberation Front of Assam [8]	Yes
	Izhevsk school shooting	Sept. 26	2022	Izhevsk, Udmurtia	Russia	18	23	F	Artyom Kazantsev, 34	No	Suicide
33.	University of Texas tower shooting [a]	Aug. 1	1966	Austin, TX	United States	15	31	F	Charles Whitman, 25	No	Killed by police
	Parkland high school shooting	Feb. 14	2018	Parkland, FL	United States	17	17	F	Nikolas Cruz, 19	No	Life imprisonment
	Dunblane massacre	March 13	1996	Dunblane	United Kingdom	17	15	F	Thomas Hamilton, 43	No	Suicide
34.	Erfurt school massacre	April 26	2002	Erfurt	Germany	16	1	F	Robert Steinhäuser, 19	No	Suicide
36.	Winnenden school shooting	March 11	2009	Winnenden and Wendlingen	Germany	15	9	F	Tim Kretschmer, 17	No	Suicide
	2023 Prague shooting	Dec. 21	2023	Prague	Czech Republic	14	25	F	David Kozák, 24		Suicide
37.	École Polytechnique massacre	Dec. 6	1989	Montreal, QC	Canada	14	14	FM	Marc Lépine, 25	No	Suicide
40.	Columbine High School massacre	April 20	1999	Columbine, CO	United States	13	24	F M E	Eric Harris, 18 Dylan Klebold, 17	No	Both died by suicide
	Janaúba massacre	Oct. 5	2017	Janaúba	Brazil	13	37	A	Damião Soares dos Santos, 50		Perished in the flames
	Chlef school attack	Oct. 15	2002	El Hadjadj, Chlef Province	Algeria	13	1	F			None	[9]
43.	Azerbaijan State Oil Academy shooting	April 30	2009	Baku	Azerbaijan	12	13	F	Farda Gadirov, 28	No	Suicide	[10] [11]
	Rio de Janeiro school shooting	April 7	2011	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	12	22	F	Wellington Oliveira, 23	No	Suicide
	Shiguan kindergarten attack	May 8	2006	Shiguan	China	12	5	MA	Bai Ningyang (白宁阳), 18	No	Death penalty
49.	Cologne school massacre	June 11	1964	Cologne	West Germany	10	22	FM	Walter Seifert, 42	No	Suicide
	Santa Fe High School shooting	May 18	2018	Santa Fe, TX	United States	10	13	FE	Dimitrios Pagourtzis, 17	No	Arrested
	Suzano school shooting	March 13	2019	Suzano	Brazil	10	11	FME	Guilherme Taucci Monteiro, 17 Luiz Henrique de Castro, 25		Castro was murdered by Monteiro, who then committed suicide
	Belgrade school shooting	May 3	2023	Belgrade	Serbia	10	6	F	13-year-old male student	No	Arrested	[12] [13]
	Enoch Brown school massacre	July 26	1764	Pennsylvania	Pennsylvania	11	1	FM	4 Lenape Natives	No	Unknown	[14]
	Kauhajoki school shooting	Sept. 23	2008	Kauhajoki	Finland	10	1	FA	Matti Saari, 22	No	Suicide
54.	Kazan school shooting	May 11	2021	Kazan	Russia	9	23	FE	Ilnaz Galyaviev, 19	No	Sentenced to life imprisonment
	Shengshui kindergarten attack	May 12	2010	Linchang	China	9	11	M	Wu Huanming (吴焕明), 47	No	Suicide	[15] [16] [17] [18] [19]
	2015 Umpqua Community College shooting	Oct. 1	2015	Roseburg, OR	United States	9	8	F	Christopher Harper-Mercer, 26	No	Suicide	[20]
	Red Lake massacre [a]	March 21	2005	Red Lake, MN	United States	9	5	F	Jeffrey Weise, 16	No	Suicide
	Ruzhou school massacre	Nov. 26	2004	Ruzhou	China	9	3	M	Yan Yanming (闫彦明), 21	No	Death penalty	[21] [22]
59.	Ikeda school massacre	June 8	2001	Ikeda, Osaka	Japan	8	15	M	Mamoru Takuma (宅間守), 37	No	Death penalty
	2008 Jerusalem yeshiva attack	March 6	2008	Jerusalem	Israel	8	11	F	Alaa Abu Dheim (علاء هاشم أبو دهيم), 26	No	Killed by police
	Studentski grad dormitory massacre	Dec. 25	1974	Sofia	Bulgaria	8	8	FM	Branimir Donchev, 17	No	Arrested, later shot by police during escape attempt	[23] [24] [25]
