List of school shootings in Europe
This chronological list of school shootings in Europe includes any school shootings that occurred at primary and secondary public or private schools, as well as colleges and universities, and on school buses. Excluded from this list are the following:
- Incidents that occurred during wars
- Incidents that occurred as a result of police actions
- Suicides or suicide attempts involving only one person.
Shooting by school staff are covered. This list does not include other types of attack, such as stabbings or bombings. For countries such as Russia or Turkey that straddle the border between Europe and Asia, this list only includes events that occurred on the European side of the country.
16th century
1590s
1 incident.
Date | Location | Deaths | Injuries | Total | Description | |
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1595 | ||||||
September 1595 | Edinburgh, Scotland | 1 | 0 | 1 | 13-year-old William Sinclair of Mey, a member of Clan Sinclair, fired a pistol from a window during a riot at Edinburgh High School, killing bailie John Macmorran. Sinclair was pardoned due to the intervention of his relatives, who had James VI argue that Sinclair was too young to be punished.[1] |
19th century
1870s
3 incidents.
Date | Location | Deaths | Injuries | Total | Description | |
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1871 | ||||||
25 May 1871 | Saarbrücken, German Empire | 0 | 2 | 2 | 18-year-old Julius Becker fired shots at the Saarbrücken Gymnasium, wounding two classmates.[2] | |
1874 | ||||||
5 May 1874 | Yekaterinburg, Russian Empire | 1 | 0 | 1 | A gymnasium student was noticed smoking in the toilet by his head teacher Yakov Predtechensky, then after a decision to expel the student, Alexei Skachkov, he murdered Predtechensky using a revolver.[3] | |
1875 | ||||||
31 January 1875 | Oldham, England | 1 | 0 | 1 | A student named Worsley shot and killed a boy named Hamilton inside the Oldham Bluecoats School.[4] |
1880s
1 incident.
Date | Location | Deaths | Injuries | Total | Description | |
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1885 | ||||||
20 November 1885 | London, England | 1 | 0 | 1 | As 9-year-old William Leach was playing with friends in the playground of St. Andrew's Schools in Plaistow, another boy, William Slade, fired a gun, accidentally shooting Leach in the head and killing him.[5] |
1890s
12 incidents.
Date | Location | Deaths | Injuries | Total | Description | |
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1890 | ||||||
6 November 1890 | Oxford, England | 0 | 1 | 1 | Catherine Riordan shot and wounded University College, Oxford master James Franck Bright outside his college house in a romantic dispute.[6] | |
1891 | ||||||
5 December 1891 | London, England | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15-year-old Francisco Blanes and Fernando Maximo du Sousa, both foreign students at Tooting College, got into a dispute in the college ground after Blanes called du Sousa a liar. Du Sousa struck Blanes, who pulled out a gun and fired a shot, striking a school wall. Blanes was disarmed and arrested.[7] | |
1892 | ||||||
21 April 1892 | Dundee, Scotland | 0 | 1 | 1 | 19-year-old John Smith fired a shot at students inside Old Butterburn School, wounding a girl.[8] | |
14 September 1892 | Tarnopol, Austria-Hungary | 2[n 1] | 0 | 2 | As students were leaving the gymnasium, student Johann Schwed killed professor Felix Glovacki with a revolver before killing himself.[9] | |
23 October 1892 | Lytham St Annes, England | 0 | 1 | 1 | A student at Pembroke House School accidentally shot another boy in the leg with a rifle.[10] | |
23 November 1892 | Leeds, England | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15-year-old Bertie Woods was accidentally shot dead in a school.[11] | |
1893 | ||||||
10 March 1893 | Carlisle, England | 0 | 1 | 1 | A teacher at Christ Church Schools accidentally shot a boy through the lungs, believing the weapon was empty.[12] | |
4 October 1893 | Stockport, England | 0 | 1 | 1 | Student William Liddell was accidentally shot in the face in a room at Stockport Grammar School.[13] | |
1894 | ||||||
3 March 1894 | Sherborne, England | 1 | 0 | 1 | While students Webb and Saillard were examining a revolver in a classroom at Sherborne School, the gun accidentally discharged, fatally shooting Saillard.[14] | |
20 July 1894 | Malvern, England | 1 | 0 | 1 | Malvern College student Felix Gabriel Richardson, aged 17, accidentally shot himself to death with a rifle as he cleaned it in his room.[15][16] | |
1896 | ||||||
1896 | Leighton Buzzard, England | 0 | 1 | 1 | At the Collegiate School, a student named Powell discharged a revolver as he showed it to other students, critically wounding another boy, Collins, in the face.[17] | |
1898 | ||||||
4 July 1898 | Edinburgh, Scotland | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15-year-old Andrew Newlands accidentally killed 16-year-old George Sym at Edinburgh Academy.[18] |
20th century
1900s
10 incidents.
