Offering an enormous compilation of digital collections, Newspaper Archive covers more than 400 years of history from the United States as well as many other countries and growing! Essential education reporting in Tennessee. Knoxville and Austin-East specifically has been rocked by gun violence in 2021. class from behind the school fence. Students will not learn virtually or in person. 17-year-old Wayne Phillips was killed when he was caught between two youths who were fighting in the hallway of. A Black youth was taunted with racial slurs by three white youths in the stairwell of a public school in the. At the Ardmore Child Care Center, 40-year-old teacher Diane Morse was killed by her former friend 36-year-old Arcelia Trumaine Stoval who had a history of mental illness. Parent George Nicholson killed John Kurd at a schoolhouse during a school rehearsal. A teenager fired a handgun at a security guard who had chased him and three friends off the grounds of Ralph J. Bunche Middle School. This page was last edited on 20 July 2023, at 19:12. Total incidents listed here in this section (19th century): The shooter, sixth grade teacher 53-year-old Samuel Grinstead Knipmeyer fled to Mexico, then moved to California and finally to Bend, Oregon where he was arrested on October 26, 1977. Mr. McGinnis was killed by his daughter's teacher after McGinnis threatened the teacher for expelling his daughter from school. One instantly killed Raymond Guinn. Armed with a .22-caliber rifle, 14-year-old Heather Smith shot and killed 15-year-old Gordon Pickett, her ex-boyfriend, and 14-year-old Christopher Ricco in the gymnasium at. The Associated Press The mayor of the east Tennessee city of Knoxville requested the release of video footage of a high school shooting that left one student dead and a police officer wounded,. 14-year-old Jeremy Bryant shot and killed 13-year-old Terrence Murray at J.T. 15-year-old Shawn Cooper of Notus, Idaho took a 12-gauge shot gun to school and started firing, injuring one student and holding the school hostage for about 20 minutes. A 17-year-old male former student of Lincoln was arrested in connection with the shootings. William was critically wounded and not expected to live; Ralph Carter was taken to jail. 52-year-old elementary school principal Rudolph Jezek Jr. was killed in his office by 14-year-old Steven Guy, a former student. This chronological list of school shootings in the United States before the year 2000 includes any school shootings that occurred at a K-12 public or private school, as well as at colleges and universities, and on school buses. Knoxville Mayor Indya Kincannon on Monday repeated her call from last week for the local district attorney to . If you value Chalkbeat, consider making a donation. 17-year-old student Major Ray Simmons shot and wounded three classmates, one critically, at, 14-year-old Kristofer Hans intended to shoot his French teacher, LaVonne Simonfy, at, A 15-year-old boy fired five shots in gym class at. 15-year-old Phillip Powell killed 17-year-old Barrett Modisette at the, 29-year-old Kevin Newman opened fire with a 9mm, 18-year-old Miguel DeJesus was shot and killed on the steps of, 18-year-old Floyd Eugene Brown shot fellow, 24-year-old Darrell Cloud, a former student at Whitman Middle School in. Law enforcement groups mostly oppose the change, which was approved amid heated national debate on gun rights following last months mass shootings in Colorado and Atlanta. 15-year-old student David Brooks was fatally shot in front of other pupils. Headmaster Elliott Speer was murdered by a shotgun blast through the window at Northfield Mount Hermon School. 31) - Image 1", "Art Teacher Slain, Philadelphia Police Arrest Youth, 14", "The Herald-Palladium 28 May 1971, page 3", "The Herald-Palladium 28 May 1971, page 9", "The South Bend Tribune 28 May 1971, page 3", "The Bryan Times - Google News Archive Search", "Gun Control Legislation: Hearings Before Subcommittee No. While there were no fatalities, several students felt sparks from the bullets hitting the building walls. Agents only use the database for criminal investigations, and it doesnt contain information from weapons manufacturing, importation or sale, ATF said. U.S. records over 400 mass shootings so far in 2023 Police said the shooting was gang-related. Knoxville and Austin-East specifically has been rocked by gun violence in 2021. In late January, a 15 . While working late at the schoolhouse on a program for the children's concert, Mr. O'Donnell, the school master, and Mr. Williams, one of the parents, got into an argument. Two teenage boys, ages 14 and 16,have been charged with fatally shooting him. See how your district did. Improvement in math tracks statewide trend, but proficiency rates lag behind pre-pandemic levels. When Mr. Ingrim went after Hildreth with an axe, Hildreth shot him in the stomach. While playing with the pistol, Day accidentally shot and wounded classmate Robert Morton. 