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Teacher Arrested for Firing Blanks at Students

Rob Quinn — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 01:39:20 CDT

A high school teacher in Virginia has been arrested for what appears to have been a bizarre attempt to get his class to pay attention. Police say Manuel Dillow, 60, lined up a dozen students from his welding class in front of a garage door, pulled a handgun from his...

Calif. Gunman: 'Get in Line, I'm Going to Kill You All'

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 07:59:56 CDT

The suspected shooter accused of killing seven people on a Christian college campus in Oakland, one of the worst mass killings in California's history, has been identified as 43-year-old One L. Goh, a naturalized citizen from Korea, the Los Angeles Times reports. Goh was upset after having been dismissed from...

7 Dead in Calif. School Shooting

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:18:51 CDT

A gunman opened fire at a Christian university in California today, killing at least seven people and wounding three more, before being captured in a nearby city, authorities said. The gunfire erupted around midmorning at Oikos University in Oakland, police said. Television footage showed heavily armed officers swarming the building...

Gunman Likely Filmed French School Shooting

Kate Schwartz — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:29:44 CDT

As if there could be a crueler twist to the Jewish school shooting in Toulouse that yesterday rocked France: France's interior minister today revealed that the gunman likely filmed the killings. The school's surveillance video revealed that a video camera was attached to the killer's neck, reports Reuters . "This adds...

Virginia Tech Found Negligent in 2007 Rampage

Dustin Lushing — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:44:36 CDT

Virginia Tech was found legally negligent by a jury today in a lawsuit stemming from the 2007 school shooting that killed 33 people. The issue at stake was whether the university improperly delayed sending out warnings after the first two murders were discovered in a dorm, reports AP . Campus police...

College Student Busted in Rampage Threat

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:22:22 CDT

A University of Maryland student has been busted after he threatened on the Internet to go on a shooting rampage at the College Park campus and "kill enough people to make national news," said law enforcement authorities. Alexander Song, 19, of Maryland, also warned people reading his site to "stay...

Students Joked Fired Teacher Might Snap

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:01:03 CST

Shane Schumerth was an "awkward man" who didn't seem to fit in, Episcopal High School students say, and when he was fired yesterday morning and escorted off the Jacksonville campus, some of the students joked that he would return to campus and do something. And he did: Police say the...

Fired Fla. Teacher Kills Principal, Self

Rob Quinn — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:18:00 CST

A teacher fired from a private Florida high school returned several hours later with an assault rifle hidden in a guitar case and killed the school's headmistress before taking his own life. Students say the Spanish teacher, 28-year-old Shane Schumert, had been ignoring the subject this semester, and was spending...

Man Opens Fire on Baseball Players at Ariz. High School

Rob Quinn — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 03:03:00 CST

An Arizona man has been busted for firing a high-powered rifle at high school baseball players, police said. A Willcox High School student suffered minor injuries when the gunman shot at his car as the teen was driving with a teammate to fetch a bucket of balls near the baseball...