Special report: Deadliest U.S. college massacre
WASHINGTON, April 16 (Xinhua) -- In a deadliest
campus shooting in U.S. history, a gunman killed at least 22 people and injured
more than two dozens of others at a university in Virginia during a two-hour
span on Monday. The following is a list of fatal shootings at U.S. schools in
recent years:
-- Oct. 2, 2006: In Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, a man
shot and killed five girls at an Amish school.
-- March 21, 2005: On an Indian reservation in Red
Lake, Minnesota, a male teenager fatally shot nine people, including five
students.
-- March 5, 2001: In Santee, California, a teenager
shot dead two students and wounded 13 others.
-- August 10, 1999: In Los Angeles, California, a man
fatally shot three children and two adults at a pre-school.
-- April 20, 1999: In Littleton, Colorado, two
teenagers shot dead 13 people and wounded 24 more at Columbine High School
before committing suicide.
-- May 21, 1998: In Springfield, Oregon, a
15-year-old boy shot dead two students, wounded 25 after he was expelled for
bringing a gun to school.
-- March 24, 1998: In Jonesboro, Arkansas, two boys
aged 11 and13 fatally shot four students and a teacher and injured 10 more.
-- Dec. 1, 1997: In Paducah, Kentucky, a teenager
fatally shot three students and wounded five others during a prayer group.
-- Jan.1, 1989: A man in Stockton, California shot
dead five children and wounded about 30 people.
-- Jan., 1979: In San Diego, California, a
17-year-old girl killed two adults and injured eight children.
-- May 4, 1970: Four students were killed and nine
wounded by U.S. National Guard troops called in to quell anti-war protests on
the campus of Kent State University in Ohio.
-- Aug. 1, 1966: In Austin, Texas, a sniper,
identified as Charles Whitman, killed 14 people and injured dozens from the
clock tower at the University of Texas.