Violence in Our Schools

August 1, 2005 through July 31, 2006

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I would like to thank all of the Survivors and others who have contacted me with information about school violence.  I really do appreciate the help, for without their help, several of these occurrences would not be here.

One other thing I would like to ask of those who read over this list of tragedies is this: If you can provide me with any more details of any of these incidents, I would greatly appreciate the information. Or, if you know of another violent act at a school that is not on this list, please forward that information to me as well.  The link to my e-mail is above.

Coronation International College, Lae, Morobe, Papua New Guinea

Tuesday, August 2, 2005

Classes were about to resume after lunch today when a student went on a drug-induced stabbing spree.  He chased the security guard from the scene and stabbed two teachers with a pocket knife.  One of the teachers, from East New Britain, was stabbed on the head and the other teacher, from Morobean, was stabbed in the abdomen.  Both of them were male and died around 3:00 from their wounds.  A female auxiliary staff member was stabbed on her breast.  She was in critical condition at Tusa Private Hospital when this news report was published.  The instigator is from Manus and is a TAFE student.  He was apprehended by the police.  This act of school violence began around 1 p.m. 

Source: The National - Student Stabs, Kills Teachers

Springbrook High School, Silver Spring, Maryland

Friday, August 5, 2005

An argument this morning led to a stabbing this afternoon in Maryland.  A group of male and female students confronted David Gamero and Juan Quito Jr., one 17 and one 16, as they left their summer school classes.  The group missed the student they were looking for and decided to attack his friends when they saw them.  Around 1:10 a fight ensued at the school's parking lot with Alfredo Sanchez, 28, pulling out a knife.  David was "eviscerated" with wounds in the head, lower back and abdomen.  Juan was stabbed multiple times in the back.  They attempted to run back to the school, but collapsed on the ground.  Police and paramedics were called to the scene and the injured students were flown to the hospital for treatment.  Four hours later and seven miles away at a Target store, four more teens were stabbed in another fight.  On Saturday, police arrested five people in connection with the school stabbing.  Those arrested are: Jose Cornejo, 25, Luis Guzman ,19, Kevin Macklin Mendoza, 18, Harris Hauffen, 17 and Rolando Velasquez, 16.  All of them were charged as adults with attempted murder, first and second degree assault and conspiracy.  Henry Caballero, 20 was charged with four counts of attempted murder and first degree assault in the store stabbing.  The injured and the instigators are members of rival Salvadorian gangs.  However, there is no connection between the two stabbings. Since there is no connection between the two stabbings, I am not counting the store stabbing injured in my stats.  On Thursday, August 18, 2005, a grand jury indicted Kevin, Rolando, Harris and Alfredo with one count each of attempted first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, first-degree assault and conspiracy to commit firs-degree assault.  Jorge Arbaiza, 15, was indicted on four counts of attempted first-degree murder at the Target store.  The remaining suspects will have their preliminary hearings in September.  Kevin was sentenced by Judge John W. Debilius III on May 12, 2006 to 18 months in prison.  Luis was sentenced May 15, 2006 by Judge Katherine D. Savage to 88 days served in jail.  Harris was sentenced to 4 1/2 years by Circuit Court Judge Nelson W. Rupp Jr. on Wednesday, May 24, 2006.  Charges against Alfredo because he was indicted on federal racketeering charges.

Source: NBC 4 - Two Stabbed at Springbrook High;  Washington Post - Six Arrested in Maryland Stabbing Case; Business Gazette - Suspected MS13 Members Indicted in Stabbing Attacks; Washington Post - Teenager Gets 4 1/2-Year Term in School Stabbings

Mandarin Middle School, Jacksonville, Florida

Monday, August 8, 2005

As their bus started to leave Mandarin Middle School for home, two 15-year-old boys attacked one of their classmates in the back of the bus.  The boy being attacked tried to avoid the fight by fleeing the emergency rear exit, but the instigators followed and continued to pummel him.  The fight was eventually broken up by school security officers and a police officer.  One of the instigators caused more problems for himself by slightly injuring the officer that was trying to restrain him.  Both of the instigators were charged with battery and one was also charged with assault on a law enforcement officer.  The boy being attacked sustained bruises to his head, mouth and around his right eye.

Source: The Florida Times-Union - Student Attack on School Bus

Gateway (High) School, Orlando, Florida

Thursday, August 11, 2005

Last night 14-year-old Roshounda Cooper wrote herself a note on the front page of her black spiral notebook.  The note said, "Remember to bring knife."  You see, Roshounda and her boyfriend, 15-year-old Jamar Hinds, were breaking up.  As they talked on the phone Wednesday night, she said to him that she would kill him at school with a knife.  This morning, Roshounda put the notebook inside a three-ring binder, a knife into the waistband of her pants and went to school.  As she got off the bus at the school, and before security could check her for weapons, the estranged girlfriend pulled out the 8-inch knife and began to charge Jamar.  A school employee saw her wielding the knife, shouted for help and tried to block her path.  Cpl. Edd Gordon, who was nearby, grabbed her right arm, where the knife was, but she quickly switched it to her left hand.  Cpl. Gordon told her to drop the knife and Roshounda lunged at him.  He was able to push her away and then drew his service pistol, a .45-caliber Glock semiautomatic.  He aimed it at her as she advanced on him.  "Don't point that gun at me," she cried.  Cpl. Gordon pushed her away again.  Roshounda was about 4 feet away from Cpl. Gordon and poised for a strike when Deputy Mary McFarland fired her Taser on the young girl.  Deputy McFarland was also patrolling the school and arrived just in time.  Roshounda dropped the knife and fell onto her stomach.  Deputy McFarland hit her on her breast and side with the prongs of the Taser.  Roshounda began to kick as other deputies tried to subdue her... so, Deputy McFarland zapped her again.  Roshounda was taken into custody on the following charges: aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer and possession of a weapon on school grounds.  During the whole ordeal, Jamar wasn't injured.  Roshounda was transported to Florida Hospital in Orlando to have the Taser prongs removed from her breast.  Cpl. Gordon had not gone through Taser training and therefore did not have a Taser on him.  His superiors backed up his actions to draw his service pistol on Roshounda.  Gateway School is for emotionally challenged students.

Source: Orlando Sentinel - Deputy Fires Taser at Girl Accused of Having Knife

Country Day (High) School, Estate Concordia, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

School officials called police at 7:40 this morning to report a shooting at their school.  One of the school's maintenance workers was in the maintenance shop when two masked gunmen ran in and shot him.  The maintenance supervisor rushed into the shop when he heard the gunfire and saw his employee lying on the ground.  The injured maintenance worker was rushed to Luis Hospital where he was listed in serious condition.  Police had very few leads by the end of the day.

Source: The Virgin Islands Daily News - Maintenance Worker Injured in Shooting at St. Croix School

Santa Cruz High School, Santa Cruz, California

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Preschool activities can be just as violent as a day at school.  Remember Huffman High School from last year (8-3-04)?  Well, this time the violence strikes the football team instead of the band.  A 17-year-old boy, who wanted to become his school's kicker, was at practice this afternoon.  Also at the practice, but not trying out for the team, was a 14-year-old boy.  The two boys have a known bad history with each other and it climaxed into a fight during one of the breaks.  During the fight, the younger boy, a freshman, stabbed the older boy, a senior, on his left side with a 3-inch knife.  The older boy suffered a collapsed lung and was air lifted to Stanford Medical Center.  The young instigator fled the scene, but was picked up by police a few blocks away.  He was taken to the juvenile hall and charged with assault with a deadly weapon and possessing a weapon on school grounds.  Classes begin at Santa Cruz High on Wednesday, August 31, 2005.

Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel - S.C. High Football Player Stabbed; Santa Cruz Sentinel - Teen Recovering from Stabbing

Plantation Elementary School, Bakersfield, California

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Quinderras Howard and two of his friends were walking outside Plantation Elementary School around 6:00 this evening when a dark-colored Chevy Tahoe pulled up to them.  The two parties exchanged words and then guns were drawn the triggers pulled.  Quinderras, 15, was shot in the head and died.  The Tahoe drove off, but police found it a short time later.  Aaron Ruffin, the 26-year-old driver of the Tahoe, was arrested and charged with killing Quinderras.  Police believe this shooting to be gang related.

Source: The Bakersfield Californian - Shooting Leaves Boy, 15, Dead; KGET Channel 17 - Man Arrested Following Gang Shooting

A High School in Tampa, Florida

Friday, August 19, 2005

A 39-year-old mother tried all week to register her 16-year-old son at a high school in Tampa when things turned violent today.  The boy has been suspended from school since last year.  School officials advised the mother to register her son at the high school closer to their home.  When the boy heard this, he "body checked" a school police officer, nearly knocking him to the ground.  The officer regained his balance and was in the process of arresting the boy when he was attacked by the mother. This attack freed up the boy to join his mother in assaulting the school police officer.  The boy's 22-year-old older brother was about to join in on the family assault when a security officer stopped him.  The police officer then drew his Taser and the attack ended.  All three, the mother and her two sons, were arrested.  The mother and younger son were charged with assaulting a school police officer at a high school.

Source: National School Safety and Security Services website

Roosevelt High School, Dallas, Texas

Friday, August 19, 2005

Earlier this summer the state education agency closed the Wilmer-Hutchins Independent School District because the school buildings were so dilapidated, they posed a threat to the students and teachers.  Also, the school district was out of money and the community had lost its confidence in the school board.  The Dallas Independent School District agreed to bring the Wilmer-Hutchins students into the Dallas schools.  The students from Wilmer-Hutchins were split up between the Dallas schools and that was apparently a problem for some of them today.  Two girls, one from Wilmer-Hutchins and one from Dallas, started a brawl in Roosevelt's cafeteria today.  It escalated when other students joined in and started throwing food.  School officials were able to restore order in the cafeteria and charged five students with disruption, a Class C misdemeanor.  Minutes later, another fight broke out.  School officials once again restored ordered and issued four more citations.  In all 13 students were sent home for participating in the two fights.

Source: Dallas Morning News - Fights Erupt at Roosevelt High

Miami Northwestern Senior High School, Miami, Florida

Friday, August 19, 2005

After tonight's football game between Northwestern and Booker T. Washington high schools, gunfire rang out in the parking lot of Traz-Powell Stadium.  17-year-old James Lewis, a senior at Northwestern, was with a group of males when the shooting started.  They all scattered and he fell to the ground.  James died from his gunshot wounds.  Northwestern had won the football game.  By Wednesday, Jerod Antwon Rennie, 19, was in police custody and confessed to killing James.  Jerod told police he and James had been involved in an altercation earlier in the day.  Tonight, when the two met up, Jerod said James made a sudden move and he fired his gun in self-defense.

Source: NBC 6 -Students Mourn Teen Killed After Football Game; Local 10 - Parents Say Jealousy Led to Fatal Shooting at Game; Miami Herald - Man Charged with Murder of Dade Teen

Morrow High School, Morrow, Georgia

Friday, August 19, 2005

Same night, different football game, different school, different ending.  Forest Park beat Morrow 20-13 in the season opener at Twelve Oaks Stadium on the campus of MHS this evening.  With the game over, the fans and students started to disperse and head for home.  Around 11:00, a group of students were milling about in the parking lot when a man with dreadlocks came up to them and began shooting.  Two people were injured with non-life threatening wounds.  One of the injured was an 18-year-old student from Forest Park (shot in right forearm) and a 21-year-old (shot in the lower back).  