Date | Location | Deaths | Injuries | Total | Description | |
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1900 | ||||||
15 September 1900 | Kharkov, Russian Empire | 1 | 1 | 2 | After failing an exam, gymnasium student Iwanow shot and killed principal Tschanowitsch with a revolver and also wounded a teacher named Horkiwicz before surrendering to police.[19] | |
1901 | ||||||
February 1901 | Geneva, Switzerland | 0 | 1 | 1 | A student shot and severely wounded a classmate during a lecture at the University of Geneva.[20] | |
1902 | ||||||
5 February 1902 | Scheveningen, Netherlands | 0 | 1 | 1 | At the municipal school, a boy pulled out a revolver and accidentally fired it, wounding a student next to him.[21] | |
6 October 1902 | Droyssig, Austria-Hungary | 4[n 1] | 3 | 7 | A 40-year-old teacher shot and killed three students and wounded three others before being lynched by villagers.[22] | |
1904 | ||||||
30 May 1904 | Imola, Italy | 0 | 1 | 1 | A school director shot an administrator in a school cafeteria in front of students.[23] | |
1905 | ||||||
15 February 1905 | Moscow, Russian Empire | 2[n 1] | 0 | 2 | A student at a commercial school fatally shot his English teacher and himself.[24] | |
1906 | ||||||
14 June 1906 | London, England | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12-year-old John R.L. Rudd was accidentally shot and killed by another student during hunting on the grounds of Dulwich College.[25] | |
1908 | ||||||
15 January 1908 | Dublin, Ireland | 2 | 1[n 1] | 3 | Headmaster Augustus Windsor killed his wife Agnes and daughter Emily in their room at the Coombe Ragged Boys' Home before attempting suicide.[26] | |
6 October 1908 | Samara, Russian Empire | 0 | 0 | 0 | Two students shot at the headmaster of their grammar school, but missed.[27] | |
1909 | ||||||
3 May 1909 | London, England | 0 | 1 | 1 | Gilbert Adams, a student at Alleyn's Grammar School in Dulwich, was accidentally shot in the arm by another student.[28] |
1910s
12 incidents.
Date | Location | Deaths | Injuries | Total | Description | |
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1910 | ||||||
January 1910 | Arbon, Switzerland | 1[n 1] | 1 | 2 | A 15-year-old boy shot and wounded a woman at a girl's school before killing himself.[29] | |
1912 | ||||||
January 1912 | Czernowitz, Austria-Hungary | 1[n 1] | 1 | 2 | A student shot and wounded his maths teacher before killing himself.[30] | |
18 January 1912 | Suceava, Austria-Hungary | 2[n 1] | 0 | 2 | A 17-year-old student shot and killed his maths teacher before killing himself.[31] | |
July 1912 | Odesa, Russian Empire | 0 | 1 | 1 | A 16-year-old student shot and wounded his teacher at the local lyceum.[32] | |
17 July 1912 | Heilbronn, German Empire | 0 | 1[n 1] | 1 | An 18-year-old student stabbed himself with a knife in a classroom before shooting at the headmaster and a teacher as they intervened, missing his shots. He then shot himself and was taken to hospital, where he was expected to die.[33] | |
September 1912 | Bürglen, Switzerland | 0 | 1 | 1 | A student accidentally fired his teacher's gun inside a classroom, grazing a classmate.[34] | |
23 September 1912 | Sankt Pölten, Austria-Hungary | 1[n 1] | 0 | 1 | Rudolf Hlawat, a student at a gymnasium, shot at his teacher, Prof. Schmidt, with a revolver. He also shot at the school janitor before shooting himself twice in the head. Hlawat died in hospital, the only casualty.[35] | |
1913 | ||||||
1 February 1913 | London, England | 0 | 1 | 1 | 16-year-old Frederick Sauri shot and wounded 16-year-old Manuel Coello at Forest House School, Woodford.[36] | |
May 1913 | Porrentruy, Switzerland | 0 | 1 | 1 | As a 12-year-old student relieved himself at a primary school, a 14-year-old classmate shot him with a revolver, wounding him.[37] | |
20 June 1913 | Bremen, Germany | 5[n 2] | 21 | 26 | Bremen school shooting: 29-year-old Heinz Schmidt fired shots inside St Mary's Catholic School, killing four people and wounding 21 others. Another student died accidentally as she evacuated.[38] | |
9 October 1913 | Szeged, Austria-Hungary | 1[n 1] | 0 | 1 | After he had been reprimanded by his teacher, Prof. Horvarth, for missing classes, Johann Skultety, a gymnasium student, barged into the classroom and fired with a revolver at the teacher, missing him. He committed suicide by shooting himself in the heart.[39] | |
15 October 1913 | Dublin, Ireland | 1 | 0 | 1 | 23-year-old Trinity College Dublin student Edward R.M. Wright accidentally shot himself to death in his room.[40] |
1920s
14 incidents.