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Johnson killed 13-year-old Joey Summerall at Tavares Middle School with a handgun he had stolen from his neighbor's home. Nine charter applicants this year included four new schools, plus five schools in the Achievement School District. Armed with old guns believed to be empty, the children had pulled the triggers. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. The boys fled and also shot Wade Johnson, 15, for reporting their rule infraction to Sweatt. Updated: Mar 27, 2023 / 02:16 PM EDT KNOXVILLE, Tenn. ( WATE ) The horrifying shooting on Monday that left at least 3 children and 3 adults dead in Nashville serves as a reminder of how often. Assistant principal Gordon Sharp and janitor Ezekiel Thomas were injured by gunshot wounds while 29-year-old 8th grade teacher Peter Smith was injured while escaping due to falling down a flight of stiars. 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s Pages in category "1981 mass shootings in the United States" This category contains only the following page. 14-year-old Donna Dvorak brought a target pistol to Dubose Junior High School and fatally shot 15-year-old Bobby Whitford in their 9th-grade science class. He garnered his nickname from the local women of the night, because he liked to have sex near the Knoxville Zoo. Bryant Hignight and four other students were at the outhouse of the Mount Zion school. This list does not include the 1970 Kent State shootings, or bombings such as the Bath School disaster. More Memphis charter schools could face closure after Tennessees failed turnaround effort, Tennessees TCAP test scores climb for second straight year after pandemic. 19-year-old Jillian Robbins killed one student and injured two outside. Shortly after noon, Wickes entered a ninth-grade social-studies classroom inside the school and fired three shots at Burgos, hitting him twice in the stomach and hand, before taking the entire class of 18 students hostage. The next day, May 21, 1981, Thomas found Standifer's body outside his home around 6:30 p.m. She was not wearing clothes, had stab wounds on her body, and was tied up. Another teenager, 16-year-oldStanley Freeman Jr., was fatally shot on Tarleton Avenuewhile driving home from schoolonFeb. 12. First 8 Years Speaker Series: Early Childhood Education Starts Before Birth, Tennessees new education chief: Implementing policy is her strength, governors priority, Four charter schools in Memphis may close and leave many students to an uncertain fate, Memphis TCAP scores show modest gains, with English results stagnating. In a February 2021 study, we examined 133 attempted and completed mass school shootings from 1980 to 2019 and, . He was convicted and served eight years. This weeks violence at a Knoxville high school is not only the first fatal shooting inside of a U.S. school since the pandemic began a year ago. 25-year-old Robin Jenkins was shot in the elbow after a basketball game turned violent at Siefert Elementary School. Photo: Knoxville Police Department/Twitter. Taber was found not guilty of the murder by reason of insanity. Six-year-old Robert Lomas was hit and died instantly; six-year-old Arthur Shively was critically wounded. A man shot the school mistress for whipping his son. On May 4, 1972, 33-year-old Libby Booth Elementary school principal Virgil Ouren was shot three times with a 22-caliber pistol which killed him instantly. 48-year-old teacher John S. Lane was fatally wounded when he tried to stop 16-year-old student James Arthur Frampton, who was armed with a shotgun and seeking boys he had argued with earlier that day. A feud between Scott Walker, 15, and Randy Hawkins, 19, climaxed when walker shot Hawkins to death on the Manchester elementary school basketball court. 15-year-old David Lee Walker was killed just outside. TIMELINE: Knox County 2021 fatal shootings - WATE 6 On Your Side Williams fatally shot O'Donnell in the back. One student was killed in a shootout and a police officer was hurt. 14-year-old May McQuade was killed by classmate Raymond B. Carroll. 13-year-old Robin Robinson was paddled by Lanett Junior High School principal Lewis Hoggs after having a disagreement with another student. 