Source: Fox Carolina - Two Injured During Shooting After Football Game in Clayton County; The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Clayton Boosts Security After Post-game Shooting

El Cerrito High School, El Cerrito, California

Tuesday, August, 23, 2005

School violence strikes on the first day of school at El Cerrito High.  About 1 this afternoon, a 15-year-old boy walked out of a classroom and felt something hard hit his head.  He, and school officials, didn't know what hit him, however he was visibly bleeding.  He went to Children's Hospital Oakland where doctors removed a plastic pellet round.  The doctors left another plastic pellet round in his skull.  The boy returned to school on Wednesday and told school officials that he had been shot.  An investigation began at that point.  On Thursday, police arrested a 17-year-old male student at the school in connection with this shooting.  He was charged with suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and carrying a weapon on school grounds.

Source: Contra Costa Times - Student Arrested in Pellet-Gun Shooting

A Middle School in Espanola, New Mexico

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

During a gang-related fight between two 14-year-old males at a middle school in Espanola, one of them stabbed the other in the hip.

Source: National School Safety and Security Services website

Maury Middle School, Dandridge, Tennessee

Thursday, August 25, 2005

Earlier this week, a teacher disciplined three of her male students.  Two of the boys are 12-years-old and the other is 14.  The boys got together and decided that they would kill the teacher.  One of the boys got two of his uncle's guns, one from his truck and the other from a junk drawer.  As classes changed this morning around 9:30 this morning, the three boys entered a restroom to distribute the guns and begin their plan.  Minutes later, a gunshot resonated through the halls of Maury Middle School.  One of the teachers heard the gunfire from the restroom and went to investigate.  Inside the restroom were the three boys and the two handguns, one of them was still loaded.  The bullet hit one of the seventh-graders in the lower leg.  His mother picked him up and transported him to Saint Mary's Hospital.  The other two boys were arraigned at the Jefferson County Juvenile Facility and charged with possessing a weapon on school grounds.  As police investigated, they upgraded the charges to conspiracy to commit first-degree murder.  The three boys were arraigned as juveniles in court on Tuesday where their bond was set at $100,000 each.  The wounded boy was allowed to go home, but only until a doctor could remove the bullet from his leg.  All of this could have been avoided as the teacher was not at Maury Middle School today.

Source: WVLT Channel 8 - Charges Filed Against Two Students in Middle School Shooting; WVLT Channel 8 - Prosecutor: School Shooting Was Conspiracy to Kill Teacher

Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi

Friday, August 26, 2005

Omega Psi Phi fraternity members were sitting near two benches painted purple and gold, the fraternity's colors.  Ryan Mack, 32, approached them and did or said something that offended the members.  (The news story didn't say what provoked them.)  This was around 1:00 in the afternoon on the first day of classes at JSU.  Ryan then went to the Jacob L. Reddix union where some of the fraternity members followed him.  At the union a fight broke out and then climaxed when Ryan pulled out a 9mm handgun and shot Benjamin Hart in the upper abdomen.  Benjamin, 23, was treated at University of Mississippi Medical Center and released on September 3.  Police arrested Ryan and charged him with aggravated assault and possession of a weapon on school property.

Source: The Clarion-Ledger - Student Held on $150K Bond in Shooting

South Atlanta High School, Atlanta, Georgia

Friday, August 26, 2005

About 1:30 this afternoon ten young men scaled a chain-link fence surrounding the school and then scaled a wrought-iron fence around the campus courtyard.  Once there, they began fighting with the students who were eating lunch.  One student was punched and kicked repeatedly during the fight.  He was taken to Hughes Spalding Children's Hospital with unspecified injuries.  Three other students suffered minor injuries.

Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution - Intruders Hurt Student at South Atlanta High

Battle Creek Central High School, Battle Creek, Michigan

Friday, August 26, 2005

During tonight's football game with Saint Joseph at C. W. Post Field, a fight between Aaron Jones, 14, and Mark Guy, 19, broke out in the stands.  During the 9:45 p.m. fight, Aaron stabbed Mark four times in the back.  Tom Rivera, an off-duty police officer, rushed to restore order was slashed in the arm.  Another spectator was stabbed as well.  Police arrested Aaron and another juvenile for interfering with officers.  Mark and Tom went to the Battle Creek Health System for treatment. Battle Creek won the game 49-14.  Aaron faces two felony assault charges and was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.  During his psychic evaluation, Aaron did not accept his responsibility about his involvement and let his explosive temper get the better of him several times. In mid November, Aaron was charged as an adult with one count of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder and one count of felonious assault.

Source: WOOD TV Channel 8 - Two Stabbed, One Arrested in Football Game Bleacher Brawl; Battle Creek Enquirer - Pair Stabbed at Football Game; Battle Creek Enquirer - Teen's Hearing in Stabbing Postponed; Battle Creek Enquirer - Battle Creek Teen to be Tried as Adult in Stabbing of Two at Football Game

Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio

Sunday, August 28, 2005

The Sigma Chi fraternity held a party tonight in which several people were stabbed when an exchange of words escalated. Three party-goers were cut with a box cutter.  The instigators fled the party in a Jeep Wrangler and hit two more people as they left.  Two of those stabbed went to St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, as did the female who got hit by the Jeep.  One of the hospital admittees was stabbed on the left side of his back and the other had a laceration on the left cheek bone.  Police were still searching for the instigators on Thursday, September 1, 2005.

Source: The Jambar - Frat Party Fracas Results in Stabbing

Hunter High School, West Valley City, Utah

Monday, August 29, 2005

About 2:30 this afternoon, 21-year-old Jeremy Ryan Reed was driving his black Infiniti G20 sedan at a high rate of speed through the student parking lot.  He left the school grounds, driving south in the 5600 block of West before making a quick U-turn.  (Now driving north on West.)  He jumped the median and almost got hit by a semi-truck as he made the U-turn.  Jeremy headed back to the school and saw a group of teens standing on the east side of West near the 4500 block of South.  As he approached them, he jerked the car to the right and struck a 15-year-old boy on his bicycle.  The boy was thrown nearly 100 feet to the northeast.  His bike landed over 30 feet to the east side of the road.  Jeremy then sped away, his windshield smashed.  About a mile away in a residential area, he failed to negotiate a turn and crashed through a fence.  With his car now damaged beyond functionality, he began to run east through the neighborhood.  Melissa Person heard the crash as she was pulling into her driveway.  She pulled back out onto the road, drove past three house and saw Jeremy's smashed Infiniti.  He was running up the street, but as he approached Melissa's house, he slowed to a brisk walk.  Melissa followed Jeremy for about a block and then asked him if the smashed black Infiniti was his.  He said, "Yeah, can you take me back to it?"  Melissa had her two kids in the back of her car and didn't want to pick up a stranger.  She returned to the wrecked Infiniti where she learned that Jeremy was wanted in the hit and run.  Police arrived and setup a perimeter around the neighborhood.  They found Jeremy intoxicated in a window well a short time later.  He was taken to the Salt Lake County Jail and put into a cell to sober up so that he could be booked on automobile homicide.  The 15-year-old boy died from his injury.

Source: The Salt Lake Tribune - Motorist Kills Teen on School Grounds

Dimond High School, Anchorage, Alaska

Thursday, September 1, 2005

Around 5 this evening two boys were fist fighting in the parking lot of Dimond High School over a 15-year-old girl.  One of the boys is her current boyfriend and the other is her former boyfriend.  The fight climaxed when a third boy pulled out a gun and opened fire on the fighters.  Bullets flew everywhere as the shooter wasn't that good of an aim.  Luckily, nobody was hit.  The shooter is 15-years-old and was arrested the next day.

Source: KTUU Channel 2 - Shots Fired at Dimond High School; Anchorage Daily News - Gunfire at Dimond High Halts After-School Sports; No Injuries Reported; KTUU Channel 2 - Arrest Made in Dimond High School Shooting

Sojourner Truth High School, Jacksonville, Florida

Friday, September 2, 2005

Classes dismissed early for the day, but that didn't prevent an act of school violence from taking place.  At 12:50 this afternoon, four black males where waiting outside the school for their target, 17-year-old Christopher Reed, to come into range.  As Christopher made his way across the lawn to the parking lot, Raynard Adarris Henderson, 21, began firing upon him.  The bullets struck Christopher in the abdomen.  The quartet then fled the scene in a car.  Christopher was taken to Shands-Jacksonville Medical Center for treatment.   Police began looking for Raynard and will charge him with attempted second-degree murder.

Source: WJXT Channel 4 - Police: Student Shot Outside Southside Charter School; WJXT Channel 4 - Police Searching for Man Accused of Shooting Outside Southside Charter School Student

University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada

Saturday, September 3, 2005

The Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity hosted a "Back to School Bash" party that began last night and ended in a shooting early this morning.  With the party breaking up around 1 a.m., gunfire erupted when two non-students fired upon the party goers in the south parking lot of the McDermott Physical Education building.  A female UNLV faculty member from the engineering school was struck in the right arm.  A male student was hit in the thigh by one of the bullets.  Police arrested Sedrick Hammond, 23, and Duane Thomas, 31, and charged them with being an ex-felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a dangerous weapon in a vehicle at a school. 

Source: The Rebel Yell - Shooting Occurs at UNLV

St. Joseph Convent (Middle) School, Bangkok, Thailand

Friday, September 9, 2005

Last night Jitrada Tantiwanich-ayasuk, 31 found a very good hiding spot inside the prestigious all-girls St. Joseph Convent School.  She was wearing pink shorts, a black jacket and sandals and had hair cut short, appearing like a "tom boy."  Jitrada was armed with several fruit knives and stayed there all night.  Just after 7 this morning she left her hiding spot, entered a classroom and attacked four students, severely stabbing three of them.  Chayamon was stabbed twice on her left arm and twice in her chest.  Chinjutha was stabbed on the right side of her abdomen with the knife cutting her colons.  Chamanat was stabbed on her right shoulder and right hip.  The knife pierced her kidney and liver.  Apistha was stabbed in her left shoulder, back, right side of her chest and had one of her lungs pierced.  After the attack, Jitrada fled on a taxi motorcycle, hiring 35-year-old Prapai Mahkoomlek to take her to the Saphan Luang area beyond Hua Lampong.  During the ride, she asked him to stop at a roadside trashcan.  He did so and she threw away two knives wrapped in a cloth.  Three more knives were found at the school.  All four injured students were taken to the Bangkok Nursing Home Hospital where they were listed in safe condition by the end of the day.  Police began searching for Jitrada and planned to charge her with attempted murder.  The next day, Jitrada was back at work at restaurant she had just started working at when somebody noticed her resemblance to the police composite picture.  She suffers from mental health problems and was arrested by the police.  On Christmas Day 2006, Jitrada was officially charged with attempted murder and carrying weapons in a public place

THE INJURED:

Source: The Nation (Bangkok's Independent Newspaper) - St. Joseph Convent School Turmoil: Parents Shocked, Four Students Stabbed; The Nation (Bangkok's Independent Newspaper) - School Horror: Four Girls Hurt, One Critical, in Stabbing at Prestigious St. Joseph's.  Police Launch Frantic Hunt for 31-yr-old Woman; Japan Today - Woman Arrested for Stabbing Students at Bangkok School; The Nation - Woman Charged for Stabbing St. Joseph School Students

Assumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts

Saturday, September 10, 2005

An altercation between freshmen Brendan Chartier, 18, and Joseph Doherty brewed for hours before climaxing in violence early this morning.  Brendan stabbed Joseph at 3:30 a.m. in their dorm room.  Both of them were taken to a hospital where Doherty was treated for non fatal injuries.  On Monday, police arraigned Brendan in court and charged him with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

Source: Metro West Daily News - Local Teen Accused of College Stabbing

Maverley All-Age and Junior High School, St. Andrew, Kingston, Jamaica

Monday, September 12, 2005

Former student Richard Bogle was perusing the cluster of vendors outside the school gates for lunch when two men attacked him.  They fired several shots into his body, killing him.  About three weeks ago Richard, 16, had a run-in with the law and was questioned by police about a different shooting. Police do not know if he was killed to prevent him from the police anything more about the aforementioned other shooting.