Date | Location | Deaths | Injuries | Total | Description | |
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1921 | ||||||
15 March 1921 | Helsinki, Finland | 1 | 0 | 1 | A student brought a gun to a lyceum and accidentally shot another student in the stomach. The victim died in hospital.[41] | |
1922 | ||||||
March 1922 | Därstetten, Switzerland | 0 | 1 | 1 | A student accidentally fired a gun inside a classroom, grazing another student in the leg.[42] | |
1923 | ||||||
9 February 1923 | Vlieghuis, Netherlands | 1 | 2 | 3 | During a party at the local school, a customs officer opened fire after refusing to pay an entrance fee, killing a man and wounding two others, including a teenager. The shooter, who said he acted in self-defence, was sentenced to 4 years in prison.[43][44] | |
November 1923 | Neuchâtel, Switzerland | 1 | 0 | 1 | A student shot and killed a 21-year-old classmate at a school.[45] | |
1924 | ||||||
September 1924 | See District, Switzerland | 0 | 1 | 1 | A student accidentally fired a gun inside a classroom, wounding a girl.[46] | |
December 1924 | Zeist, Netherlands | 0 | 1 | 1 | A seventh-grade student at the Boys' School of the Brotherhood smuggled a revolver into the school and fired a shot inside a classroom, wounding another student.[47] | |
1925 | ||||||
6 May 1925 | Wilno, Poland | 5[n 3] | 10 | 15 | Wilno school massacre: Two students threw grenades and fired guns at their high school, killing three people and wounding ten others. Both assailants died in the attack.[48] | |
1 July 1925 | West Lavington, England | 1 | 0 | 1 | At Dauntsey's School, 15-year-old William John Butler was accidentally shot and killed by another student.[49] | |
1926 | ||||||
November 1926 | Tägerwilen, Switzerland | 0 | 1 | 1 | A student accidentally fired a gun in a classroom, wounding another student.[50] | |
15 November 1926 | Warsaw, Poland | 1 | 1[n 1] | 2 | A 19-year-old student shot and killed the school director after being suspended for his long hair. The student shot himself, but survived.[51] | |
1928 | ||||||
22 March 1928 | Berlin, Germany | 1[n 1] | 0 | 1 | A man armed with a pistol was shot and killed by police at the entrance of the Humboldt University of Berlin after he reportedly pointed the gun at officers.[52] | |
25 March 1928 | Schuinesloot, Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 0 | G. W. Kaemingk, head of the Special School in Schuinesloot, encountered a man outside the school as Kaemingk was heading inside for a school meeting. When the man, who was apparently looking for a person who was not present, became angry and began vandalizing the school doors, Kaemingk went to intervene. The man fired a shot from a revolver, hitting a door, but striking no one. A 21-year-old suspect was detained.[53] | |
December 1928 | Marburg, Germany | 0 | 1 | 1 | A professor at the University of Marburg was shot several times by an unidentified gunman.[54] | |
1929 | ||||||
February 1929 | Hamburg, Germany | 1 | 0 | 1 | At a school in Altona, a student shot another student with a revolver.[55] |
1930s
13 incidents.
Date | Location | Deaths | Injuries | Total | Description | |
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1930 | ||||||
3 June 1930 | Cambridge, England | 3[n 1] | 0 | 3 | 19-year-old student Douglas Potts shot and killed tutor Sandy Wollaston and fatally wounded policeman Francis Willis before killing himself at King's College, Cambridge.[56] | |
1931 | ||||||
February 1931 | Sulgen, Switzerland | 0 | 1 | 1 | A student accidentally shot another student in a classroom.[57] | |
5 March 1931 | Pristina, Yugoslavia | 0 | 1 | 1 | A student named Ismailović shot and stabbed his teacher several times at a gymnasium after he had been expelled due to low grades. Ismailović was later arrested at a cemetery when he tried to hang himself.[58] | |
1932 | ||||||
May 1932 | Wittlich, Germany | 0 | 0 | 0 | A student shot at a teacher at a secondary school, missing him. Law enforcement confiscated the gun used, and the shooter faced no charges.[59] | |
10 May 1932 | Leissigen, Switzerland | 0 | 1 | 1 | While he was playing with a revolver inside a schoolhouse, a 15-year-old student accidentally fired the gun, severely wounding another boy in the head.[60] | |