	Nanping school massacre	March 23	2010	Nanping	China	8	5	M	Zheng Minsheng (郑明生), 41	No	Death penalty	[26] [27] [28] [29]
	Jokela school shooting	Nov. 7	2007	Jokela	Finland	8	1	F A	Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18	No	Suicide
65.	Kumba school massacre	Oct. 24	2020	Kumba, Southwest Region	Cameroon	7	13	FM	Unknown	?
	Lyamino School	Feb. 11	1958	Lyamino, Perm Krai	Soviet Union	7	6	F	Michael Tselousov (Целоусов, Михаил), 24	No	Sentenced to death and executed	[30]
	Burma school massacre	March 26	1975	Kachin	Burma	7	5	M	U Win-maung	No	Killed by police	[31] [32]
	Zhuping school massacre	April 1	1996	Meitian	China	7	5	M	Wang Xiangjun	No	Arrested	[33] [34] [35] [36]
	2012 Oikos University shooting	April 2	2012	Oakland, CA	United States	7	3	F	One Goh, 43	No	Life imprisonment
	California State University, Fullerton massacre	July 12	1976	Fullerton, California	United States	7	2	F	Edward Charles Allaway, 37	No	Arrested
74.	Perm State University shooting	Sept. 20	2021	Perm	Russia	6	23	F	Timur Bekmansurov, 18	No	Severely injured, arrested and later sentenced to life imprisonment
	Anne Anne Kindergarten stabbing [a]	June 3	1982	Sham Shui Po	Hong Kong	6	37	M	Lee Chi Hang (李志衡), 28	No	Sent to psychiatric hospital
	April 2022 Kabul school bombing	April 19	2022	Kabul	Afghanistan	6	25	E		Yes	Unknown
	Sanaa school shooting	March 30	1997	Sanaa	Yemen	6	12	F	Mohammed Ahmad Misleh al-Nazari, 48	No	Death penalty	[37]
	Shafrir synagogue shooting attack	April 11	1956	Kfar Chabad	Israel	6	5	F		Yes	Unknown
	West Nickel Mines School shooting	Oct. 2	2006	Nickel Mines, PA	United States	6	4	F	Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32	No	Suicide
	Massacre in the Leningrad higher military political school of Ministry of Internal Affairs	May 19	1977	Leningrad	Soviet Union	6	2	F	Anatoly Fedorenko (Федоренко, Анатолий)	No	Sentenced to death and executed	[38]
	Massacre in the Kamyshin higher military engineer school	March 9	1997	Kamyshin	Russia	6	2	F	Sergei Lepnev (Лепнев, Сергей), 18	No	25 years in prison	[39] [40] [41]
	2023 Nashville School Shooting	March 27	2023	Nashville, Tennessee	United States	6	1	F	Aiden Hale, 28	No	Killed by police
87.	Stockton schoolyard shooting	Jan. 17	1989	Stockton, CA	United States	5	32	F A	Patrick Purdy, 24	No	Suicide
	Atzmona attack	March 7	2002	Atzmona	Gaza Strip	5	23	F E	Mohammed Fathi Farhat (محمد فتحي فرحات), 17	No	Killed by soldiers	[42] [43] [44]
	Poe Elementary School bombing	Sept. 15	1959	Houston, TX	United States	5	19	E	Paul Harold Orgeron, 49	No	Killed by the explosion	[45]
	Northern Illinois University shooting	Feb. 14	2008	DeKalb, IL	United States	5	17	F	Steven Kazmierczak, 27	No	Suicide
	Eppstein school shooting	June 3	1983	Eppstein	West Germany	5	14	F	Karel Charva, 34	No	Suicide	[46] [47]
	Obafemi Awolowo University massacre	July 10	1999	Ifẹ, Osun State	Nigeria	5	11	FM	Black Axe	No
	1998 Westside Middle School shooting	March 24	1998	Jonesboro, AR	United States	5	10	F	Andrew Golden, 11 Mitchell Johnson, 13	No	Both imprisoned until their 21st birthday
	Huaiji school massacre	Nov. 26	2002	Huaiji	China	5	2	M	Shi Ruoqiu (施若丘), 30	No	Arrested	[48] [49]