Source: Jamaica Gleaner - Teen Slain at School Gate

Queen Elizabeth High School, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Monday, September 12, 2005

Shortly after classes ended today, at 3:10 p.m., a 17-year-old junior was walking across the lawn when he became involved in an altercation near Robie Street.  At least 50 other students were there to witness the altercation.  During the altercation, a 17-year-old freshman stabbed the junior in the abdomen.  The young stabber fled the scene via a waiting car.  The injured boy made his way to Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Center for treatment.  By the end of the day, police had arrested the young instigator near Hunter and Charles streets.  They charged him with aggravated assault, assault with a weapon and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose.  He pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and was sentenced to 135 days in custody, 90 days at the Waterville Youth Center and 45 days under community supervision.

Source: Canada.com - Halifax Teen Charged in Stabbing; The Halifax Herald Limited - Student Stabbed at Halifax School; Halifax Chronicle-Herald - Halifax Teen Gets Jail for Stabbing Fellow Student at School

Following a school break around 11 a.m., 15-year-old William Kerr began heading back to his classroom.  An unnamed male classmate nudged William and blocked his path while another unnamed male classmate stabbed him with a pen.  David Graham, 16, witnessed the attack and tried to help William by putting him into a headlock.  (Although why one would put another in a headlock to stop them from being stabbed is beyond me.)  William then pulled out his pocketknife.  When David saw this, he released William and ran to the vending machines in the cafeteria.  William chased him, all the while wielding the pocketknife.  William cornered David and stabbed him in the chest, three times in the buttocks and sliced his hand.  Teachers and school officials were able to end the violence.  Police arrived and had David transported to Glasgow Royal Infirmary to be treated for his injuries.  William was arrested and was due in court on Wednesday.  He pleaded guilty in court on Friday, August 25, 2006.

Source: Evening Times - Boy, 15, Stabbed by Pupil in School Playground Fight; Evening Times - Boy, 15, for Court After Pupil Stabbed; BBC News - Pupil Admits Stabbing at School

Grimsley High School, Greensboro, North Carolina

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

About 8:00 this morning over 25 students were waiting to get onto their school bus at Montrose and Mercury Drives, just north of West Market Street when Robert Vasquez, Stephanie Amador, both 17, and an unidentified 15-year-old boy assaulted 16-year-old Nester Cardenaz.  The trio stole his backpack, punched him and stabbed him in the back as he tried to get onto the bus.  He fell to the ground and the trio punched him some more before fleeing the scene.  Nester was taken to Moses Cone Hospital where he was treated and released.  The trio was apprehended a short time later.  Each of them were charged with robbery with a dangerous weapon and assault with a deadly weapon.  None of them attend school.

Source: WFMY Channel 2 - Police Arrest Teens in Connection with Bus Stop Stabbing; The Dispatch - Student Stabbed, Robbed While Boarding School Bus

Jesse Jones High School, Houston, Texas

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

The Houston Astrodome became home to thousands of New Orleans evacuees when Hurricane Katrina flooded the Big Easy on August 29, 2005..  Houston opened up their schools to the Louisiana students and a riot broke out today.  For days animosity brewed between the two groups as to who controlled the school.  The fight began at 8 a.m. with about 25 students (some from Houston, some from Louisiana) when a Houston student tossed a soft drink can into a group of Louisiana students.  Fists soon followed and the brawl became a riot.  Police eventually regained control of the students and had three injured students transported to a hospital.  Five other students were arrested and charged with disruption of school activities.

Source: WTOV Channel 9 - Fight Between La., Houston Students Lead to School Riot

Central High School, Kansas City, Missouri

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

During lunch at another school on the heartland of America, another stabbing injured another student.  A 16-year-old hid a small-bladed knife (like those to cut cardboard) in the bottom of his shoe and passed through the school's metal detectors.  While at lunch, he was talking with a 17-year-old classmate when he swiped the blade across the other boy's neck.  The injured boy was taken to the hospital with non life-threatening injuries.

Source: Kansas City Star - KC Student Arrested in Stabbing

Harlan Community Academy High School, Chicago, Illinois

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

The school days ends at 2:50 in the afternoon for the students at Harlan Community Academy.  Half an hour prior to that a fight broke out in the gym between two 15-year-old boys.  Teachers began to break up the fight between the two boys when one of them, Christopher Huff, pulled out a .25-caliber pistol and shot his opponent.  A police officer on duty at the school arrested Christopher and recovered the pistol.  The wounded boy stumbled out of the school and into Abbott Park, which is right next to the school.  He stopped a police patrol car and told the officer he was shot.  The officer took him back to school and an ambulance transported him to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where he was treated for gunshot wound to his lower left leg.  The academy does use metal detectors and x-ray machines for students backpacks on a daily basis.  Christopher was charged as an adult with aggravated battery with a firearm on Wednesday.

Source: Chicago Tribune - Student Injured in Harlan Shooting; Chicago Tribune - Bond Set in High School Shooting; Chicago Sun-Times - Student Claims He Slipped Gun Through Security

Cypress Middle School, Memphis, Tennessee

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

This is the sixth act of school violence today.  Two 13-year-old female students began fighting when a knife was drawn at 2:32 p.m.  One of the girls was stabbed in her back shoulder blade and the other was cut in the hand.  The news story didn't say who stabbed whom.  Both girls were transported to LeBonheur Hospital where they were treated for their wounds.

Source: WREG Channel 3 - Cypress Middle School Stabbing

Ivanna Eudora Kean High School, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands

Monday, September 19, 2005

This morning a 16-year-old male student assaulted a school monitor with a mop in the administration building at Kean High.  The assault continued as both parties moved to the nurse's office during second period.  School officials called police around 10:15 a.m.  The monitor, with blood coming from his skull, was transported to Schneider Hospital for treatment.  Police arrested our young instigator and charged him with third degree assault.  Four days later police arrested a 17-year-old boy at 1:30 in the afternoon and charged him with simple assault and aiding and abetting.

Source: The Virgin Islands Daily News - Kean High Student Charged with Beating School Monitor; The Virgin Islands Daily News - Second Student Arrested in Attack at Kean

Farragut Career Academy (High School), Chicago, Illinois

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Late this morning during fifth period, a fight broke out in the school's gym.  A group of students jumped on another individual and one of their 16-year-old classmates around 11 a.m.  One of the attackers stabbed the student in the neck with a pencil. A security guard entered the fray at that point and was stabbed in the arm.  Police arrested three black teens and believe the fight to be gang related.  The injured student, a Hispanic, was transported to Mount Sinai Hospital for treatment.  One of the instigators is 16-years-old and was charged with two counts of battery.  Another instigator is also 16-years-old and was charged with reckless conduct.  The third instigator is 15 and was also charged with reckless conduct.

Source: ABC 7 Chicago - Student, Security Guard Injured in School Stabbing; Chicago Sun-Times - Student Stabbed, School Guard Hurt

Rockmart High School, Rockmart, Georgia

Friday, September 23, 2005

Charvis Ramon Morris and an unnamed classmate argued today during class.  The argument climaxed when Charvis stabbed the other student in the back two times with a pencil.  The wounded student was treated by the school's medical staff and released.  Charvis, 18, was arrested at the school by police and charged with battery.

Source: The Cedartown Standard - Rockmart Student Stabs Classmate with Pencil

James Hubert Blake High School, Silver Spring, Maryland

Friday, September 23, 2005

A few weeks ago, Kelly Grimes, 21, and an unnamed girl, 15, became involved in a spitting incident when the younger girl spit on Kelly.   This was at a football game between Sherwood High School and another school.  Kelly's boyfriend plays for Sherwood.  Tonight, Kelly invited her half sister, 15-year-old Kanisha Neal, to go with her to the football game between Blake and Sherwood high schools.  Blake lost the game 44-0.  At the end of the game, around 8:30, Kelly, Kanisha and a third unnamed girl were walking in the parking lot when Kanisha asked them to point out the girl who had spit on Kelly two weeks ago.  Kelly and the unnamed friend declined Kanisha's request.  However, the unnamed 15-year-old girl and four of her friends came across them in the crowd near a green SUV.  A racial epithet was said, a punch was thrown and one of the girls from the quintet started swinging a baseball bat at Kelly and Kanisha.  She tried to flee, but the unnamed girl with Kelly and Kanisha cut her off.  She turned back and went right into the arms of Kanisha.  Kanisha grabbed the girl's hair and began pulling it and punching her.  The unnamed 15-year-old girl then pulled out a knife and stabbed Kanisha just below her left breast.  The cut was very clean with little outward bleeding, but massive internal bleeding.  Kanisha, who attends Rockville High School, collapsed into Kelly's arms.  Kelly and the unnamed third girl placed Kanisha on the ground where she shook uncontrollably.  Police officers and school officials came to her aid and to break up the fight.  They began CPR on her and then had her transported to Suburban Hospital where she died.  Police arrested the unnamed 15-year-old female student from Sherwood High School and charged her as a juvenile with second-degree murder. On Thursday, December 22, 2005, Judge Terrence McGann found the unnamed 15-year-old instigator guilty on murder charges, guilty of carrying a deadly weapon on school property and concealing a deadly weapon.

Source: NBC 4 - Police Make Arrest in Teen's Death After Football Game; Washington Post - 15-Year-Old Charged in Death of Another 15-Year-Old; Washington Post - Slain Teen May Have Started Fight; WTOP Radio - Girl, 16, Found Guilty in Stabbing Death of Md. Teen

Saginaw High School, Saginaw, Michigan

Saturday, September 24, 2005

About 600 students showed up for Saginaw's homecoming dance this evening at the school.  The dance was wrapping up at 11:45 p.m. when two men in a black Chevy Avalanche drove up to the students on the west end of the building and opened fire.  A 15-year-old boy and a 14-year-old female student were injured.  The boy was hit in the leg and taken to Covenant Hospital.  The girl was shot in the shoulder and taken to St. Mary's Hospital.