1935 | ||||||
27 December 1935 | Belfast, Northern Ireland | 0 | 1 | 1 | Jimmy Steele led an attempted Irish Republican Army raid on Campbell College to secure the arms inside the school Officers' Training Corps. The RUC at Strandtown was tipped off and the raid was unsuccessful. A gun battle took place at the gate lodge on Hawthornden Road in which Constable Ian Hay received five gunshot wounds, but survived.[61] | |
1936 | ||||||
April 1936 | Inowrocław, Poland | 3 | 2[n 1] | 5 | The day after he had been fired for drinking excessively, teacher Stefan Bykowski returned to his classroom, where he shot and killed the substitute teacher. He killed another teacher and the principal when they came to investigate, then barricaded himself in another room to await police. After gravely wounding one of the officers, he tried to commit suicide by shooting himself with his last round, but survived and was tried.[62] | |
22 June 1936 | Vienna, Austria | 1 | 0 | 1 | Professor Foritz Schlick was killed by a former student with a revolver at the University of Vienna.[63] | |
22 December 1936 | Bury, England | 1[n 1] | 0 | 1 | 14-year-old Norman Davis fired a shot inside a classroom at Bury High School, then shot himself to death. His death was ruled an accident, with a coroner's report stating it may have been a prank on the last day of term.[64][65] | |
1937 | ||||||
25 January 1937 | Nantwich, England | 0 | 1 | 1 | 16-year-old student Howard Porter accidentally injured himself in the shin when he fired a revolver at Reaseheath School of Agriculture.[66] | |
March 1937 | near Kalinin, Soviet Union | 1 | 0 | 1 | Student Elia Ageenko killed teacher Zoia Peshekhovna with a rifle at a village school.[67] | |
1939 | ||||||
24 June 1939 | Tirpan, Bulgaria | 4[n 1] | 0 | 4 | A 15-year-old student killed three teachers with a revolver at a school after being expelled. The boy, who had already been expelled from three other schools during the year for bad behaviour, afterwards committed suicide.[68][69] |
1940s
9 incidents.
Date | Location | Deaths | Injuries | Total | Description | |
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1940 | ||||||
17 May 1940 | Oxford, England | 1 | 3 | 4 | 19-year-old University of Oxford student John Fulljames fired at other students from his window at University College, killing one student and wounding three others.[70] | |
1945 | ||||||
1945 | Edinburgh, Scotland | 1 | 0 | 1 | 14-year-old Ian MacDonald died on 1 July of a wound sustained in a shooting accident at Daniel Stewart's College.[71] | |
16 October 1945 | London, England | 0 | 1 | 1 | As teacher Cyril Morris lectured students who had not completed their homework at William Morris School in Walthamstow, a student shot and wounded him. A 13-year-old was arrested.[72] | |
1946 | ||||||
14 March 1946 | London, England | 0 | 1 | 1 | As 19-year-old Bernard McAneny was playing with a revolver during a night class at the Hammersmith School of Arts and Crafts, the gun discharged, wounding 21-year-old Cyril Robinson in the leg.[73] | |
1947 | ||||||
15 February 1947 | Eccleshall, England | 1 | 0 | 1 | Standon Farm School shooting: Nine Standon Farm Approved School students conspired to murder their headteacher and stole rifles from the cadet armoury to do so. A teacher interrupted the burglary, causing one of the boys to shoot and kill him.[74] | |
23 July 1947 | Sneek, Netherlands | 1[n 1] | 1 | 2 | A 19-year-old went to a domestic science school to see his fiancée. When she proposed to break off the relationship, the 19-year-old shot her with a revolver, injuring her, before committing suicide.[75] | |
1948 | ||||||
20 September 1948 | Hemingford Grey, England | 2[n 1] | 0 | 2 | During school dismissal, 32-year-old Jan Michael Uramowski shot and killed 22-year-old teacher Sheala Anderson on the playground before fatally shooting himself.[76] | |
1949 | ||||||
9 February 1949 | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 0 | A pupil fired his father's gun by accident inside a classroom, striking no one.[77] | |
12 June 1949 | Agrigento, Italy | 1 | 0 | 1 | 20-year-old student Giuseppe Di Carlo shot and killed a professor in the atrium of the Institute for Surveyors.[78] |
1950s
15 incidents.