	Mesa school massacre	Nov. 12	1966	Mesa, AZ	United States	5	2	F	Robert Smith, 18	No	Life imprisonment	[50]
	2013 Santa Monica shootings	June 7	2013	Santa Monica, CA	United States	5	2	F A	John Zawahri, 23	No	Killed by police
	1991 University of Iowa shooting	Nov. 1	1991	Iowa City, IA	United States	5	1	F	Gang Lu (卢刚), 28	No	Suicide
	San Juan massacre	Oct. 10	1977	San Juan	Trinidad and Tobago	5	0	M			Arrested	[51]
	Maradi massacre	Jan. 10	1994	Maradi	Niger	5	0	M			Arrested	[52]
105.	Thurston High School shooting [a]	May 20/21	1998	Springfield, OR	United States	4	28	F	Kipland Kinkel, 15	No	Life imprisonment	[53]
	Bremen school shooting	June 20	1913	Bremen	Germany	4	21	F	Heinz Schmidt, 29	No	Sent to psychiatric hospital
	Linwu school massacre	Sept. 30	2004	Linwu	China	4	12	M	Liu Hongwen (刘洪文), 28	No	Sent to psychiatric hospital	[54]
	Dendermonde nursery attack	Jan. 23	2009	Beveren and Sint-Gillis-bij-Dendermonde	Belgium	4	12	M	Kim De Gelder, 20	No	Life imprisonment
	Lindhurst High School shooting	May 1	1992	Olivehurst, CA	United States	4	10	F	Eric Houston, 20	No	Death penalty
	2024 Apalachee High School shooting	Sept. 4	2024	Winder, GA	United States	4	7	F	Colt Gray, 14 (accused)	No	Arrested	[55]
	La Loche shootings	Jan. 24	2016	La Loche, SK	Canada	4	7	F	Randan Dakota Fontaine, 17 [56]	No	Life imprisonment	[57]
	Oxford High School shooting	Nov. 30	2021	Oxford Township, Michigan	United States	4	7	F	Ethan Crumbley, 15	No	Life imprisonment	[58] [59]
	2007 Colorado YWAM and New Life shootings	Dec. 9	2007	Arvada and Colorado Springs, CO	United States	4	5	F	Matthew Murray, 24	No	Suicide
	Suixi school massacre	Jan. 26	2003	Suixi	China	4	3	M	Chen Peiquan, 35	No	Arrested	[60]
	Illinois school massacre	Sept. 23	1988	Chicago, IL	United States	4	2	F	Clemmie Henderson, 40	No	Killed by police	[61]
	Gongyi school massacre	Sept. 14	2011	Gongyi	China	4	2	M	Wang Hongbin, 30	No	Arrested	[62]
	Marysville shooting	Oct. 24	2014	Marysville, WA	United States	4	3	F	Jaylen Fryberg, 15	No	Suicide	[63]
	Concordia University massacre	Aug. 24	1992	Montreal, QC	Canada	4	1	F	Valery Fabrikant, 52	No	Life imprisonment	[64]
	Gulbene school massacre	Feb. 22	1999	Gulbene	Latvia	4	1	M	Alexander Koryakov, 19	No	Life imprisonment	[65]
	2001 Isla Vista killings	Feb. 24	2001	Isla Vista, CA	United States	4	1	V	David Attias, 18	No	Sent to psychiatric hospital	[66]
	Ozar Hatorah shooting	March 19	2012	Toulouse	France	4	1	F	Mohammed Merah, 23	No	Killed by police	[67]
	Kunming school killings	Feb. 13–15	2004	Kunming	China	4	0	M	Ma Jiajue (馬加爵), 23	No	Death penalty	[68]
106.	Zibo school massacre	Aug. 3	2010	Zibo	China	3–4	7–20	M	Fang Jiantang (方建堂), 26	No	Death penalty	[69]
107.	Wilno school massacre	May 6	1925	Wilno	Poland	3	~10	F E	Stanisław Ławrynowicz, Janusz Obrąbalski	No	Both died by suicide
109.	1997 Heath High School shooting	Dec. 1	1997	Paducah, Kentucky, Kentucky	United States	3	5	F	Michael Carneal, 14	No	Arrested	[70]
	2023 Michigan State University shooting	Feb. 13	2023	East Lansing MI	United States	3	5	F	Anthony Dwayne McRae, 43	No	Self-inflicted gunshot	[71]
110.	Veshkayma kindergarten shooting	April 26	2022	Veshkayma, Ulyanovsk Oblast	Russia	3	1	F	Ruslan Akhtyamov, 26	No	Suicide

