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2015 University of South Carolina shooting[edit]

An editor has again removed a description of the recent shooting at the University of South Carolina with the rationale “the shooting has nothing to do with the school it just occured there”. I find this line of reasononig quite perplexing because in the past occrring on school property was enough to include an attack in the list. In fact, there are many, many examples in the current list of personal disputes, acts of domestic violence, or targeted acts of violence agianst individuals that occur on school grounds but are not targeted against the educational institutions as a whole. The following list is of the entries that are currently included in the list that would have to be removed if targeted acts of violence agianst individuals that occur on school grounds are no longer acceptable additions to this list. If they continue to be included I see no good reason why the shooting at the University of South Carolina should continue to be excluded.


October 10, 1892 - At Kansas University, two students, E. Higgins and Jack Craycroft, were shot as they were walking back to their dorm rooms from practicing football at the athletic field by a double barreled shotgun as they passed the home of law student, Fred Basset. Basset said they were warned not to trespass on his farm as students so frequently did.

March 11, 1908 - Elizabeth Bailey Hardee is shot to death by Sarah Chamberlain Weed at the Laurens School, a finishing school in Boston. Weed then turns the gun on herself and commits suicide.

April 2, 1921 - Professor Holmes Beckwith shot and killed dean J. Herman Wharton in his office at Syracuse University before committing suicide.

February 24, 1939 - 32-year-old drama student Anya Sosoyeva was bludgeoned to death by De Witt Clinton Cook on the campus of Los Angeles City College.

November 13, 1949 - Ohio State University freshman James Heer of Euclid, Ohio grabbed a .45 caliber handgun from the room of a Delta Tau Delta fraternity brother and shot and killed Jack McKeown, 21, of Norwood, Ohio, an Ohio State senior and fraternity brother.

July 14, 1952 - Bayard Peakes walked in to the offices of the American Physical Society at Columbia University and shot and killed secretary Eileen Fahey with a .22 caliber pistol. Peakes was reportedly upset that the APS had rejected a pamphlet he had written.

May 15, 1954 - Putnam Davis Jr. was shot and killed during a fraternity house carnival at the Phi Delta Theta house at the University of North Carolina. William Joyner and Allen Long were shot and wounded during the exchange of gunfire in their fraternity bedroom. The incident took place after an all-night beer party. Long reported to the police that, while the three were drinking beer at 7 a.m., Davis pulled out a gun and started shooting, and that he had obtained the gun from a former roommate's car.

January 11, 1955 - After some of his dorm mates urinated on his mattress Bob Bechtel, a 20-year-old student at Swarthmore College, returned to his dorm with a shotgun and used it to shoot and kill fellow student Holmes Strozier.

January 17, 1969 - Two student members of the Black Panther Party, Alprentice Carter and John Huggins, were fatally shot during a student meeting inside Campbell Hall at the University of California, Los Angeles. The motive of the shooting regarded who would own the school's African American Studies Center. The shooter, Claude Hubert, was never to be found but three other men were arrested in connection with the shooting.

November 28, 1969 - 22-year-old graduate student Betsy Aardsma is stabbed to death in the Pattee Library at the Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania. Her killer is never apprehended.

October 12, 1974 - 19-year-old Arlis Perry was stabbed to death with an ice pick in Stanford Memorial Church on the grounds of Stanford University by an unknown assailant.

November 7, 1974 - Gerald Melton stabbed 19-year-old Helen Surgan to death on the campus of Wagner College.

February 18, 1975 - Marist College student Shelley Lynn Sperling, 17, was shot and killed by Louis Acevedo, a scorned suitor, in the Marist College cafeteria.

December 1979 - Roger Cutsinger, 21, fatally shot his roommate and lover, Larry Duerkson, hoping to collect $500,000 from Duerkson's life insurance policy in which Cutsinger was named beneficiary. Duerkson, a University of Washington library employee, was walking between Parrington Hall and the Henry Art Gallery when Cutsinger shot him. Cutsinger was later convicted of first-degree murder.