Date | Location | Deaths | Injuries | Total | Description | |
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1952 | ||||||
26 May 1952 | London, England | 0 | 1 | 1 | 13-year-old Edward Wilson was shot and wounded when a student playing with a pistol at Cassland Road Secondary School in Hackney accidentally discharged the gun.[79] | |
June 1952 | Netherlands | 0 | 1 | 1 | A student fired a revolver in class, shooting another student in the stomach.[80] | |
1953 | ||||||
16 February 1953 | Rome, Italy | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16-year-old Giuseppe Conte shot teacher Renzo Modugno after Modugno gave him a poor grade. Modugno died two days later.[81] | |
1954 | ||||||
18 February 1954 | Palermo, Italy | 0 | 1 | 1 | 16-year-old Mario Pedi fired shots at teacher Giuseppe Coniglio at a school in Termini Imerese after Coniglio gave Pedi a poor grade. Coniglio was shot in the arm, but survived, while Pedi was arrested.[82] | |
1955 | ||||||
29 March 1955 | Milan, Italy | 0 | 1 | 1 | A 16-year-old student accidentally fired a shot, wounding another student.[83] | |
12 May 1955 | Vibo Valentia, Italy | 0 | 1 | 1 | 16-year-old Pasquale Zappino wounded a teacher outside Morelli high school.[84] | |
1956 | ||||||
10 October 1956 | Terrazzano, Italy | 1 | 3 | 4 | Two brothers went into a school carrying guns, dynamite and acid. They took 96 children and three teachers hostage for about six hours. They demanded 200 million lire for the release of their hostages or they would kill them. Using the children as shields, they fired shots at people outside the school. The hostage crisis ended when a teacher restrained the perpetrators.[85] During the crisis, a rescuer was accidentally killed by police gunfire and three other people were shot and wounded.[86][87] | |
1957 | ||||||
6 January 1957 | Hveragerði, Iceland | 1 | 0 | 1 | Sigurbjörn Ingi Þorvaldsson shot and killed 19-year-old Konkordía Jónatansdóttir, his fiancée, at the State Gardening School.[88] | |
24 May 1957 | Naples, Italy | 0 | 1 | 1 | 16-year-old Armando Pisacane shot and wounded teacher Maria Gregorio in their classroom at the "Alessandro Volta" Technical Institute before threatening two janitors with his pistol as he fled. He was sentenced to two years and five months in prison.[89] | |
1958 | ||||||
11 February 1958 | Lyamino, Soviet Union | 7 | 6 | 13 | 24-year-old Mikhail Tselousov fatally shot seven people and wounded six others at School of Construction N°6 as retaliation for perceived unfair treatment at his workplace. He was sentenced to death and executed one year later.[90]: 134–147 [91] | |
10 March 1958 | Berlin, Germany | 1 | 0 | 1 | A 14-year-old student accidentally killed another student at a school in Kreuzberg.[92] | |
15 March 1958 | Tongeren, Belgium | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5-year-old Jean-Perre Slijters shot and killed 5-year-old classmate Jules Cryns with his father's pistol in a classroom. Slijters had taken the gun from his father's van and came to school with the weapon to show his friends.[93] | |
26 March 1958 | Ashington, England | 0 | 1 | 1 | A 13-year-old was grazed by a gunshot in the schoolyard of Hirst Park County Secondary School.[94] | |
1959 | ||||||
7 April 1959 | Rotherham, England | 2 | 0 | 2 | 33-year-old lecturer Bernard Walden shot and killed clerk Joyce Moran and former student Neil Saxton in the general office of Rotherham College, reportedly because Moran refused to marry him. He was executed in August 1959.[95][96] | |
28 June 1959 | Belgrade, Yugoslavia | 0 | 1 | 1 | A student shot and wounded his professor at a technical middle school.[97] |
1960s
18 incidents.
Date | Location | Deaths | Injuries | Total | Description | |
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1960 | ||||||
2 January 1960 | Wageningen, Netherlands | 0 | 1 | 1 | A 33-year-old agricultural college student shot a teacher who he accused of failing him.[98] | |
1961 | ||||||
4 March 1961 | Kungälv, Sweden | 1 | 6 | 7 | Kungälv school shooting: A 17-year-old opened fire at a school dance, killing an 18-year-old and wounding six others.[99] | |
15 March 1961 | Gosfield, England | 0 | 1 | 1 | A teacher at Gosfield School fired a gun in the schoolyard, wounding a student.[100][101] | |
1962 | ||||||
2 April 1962 | Reggio Calabria, Italy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17-year-old Pietro Modafferi, a student at the Scientific High School of Bovo Marina, attempted to shoot his Latin teacher, but the gun jammed. The teacher escaped before Moddafferi cleared the jam and fired three shots into the wall. He was disarmed by a teacher and arrested.[102] | |