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

The # symbol indicates the massacre's ranking by number of deaths (since this list is sorted by death toll, not by date or by number of overall casualties).

The W column gives a basic description of the weapons used:

F – Firearms and other ranged weapons. This primarily includes rifles and handguns, but also bows and crossbows, grenade launchers, flamethrowers, or slingshots.

M – Melee weapons, like knives, swords, spears, machetes, axes, clubs, rods, rocks, or bare hands.

O – Any other weapons, such as bombs, hand grenades, Molotov cocktails, poison and poisonous gas, as well as vehicle and arson attacks.

A – indicates that fire was the only other weapon used

V – indicates that a vehicle was the only other weapon used

E – indicates that explosives of any sort were the only other weapon used

Notes

1. At least one of the victims was a relative of the assailant.

Rampage killers

This is a list of mass/spree killers who attacked schools. A mass murderer is typically defined as someone who kills three or more people in one incident, with no "cooling off" period. ^{[72] [73]} A mass murder typically occurs in a single location where one or more persons kill several others. ^{[74] [75] [76]}

The victims must be largely the relatives of the perpetrator to be considered a familicide.

This list does not include serial killers, members of democidal governments, or major political figures who orchestrated such actions.

Rampage killings

	Perpetrator	Date	Year	Location	Country	Killed	Injured	W	Additional Notes	Ref.
1	Kehoe, Andrew Philip, 55 [a]	May 18	1927	Bath Township, Michigan	United States	44	58	FME	Committed suicide Also killed numerous animals
2	Li Chuicai, 32	March 6	2001	Fanglin Village, Wanzai County, Jiangxi,	China	41	27	EO	Committed suicide
3	Khamrab, Panya, 34 (ปัญญา คำราบ)	Oct. 6	2022	Na Klang	Thailand	36	10	FMV	Committed suicide
4	Cho, Seung-Hui, 23 (조승희)	April 16	2007	Blacksburg, Virginia	United States	32	17	F	Committed suicide Six more people were injured by jumping out of windows as they escape from the perpetrator
5	Lanza, Adam Peter, 20 [a]	Dec. 14	2012	Newtown, Connecticut	United States	27	2	F	Committed suicide
6	Ramos, Salvador Rolando, 18 [a]	May 24	2022	Uvalde, Texas	United States	21	18	F	Killed by police
7	Roslyakov, Vladislav Igorevich, 18 (Росляков, Владислав Игоревич)	Oct. 17	2018	Kerch	Russia (de facto)   Ukraine (de jure)	20	70	F E	Committed suicide
8	Kazantsev, Artyom Igorevich, 34 (Казанцев, Артём Игоревич)	Sept. 26	2022	Izhevsk	Russia	18	23	F	Committed suicide
9	Cruz, Nikolas Jacob, 19	Feb. 14	2018	Parkland, Florida	United States	17	17	F	Sentenced to life imprisonment
10	Hamilton, Thomas Watt, 43	March 13	1996	Dunblane	United Kingdom	17	15	F	Committed suicide