Source: WJRT Channel 12 - 2 Shot After Homecoming Dance

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

Sunday, September 25, 2005

Early this morning, 26-year-old Carlos Branch and 23-year-old Edward Allen Jr., tried to make their way into a party that was being held by the football team in their dorm.  Members of the team confronted the duo and asked them to leave.  Security cameras recorded the insistence of the football team that the duo leave their dorm and the campus.  The confrontation climaxed when Carlos and Edward pulled out handguns and shot George Smith, a sophomore wide receiver, in the right arm.  George only missed one game because of the injury.  In mid July, 2006, Criminal Court Judge Randall Wyatt sentenced Carlos and Edward to six years in prison for aggravated assault and carrying a weapon on school property.

Source: Nashville City Paper - Judge Gives VU Dorm Gunmen Six Years (published 7-14-06)

Al-Jazeera Elementary School, Muelha, Iskandariya, Iraq

Monday, September 26, 2005

At 1:15 this afternoon, five male Shiite teachers got into a van with plans to head home after wrapping up the school day.  Two Opels (mid-size sedans), one white and one silver, pulled up to the van and nine Sunni gunmen disguised as policemen got out.  The Sunni gunmen ordered the Shiite teachers and the driver out of the van as students looked on.  The gunmen then dragged the men into an empty classroom, lined them up against a wall and shot them to death.  The nine gunmen then fled the scene.  Muelha is a Sunni-majority village 30 miles south of Baghdad.

Source: Winston-Salem Journal - Five Shiite Teachers Shot Dead in Iraqi Classroom; New York Times - Gunmen Kill 5 Shiite Teachers in Raid on School

Central High School, Muncie, Indiana

Monday, September 26, 2005

This is Homecoming Week at Central High School, and school violence starts it off on the wrong foot.  This morning during first period, Travis Marlett, an autistic 17-year-old, feigned a stomach ache to acquire a pass to go to the nurse's office.  However, he bypassed the nurse's office, went upstairs and entered a classroom to get a tissue.  Student aide Leigh Ann Vorhees was the only other person in the room.  It was 8:30 at the time.  Travis left the room, came right back in, walked up behind her, put his hand over her mouth and slit the 16-year-old's throat with a 5-inch carving knife.  Leigh Ann screamed as best she could with a slit throat and a teacher ran in to see what the commotion was.  Leigh Ann was trying to fight off Travis when the teacher arrived.  She was able to get the knife out of his hands.  The teacher was able to pull him away from her and subdue him until the police arrived.  Leigh Ann was transported to Ball Memorial Hospital where doctors stitched up a 3-inch gaping wound in her neck and treated the cuts on her hands.  She was released from the hospital in the afternoon.  Police took Travis into custody and charged him with attempted murder.  The police obtained permission from Travis's mother to search his room, there they found about 50 knives.  Both Travis and Leigh Ann, who plays volleyball and her mother is a county judge, are juniors at Muncie Central High School.  In early December 2006, Travis pleaded guilty but mentally ill to criminal confinement and was sentenced to 20 years in prison with mental health treatment by Special Judge Peter Haviza of Randolph County.  Prosecutors dropped the more serious charges of attempted murder and batter with a deadly weapon when Travis pleaded guilty.

Source: WRTV Channel 6 - Police: Bizarre Circumstances Surround School Stabbing; Gary Post-Tribune - Muncie Stabbing Feels Eerily Familiar; WISH Channel 8 - Muncie Central Student Charged with Attempted Murder Following School Stabbing; The Star Press - Knife Attack Injures Central Student; The Indy Star - Knives Discovered in Suspect's Room; WSJV Channel 28 - Autistic Teen Sentenced for School Stabbing

Wirt High School, Gary, Indiana

Monday, September 26, 2005

A 15-year-old freshman at Wirt High School initiated two fights today.  Both fights were for the affections of one girl.  In the first fight, the unnamed instigator stabbed his opponent, an unnamed 16-year-old freshman, in the back with a steak knife.  The wounded boy was treated at a local hospital.  The unnamed instigator then began a second fight with another male classmate.  In this fight, the instigator stabbed his opponent in the head with the knife.  The unnamed opponent was able to inflict cuts on the instigator's hand during the fight.  Both of the boys were taken to the hospital where it took nine stitches to repair the instigator's slashed hand.  Police arrested the unnamed instigator and held him at the Lake County Juvenile Justice Center in Crown Point.   Police say that the unnamed instigator is a member of a local gang and that his two opponents are members of rival local gangs.

Source: Gary Post Tribune - Wirt Student Arrested for Stabbing Incidents

Laurel High School, Laurel, Maryland

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Football practice ended at 3:30 this afternoon.  At that time, two 14-year-olds on the junior varsity team grabbed a 13-year-old co-ed, pulled her into the locker room and sexually assaulted her.  She was able to escape and one of the boys left the locker room.  However, the second boy opened the door, grabbed another 13-year-old girl and attempted to rape her.  The two students struggled and she was able to escape.  The whole episode was reported to police the next day.  When football practice wrapped up on Wednesday afternoon, the two boys were arrested by police and charged with attempted rape, sexual assault, third- and fourth-degree sex offenses and false imprisonment.

Source: Laurel Leader - Two Arrested at School, Charged with Sex Assault

Gateacre Comprehensive (High) School, Liverpool, Merseyside, England

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Two 14-year-old boys shot 15-year-old Victoria Byrne in the side of the face with a pellet gun.  Victoria almost lost an eye from this shooting and is waiting for doctors to remove the pellet from behind her eye socket.

Source: Liverpool Daily Post - Girl Shot in the Head in School Playground

Bertha C. Boschulte Middle School, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands

Thursday, September 29, 2005

Just ten days after a student attacked a school monitor with a mop on the island of St. Thomas, another student uses a more traditional weapon, a pocketknife, to wound his classmate and rattle the psyche of students, parents and school officials in the district.  Today, two boys were arguing over an undisclosed topic when one of them stabbed the other in the back.  Our young 14-year-old instigator was arrested later in the day and charged with third degree assault.

Source: The Virgin Islands Daily News - Student, 14, Charged in Stabbing

School for the Physical City (High School 887), New York City, New York

Friday, September 30, 2005

The School for the Physical City teaches Manhattan students from the sixth to twelfth grades.  Yesterday, 15-year-old Shariff Lesane said something in jest to one of his classmates that was taken seriously.  When classes ended at 3:00 today, a brawl began with Shariff being mixed up in the melee.  A known Bloods gang member was in the melee and mistook another student in the melee for a rival gang member.  The mistaken ID'd student was wearing a blue do-rag.  Rahiem Bruno, 17, Alphonso Harris, 19, and two other unnamed teens were injured during the melee, but it didn't end until a knife was plunged into Shariff's stomach.  The injured boys were taken to Bellevue Hospital.  An unnamed 16-year-old boy was stabbed in the stomach, another unnamed 16-year-old had only minor injuries, Rahiem was stabbed in the back, and Alphonso was stabbed in the chest and torso.  Shariff died a few hours after arriving at the hospital.  Over the weekend police arrested Robert Mack, 16; Jason Procope and Javon Chavis, both 17; and David McKay, 19, and charged them all with gang assault and manslaughter.  The four instigators were indicted in early November 2005.

Source: NY1 News - Teen Dies Following School Stabbing; New York Post - Gang Gear Set Off Fatal School Fight; New York Daily News - Student Killed in After-School Brawl; NY1 News - Police Arrest Four Alleged Gang Members for Fatal School Stabbing; 1010 Wins - Teens Indicted for Stabbing Students Near Manhattan School

Sandwich High School, Sandwich, Massachusetts

Monday, October 3, 2005

Two female seniors believed that a 16-year-old sophomore girl beeped her car horn as she drove past one of the girl's boyfriend's house on Saturday night.  The two seniors called the girl and "threatened to come to her house and rip her out of bed."  Today, the two seniors attacked the sophomore.  They struck her on the side of her face, blocked her path to the school and dragged her across the school's asphalt parking lot by her hair as other students looked on.  The two seniors are 17- and 18-years-old.

Source: Cape Cod Times - Sandwich Student Assaulted

Wodonga West Secondary College (High School), Wodonga, Victoria, Australia

Wednesday, October 5, 2005

About 9:00 this morning, two boys got into a fight at their high school.  One boy is 14-years-old and the other is 16-years-old.  The fight climaxed when the younger boy stabbed the older boy twice in the back.  The older boy was treated by paramedics at the school before being transported to Albury Base Hospital.  He was released later in the day at a nearby shopping complex.  Police questioned the younger boy but have not officially arrested him yet.

Source: The Advertiser - Youth Queried Over School Stabbing; Melbourne Herald Sun - School Student Stabbed

Addelita Cancryn Junior High School, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands

Wednesday, October 5, 2005

During a late morning fight on the campus of Addelita Cancryn Junior High, a 15-year-old boy stabbed his opponent.  Our young instigator was arrested by the school security officer at 11:37 a.m. and charged with third degree assault.

Source: The Virgin Islands Daily News - Police Reports for October 7

David Douglas High School, Portland, Oregon

Wednesday, October 5, 2005

Shortly before noon today two unnamed 14-year-old boys got into a fight.  The fight climaxed when one of the boys pulled out a pocketknife and stabbed his opponent in the forearm.  The injured boy was treated by the school nurse while the instigator could be suspended from school for a year and charged with assault

Source: KOIN Channel 6 - Fight Leads to Stabbing at Local High School

Francis Tuttle Technology Center (College), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Wednesday, October 5, 2005

Later in the day, a former female student killed herself in one of the school's hallways.  This occurred at about 3:30 when most of the students had already left for the day.

Source: The Oklahoman - Woman Takes Own Life at School

Yavne High School, Yavne, Israel

Sunday, October 9, 2005

This morning during recess a 16-year-old male student asked one his classmates to pay him back the five shekels (just over one dollar) that he owes.  The second unnamed boy had purchased hookah tobacco from the first boy, but hadn't paid him yet.  The second boy refused to pay the five shekels, and so the first boy stabbed him twice in the abdomen and once in the wrist.  The wounded boy was taken to Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot and treated for his wounds.  The instigator was arrested by police.

Source: Haaretz.com - Youth Stabs Classmate Who Owed Him Five Shekels for Tobacco

Farmington High School, Farmington, Missouri

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Joshua S. Minks, 17, took apart a 12-guage shotgun, put the three pieces into a duffel bag (along with black clothes and a mask) and smuggled them into his school this morning.  He entered a restroom, donned the black clothes and mask, withdrew the shotgun pieces from the duffel bag and reassembled the gun.  He loaded it and another student walked into the restroom at this time.  The student said, "That gun's not real."  Joshua then fired a single shot into the ceiling to prove that it was a real gun.  A school administrator heard the gunfire, entered the restroom and saw Joshua with the gun.  The administrator talked to Joshua and calmed him down while other school officials evacuated the students to the nearby Centene Center.  The police arrived, took Joshua, a special needs student, into custody and charged him with four counts of assault on school property as well as unlawful use of a weapon.  No one was injured in this shooting that took place just after 8 a.m.  On Tuesday, July 25, 2006, Joshua pleaded guilty to one count of assault on school property and unlawful uses of a weapon.  Prosecutors dropped the three other assault accounts.