1963 | ||||||
26 January 1963 | Naples, Italy | 2[n 1] | 0 | 2 | 52-year-old teacher Luigi Lambiase shot and killed 35-year-old Olimpia de Rosa in her classroom before killing himself in front of pupils. De Rosa had rejected Lambiase's advances.[103] | |
4 May 1963 | near Nîmes, France | 1[n 1] | 0 | 1 | A 37-year-old man took a class hostage with a rifle and pickaxe. He was shot and killed by police.[104] | |
19 May 1963 | Prijepolje, Yugoslavia | 1 | 0 | 1 | A 16-year-old student fatally shot a 42-year-old teacher who had rejected his reason for being absent from school. The teacher died ten days later.[105] | |
1964 | ||||||
9 June 1964 | Kragujevac, Yugoslavia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 25-year-old professor Svetislav Gavrilovic was killed by a 19-year-old student after announcing the gunman had failed the class.[106][107] | |
29 June 1964 | Cumnor, England | 0 | 0 | 0 | As an intruder broke into a girl's dormitory at a finishing school, a loaded shotgun kept in the area following a prior intrusion was fired, hitting no one. A headmistress and student were treated for blunt injuries, while the intruder escaped.[108] | |
17 July 1964 | Bonn, Germany | 2[n 1] | 0 | 2 | A 24-year-old student shot and killed a 21-year-old student at the University of Bonn before committing suicide with cyanide.[109] | |
20 October 1964 | Catania, Italy | 1 | 0 | 1 | A man shot and killed a professor at a teacher training institute, accusing the victim of seducing his daughter.[110] | |
1965 | ||||||
17 March 1965 | Palermo, Italy | 1 | 0 | 1 | 27-year-old teacher Arturo Landolina was shot and killed by a man outside a school as he got into his car.[111] | |
September 1965 | Delémont, Switzerland | 0 | 1 | 1 | A 13-year-old student accidentally fired a revolver during recess, wounding a boy.[112] | |
1966 | ||||||
27 January 1966 | Saint-Jean-de-Monts, France | 1[n 1] | 1 | 2 | A 17-year-old expelled student shot and wounded a teacher at a high school before killing himself in the courtyard.[113] | |
1967 | ||||||
1 November 1967 | Dundee, Scotland | 1 | 0 | 1 | Dundee school shooting: Former student Robert Mone took teacher Nanette Hanson and a class of students hostage at St John's Roman Catholic High School. Mone fatally shot Hanson and sexually assaulted two girls before being arrested.[114] | |
7 November 1967 | Varese, Italy | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12-year-old Jean-Paul Myttenaer was shot in the head and killed as he and his classmates played in a school courtyard.[115] | |
1968 | ||||||
16 January 1968 | Giengen, Germany | 0 | 2 | 2 | A 19-year-old failing student shot and wounded two teachers at a high school.[116] | |
11 April 1968 | Taurano, Italy | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5-year-old Giuseppe Scibelli fired a pistol at his classmate Angelo Venezia in a kindergarten at the religious institute S. Maria delle Grazie, critically wounding him.[117] |
1970s
28 incidents.
Date | Location | Deaths | Injuries | Total | Description | |
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1971 | ||||||
March 1971 | Rome, Italy | 0 | 0 | 0 | An unidentified gunman entered a classroom and ordered the teacher to say "long live the Duce." When the teacher did not, he fired two shots into the floor and fled by climbing the school wall.[118] | |
1972 | ||||||
1972 | Grangemouth, Scotland | 0 | 1 | 1 | 16-year-old James Gallacher fired a rifle into a playground at Moray High School, wounding a boy taking driving lessons in the arm.[119] | |
9 March 1972 | Palermo, Italy | 0 | 1 | 1 | 17-year-old Gaetano Grippi walked into the "Vittorio Emanuele" classical high school and shot his cousin, 16-year-old Antonella Compagno, before fleeing. Grippi was later arrested, while Compagno was taken to the hospital in critical condition.[120] | |
15 March 1972 | Marseille, France | 1 | 0 | 1 | Professor Jean Olmer was shot and killed by a 32-year-old student at a medical school.[121] | |
9 October 1972 | Zadar, Yugoslavia | 1 | 1 | 2 | Zadar school shooting: 19-year-old Milorad Vulinović killed his history teacher and wounded a sociology teacher at Zadar Gymnasium.[122] | |
12 October 1972 | Lisbon, Portugal | 1 | 1 | 2 | 26-year-old José Ribeiro Santos was killed and another person was wounded when a police officer opened fire during a political meeting at the University of Lisbon.[123] | |
20 December 1972 | Erlangen, Germany | 3[n 1][n 4] | 13[n 4] | 16 | A student opened fire with a handgun at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, killing two people and wounding two others. Eleven other people were wounded in a fire set by the attacker, who himself died in the fire.[124] | |
