The shooting at an elementary school in Townville, South Carolina, is just the latest school to make headlines, but the issue is one that's been on the front lines since Columbine in 1999 and the devastating shooting at Newtown Elementary School just weeks before the holiday season in December 2012. read more
While riding the school bus, 16-year-old Serra Catholic High School student, Robert Butler, shot 16-year-old schoolmate, Adam Ference, in the back of the head before fatally shooting himself. Ference was in critical condition but survived. read more
With two shootings on college campuses Friday, the number of US school shootings in 2015 has climbed to 52, with 30 people killed and 53 others injured. These totals include suicides, incidents in which no one was hit, and one attack on a school bus. read more
Over five years of tracking, this data has shown us that gunfire on school grounds takes many forms and mirrors the problem of gun violence in America. Gunfire on school grounds disproportionately affects students of color– occurring most often at schools with a high proportion of minority students. read more
April 10, 2017 – San Bernardino, California (Deaths 3, Injuries 1) North Park Elementary School shooting: Cedric Anderson, age 53, of Riverside, California, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after shooting and killing his estranged wife, Karen Elaine Smith, age 53, in a classroom. read more