April 5, 1986 - Jeanne A. Clery, 19, a freshman at Lehigh University, was raped, beaten, and strangled to death with a metal Slinky coil by Henry, a sophomore, when she woke up while he was burglarizing her dorm room. Henry was convicted of murder and given a death sentence. Clery's parents sued Lehigh and used the settlement money to found Security on Campus, an advocacy group that won passage of the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy & Campus Crime Statistics Act.

September 8, 1986 - Cindy Marie Piccot entered the Coastal Training Institute and shot dead 20-year-old student Shamette Allen with a .38 caliber pistol before committing suicide. The motive for the shooting was revenge for an earlier attack in which Shamette Allen set Cindy Marie Piccot on fire.

July 1989 - Azizolla Mazooni shot and killed his ex-girlfriend, Marjan Mohseninia, and her friend, Abraham Sharif-Kashani, in the University of Washington parking lot. Mazooni had hired a private detective to locate Mohseninia, who was a summer student at the university. Mazooni was later convicted on two counts of second-degree murder.

May 28, 1995 - Sinedu Tadesse stabbed her roommate, 20-year-old Trang Phuong Ho, to death with a hunting knife inside a dormitory at Harvard University. Tadesse also attacked one of Ho's visiting friends, 26-year-old Thao Nguyen, severely injuring her as well. Tadesse then hanged herself.

October 16, 1996 - On October 15, 1996, Jay Severson, 27, a Wiley Hall counselor at Purdue University caught Jarrod Allen Eskew, 19 of Crawfordsville, Indiana cutting cocaine in his dorm room. Severson called the Purdue Police Department but when they arrived Eskew had fled. Eskew returned the next day at 2:50 pm with a sawed off 12-gauge shotgun while under the influence of both marijuana and cocaine. Eskew went to Severson's Wiley Hall dorm room and fatally shot Severson in the head. He then barricaded himself in his third floor dorm room. A janitor found the body a short time later. SWAT and police took up positions around Wiley Hall. Police evacuated Wiley Hall, attempted to negotiate, fired tear gas, and stormed the room to find Eskew had killed himself with the shotgun.

September 28, 2000 and February 3, 2001 - 19-year-old Eric Franklin Plunkett was found beaten to death inside his dorm room at Gallaudet University in September 2000. In February 2001, 19-year-old Benjamin Varner, an RA in the same dorm, was found stabbed to death. An investigation led authorities to Joseph Mesa Jr., and Mesa was found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder.

January 19, 2001 - Professor David Buller, 50, was stabbed to death outside his office at the University of Toronto by an unknown assailant.

September 3, 2006 - Douglas W. Pennington, 49, killed his sons Logan P. Pennington, 26, and Benjamin M. Pennington, 24, during a visit to the campus at Shepherd University before shooting and killing himself.

April 2, 2007 - Rowan entered Gould Hall on the University of Washington's Seattle Campus and headed to the fourth floor where he entered the office of his ex-girlfriend Rebecca Griego, 26, a program coordinator for the College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Rowan fired two shots, the first taking Griego's life and the second taking his own life.

May 8, 2007 - Sarah Jean Cheney stabbed Jemma Clancy, a 27-year-old behavioral science student, three times with a steak knife. The incident occurred in the Borchardt library at the Bundoora campus of La Trobe University. Sarah Jean Cheney did not know Jemma Clancy personally and expressed that she just desired to kill someone. Jemma Clancy was taken to hospital in a serious but stable condition.

September 30, 2007 - A University of Memphis football player, 21-year-old Taylor Bradford, was fatally shot on campus in what was believed to be a targeted attack. Bradford was shot near his campus apartment. He then got into his car and drove a short distance before crashing into a tree where police found him dead from the gunshot wound. Bradford was rumored to have won more than $3,000 at a nearby casino the night before, which Four suspects were charged, with Jefferson being credited as the primary conspirator.