11	Whitman, Charles Joseph, 25 [a]	Aug. 1	1966	Austin, Texas	United States	15	31	F	Killed by police Terminated a pregnancy One of the victims died in 2001; attributed to this event
12	Steinhäuser, Robert, 19	April 26	2002	Erfurt	Germany	16	1	F	Committed suicide
13	Kretschmer, Tim, 17	March 11	2009	Winnenden and Wendlingen	Germany	15	9	F	Committed suicide
14	Kozák, David, 24	Dec. 21	2023	Prague	Czech Republic	14	25	F	Committed suicide Also killed two people days earlier One more died indirectly
15	Lépine, Marc, 25	Dec. 6	1989	Montreal, Quebec	Canada	14	14	FM	Committed suicide
16	Soares dos Santos, Damião, 50	Oct. 5	2017	Janaúba	Brazil	13	37	A	Committed suicide
17	Harris, Eric David, 18 Klebold, Dylan Bennet, 17	April 20	1999	Columbine, Colorado	United States	13	21	F O	Both committed suicide
18	Menezes de Oliveira, Wellington, 23	April 7	2011	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	12	22	F	Committed suicide
19	Gadirov, Farda, 28	April 30	2009	Baku	Azerbaijan	12	13	F	Committed suicide
20	Bai Ningyang, 18 (白宁阳)	May 8	2006	Shiguan	China	12	5	MA	Sentenced to death and executed
21	Seifert, Willi Walter, 42	June 11	1964	Cologne	West Germany	10	22	FM	Committed suicide
22	Pagourtzis, Dimitrios, 17 (accused)	May 18	2018	Santa Fe, Texas	United States	10	13	F	Arrested
23	Kecmanović, Kosta, 13	May 3	2023	Belgrade	Serbia	10	6	F	Arrested	[12] [13]
24	Saari, Matti Juhani, 22	Sept. 23	2008	Kauhajoki	Finland	10	1	F A	Committed suicide
25	Galyaviev, Ilnaz Rinatovich, 19 (Галявиев, Ильназ Ринатович)	May 11	2021	Kazan	Russia	9	23	F E	Sentenced to life imprisonment
26	Zhao Zewei, 28 (赵泽伟)	April 27	2018	Yulin	China	9	12	M	Sentenced to death and executed	[77]
27	Wu Huanming, 47 (吴焕明)	May 12	2010	Linchang	China	9	11	M	Committed suicide
28	Harper-Mercer, Christopher Sean, 26	Oct. 1	2015	Roseburg, Oregon	United States	9	8	F	Committed suicide
29	Weise, Jeffrey James, 16 [a]	March 21	2005	Red Lake, Minnesota	United States	9	5	F	Committed suicide
30	Yanming, Yan, 21 (闫彦明)	Nov. 26	2004	Ruzhou	China	9	3	M	Sentenced to death and executed	[78]
31	Jiajin, Xu, 21	Nov. 16	2024	Yixing	China	8	17	M	Arrested
31	Takuma, Mamoru, 37 (宅間守)	June 8	2001	Ikeda, Osaka	Japan	8	15	M	Sentenced to death and executed
32	Ala Hisham Abu Dheim, 26 (علاء هاشم أبو دهيم)	March 6	2008	Jerusalem	Israel	8	11	F	Killed by soldiers
33	Henrique de Castro, Luiz, 25 Taucci Monteiro, Guilherme, 17 [a]	March 13	2019	Suzano	Brazil	8	11	FM	Henrique killed by Taucci Taucci committed suicide
34	Donchev, Branimir Delchev, 17 (Дончев, Бранимир Делчев)	Dec. 24	1974	Durvenitsa	Bulgaria	8	8	FM	Found not guilty by reason of insanity Terminated a pregnancy	[79]
35	Zheng Minsheng, 41 (郑民生)	March 23	2010	Nanping	China	8	5	M	Sentenced to death and executed	[80]
36	Yu Hua, 40 (於華)	Sept. 2	2019	Baiyangping	China	8	2	M	Sentenced to death and executed	[81]
37	Auvinen, Pekka-Eric, 18	Nov. 7	2007	Jokela	Finland	8	1	F A	Committed suicide
