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，Background about
suspected gunman in U.S. shooting rampage
，Backgrounder:
Deadly campus shootings in U.S.
，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.
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