1973 | ||||||
January 1973 | Balassagyarmat, Hungary | 1[n 1] | 0 | 1 | Brothers András and László Pintye, sons of local Communist Party officials, acquired a PA-63 pistol and an AMD assault rifle and assaulted a local girls' dormitory. They held an unknown number of teenage girls hostage for several days, demanding free passage to Budapest's international airport and a flight to Austria. Finally, when they planned to murder some of the hostages, a police sniper shot András dead through the window, the police then stormed the building, arresting László.[125] | |
23 January 1973 | Milan, Italy | 1 | 0 | 1 | Student Roberto Franceschi was shot and killed during a clash between police and rioters at Bocconi University.[126] | |
27 January 1973 | Lodi, Italy | 0 | 0 | 0 | A 51-year-old man fired a gun twice into the air during a demonstration outside a school.[127] | |
8 February 1973 | Genoa, Italy | 0 | 1 | 1 | During riots, Roberto Grassi, a student at the "Giorgi" institute, was shot and wounded as he entered the school by Giuliano Ravera.[128] | |
1974 | ||||||
2 February 1974 | San Luca, Italy | 1 | 0 | 1 | 35-year-old Domenico Antonio Pizzata, in charge of after-school activities, shot and killed 53-year-old teacher Silvio Stranges.[129] | |
25 December 1974 | Sofia, Bulgaria | 8 | 8 | 16 | Sofia shooting: A 17-year-old opened fire inside dormitories at Sofia University, killing eight people and wounding eight others before being arrested.[130] | |
1975 | ||||||
16 October 1975 | Heerenveen, Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 0 | A school caretaker found what he thought was a toy gun on the street and brought it to school. The gun went off inside the school, breaking a window.[131] | |
1976 | ||||||
18 March 1976 | Alton, England | 0 | 1 | 1 | A 16-year-old girl took 26 students at Amery Hill School hostage for nearly two hours. As police subdued the hostage-taker, the gun discharged into the ceiling, wounding one student with falling plaster.[132] | |
30 March 1976 | Voghera, Italy | 0 | 2 | 2 | A 15-year-old student brought a gun to school to show to classmates. It discharged in a classroom, wounding two students.[133] | |
1977 | ||||||
11 March 1977 | near Yeovil, England | 0 | 1 | 1 | 16-year-old Ian O'Malley was accidentally shot in the stomach at Huish Episcopi Academy. He had brought a shotgun to school for a project.[134] | |
17 March 1977 | Rome, Italy | 0 | 0 | 0 | A group of right-wing extremists fired shots at law enforcement outside a school during clashes with students.[135] | |
19 May 1977 | Leningrad, Soviet Union | 6 | 3[n 1] | 9 | Anatoly Fedorenko killed six cadets and wounded two. He was also injured by one of the fatally wounded cadets. Sentenced to death.[90]: 188–190 | |
1978 | ||||||
February 1978 | Saint-Marcel, France | 2[n 1] | 0 | 2 | A 14-year-old student shot and killed his teacher with a pistol in a classroom before fatally shooting himself.[136] | |
16 March 1978 | Istanbul, Turkey | 7 | 41 | 48 | Beyazıt massacre: Seven students were killed and 41 injured in a gun and bomb attack at Istanbul University.[137] | |
7 June 1978 | Bournemouth, England | 0 | 1 | 1 | A policeman was shot on the grounds of Summerbee School after responding to reports of intruders in the classrooms.[138] | |
22 June 1978 | Sparta, Greece | 2 | 0 | 2 | 19-year-old Panagiotis Kakaletris opened fire at a lyceum, killing school principal Giorgos Blesios and gendarme Christos Agrafas. He was arrested the next day.[139] | |
4 October 1978 | Maastricht, Netherlands | 0 | 1 | 1 | A 17-year-old former student at Henric van Veldekecollege shot and wounded the school principal, who knocked the gun out of the shooter's hand before the teenager fled. The shooter surrendered later that day.[140] | |
1979 | ||||||
1979 | Camberley, England | 0 | 0 | 0 | An upset 16-year-old fired a shotgun into a school window.[141] | |
25 January 1979 | Madrid, Spain | 0 | 3 | 3 | Several students were injured, three by gunshots, as multiple far-right extremists attacked the law school of the Complutense University of Madrid.[142] | |
February 1979 | Belgrade, Yugoslavia | 1 | 0 | 1 | A 17-year-old student killed his 27-year-old teacher with his father's pistol inside a classroom.[143] | |
11 December 1979 | Turin, Italy | 0 | 10 | 10 | Members of Prima Linea intruded into a business administration school and briefly took students hostage before singling out five students and five teachers and kneecapping them.[144] |
1980s
21 incidents.