38	U Win-maung	March 26	1975	Kachin	Burma	7	5	M	Killed by police	[82]
39	Wang Xiangjun	April 1	1996	Meitian	China	7	5	M	Arrested	[83]
40	Goh, One L., 43	April 2	2012	Oakland, California	United States	7	3	F	Sentenced to life imprisonment
41	Bekmansurov, Timur Maratovich, 18 (Бекмансуров, Тимур Маратович)	Sept. 20	2021	Perm	Russia	6	23	F	Sentenced to life imprisonment
42	Lee Chi Hang, 28 [a] (李志衡)	June 3	1982	Sham Shui Po	Hong Kong	6	37	M	Found not guilty by reason of insanity
43	Mohammed Ahmad Misleh al-Nazari, 48	March 30	1997	Sana'a	Yemen	6	12	F	Sentenced to death and executed	[84]
44	Roberts, Charles Carl, 32	Oct. 2	2006	Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania	United States	6	4	F	Committed suicide one of the victims died in 2024; attributed to this event
45	Fedorenko, Anatoly (Федоренко, Анатолий)	May 19	1977	Leningrad	Soviet Union	6	2	F	Sentenced to death and executed	[85]
46	Lepnev, Sergei, 18 (Лепнев, Сергей)	March 9	1997	Kamyshin	Russia	6	2	F	Sentenced to death, later changed to life imprisonment, later changed to 25 years in prison	[86]
47	Wu Moujie, 25 (吴某杰)	July 10	2023	Lianjiang, Guangdong	China	6	1	M	Arrested	[87]
48	Hale, Audrey Elizabeth, 28	March 27	2023	Nashville, Tennessee	United States	6	1	F	Killed by police one more was injured indirectly
49	Purdy, Patrick Edward, 24	Jan. 17	1989	Stockton, California	United States	5	32	F A	Committed suicide
50	Mohammed Fathi Farhat, 17 (محمد فتحي فرحات)	March 7	2002	Gush Katif	Gaza Strip	5	23	F E	Killed by soldiers	[88]
51	Kazmierczak, Steven Phillip, 27	Feb. 14	2008	DeKalb, Illinois	United States	5	17	F	Committed suicide
52	Charva, Karel, 34	June 3	1983	Eppstein	West Germany	5	14	F	Committed suicide	[89]
53	Golden, Andrew Douglas, 11 Johnson, Mitchell Scott, 13	March 24	1998	Jonesboro, Arkansas	United States	5	10	F	Both were imprisoned until their 21st birthday
54	Kipper Mai, Fabiano	May 4	2021	Saudades	Brazil	5	1	M	Sentenced to 329 years and 4 months in prison
55	Kinkel, Kipland Philip, 15 [a]	May 20/21	1998	Springfield, Oregon	United States	4	25	F	Sentenced to 111 years in prison	[90]
56	Schmidt, Heinz Jakob Friedrich Ernst, 29	June 20	1913	Bremen	Germany	4	21	F	Found not guilty by reason of insanity One more died trying to escape
57	Rodrigues Castiglioni, Gabriel, 16	Nov. 25	2022	Aracruz	Brazil	4	12	F	Sentenced to 3 years in prison
58	Liu Hongwen, 28 (刘洪文)	Sept. 30	2004	Linwu County	China	4	12	M	Found not guilty by reason of insanity	[91]
59	De Gelder, Kim, 20	Jan. 16/23	2009	Vrasene and Sint-Gillis-bij-Dendermonde	Belgium	4	12	M	Sentenced to life imprisonment
60	Houston, Eric Christopher, 20	May 1	1992	Olivehurst, California	United States	4	10	F	Sentenced to death
61	Gray, Colt, 14 (accused)	Sept. 4	2024	Winder, Georgia	United States	4	7	F	Arrested	[55]
62	Fontaine, Randan Dakota, 17 [a]	Jan. 22	2016	La Loche, Saskatchewan	Canada	4	7	F	Sentenced to life imprisonment
