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Florida's bloodshed was the latest outbreak of gun violence in American schools and colleges. Below are some of the worst shootings in American schools in the last 20 years.

BENTON, Kentucky, January 23, 2018 – 15-year-old Gabe Parker shot and killed two other students, also 15, at Marshall County High School in western Kentucky, and wounded 14 others. Four other high school students were shot in the panic that followed.

AZTEC, New Mexico, December 7, 2017 – William Atchison, a 21-year-old man disguised as a student enters the local high school, kills two students before killing himself.

SAN BERNARDINO, California, April 10, 2017 – Cedric Anderson dies as a result of a gunshot wound he sustained after killing his ex-wife at North Park Elementary School where she worked. An 8 year old student is also shot.

ROSEBURG, Oregon, October 1, 2015 – Chris Harper-Mercer, 26, opens fire on the campus of Umpqua Community College, killing nine people before being shot by police.

MARYSVILLE, Washington, October 24, 2014 – Jaylen Fryberg, 15, a freshman at Marysville-Pilchuck High School, injured four students in the cafeteria before killing himself.

SANTA MONICA, California, June 7, 2013 – John Zawahri, a 23-year-old digital media student, kills his father and brother, sets his house on fire, then kills three people at Santa Monica College. The shooter kills himself.

NEWTOWN, Connecticut, December 14, 2012 – Adam Lanza, 20, kills his mother, then kills 20 children and six adults before killing herself at Sandy Hook Elementary School. It was the deadliest shooting in a high school or elementary school in US history, and it revived the gun control debate in the United States.

OAKLAND, California, April 2, 2012 – One L Goh, a former nursing student, killed seven people and wounded three at Oikos University, a Korean Christian university.

CHARDON, Ohio, February 27, 2012 – Thomas & # 39; T.J & # 39; Lane, a 17-year-old student at LycĂ©e Chardon, kills three students and injures three in the cafeteria. On March 19, 2013, he was sentenced to three life sentences. In 2014, Lane and two other inmates escaped from the Allen Penitentiary in Lima, Ohio, but it was resumed the next day.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama, February 12, 2010 – Amy Bishop, professor of biology at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, opens fire at a staff meeting, killing three faculty members and injuring three.

DEKALB, IL, February 14, 2008 – Former graduate student Steve Kazmierczak kills five students and injures 16 at Northern Illinois University before committing suicide.

RED BATON, Louisiana, February 8, 2008 – Latina Williams, a nursing student at Louisiana Technical College, kills two classmates and herself in a classroom.

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, April 16, 2007 – The killer Seuman-Hui Cho kills 32 people and kills himself at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and at the State University, more commonly known as Virginia Tech. At the time, it was one of the most lethal murders in the history of the United States.

NOTICKEL MINES, Pennsylvania, October 2, 2006 – The shooter Charles Carl Roberts IV took hostage and killed eight out of 10 girls, and killed five others in a one-room Amish school before killing himself.

SHEPHERDSTOWN, West Virginia, September 2, 2006 – Douglas Pennington, 49, is killed, he and his two sons, Logan, 26, and Benjamin, 24, during a visit to the campus of Shepherd University.

RED LAKE INDIAN RESERVATION, Minnesota, March 21, 2005 – Jeffrey Weise, a 16-year-old high school student, kills seven people, including his grandfather, a tribal police officer, and injures several others during a shootout after killing two people off campus. He then kills himself.

COLD SPRING, Minnesota, September 24, 2003 – Jason Jason McLaughlin, a 15-year-old student, shoots mortally at a freshman and a senior at Rocori High School.

TUCSON, Arizona, October 29, 2002 – Robert S Flores Jr, a 41-year-old student who fails, kills and kills three professors, and then himself at the School of Nursing at the University of Arizona.

GRUNDY, Virginia, January 16, 2002 – Peter Odighizuwa, a 41-year-old Nigerian immigrant and recently fired, kills a dean, a teacher and a student from the Appalachian Law School and injures three others.

SANTEE, California, March 5, 2001 – Charles Andrew Williams, a student at Santana High School, kills two students out of a total of 13 wounded. He is currently serving a sentence of life imprisonment.

LITTLETON, Colorado, April 20, 1999 – Two teenagers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, go on a rampage at Columbine High School, killing 12 students and one teacher and injuring more than 20 others before committing suicide. The duo's diaries indicate that they wanted their actions to be comparable to those of the Oklahoma City bombing.

JONESBORO, Arkansas, March 24, 1998 – Two boys, 13-year-old Mitchell Johnson and 11-year-old Andrew Golden, opened fire on their college, shooting wood, killing four girls and a teacher, and injuring 11 others.

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