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News Articles: School Shootings

Columbine Principal Frank DeAngelis listens to his students, survivors of the shooting, in April 2019 as he attends "Columbine 20 Years Later: A Faith-based Remembrance Service" at Waterstone Community Church in Littleton, Colo. A dozen students and one teacher were massacred by two heavily armed students.

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A small, growing group of survivors advises school leaders after mass shootings

Frank DeAngelis was principal at Columbine High School in Colorado when 12 students and a teacher were killed there. He helps lead a group that offers aid and a sounding board after each fresh attack.

June 23, 2022
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By:
  • Leila Fadel and
  • Christopher Dean Hopkins
A truck passes crosses placed along the highway to honor the victims killed in the recent school shooting at Robb Elementary School.

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  • National Security

The creator of the FBI mass shooting protocol is 'shocked' by Uvalde police response

After Sandy Hook, Katherine Schweit created a program to navigate similar crises. She says the way law enforcement handled the shooting in Uvalde went against everything they trained for.

June 09, 2022
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By:
  • Sacha Pfeiffer,
  • Michael Levitt,
  • and 1 more
Families hug outside the Willie de Leon Civic Center where grief counseling will be offered in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: The endurance of parents

NPR's Scott Simon remarks on how parents have felt hard times compounding for the last several years between pandemic disruptions and inflation, and now fears over school shootings.

June 04, 2022
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By:
  • Scott Simon
Ethan Crumbley attends a hearing at Oakland County circuit court in Pontiac, Mich., on Tuesday over where the teen will be detained as he awaits trial. Crumbley, 15, is charged with the fatal shooting of four fellow students and the wounding of seven others, including a teacher, at Oxford High School in November.

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  • Law

Judge to rule if Michigan school shooter will stay in an adult jail

Text messages and items from a journal were offered by prosecutors as reasons to keep Ethan Crumbley in a cell at the Oakland County Jail instead of having him transferred to a juvenile facility.

February 22, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
The American flag flies at half-staff on Dec. 2, 2021, outside of Oxford High School in Oxford, Mich.

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  • National

The teen charged in a Michigan school shooting will pursue an insanity defense

A 15-year-old charged with killing four students at a Michigan high school will pursue an insanity defense as he, his parents and school officials face a new lawsuit over the November attack.

January 27, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Mourners grieve at Oxford High School in Oxford, Mich., on Wednesday, the day after a gunman opened fire at the school, killing four students and wounding seven other people.

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  • National

Michigan's attorney general wants to investigate the Oxford school shooting

State AG Dana Nessel said her office is the "perfect agency" to conduct a full review of the shooting that killed four students. The investigation would focus on the events leading up to the tragedy.

December 05, 2021
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By:
  • Matthew S. Schwartz
A makeshift memorial seen outside Oxford High School in Oxford, Mich., on Wednesday honors the four students who were fatally shot and seven people who were injured.

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  • National

Michigan authorities consider charges against the school shooting suspect's parents

Oakland County prosecutor Karen McDonald said the parents of the suspect failed to keep a recently purchased firearm out of the hands of their son, who is accused of killing four classmates.

December 02, 2021
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
People embrace as they visit a makeshift memorial outside of Oxford High School on Wednesday in Oxford, Mich.

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  • National

What we know about the young victims of the Oxford High School shooting in Michigan

Oxford High School lost four young students in a shooting this week. The victims, many of them athletes on school teams, were between 14 and 17 years old.

December 02, 2021
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz and
  • Deepa Shivaram
Students hold candles during a prayer vigil after the shootings at Oxford High School on Tuesday in Oxford, Mich.

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  • National

15-year-old boy charged with murder, terrorism in Michigan high school shooting

Charges against the boy were announced a few hours after authorities reported the death of a fourth teen from Oxford High School in southeastern Michigan.

December 01, 2021
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  • The Associated Press
Mourners visit a makeshift memorial outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14, 2020, during the two-year anniversary of the Parkland shooting that killed 17 people and injured another 17.

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  • National

A Florida school district will pay $25 million to the families of Parkland victims

The agreement with the families of 52 people killed, injured or traumatized by the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas settles claims of the families of the deceased and all but one of the injured.

October 19, 2021
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By:
  • Greg Allen
A broken window is pictured at the Perm State University where an unidentified man opened fire, killing at least eight people and injuring 24 others.

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  • World

8 People Are Killed By Gunman At A University In Russia

Video posted to social media showed students jumping from second-story windows, apparently to escape the attack. Russian officials said the suspect, a student, had been detained.

September 20, 2021
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  • Scott Neuman
A mourner kneels beside 26 teddy bears, each representing a victim of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, at a sidewalk memorial in 2012 in Newtown, Conn.

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  • National

Gun-Maker Sued In Sandy Hook Shooting Wants The School Records Of Slain Children

Remington Arms, the now-bankrupt gun-maker being sued by nine families of those killed in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School, has subpoenaed academic, attendance and disciplinary records.

September 03, 2021
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
Nine families are involved in the lawsuit against now-bankrupt Remington Arms. They claim the gun-maker is liable for the deaths of six adults and 20 children as the manufacturer and marketer of the Bushmaster assault-style rifle used in the 2012 massacre.

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  • Law

Gun-Maker Offers Sandy Hook Families $33 Million. Here's What They May Be Considering

The settlement proposal is far lower than what families said they expected. But an attorney with more than 20 years of experience working with mass shooting victims says there's a lot to think about.

July 29, 2021
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo

On Second Thought For Thursday, May 17, 2018

Colleges and universities across Georgia have wrapped up the semester, but one Morehouse College student has more work to do. Last year, Julien Turner...

May 17, 2018
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By:
  • Sean Powers ,
  • Taylor Gantt ,
  • and 5 more
Michael Brandon Hill stands trial after an attempted school shooting in DeKalb in 2013

Mental Health And School Shootings: The Story Of A Near-Miss In Atlanta

In the United States, school shootings have been one of the most hotly debated topics in 2018. The issue was re-ignited in February, when 17 people were...

May 07, 2018
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  • Leah Fleming and
  • Destiny Robinson
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