17-year-old Timothy Stahle was critically wounded in the leg and upper thigh with shot gun pellets as he threw rocks at the windows of, 15-year-old sophomore Darryl Williams was shot in the neck by a sniper during the halftime interval while standing with teammates and coach in the end zone of the. A young man wearing a hood and surgical mask shot and seriously injured the business manager of St. John's College High School during an attempted robbery. Its not known how the student may have gotten a firearm inside the school. Pearl Reedy, an 18-year-old student who was to use the gun in the play, said she was afraid to handle it. 81, iss. 35-year-old principal Dennis Ray Hepler was robbed at gunpoint by Kevin Dean Young, William Henry Bell, and John Glenn on the grounds of West Franklin Street Elementary school. What gun owners are saying after America's latest mass shooting - NPR On Monday afternoon, Knoxville's Austin-East Magnet High School was the scene of a shooting. Following the investigation, students returned to their normal school day and dismissed on time. A man entered the Burt Elementary School campus and walked into a second-grade teachers classroom then shot and killed The teacher who happened to be the shooters estranged wife who had transferred to the school from a different school in order to get away from her husband. Harry Flasher was shot and instantly killed, Henry Carney was fatally shot in the back, Ralph Jones and two others were also fatally shot, and George Gibson was shot in the hand; Haz Harding had his skull crushed, and several others received minor wounds. Concealed in a wooded area on school grounds, 14-year-old Joseph "Colt" Todd wounded two students as they were entering, 18-year-old Jacob Lee Davis shot 18-year-old Robert Creson at, 14-year-old student Quinshawn Brooker wounded 45-year-old basketball coach and history teacher Gregory Carter and 74-year-old, 52-year-old Professor Andrzej Olbrot was killed by 48-year-old graduate doctoral student Wlodzimierz Dedecjusat at, 15-year-old Andrea Garrett was found dead and 17-year-old Jeff Miller seriously wounded in the girls' restroom at. After serving 19 months of her sentence, Shindeldecker was found not guilty by reason of insanity and released. The nation has seen series of mass shootings in recent weeks, including eight people killed at three Atlanta-area massage businesses on March 16 and 10 people killed at Colorado supermarket on . 9-year-old Leah Wilbanks was shot twice by an unknown gunman at Mascotte Elementary School during P.E. A police officer wounded in a shooting at a Tennessee high school is a 20-year veteran of the force who worked at the school, authorities said Tuesday. After Hepler fell to the ground, Bell fired another shot into his head. Bayard Peakes shot and killed secretary Eileen Fahey at the, 16-year-old Lawrence Karr and 17-year-old James Bergan broke into Taft High School, stole two. Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church shooting - Wikipedia As some children were playing and throwing snowballs outside the Ponca Creek schoolhouse, Lem Harbaugh and the Shipley brothers, three young men, pulled up in a wagon and engaged the children in a snowball fight. A 16-year-old was charged with the assault. A teenage boy fired a gun toward a crowd in the Coronado Middle School cafeteria which injured a boy and a girl. According to KCSO, the incident took place on the 1700 block of Dry Gap Pike. According to the teacher, Foster struck the pistol Pitts had drawn, and caused it to fire. 13-year-old Kelly Crittendon was accidentally killed by two classmates in a classroom at the Precious Blood School. Published 1:57 PM PDT, April 19, 2021. The watchman said he fired into the air as a warning. Investigators quickly arrested the 17-year-old on a charge of criminally negligent homicide. Six students at, 15-year-old freshmen student DeLondyn Lawson, of, 15-year-old Robert Heard fatally shot 17-year-old Michael Shean Ensley in the corridor of the. All rights reserved. 41-year-old mail carrier Lester Betts confronted 33-year-old principal Carson Hammond in his Blaine Elementary School office and shot him dead with a 12-gauge shotgun in apparent jealousy over Hammond's relationships with his former wife. Cruz was sentenced to life without parole for the shooting but was resentenced in 2017 to 25 years to life and was immediately paroled. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Student Mathews Flounoy Ward shot the schoolmaster William H.G. Knoxville's Austin-East High School shooting: What we know 14-year-old Bernice Turner killed 14-year-old Pasquale Coletta inside the science classroom at Kelly High School. After constant teasing about his weight, 12-year-old honors student Nathan Ferris killed 13-year-old classmate Timothy Perrin, then turned the gun on himself. While school was in session, Hugh Claggett shot through the schoolhouse's front door, while on his way home from work. The schoolmaster warned students not to harm his tame, The 15-year-old son of Col. John T. Farlow (Baltimore's Marshal of Police 186770), was killed during a. Bill Haslam ordered a comprehensive security review of more than 1,800 public schools across Tennessee after a shooter killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida. Two 14-year-old girls and a 16-year-old boy were shot outside a Bronx high school, the apparent result of a dispute between the gunman and the boy. Henry Schaze threw 16-year-old Paul Jelick to the ground, drew a revolver, and killed his rival. Charles Crawford, upset over an argument with a school trustee, went up to the window and fired a pistol into a crowded schoolroom. Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. Sixteen-year-old freshman Earl Wolf was accidentally shot in the leg with a revolver about noon, in the company of classmates at Central High School. A 15-year-old boy fired a gun at a male student in the cafeteria after an argument between the two. Knoxville mass shooting updates - One DEAD and cop injured as details 14-year-old Dewitt Duckett was shot in the neck and killed at Harlem Park Junior High School. When cornered by police, he shot himself in a suicide attempt but survived and was sentenced to five consecutive life sentences. The shooter was charged with. 1991 mass shootings in the United States. The case was reviewed and the evidence that was withheld was recovered and used by the defense. Butler died, and Ward was acquitted. As with many investigations,some details are sketchy. The Largest Mass Shooting in American History: Knoxville Responds Gov. In 2019, the database generated 67,000 investigative leads for crimes involving gun violence. Police say they enteredthe restroom when he refused to comply. Two students were shot and killed immediately, two more were fatally wounded, and the high school's Professor Johnson was wounded in the arm. Pitts was acquitted of murder on grounds of self-defense. 17-year-old Edward Marley was accidentally killed by a fellow actor with a loaded gun while rehearsing for a play at Blencoe High School. Beard attempted suicide but survived. LIVE LOOK: Shooting at Dry Gap Pike leaves one person dead, while KCSO interviews suspect. Delve into the millions of newspaper articles organized by a vast assortment of categories, historical events and surnames from 1607 to present. In 2008 at Central High School, 15-year-old Ryan McDonald was killed by another 15-year-old student during a dispute in the cafeteria. Cora had told the teacher about Ben's misconduct. 16-year-old Blanche Ward killed fellow student 16-year-old Linda Lipscomb at Miami Jackson High School. 1986. The bullets and rocks struck the bus on the drivers side, with the bullets penetrating all the way through the bus. Mrs. Rindoni was arrested; Miss Reynolds was expected to recover. 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LOS ANGELES, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Nine mass shootings occurred across the United States over the weekend, bringing the total to more than 400 this year, according to a national website that tracks firearm deaths and injuries. 49-year-old fifth-grade teacher Rosie Pearson was killed in J. Leslie Patton School by an unknown assailant. In 1989, Young was sentenced to death for the murder, and in 2000 was executed by lethal injection. 02:43 - Source: CNN CNN No classes were held for the last two days at a school in Knoxville after a student was killed and a police officer was shot and injured during an encounter at the. A fourth man who acted as the getaway driver, Arthur Ray Jones, pleaded guilty to an accessory charge and was sentenced to 10 years in jail, with all but. 15-year-old Tyrone Perry was killed at Hine Junior High School and another student was injured. Arilyn Jean Lelande, 29, invaded 35-year-old teacher Angela Jean Brown's sixth-grade classroom, pointed a handgun at the children and told them to move back. Compton Unified School District police officer Roosevelt Farrell was shot in the leg after confronting three juvenile intruders as he was patrolling the campus of Chester Adult School in Compton, California. July 1 Police: Knoxville man dead after shooting on Catalpa Ave. July 11 Shooting at Strip Club leaves one dead. A 16-year-old sophomore at Cardozo High School was fatally shot at an entrance to the school, allegedly by a 14-year-old freshman with whom he had been arguing. Tennessee has always been a bellwether state for education reform, says Lizzette Gonzalez Reynolds. 