January 21, 2009 - Yang Xin, a 22-year-old graduate student from Beijing, China, was decapitated with a kitchen knife by fellow student Zhu Haiyang, in a cafe on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech).

February 7, 2009 - Jeremy Lee Pierce, a 32-year-old student at University of Houston, fatally shot Joe Tall, a 47-year-old homeless man, on the campus bus stop. Pierce has been charged with murder.

April 2, 2009 - Phillip Beale and another unidentified individual murdered a drug dealer near the campus of Radford University after getting into an argument with him. Radford police arrested Beale and are seeking to identify his accomplice.

April 10, 2009 - 28-year-old Anthony Powell fatally shot his classmate, 20-year-old Asia McGowan, before committing suicide on the campus of Henry Ford Community College.

May 18, 2009 - Justin Cosby, 21, of Cambridge, was invited into a Harvard dormitory to sell the suspects marijuana. They attempted to rob him, then shot him. Copney turned himself in four days later. A week later, two investigators hired by the MIT Crime Club were arrested on charges of breaking into the dormitory; a judge ruled that the prosecutors had no case. Copney was convicted of murder. His girlfriend, Brittany Smith '09, 21, pleaded guilty to assisting after the fact, firearm possession, and misleading a grand jury. Jiggetts pleaded guilty to manslaughter, armed robbery, and firearm possession; Aquino to manslaughter, armed robbery, and misleading a grand jury.

September 8, 2009 - 24-year-old doctoral student Annie Le was strangled to death inside a research building on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. On September 17, police arrested lab technician Raymond Clark and charged him with murder. Clark pleaded guilty to the murder and was sentenced to 44 years in prison on June 3, 2011.

October 8, 2009 - A 20-year-old female student of a chemistry laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles was stabbed multiple times, including having her throat slashed, during class. A teaching assistant stopped the bleeding and called for help. The victim was transported to the hospital and needed surgery but was expected to recover. Police arrested Damon Thompson after the attack.

October 18, 2009 - Jasper Howard, a 20-year-old cornerback for the UConn Huskies, was stabbed to death on the campus of the University of Connecticut, outside the Student Union Center where an on-campus dance was held to celebrate the Huskies’ homecoming victory over the Louisville Cardinals. On October 21, police arrested John William Lomax III, 21, and charged him with murder. Three other men were also arrested in connection with the murder.

December 4, 2009 - Richard T. Antoun, 77, a professor of anthropology and specialist in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, is stabbed to death inside his office at Binghamton University. Police arrested 46-year-old graduate student Abdulsalam S. al-Zahrani after the stabbing and charged him with second-degree murder. Al-Zahrani pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of first-degree manslaughter and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. After al-Zahrani is released he will be deported to his native Saudi Arabia.

October 3, 2010 - Jonathan Schipper, a student at Mid-Atlantic Christian University was shot to death inside Pearl A. Presley Hall, a campus dormitory. Police arrested 23-year-old student Christopher David Amyx after the shooting and charged him with first-degree murder. Amyx had claimed self-defense, saying 23-year-old Jonathan Schipper came at him with a knife while he sat at his computer in his dorm room. Amyx testified he had received threatening notes in the days leading up to the shooting and felt he was in danger because he was a gay student at a religious school.

April 6, 2011 - A gunman opened fire on a minivan in the car park of Southern Union Community College killing a 63-year-old woman and wounding a 93-year-old woman and a 36 year-old woman. A four-year-old girl also received injuries from flying glass. The gunman, identified as 34-year-old Thomas Franklin May, was arrested after he returned to the scene and told journalists at the scene that he was the shooter. The journalists then called police. It was reported that one of the injured women was May’s estranged wife.

May 10, 2011 - Napoleon Lavarias Caliguiran, 54, shot and killed his 25-year-old wife and a 26-year-old man in the fifth level of a parking garage of the San Jose State University campus. Caliguiran shot himself and died later that night in a hospital.