Source: Belleville News Democrat - No Injuries After Teen Fires Shotgun in School; St. Louis Today - Student is Charged in School Shooting; KFVS Channel 12 - Farmington School Shooting Follow; St. Louis Today - Teenager Pleads Guilty in School Shooting

Niutoushan Primary School, Liudong Township, Guangde, Anhui Province, China

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

At 8:13 this morning, students were doing their exercises when Liu Shibing, 33, opened fire on them with three of his six homemade guns.  He was using firecracker powder to fire the guns.  After firing each shot, he dropped the gun near the school gate.  Liu then proceeded into the school grounds to continued shooting with his remaining three guns.  He injured sixteen students and Principal Chen Yubin.  The injured were shot in the head and hands with one student being shot through one of the lungs.  Chen Yongfeng was installing cable TV transmission lines near the school when the shooting began.  He ran to the school and saw the three guns on the ground near the gate.  Liu returned at that moment and hit Chen in the head with the stock of one of the guns he was carrying.  Liu then fled the scene.  Nine of the injured students were discharged from the hospital with minor injuries while the remaining seven who were seriously injured were still at Jiuba Hospital of Huzhou City the next day.  Doctors were able to remove six bullets from one male student and two more from another student.  Chinese officials say that Liu has a mental health problem.  Villagers say the he envies his peers who have children, saying, "I have no children and I would kill other people's."  Beijing police picked up Liu Thursday afternoon outside China's Central Television building.

Source: China.org.cn - 18 Wounded in School Shooting; Channel News Asia - China School Shooting Leaves 18 Wounded; Xinhua News Agency - School Shooting Suspect Seized; China.org.cn - Shooting Suspect Detained, Returned to Anhui Police

Maiden Beech Middle School, Crewkerne, Somerset, England

Friday, October 14, 2005

This morning two male students struggled over a ball-bearing gun.  During the struggle, and with the gun pointed at the ceiling, it went off.  The ball-bearing ricocheted off the ceiling and struck one of the boys.  The wound was minor and he did not go to the hospital.  Police arrived at the school and arrested the other boy, a 13-year-old, on suspicion of possession of a firearm with intent.  The struggle started about 10:20 a.m.

Source: The Sun Online - School Gunshot: Boy Held; Avon and Somerset Constabulary - Teenager Arrested After Incident at School

Raymore-Peculiar Middle School, Peculiar, Missouri

Friday, October 14, 2005

A black 13-year-old male student wanted to create a racial incident at his school today.  Earlier in the week, the boy had asked several classmates to bring a knife to school and stab him in the buttocks.  After several refusals, a tall blond-haired kid, also 13, agreed.  The two boys met up before first period in one of the school's restrooms.  The blond-haired boy stabbed the black boy in the buttocks as agreed upon.  The injured boy (he's also the instigator) then reported the stabbing.  He was treated by the school's nurse. The school was locked down at 7:45 a.m. and the police were called.  As police investigated the stabbing, they discovered the black boy had also employed two look outs for his stabbing. The lock down ended around 11:00. 

Source: Cass County Democrat Missourian - Stabbing Prompts School Lock Down

Logan High School, La Crosse, Wisconsin

Friday, October 14, 2005

Not even 15 minutes after the stabbing in Peculiar, Missouri, school violence strikes again.  An ongoing fight between 16-year-old Jeremy L. Rigelsky, a junior, and John Buarapha, a 14-year-old freshman, erupted in one of Logan's stairwells just before 8 this morning.  During the fight, Jeremy stabbed John at least three times.  John was taken to Gundersen Lutheran Hospital with multiple wounds.  Jeremy was also taken to the hospital with a minor cut to his arm.  He was treated, released and arrested.  He was charged with first-degree attempted homicide and burglary on Monday.

Source: Duluth News Tribune - La Crosse School Stabbing Puts Two Kids in Hospital; WAOW Channel 9 - La Crosse High School Stabbing Sends Two to Hospital; Winona Daily News - Boys Injured After Fight, Stabbing at Logan High School; La Crosse Tribune - Teen Claims Self-Defense in Logan High Stabbing

Samuel Tilden High School, New York City, New York

Friday, October 14, 2005

Around the same time (at 9 a.m. on the East Coast), a group of teens approached a 16-year-old boy as walked onto Samuel Tilden's campus.  One of the boys from the group shot the 16-year-old student in the leg.  He stumbled into the building where a nurse called for help.  The unnamed student was transported to King's County Hospital and listed in stable condition.  Police had not caught the male shooting suspect by the time this news story ran.

Source: WABC Channel 7 - Student Shot Outside Brooklyn School

 Khanjakak High School, Panjwayi District, Afghanistan

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Two schools in Afghanistan were attacked today, an unusual move by the remaining Taliban faithful.  Two assailants rode up on a motorcycle and killed the school's headmaster as students looked on.  They fled the scene and police began a manhunt.

Source: Pravda News - Afghan Rebels Attack School After Election Results Announcement

A Primary School in the Panjwayi Distirct, Afghanistan

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Hours later, gunmen attacked a primary school in the district.  This time they killed a guard and then threw his body in a stream.  It is unknown if the instigators are the same ones who killed Khanjakak's headmaster earlier in the day.

Source: Pravda News - Afghan Rebels Attack School After Election Results Announcement

Marshall Middle School, Columbus, Ohio

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Back in the states, school violence rolls on.  A 13-year-old male student stabbed a 14-year-old classmate in the forehead with a pencil.  He also touched two other male students, one 13 and the other 14, "in a sexual manner."  The injured student was not taken to the hospital.  The young instigator was arrested and charged with aggravated assault.  Also today in Columbus, at Eddy Middle School, a 14-year-old boy was showing a handgun to his friends when he pointed it at a female classmate.  He did not pull the trigger.  The 14-year-old was arrested at his home and charged with possession of a weapon on school property, trespassing and pointing a pistol at another person.  He is being held at the Regional Youth Detention Center.  I am not counting the Eddy Middle School event as an act of school violence.  It's here to let you know how often things like this can happen.

Source: Columbus Ledger-Enquirer - Student Charged with Pointing Gun at Fellow Student

San Gorgonio High School, San Bernardino, California

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

After his mother dropped him off for school this morning, a green Ford minivan pulled up along side a 16-year-old boy.  It was about 7:40 in the morning. A 17-year-old male Sierra High School student got out of the van and fired five rounds at the 16-year-old.  He was struck in the leg and ran to the crowded school parking lot.  A vice principal was monitoring the morning arrival and called for help when he heard the gunfire. Witnesses gave police the name of the driver and the shooter.  All three boys live in the same neighborhood.  The wounded boy was taken to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton.  He was treated and released by 10 a.m.   The next day, police arrested Keith Deon Taylor, 19, the driver of the minivan.  However, the shooter remained at large for two more days.  On Sunday morning (October 23, 2005), the shooter turned himself into police.  He is charged with assault with a deadly weapon, but more charges may be applied against him as police review the facts.  San Grogornio has 3,100 students.

Source: The Press-Enterprise - Student's Shooting Outside School Rattles Nerves; The Press-Enterprise - Police Arrest Suspect in Shooting Near School; The Press-Enterprise - Second Arrest Made in School Shooting

Penwood High School, St. Andrew, Jamaica

Thursday, October 20, 2005

In the school yard this afternoon, two boys began fighting.  The fight climaxed when one of them, a grade 11 student, stabbed his opponent in the neck.  The wounded boy was taken to the hospital for treatment.  Police arrested the instigator and and charged him with wounding with intent.  The fight started around 1:50 p.m. and the student body is only 850.

Source: Jamaica Gleaner - A High School in Crisis

Saginaw High School, Saginaw, Michigan

Thursday, October 20, 2005

A couple of weeks ago, two 15-year-old boys were released from the same juvenile detention center.  They enrolled at Saginaw High School to continue their education.  Today, one of them ensured his return to the detention center when he took a noontime dare.  In a crowded hallway, a group of ten boys were 15 feet away from a 17-year-old girl.  She overheard one of them, Clarence W. Russell III, bragging that he had a gun.  The other boys dared him to shoot 15-year-old Daniel Foster, offering him $20 to $40 for the violent act.  I guess it doesn't take much to entice a 15-year-old boy to shoot somebody else as Clarence pulled a .380-caliber handgun from his Carhartt-style coat and fired three times at Daniel, striking him in the chest.  Daniel yelled, "All, I got shot!"  He ran a few paces, fell sideways to the floor and began kicking his legs.  He was rushed to Covenant Medical Center and listed in critical condition after a two hour surgery.   Clarence ran from the school, but was caught by a security officer in a yard nearby a few minutes later.  Police arrested him and recovered the gun.  Police believe the shooting to be gang related. Clarence was arraigned on Friday afternoon and charged with assault with intent to murder and five felony firearms charges.

Source: The Saginaw News - Student Shot in Saginaw High Hallway; Detroit Free Press - Student Shot at Saginaw High School; Detroit Free Press - School Shooting the Latest in String of Violence in Saginaw; Detroit Free Press - Student Shot at Saginaw High School, Other Student Arrested; Detroit Free Press - 15-Year-Old Charged in Saginaw School Shooting

Cedar Hill Middle School, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Friday, October 21, 2005

The Canadian press doesn't give out names as freely as the American press does, so please bear with me on this one.  Just before 11:00 this evening, a group of youths were hanging out at the school when two males approached them.  One of the unnamed males attacked one of the youths.  The targeted youth fought back and stabbed the instigator in the chest with a folding knife.  Saanich police arrested the 18-year-old targeted youth and charged him with assault with a weapon.  The male who started the fight was also taken into custody and charged with assault.  This was after he was treated and released from Royal Jubilee Hospital.

Source: Saanich News - Teens Stabbed

Birney Elementary School, Fresno, California

Thursday, October 27, 2005

The school day ends at 2:30 p.m. for the students at Birney Elementary.  About 200 of them were still at the school for after-school activities at 3:01 p.m. when 37-year-old Keith Breazell, a "validated gang member" entered the staff parking lot.  Keith was at the school to pickup his 5-year-old son. A black man between 18 and 30-years-old (gee, that really narrows the search now doesn't) approached Keith.  The two men spoke briefly before Keith was shot twice in his upper torso by the other man.  He was rushed to University Medical Center where he died.  The shooter left the scene in a white compact car.  Police say his murderer, also a gang member, had reason to believe he would be there at three o'clock this afternoon.

Source: Fresno Bee - Man Shot at Fresno School; Fresno Bee - Significance of Slaying at School Unclear

South Philadelphia High School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Friday, October 28, 2005

English teacher Mark Seghers relocated to Philadelphia after Hurricane Katrina tore through his Long Beach, Mississippi home.  He started working at SPHS and found out how little brotherly love is in this city.  Last Wednesday, a female student yelled an obscenity into his classroom and threatened him.  When he asked for her name, she ran away.  Today, he heard the same girl making a ruckus in the hallway.  He again asked for the 17-year-old's name.  She refused and he tried to take her into his room.  She pulled away and started throwing punches at him.  Her twin sister and 20 other students joined in the pummeling of Mark.  When it was all over with, Mark had a black eye, facial bruises and a chipped tooth.  Police arrested the twins and charged them with aggravated assault, making terroristic threats and disorderly conduct.  Mark said he would not return to South Philadelphia High and hoped to be transferred to a safer school.  By the beginning of the next school year, only two students had been charged and convicted for attack Mark.  So far, police are not in any hurry to bring charges against the other 20 students.