63	Crumbley, Ethan, 15	Nov. 30	2021	Oxford Township, Michigan	United States	4	7	F	Sentenced to life imprisonment
64	Henrique de Lima, Luiz, 25	April 5	2023	Blumenau	Brazil	4	5	M	Sentenced to 220 years in prison
65	Bayar, Volkan, 37	April 5	2018	Eskişehir	Turkey	4	0	F	Arrested.	[92]
66	Fang Jiantang, 26 (方建堂)	Aug. 3	2010	Zibo	China	3–5	6–20	M	Sentenced to death and executed	[93]
67	Wu Yechang, 25 (吴业昌)	Sept. 21	2012	Pingnan County	China	3	13	M	Sentenced to death and executed	[94]
68	Barbaro, Anthony F., 17	Dec. 30	1974	Olean, New York	United States	3	11	F E	Committed suicide while awaiting trial
69	Ławrynowicz, Stanisław, 22 Obrapalski, Janusz, 21	May 6	1925	Wilno/Vilnius	Poland (current day Lithuania)	3	9	F E	Both committed suicide
70	Solich, Rafael, 15	Sept. 28	2004	Carmen de Patagones	Argentina	3	5	F	Declared too young to be persecuted
71	Lundin Petterson, Anton Niclas, 21	Oct. 22	2015	Trollhättan	Sweden	3	2	M	Killed by police
72	Galaviz, Gabriel Alejandro, 20	March 6	2024	Guadalajara	Mexico	3	1	M	Later died by suicide while awaiting trial.	[95]
73	Arancibia Navarro, Iván Jesus, 47 [a]	Dec. 17	1999	Valparaíso	Chile	3	0	F	Also attempted suicide. Found not guilty by reason of insanity.
74	Vukalić, Mehmed, 50	Aug. 21	2024	Sanski Most	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3	0	F	Also attempted suicide.

Abbreviations and footnotes

1. At least one of the victims was a relative of the assailant.

The W-column gives a basic description of the weapons used in the murders

F – Firearms and other ranged weapons, especially rifles and handguns, but also bows and crossbows, grenade launchers, flamethrowers, or slingshot

M – Melee weapons, like knives, swords, spears, machetes, axes, clubs, rods, rocks, or bare hands

O – Any other weapons, such as bombs, hand grenades, Molotov cocktails, poison and poisonous gas, as well as vehicle and arson attacks

A – indicates that an arson attack was the only other weapon used

V – indicates that a vehicle was the only other weapon used

E – indicates that explosives of any sort were the only other weapon used

P – indicates that an anaesthetising or deadly substance of any kind was the only other weapon used (includes poisonous gas)

See also

• Schools portal

• List of disasters in the United States by death toll
• List of school shootings in the United States (before 2000)
• List of school shootings in the United States (2000–present)
• List of school-related attacks
• School bullying
• School shooting
• School violence

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External links

• Post traumatic stress disorder information for caregivers, professionals and clinicians
• The National Child Traumatic Stress Network
• Directory of crimes and terrorist acts committed in schools and other educational institutions since 2000