January 22, 2013 - Between the Library and Academic Building outside of Lone Star College–North Harris, two men got into an argument and one of the men pulled out a gun and shot the other man, a student, injuring him. A maintenance man suffered a gunshot wound to the leg. The gunman accidentally shot himself in the leg. After the shooting, the gunman fled into the woods and was arrested hours later. The charges against the initial suspect were dropped and another man was arrested.

November 19, 2013 - Joshua Hathaway, 19, a freshman at Liberty University was killed after he told a security officer at about 4:15 a.m. that someone had stolen his car. Hathaway then pulled out a hammer from his clothing and assaulted the officer in the dormitory's lobby. The officer fired two shots in response, striking Hathaway at least once.

January 28, 2014 - One student was shot in the leg in an apparent altercation over a gambling debt at Tennessee State University.

One again these are all incidents of domestic violence or personal disputes that while not targeted against an educational institution were targeted against the people who were working or studying there. If these are included in the article the why can the recent shooting not also be included? -- Millionsandbillions (talk) 18:32, 12 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Criteria narrowed[edit]

The criteria have been narrowed to exclude single suicides, murder-suicides related to rejected suitors/spouses, political acts and warfare, so some of your examples have been deleted, as have accounts that are not sourced. The incident at University of South Carolina is a murder-suicide and should be excluded. As you note, there are many acts of violence against one individual that each constitute just a casual act of violence and no attack against schools. How about we decide to exclude those, too? We could also exclude obvious workplace murders - over being dismissed, poor reviews, etc. unless the death toll is high. So many incidents are still on the list that the fact that they take place at schools is meaningless. If the concern is about mass murders, which are particularly marked since the late 20th century, the list should be limited to those.Parkwells (talk) 20:27, 13 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Ohio State University stabbing[edit]

I have withdrawn the merge request based on how this attack was carried out, and further developments. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 22:45, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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So far this has been WP:ROUTINE coverage, as such I feel the article should be merged with all of the other shootings per WP:NOTNEWS. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 16:54, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

First of all, universities aren't secondary schools. Oppose because this isn't just "another announcement." Dat GuyTalkContribs 17:06, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@DatGuy: You are right there so then List of attacks related to post-secondary schools. Can you please show me how this isn't just "another announcement"? Shootings happen all over the world everyday. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 17:12, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  1. School shooting
  2. Really? They don't happen frequently.
  3. Death, some injuries
Dat GuyTalkContribs 17:20, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Actually sadly school shootings of any kind (knife, gun, ect...) now happen almost every single month somewhere in the world. As for the injuries I am sorry for the families but we cant add this routine coverage. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 17:24, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps we should wait until more information comes in. Parsley Man (talk) 17:25, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Is this where we are discussing the proposed merger of Ohio State University stabbing? The subject header and link are unclear. If it is then I Support the merger per NOTNEWS. The article is covering a fairly run of the mill violent crime whose coverage is unlikely to pass WP:SUSTAINED. It is also a fairly gross example of WP:RECENTISM which IMHO is one of the great plagues of Wikipedia. -Ad Orientem (talk) 18:07, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - this is way too early to talk about merging. —МандичкаYO 😜 18:30, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep stand alone I disagree that this is a "run of the mill violent crime." At this point, national media is calling this a terrorist attack. That separates it from incidents like yesterdays (mass shooting in New Orleans) and makes it more notable. As Parsley Man stated, lets wait and see. If it was a terrorist attack, then it is notable enough to have a page. Juneau Mike (talk) 18:37, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - The possible terrorism angle is being covered persistently by WP:RS and I doubt the coverage is going away soon because of it. Parsley Man (talk) 22:07, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Death of Haruka Weiser[edit]

Merged to this article, but there doesn't seem to be anything about her on the article page... AnonMoos (talk) 20:42, 15 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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