Source: Wilkes Barre Times-Leader - News in Brief From Philadelphia; Visitor to this web site

Porgera Top-Up Primary School, Paiam, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea

Monday, October 31, 2005

On Friday, October 28, the school's headmaster and deputy got drunk on alcohol.  They harassed the public during their drunken stupor.  Citizens complained and police went to the school, but the headmaster resisted arrest.  The police returned on Saturday but found their way blocked by students.  Today, the police returned to the school to arrest him and were confronted by more students, this time they were armed with rocks.  Somehow or another, the officers were locked in the school, surrounded by students throwing rocks at them.  Believing themselves to be in danger, the officers opened fire on the students.  One died there at the school, two more died at the hospital and up to 35 were injured.  That's the official story.  However, the school board says something different.  They say drunken police officers took 900 kina ($NZ440) from a teacher's group holding the the student-donated money for an end-of-the-year party.  The headmaster was demanding the money be returned.  Police officers went to the school, dragged him from his office and manhandled his deputy.  Some of the students threw rocks at the police, but not the large crowd of students police say were throwing rocks.  The police then opened fire on the students, who range in age from 7 to 16.  Provincial Police Commander Teddy Tei promised a full investigation into the matter.  Papua New Guinea police are known for their ill-discipline and brutality.  The next day, the police commander at Porgera was removed from duty as the investigation got under way.  On Wednesday, December 14, 2005, Inspector Felix Nebanet and First Constable Paul Pare were charged with willful murder and attempted murder for their roles in this school shooting.  Felix was the Mobile Squad 12 commander in Laiagam.  Paul worked out of the Porgera Police Station.

Source: tvnz.co.nz - PNG Promises School Shooting Probe; BBC News - PNG Police Open Fire on Children; Radio New Zealand - PNG Policeman Suspended After Officers Shoot Dead Two Children; The National - 3 Students Killed; The National - 2 More Cops Charged Over Porgera School Shooting

Cougar Creek Elementary School, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

Monday, October 31, 2005

Dozens of teens gathered at Cougar Creek Elementary School today to watch a fight between Sukhpreet Singh Bains and Harjeet Singh Saini, both 19.  The gathered teens became witnesses to murder as Sukhpreet stabbed Harjeet to death.

Source: Victoria Times Colonist - Teen Charged in Stabbing Death

Chadwell Heath Foundation (High) School, Chadwell Heath, Romford, Essex, England

October 2005

For an undisclosed reason, a 16-year-old boy stabbed 15-year-old Abdullah Khalid in the neck.  The wound left a serious injury.  The boy was sentenced at the Old Bailey on Friday, March 3, 2006.

Source: Ilford Record - Keeping Death Off the Streets

Monrad Intermediate School, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Tuesday, November 1, 2005

School violence hopped back across the world to New Zealand when a fight between two students led to a stabbing.  An unnamed 11-year-old boy was being chased by an unnamed 13-year-old boy.  The older boy got his opponent to the ground and started punching him.  Lunchtime was almost over with and the two boys, along with several of their classmates, were on the playground at this time.  The older boy stabbed the younger boy in the leg and head, as well as several minor cuts.  After the stabbing, the instigator ran off as the teachers came running.  The wounded boy was taken to Palmerston North Hospital for treatment.  The young instigator was suspended from school indefinitely and detained by the police.

Source: Manawatu Standard - Monrad Kids Get Help; Stuff.co.nz - Child Wounded in Playground Stabbing

Independence High School, Independence, Kansas

Tuesday, November 1, 2005

Two friends who often sit next together at lunch may be friends no more after one of them, the girl, pulled out a knife and stabbed the other, a boy.  Both of the students are 14-years-old.  The stab wounds were minor and paramedics were able to treat him.  The girl was taken into juvenile custody.  This stabbing occurred just before 1 in the afternoon.

Source: KSN Channel 16 - Independence Stabbing

Hanna High School, Brownsville, Texas

Wednesday, November 2, 2005

This morning a fight broke out in the hallowed halls of Hanna High.  Fernando Muñoz, 17, pulled out a switchblade, charged down the hall to his opponent, an unnamed student, and stab him in the side.  Fernando then attempted to stab his opponent in the neck, but security guards were on the scene and restrained him.  The wounded boy was taken to Valley Regional Medical Center where he was treated and released.  Police arrested Fernando and charged him with aggravated assault.

Source: The Brownsville Herald - Teenager Arrested for Switchblade Injury

Glenbrook Middle School, Concord, California

Thursday, November 3, 2005

Today, a 14-year-old boy spent the entire morning taunting a 13-year-old boy.  The younger boy retaliated at 11:53 by stabbing the bully in the chest with a pair of scissors from the teacher's desk.  The bully was taken to Children's Hospital Oakland to have surgery on his heart.  He was listed in stable condition at the time of this news story.  The 13-year-old stabber was detained by police at Juvenile Hall in Martinez and charged with assault with a deadly weapon.

Source: San Jose Mercury News - Concord School Stabbing Investigated

Campbell County High School, Jacksboro, Tennessee

Tuesday, November 8, 2005

Freshman Ken Bartley Jr., 15, brought a gun to school today and showed it to his friends.  One of them informed school administrators that a gun was on campus.  Ken was removed from class and taken to the office at 2:11 p.m.  He was confronted by Assistant Principal Ken Bruce, Assistant Principal Jim Pierce and Principal Gary Seale.  During the talk, Ken Bartley panic and began shooting the .22-caliber handgun at the school administrators.  Ken Bruce and Jim were shot in the chest while Gary was shot in the lower abdomen.  After he was wounded Gary wrestled with the young shooter in the office.  During their struggle, the gun went off and grazed Ken Bartley's right hand.  Another teacher was then able to take the gun away from the young shooter.  Once Ken Bartley was detained, Gary ordered a lockdown of the school over the intercom.  Jim and Gary were transported to the University of Tennessee Medical Center and listed in serious condition.  Assistant Principal Ken Bruce was taken to St. Mary's Hospital in LaFollette where he died.  Ken Bartley was also taken to St. Mary's Hospital to have his hand stitched up.  Police arrested Ken Bartley Jr. and held him in the Richard L. Bean Juvenile Service Center in Knoxville until they can decide what charges to bring against him.  In April 2007, a jury was starting to form to judge Ken's actions.  During that process, he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and two counts of attempted second-degree murder.  Judge Jon Kerry Blackwood sentenced Ken to 45 years in prison on Tuesday, April 10, 2007.  Jacksboro is 35 miles northwest of Knoxville.

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THE INJURED:

Source: Knoxville News - 1 Killed, 2 Injured in Campbell School Shooting; Yahoo! News - Wounded Principal Praised as Hero in Tenn.; Knoxville News - Sheriff: Student Shoots 3; 1 Dead; The Tennessean - Wounded Assistant Principal Describes School Shooting; Yahoo! News - Boy Agrees to 45 Years in School Killing

Ekwazini Secondary School, Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Wednesday, November 9, 2005

An unnamed classmate stabs 16-year-old Mabandla Zuma to death today for an undisclosed reason.

Source: South African Broadcasting Corporation - Robbers Stab KwaZulu-Natal Pupil to Death

Chinguacousy Secondary School, Brampton, Ontario, Canada

Wednesday, November 9, 2005

Just before 8 this morning Shandie Kerpal was sitting in his car in the parking lot of Chinguacousy Secondary School when a masked gunman came up to the car.  The gunman tapped on the window and before Shandie, 18, could do anything, the gunman fired six times at him.  The gunman then fled the scene.  Shandie was taken to Peel Memorial hospital and then transferred to Sunnybrook hospital for recovery.  Police began searching for  a black male, 5-foot-8, wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans.

Source: Toronto Sun - Teen Shot at School

Brindhaven Secondary School, Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Thursday, November 10, 2005

Shabir Moses and two of his friends were near the school's changing rooms at lunch today when two men approached them.  To gain access to the schoolyard, the men had cut a hole in the school's fence. One of the men pulled out a knife and forced Shabir down a grass bank.  Once there, both of the men demanded his money and his cell phone.  After handing them his money and his cell phone, the knife wielder plunged the knife into Shabir's neck.  As Shabir collapsed to the ground, the two men fled the scene.  Shabir died a few minutes later.  

Source: South African Broadcasting Corporation - Robbers Stab KwaZulu-Natal Pupil to Death

Collingwood College (High School), Camberley, Surrey, England

Thursday, November 10, 2005

Also today during lunch another student was stabbed.  Three female students approached Natashia Jackman as she queued in the school's canteen.  Two of the girls are 14-years-old and one of them is 15.  The trio taunted her about her long hair.  They said, "We are going to give you a haircut or we are going to set your hair on fire."  The trio then went off in search of scissors.  A boy pulled out a pair of scissors from his pencil case and gave it to the trio.  They then went outside to the playing fields opposite the school's science block.  Natashia, 15, walked past them and the trio taunted her again.  Natashia stood up to them by calling the trio "pathetic whores."  One of the unnamed 14-year-old girls attacked Natashia with the scissors.  The unnamed instigator grabbed Natashia's chest and stabbed her through the eyelid.  She then jammed the scissors twice into Natashia's head.  She fell to the ground and the unnamed instigator stabbed her in the back and dropped the scissors.  Her two unnamed friends picked up the scissors and threw them over the school's fence. Natashia was transported to Frimley Park Hospital with serious, but non-life threatening injuries.  Police arrested two of the instigators.  One of the 14-year-olds was charged with suspicion of grievous bodily harm with intent.  The other 14-year-old was charged with conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm with intent and attempting to pervert the course of justice.  The 15-year-old was arrested Friday morning and charged with conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm with intent.  The second 14-year-old and the 15-year-old were released on bail on Friday.  Natashia was released from the hospital on Friday.  The unnamed instigator remains in custody.

Source: 4 National News - Teenage Girl Injured in School Stabbing; Scotsman.com News - Three Arrested Over School Stabbing; BBC News - Two Released Over School Stabbing; Guardian Unlimited - Schoolgirl Stabbed Pupil in Eye, Court Hears

Milwaukee Education Center (Middle School), Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Thursday, November 10, 2005

This is the third stabbing today.  When classes let out at 3:50 p.m. students began flowing out of the building toward the awaiting buses.  During this short trek across the lawn, two 13-year-old boys started fighting.  The war of words continued as they got on one of the buses and climaxed when one of them stabbed the other in the back.  The injured boy went back inside the school to get help.  School officials called police and an ambulance.  The injured boy was taken to Children's Hospital of Wisconsin where he was treated.  Police were able to detain the instigator and charged him with substantial battery, a felony.

Source: WDJT Channel 58 - Student Stabbed on School Bus; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Boy is Shot, Teen Stabbed in Separate Attacks

Maize High School, Maize, Kansas

Monday, November 14, 2005

During an undisclosed incident, a student stabbed a sophomore in the back.  The wounded student was taken to the hospital as a precautionary measure.

Source: Wichita Eagle - Maize Student Suffers Minor Injury in Stabbing at School

Parkway Academy Charter (High) School, Miramar, Florida

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

This morning at 7:20 Kaliesha Cheatham and Camille Burke, both 17, were continuing an argument from yesterday while they rode the school bus.  The bus was on Southwest 38 Street between Rose and Woodscape Drives and had about 30 students on it.  The argument climaxed when Camille pulled out a chrome .32-caliber automatic handgun and shot Kaliesha once in the chest.  Paramedics rushed to the scene and Kaliesha was alert and conscious while she was taken to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood for treatment.  After firing her gun, Camille jumped off the bus.  This caused police to lock down Perry Middle School and Perry Elementary School for a couple of hours while they searched for her.  Camille turned herself in at 1:20 in the afternoon.  She turned over her pistol to the police and was charged with attempted murder and discharging a firearm on a school bus.  The Broward State Attorney's Office charged Camille as an adult and set her trial date for December 4, 2006.