2023 www.knoxnews.com. The other three boys were detained for questioning and then released to their parents. She pointed it at the ground and squeezed the trigger. 27 men and boys were arrested and an arsenal was seized in the Bronx as the police headed off a gang war resulting from the fatal shooting of a teenager at. A tweet Monday afternoon by the city's police department stated "multiple agencies are on the scene of a shooting at Austin-East Magnet." A Knoxville Police Department officer is among the "multiple gunshot victims." The The teacher was arrested. This wasn't a school shooting. Results offer localized snapshot of how school systems are doing with pandemic recovery. 14-year-old Conniston Middle School student Tronneal Mangum fatally shot 14-year-old classmate John Pierre Kamel over a $40 debt. One person is dead and a police officer injured after an officer-involved shooting at a high school in Knoxville, Tennessee, police reported Monday. The shooting was later ruled to be accidental. 1990s portal. The results suggest that Tennessees early investments in summer learning camps and intensive tutoring are paying off. Tennessee murderers list | Murderpedia 15-year-old student Billy Ray Prevatte fatally shot 32-year-old teacher Frazer Cameron and injured 25-year-old athletic coach Francis Daniel Wagner and 31-year-old teacher Robert Hicks at Maryland Park Junior High School. After being taunted for his beliefs, 15-year-old Roger Needham, a self-proclaimed neo-Nazi, killed one student and wounded a second with a pistol at. John Glover broke into the schoolhouse, where he killed a girl and fatally wounded a boy. 18-year-old Jarrod Allan Eskew killed 27-year-old Jay Severson, his Wiley Hall dorm counselor, and himself after being found with drugs the previous day. 17-year-old student Todd Dunahoo killed 16-year-old Valerie Rockafellow in the hallway at Southeast Polk High School, then turned the gun on himself. George W. Longfelt, the school teacher of the Pyfer's School House, killed student Alfred Desem and fled. Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms spokesman Michael Knight said federal agents are working with the Knoxville Police Department to trace the firearms and shell casings recovered at the scene using theNational Integrated Ballistic Information Network database. Knoxville Police Department officers responded to Austin-East Magnet High School in northeast Knoxville after reports of a male subject who was "possibly armed in the school," police said. Brothers 16-year-old William and 15-year-old Ralph Carter broke into the May Public School, robbing the phone boxes and teachers' desks. United States school shootings and firearm incidents, 1990-present According to KCSO, the incident took place on the 1700 block of Dry Gap Pike. The shooting was at Austin-East Magnet High School in Knoxville about 3:15 p.m. Monday. 15-year-old student Thomas "T.J." Solomon Jr. wounded six students at. The shot, intended as a sound effect for a school play, hit him in the chest during a rehearsal minutes before the play was to take place. Robin Gibson Devarrick Turner Knoxville News Sentinel 0:00 1:00 From the stage of the 2023 CMT Awards on April 2, country music star Kelsea Ballerini spoke of having witnessed the Aug. 21, 2008,. Young, 20, fired a fatal shot from the .25-caliber pistol into Dennis' back. Copyright 2021 WVLT. At Cypress Junior High School two students jumped another student who retaliated with a gun and shot one of his attackers who later died. Larry then walked out of the office and out of the building then walked to a nearby parking lot and committed suicide. Quinlan was the school's principal. 17-year-old Arthur Jermel Jack was killed by 15-year-old LaKeeta Cadoree in the cafeteria at, 26-year-old graduate student Sarah Smith was shot and wounded in the chest as she was waiting for her husband to pick her up at. Shooting at Austin-East Magnet High School in Knoxville, TN | Charlotte At the Cave Run School, James Barrett and Mack Howard argued over a card game and fought a duel with pistols, killing each other. BREAKING: Mass Shooting At Knoxville High School
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