Source: Orlando Sentinel - Student Wounded in Shooting on School Bus in Miramar; Townhall.com - Teen Accused of Shooting Turns Herself In; Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel - Suspect in Miramar Bus Shooting Turns Self In; Classmate Victim Identified; Miami Herald - Teen in Miramar School Bus Shooting Will Be Charged as an Adult; Miami Herald - Trial Date Set for Teen Accused of Shooting Classmate

P.S. 86 (Elementary School), New York City, New York

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Jill Brogan arrived at work this morning in her 1998 red Dodge Durango.  It was just after 10 a.m. in the Briarwood section of Queens when she went out to her SUV for some papers.  Frank Cabrera, 22, approached the 40-year-old reading teacher, asked her a question and when she responded in the negative, he stabbed her in the abdomen twice and once in the leg before taking her Durango.  Paramedics were called to the scene and Jill was taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.  Her attacker didn't go to far in his newly acquired wheels.  He hit a couple of parked cars and crashed the SUV near 148th Street and 87th Avenue.  Police caught him nearby as he was trying to steal another car from the parking lot of the State Supreme Court building.  Frank is charged with first-degree assault, grand larceny, robbery and criminal possession of a weapon.

Source: WABC Channel 7 - Teacher Stabbed During Carjacking; Newsday - Man Nabbed After Allegedly Attacking Teacher, Nurse

Irving Middle School, San Antonio, Texas

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

San Antonio Independent School District security officer Johnny Reyes noticed Eric Zapata-Colin and Jamie Flores, both 18-years-old, trying to break into vehicles in the faculty parking just after 1:00 today.  As Johnny began to enter the parking lot Eric and Jamie began getting into their car, a Chevy Malibu.  They attempted to drive off and Johnny told them out of the car as he drew his weapon.  Eric accelerated the car toward Johnny, who fired one shot at the approaching vehicle.  Eric then stopped the car only to floor it again, heading straight for Johnny, who fired two more shots, killing Eric.  Jamie fled the school on foot but didn't get to far as police arrested him two blocks from the school.  This wasn't Eric's first run in with the law.  He was out on bond for two counts of burglary of a vehicle and one count of graffiti.  Jamie was charged with possession of criminal instruments (porcelain tipped screwdrivers used for breaking car windows).

Source: San Antonio Express - SASD Officer Fatally Shoots Burglary Suspect at Middle School; WOAI Channel 4 - Mother Demands Answers in School Shooting; San Antonio Express - Fear Goes to School

Yavuz Selim Primary School, Nusaybin, Mardin Province, Turkey

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

As classes ended today, a student opened fire on his classmates and teachers.  His weapon of choice was a Kalashnikov assault rifle.  He killed Adnan Celik, a 48-year-old male teacher, wounded a female teacher and injured three of his classmates.  The boy left the school on a motorbike and police were still looking for him as night approached.  Police are calling this shooting a blood feud, a perceived insult to family honor, which is common in the area.  Nusaybin is in the southeast region of Turkey, near the borders of Iraq, Iran and Syria.

Source: Channel 4 News - Gunman Kills One in School Shooting; ABC News - Deadly Shooting at Turkish School

C. R. Clemons Intermediate School, Copperas Cove, Texas

Monday, November 28, 2005

School violence returned after the Thanksgiving holiday with stabbings all week long.  In Copperas Cove, a 10-year-old boy stabbed a classmate in the arm with a pencil.  The young instigator is charged with aggravated assault with bodily injury.  He was released to his parents and faces anywhere from probation to time in juvenile jail.

Source: KXXV Channel 25 - Student Faces Aggravated Assault Charge w/ Pencil

Clarke County High School, Grove Hill, Alabama

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Tonight, Wilcox Central High School traveled to Clarke County High School for a basketball game.  During the game, Kimberly R. Campbell and Shekita Myles, both 17 and attending Wilcox Central, left the building to hang out in the parking lot.  Shortly there after, Dominique Malone, who attends Clarke County, also went outside to the parking lot.  Once there, the three co-eds continued their ongoing feud with a heated exchange of words.  The argument turned physical when Dominique was stabbed twice in the back by one of the Wilcox girls and cut over her eye by the other Wilcox co-ed.  A box cutter was used in the later attack.  Police arrested Kimberly and Shekita, charged them second degree assault and set their bond at $7,500.  Clarke County announced that because of this attack they would no longer participate in athletic events with Wilcox Central.

Source: The Clarke County Democrat - Stabbing of Student After CCHS Game Nixes All Others with Wilcox School

Richard Ishmael Secondary School, Georgetown, Demerara, Guyana

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

On Tuesday two girls got into a squabble at Richard Ishmael Secondary School.  One of the girls is 15-years-old and the other is Tomieka Smith, age unknown.  The exchange of words was over the 15-year-old girl and a male student.  The squabble escalated to a fight, with the unnamed girl slamming Tomieka's head into a desk.  The two girls were eventually separated and sent to the head teacher's office.  Once there, neither of the girls were able to present their case to the head teacher about what caused the fight.  The head teacher gave them letters to give to their parents and suspended the unnamed 15-year-old girl.  Tomieka was sent to the hospital for treatment.  While there, her mother Joy arrived to see how her oldest twin was doing.  After seeing the bruises on her daughter's face, Joy took Tomieka back to the school to talk to the head teacher.  However, they were referred to the Deputy Head. The Deputy Head Teacher and Tomieka's class teacher spoke with them, with her teacher asking that the letter be destroyed.  She also wanted Tomieka to be in class tomorrow for an examination.  Joy and Tomieka then left the school.  Today, Tomieka's eyes and face were swollen so badly that Joy called the head teacher to tell her she was going to call the police.  The head teacher asked her not to do that and said that she would look into the matter and that there wasn't a need to get the police involved just yet.  Joy didn't contact the police and scheduled to meet with the unnamed 15-year-old's parents on Friday.  Later in the day, Joy's other daughter, and Tomieka's twin, Tunicia, called and said she was being bullied at school by a female friend of the unnamed 15-year-old.  Another family member went to the school to speak with the teachers about what was happening.  When the teacher's had called for the friend of the unnamed 15-year-old girl, she refused to go to the office.  Tunicia called once more to tell her mother of the bullying.  This time Joy and six of her relatives went to the school. The family members who went to the school include 34-year-old Jacklyn Levius and 15-year-old Wanda Small.  Joy asked to speak to the head teacher and the friend of the unnamed 15-year-old girl, but once again, the girl refused to come to the office and explain herself.  Joy's relatives took matters into their own hands when  Jacklyn and Wanda left the head teacher's office in search of the bully.  Wanda, who knows the bully, had the idea to go find the girl who had beaten up her relative.  As they searched the school, they came across the the female friend of 15-year-old instigator and heated words were exchanged.  Suddenly, the young female instigator grabbed Jacklyn, pulled out a knife and began stabbing her.  Jacklyn was stabbed four times, all in her chest near her heart.  Wanda joined in the fight in an effort to save Jacklyn.  Wanda was stabbed just above the right eye and slashed on her left hand.  After wounding her opponents, the instigator fled the school.  Jacklyn was taken to Georgetown Public Hospital and died just after 8 p.m.  Wanda was also taken to the hospital and treated for her wounds.  The young instigator turned herself in on Saturday.

Source: Stabroek News - Woman Dies After School Stabbing - Student Had Knife; Stabroek News - Police Seeking School Stabbing Accused; Stabroek News - Teen in School Stabbing Turns Herself In; Stabroek News - School Stabbing - How Petty Disputes Can Sometimes Escalate

Buckhannon-Uphsur High School, Buckhannon, West Virginia

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Meanwhile... back in the states, on the way to school this morning a boy stabbed a classmate in the leg with a pocketknife.  Both of the boys are 15-years-old and the injury was minor. The boys were riding on a school bus at the time of this incident.

Source: WVNS Channel 59 - Boy Stabbed on School Bus

Fort White High School, Fort White, Florida

Thursday, December 1, 2005

24 hours later, another stabbing on a school bus by a 15-year-old boy.  Two brothers were arguing before getting on their bus this morning.  When the got on the bus, the exchange of words turned physical when the older brother, 18, pushed his younger brother away.  The younger brother retaliated by pulling out his pocket knife and stabbing his older sibling in the arm.  The older brother received up to three minor cuts.  The young instigator was arrested and charged with aggravated battery.

Source: Gainesville Sun - Student Accused of Stabbing Brother on Bus

Central (High) School, Bucharest, Romania

Friday, December 2, 2005

Antoanela I., 17, left her home months ago to live with her boyfriend, 32-year-old Constantin Groza.  He lives on the same street as she does.  During a night of intimacy, nude pictures of her were taken.  Earlier this week an e-mail with those pictures was sent to the school.  Antoanela became angry and decided to dump her much older boyfriend.  Constantin was upset about this and went to her school to find out why she wanted out of the relationship.  Even though the school has body guards at the door and he looks nothing like a teenager who is supposed to be there, Constantin gained entry to the campus.  The couple started arguing over the break up when the deputy director of the school invited them to use her office to resolve the argument.  Minutes later, she heard Antoanela screaming.  When the deputy director opened the door, she saw that Antoanela had been stabbed with a knife.  She was transported to the emergency hospital in Bucharest and underwent surgery.  Constantin was captured while he was talking to a journalist.  He was telling them Antoanela had asked him to cut her with his pocketknife more than once. He also said he to the school to give her money.  Police charged him with attempted murder.  Antoanela is continuing to recover from her injuries.

Source: Bucharest Daily News - 17-Year-Old Girl Stabbed at School by Former Boyfriend; Bucharest Daily News - Main Suspect in Student's Stabbing in Bucharest School Detained

St. Croix Educational Complex, Christiansted, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands

Friday, December 2, 2005

Just before 9:30 this morning a fight broke out at the St. Croix Educational Complex high school.  During the fight, two male students, one 18 and the other 17, were stabbed with a pocketknife.  School officials called police and then rushed the younger boy to Luis Hospital themselves as his injuries were very severe.  An ambulance took the older boy to Luis Hospital where he was treated for a cut to his forehead.  It was unclear whether the two boys fought each other or if more students were involved in this act of school violence.

Source: The Virgin Islands Daily News - Two Students Rushed to Hospital After Stabbing at Educational Complex

Hauppauge High School, Hauppauge, New York

Friday, December 2, 2005

At 11:15 this morning, two male freshmen, both 14, began fighting at Hauppauge High School.  One of the boys told his opponent that he had heard rumors for a week that he (the opponent) wanted to fight and stab him.  The unnamed opponent said he didn't want to fight, but that didn't stop the challenger from punching him anyway.  During the fight, the opponent pulled out an Xacto knife and cut the challenger.  Another freshman, also 14, who was nearby tried to help the wounded boy.  However, the opponent (now instigator), showed him no mercy as he cut him as well.  The two injured teens were first treated at the nurse's office and then at Stony Brook University Hospital.  Police arrested the instigator and charged him with two counts of second-degree assault and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon.  However, since he is a minor, they would not reveal his name.

Source: New York Newsday - Student Arrested After Stabbing at Hauppauge High School; Newsday - 2 Knifed at Hauppauge High School

Queen Anne Elementary School, Lebanon, Oregon

Saturday, December 3, 2005

Jason Lee Anderson, 22; Adam Lyle Davis, 24; Lawrence Dean Seavy, 22, and several others were drinking late this night on the grounds of Queen Anne Elementary School.  Lawrence's property is behind the school.  A man approached the group and began to insult them.  The group told him to move on.  Instead, the unnamed man attacked them with a knife.  With four minutes left in the day, police received a call notifying them of multiple stabbings at the school.  When police arrived, they found Adam with numerous stab wounds in his arms and legs; Jason with stab wounds in his neck and face; and Lawrence with back and leg stab wounds.  Adam and Jason were taken to Lebanon Community Hospital where they were treated for their wounds.  Lawrence was taken to Samaritan Albany General Hospital where he was treated and released.  Police are hopeful to make an arrest by the end of the following week

Source: Corvallis Gazette-Times - Three Stabbed at Lebanon School; Corvallis Gazette-Times - Lebanon Stabbings Not Life-Threatening

Boston Day and Evening Academy (High School), Roxbury, Massachusetts

Monday, December 5, 2005

At 2:20 this afternoon an argument in a second-floor men's room erupted between two male students.  The argument climaxed when one of boys fired one shot at his opponent.  The shot missed the target and both boys fled the school.  Five hours later, Rodney Christopher Hoskins's mother and uncle took the 17-year-old to a local police station so that he could surrender to the authorities.  He was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon and illegal possession of a firearm.

Source: The Barre Montpelier Times Argus - Police Arrest Teen for School Shooting

Southeastern High School, Detroit, Michigan

Monday, December 5, 2005

Two 14-year-old students were wounded by an 18-year-old man when he shot into a crowd of students at Southeastern High School today.  A girl was shot in her shin and a boy was shot in his leg.  Police arrested the shooter and charged him with nine counts of attempted murder.

Source: WWMT Channel 3 - Detroit Schools Get More Police After Two Shootings in Two Days

Horizon Continuation (High) School, Anaheim, California

Monday, December 5, 2005

At 11:30 this morning, a 17-year-old male student was standing outside the school when a black Ford Taurus rolled up along side of him.  The passengers in the Taurus shouted gang slang at him and then opened fire on him.  He was struck in the back by one of the flying bullets.  The vehicle fled the scene, but was recovered just one and a half miles away.  The injured student was taken to UCI Medical Center in Orange.  Police believe this shooting to be gang related.  Orange County Department of Education runs the school, which is a white building at the end of a strip mall.

Webmaster's note: The first news story didn't name the school, just the address (1895 W. Katella Avenue).  However, the Anaheim school district website has no such school listed at this address.  The second news story named the school as South West Anaheim, but once again a Google search for that school came up empty.  The third news story, and the most detailed of the three, named the school as Horizon Continuation School, so that is the one I am going with.  I even used Google Earth to look at the address and sure enough, the white school building is at the end of a strip mall, not really a traditional school campus as I know it.  Hopefully this is the correct name for this school.

Source: NBC4.TV - Police Investigate Shooting at Continuation High School in Anaheim; L. A. Times - Teen Shot Outside O. C. School; MSNBC - Student Shot Outside School in Anaheim

Kingsdale (High) School, Alleyn Park, Dulwich, England

Tuesday, December 6, 2005

Yesterday police launched a massive campaign to rid schools of knives.  Unfortunately the campaign got off on the wrong foot.  A schoolyard bully was demanding cash from one of his classmates when the confrontation was spotted by an unnamed 15-year-old boy.  The unnamed boy confronted the bully and was stabbed in the side with a penknife.  He was also punched in the jaw by the bully.  His classmates could only look on in horror.  The bully was expelled from the school by Steve Morrison, the head teacher.

Source: South London Press - Pupil Stabbed at School

Central High School, Detroit, Michigan

Tuesday, December 6, 2005

While the students were leaving the building for first dismissal, two non-students entered the building via a side door that students opened up for them.  In the vestibule of the school, gunfire rang out and one of the non-students was shot.  Pepper spray then filled the air and antagonized several students nearby.  The wounded individual was taken to the hospital for treatment.  The shooter fled the scene.

Source: WXYZ Channel 7 - One Injured in School Shooting; KLFY Channel 10 - One Shot at Detroit School

Milton Peters College (High School), Philipsburg, St. Maarten

Wednesday, December 7, 2005

Conflicting stories surround this act of school violence from the Caribbean. One story is that an 18-year-old male identified only as P.S. slapped a 16-year-old male identified only as C.W. for bumping into him.  C.W. retaliated by stabbing P.S. twice in the chest and then fleeing the school.  The second story said the two boys had a disagreement earlier (whether it be in the day or in the week, I don't know.)  P.S. was in a classroom at the school when his teacher left the room.  After she left, C.W. rushed in and stabbed P.S. twice in the chest.  C.W. then fled the school by jumping over the school gate and running away.  P.S. was rushed to St. Maarten Medical Center and listed in critical condition.  Police began searching for C.W.  Two weeks later, P.S. was identified as Steve Thervil in a news story from The Daily Herald of St. Maarten.  According to that story, the stabbing took place around 9:30 a.m. and Steve didn't know he was stabbed until he looked down and saw blood on his shirt.  He was stabbed six times by his classmate.  After spending ten days in the hospital Steve is determined to encourage his fellow classmates to resolve their differences peacefully.

Source: The Daily Herald of St. Maarten - Student Stabbed in Class at MPC; The Daily Herald of St. Maarten - Stabbed Student Recovering, Says, 'Don't Resort to Violence'

Addelita Cancryn Junior High School, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands

Friday, December 9, 2005

This afternoon a fight between students broke out at this school in the U. S. Virgin Islands.  The fight climaxed when a male student was stabbed.  School security officer Linda Raymond reported the stabbing at 3:12 and the wounded boy was taken to Schneider Hospital for treatment.  Police did not name a suspect as they began their investigation.

Source: The Virgin Islands Daily News - Student Stabbed at Cancryn School

A Cram (Elementary) School, Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Saturday, December 10, 2005

Sayano Horimoto, a 12-year-old sixth-grade girl, started taking classes at the Uji Shinmei branch of the Kyoshin chain of cram schools on March 25, 2005.  Cram schools, called juku, are used by students to prepare for entrance exams at the next level of education.  Each classroom in the cram school has a security camera in it.  One of her teachers was Yu Hagino, a 23-year-old senior law student majoring in criminology at Doshisha University.  He works part-time as a teacher at the juku.   By the beginning of April, Yu had expressed concerns over Sayano in a school journal, stating, "I cannot get along well with Sayano as far as educational guidance is concerned."  In August, Sayano's mother called the school to complain about her daughter having the longest counseling sessions with Yu of all his students.  She also said he scolded her often.  At the end of November, Yu berated Sayano during a conference with her main teacher.  This caused Sayano to cry on her way home.  At the beginning of the this month, Sayano stopped taking Yu's classes.  A few days later, Yu went shopping and he picked up two knives and a hammer from a local store.  Today, the school was scheduled to trial test sixth-graders from 9 a.m. to noon and at Sayano's mother's request, Yu was removed from supervising the test by school officials.  Yu went to the school anyway, with the two knives and hammer.  He entered a classroom with 13 students and told them he will be conducting survey on the Japanese courses he had taught them.  He told the students who had been in his class to move to another room.  A dozen of them got up and left the room.  Only Sayano remained in the room.  Once the two were alone in the room, Yu unplugged the security camera, locked the door, pulled out a 29-centimeter (11-inch) knife and stabbed Sayano in the face and neck.  After he stabbed Sayano, Yu called the police from his cell phone, the call coming into them just after 9 in the morning.  Another teacher persuaded Yu to unlock the door and come out of the room.  When he opened the door, he was still holding the cell phone and there was blood on his hands.  Sayano was rushed to the hospital where she died.  Police arrested Yu and confiscated the knives and hammer from him.  Yu confessed to killing Sayano, saying, "I had been troubled over how to teach her.  I thought it would be better if she would disappear."  Police charged Yu with her murder and violating the Law to Control the Possessions of Firearms and Swords.  A mental evaluation of Yu ruled that he suffers from Asperger syndrome.  However, he was still found competent to stand trial.  On Tuesday, March 6, 2007, Judge Makoto Himuro sentenced Yu to 18 years in prison for the premeditated murder of Sayano Horimoto.

Source: Japan Times - Girl Killed at Cram School; The Asahi Shimbun - A 12-Year-Old Girl Was Stabbed to Death By a Part-Time Cram School Teacher; Mainichi Daily News - Cram School Teacher Gets 18 Years in Prison for Fatally Stabbing Student

Monsignor John Pereyma Catholic Secondary School, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

Monday, December 12, 2005

This afternoon, two boys began fighting over an unknown topic.  The fight began just before 3 p.m. and climaxed when one of them stabbed his opponent in the arm.  The wounded boy, 16, was not seriously injured.  The fight was broken up by vice-principal.  Police arrested the instigator.

Source: Durham Region News - Stabbing at John Pereyma Catholic School

A Primary School in Roermond, Limburg Province, The Netherlands

Thursday, December 15, 2005

In an eerie similar fashion to Brenda Spencer from January 29, 1979, a 14-year-old boy in his Roermond house opened fire on students at a primary school across the street.  Fortunately, the boy was using an air gun and not a sniper rifle like Brenda.  He fired upon the innocent children from the attic window.  Panic ensued on the playground as teachers and parents scrambled to move the children to safety.  One child was slightly injured in this shooting.  The boy stopped shooting when the police arrived at the home.  He was captured and detained.

Source: Expatica - Dutch Teen Arrested for School Shooting

Onondaga Central Junior-Senior High School, Nedrow, New York

Thursday, December 15, 2005

Students began arriving at 8:00 this morning as they normally do.  Unfortunately, their normal day was shattered when an unnamed 12-year-old seventh-grade girl and an unnamed 15-year-old ninth-grade girl got into a fight.  The fight climaxed when the younger girl pulled out a 12-inch butcher's knife and stabbed the freshman co-ed in the right leg.  Math teacher Johnsteven Melfi was leaving a classroom when he heard the older girl scream, "I've been stabbed."  The injured girl was on the floor with blood flowing from the wound.  He asked her who stabbed her and she pointed to the seventh-grader girl standing behind him.  Johnsteven turned and the young girl started coming toward him.  He told her to drop the knife and she did.  Johnsteven then held on to the young instigator and picked up the knife.  He then called over Steven Louis, another teacher. Steven put the young girl alone into his classroom and took possession of the knife.  Johnsteven ran downstairs to tell the principal, vice-principal and nurse.  The nurse went to tend to the injured girl while Johnsteven called the police.  The injured girl was taken to University Hospital for treatment.  The instigator was arrested and charged with second degree assault and criminal possession of a weapon in the 4th degree.  She is being held at the Hillbrook Detention Center. Ononda