Date | Location | Deaths | Injuries | Total | Description | |
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1980 | ||||||
12 February 1980 | Rome, Italy | 1 | 0 | 1 | Professor Vittorio Bachelet was shot and killed by members of the Red Brigades at the end of a lesson at Sapienza University.[145] | |
19 March 1980 | Milan, Italy | 1 | 0 | 1 | Magistrate Guido Galli was shot to death by Prima Linea members outside a classroom at the University of Milan.[146] | |
29 April 1980 | Madrid, Spain | 0 | 1 | 1 | A student was shot and multiple others assaulted as multiple far-right extremists attacked the law school of the Complutense University of Madrid.[147] | |
1981 | ||||||
29 May 1981 | Rome, Italy | 0 | 1 | 1 | Red Brigades members shot and wounded a teacher at the Centro di Formazione Professionale Teresa Gerini.[148] | |
1982 | ||||||
30 March 1982 | Genoa, Italy | 2[n 1] | 0 | 2 | Lamberto Torrini, a middle school teacher, shot and killed 14-year-old student Aurora Cusinatti before killing himself inside a classroom.[149] | |
1983 | ||||||
3 June 1983 | Eppstein, Germany | 6[n 1] | 14 | 20 | Eppstein school shooting: 34-year-old Karel Charva fatally shot three students, a teacher and a policeman and injured another 14 people using two semi-automatic pistols, before committing suicide.[150] | |
21 June 1983 | Frimley, England | 0 | 1 | 1 | While Surrey police were practicing shooting with live ammunition, a stray bullet struck 8-year-old Emma Breen as she played at Heather Ridge School, around 1,600 yards (1,500 m) away.[151] | |
1984 | ||||||
25 January 1984 | Cologne, Germany | 1 | 1 | 2 | Sabine S. Gehlhaar opened fire inside a classroom at the University of Cologne's Martin Buber Institute for Jewish Studies, killing professor Hermann Greive and wounding another professor before being overpowered and arrested.[152] | |
13 March 1984 | Castres, France | 2[n 1] | 0 | 2 | A 15-year-old student shot and killed a teacher and himself at a private school after the teacher refused the student's explanation for his tardiness.[153] | |
13 March 1984 | Rome, Italy | 1 | 0 | 1 | 32-year-old Maurizio Nobile broke into the Ignazio Silone school and shot and killed 48-year-old caretaker Ernesto Chiovini before taking a teacher and 15 students hostage. After six hours, Nobile surrendered.[154] | |
1985 | ||||||
27 March 1985 | Rome, Italy | 1 | 0 | 1 | Professor Ezio Tarantelli was killed in a parking lot at Sapienza University by members of the Red Brigades.[155] | |
12 October 1985 | Turin, Italy | 0 | 2 | 2 | During a fight at a teacher's training school, a 15-year-old threw his bag, which contained a gun, to the ground; the gun discharged, wounding two students.[156] | |
1987 | ||||||
7 February 1987 | Moscow, Soviet Union | 0 | 1 | 1 | After a school party, a 28-year-old intoxicated teacher invited several students to his office and opened fire, wounding a boy.[157] | |
March 1987 | Bury, England | 0 | 0 | 0 | A teacher at Elton High School fired a shot into the ceiling, resulting in his suspension. He killed himself in September 1987 following a police search of his home relating to the shooting.[158] | |
11 November 1987 | London, England | 3 | 1 | 4 | Dormers Wells High School shooting: Two orthodox Sikh gunmen opened fire during a prayer meeting at Dormers Wells High School in Southall, killing three people and wounding another. They were restrained by congregants and arrested.[159] | |
December 1987 | Moscow, Soviet Union | 1 | 0 | 1 | Grigory Kuts killed his physical education teacher with a TT pistol after classes.[160] | |
1988 | ||||||
6 January 1988 | Higham Ferrers, England | 0 | 4 | 4 | 16-year-old Darren Lloyd Fowler opened fire with a shotgun at The Ferrers School, wounding two teachers and two students. He was detained for life.[161] | |
15 November 1988 | Keele, England | 0 | 1 | 1 | A 21-year-old student accidentally shot himself in the leg in a dormitory at Keele University while cleaning a pistol.[162] | |
1989 | ||||||
25 January 1989 | Rauma, Finland | 2 | 0 | 2 | Raumanmeri school shooting: A 14-year-old student shot and killed two classmates with his father's pistol at the Raumanmeri secondary school.[163] | |
13 March 1989 | Suresnes, France | 3[n 1] | 0 | 3 | During an argument between family members during dismissal at Paul-Langevin High School, a man fatally shot his half-brother and half-sister before killing himself.[164][165] | |
14 December 1989 | Winterthur, Switzerland | 0 | 2 | 2 | While preparing for a presentation on shooting at a vocational school, a student accidentally fired a rifle. The shot penetrated the wall and entered the adjacent classroom, striking two students.[166] |
1990s
27 incidents.
Date | Location | Deaths | Injuries | Total | Description | |
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1990 | ||||||
25 January 1990 | Oberwil, Switzerland | 0 | 1 | 1 | A student brought a handgun to school and accidentally fired it, wounding a classmate.[167] | |
10 April 1990 | Cuneo, Italy | 0 | 1 | 1 | 17-year-old Diego Messa was accidentally shot in the locker room of a technical institute as a student showed classmates his grandfather's gun.[168] | |
27 November 1990 | Heraklion, Greece | 3[n 1] | 3 | 6 | University of Crete student Giorgos Petrodaskalakis opened fire with a rifle in a lecture hall, killing professors Basilis C. Xanthopoulos and Stephanos Pnevmatikos and wounding three other people before fleeing. He hanged himself in a forest several days later and was discovered in July 1991.[169] | |
December 1990 | Rivoli, Italy | 0 | 1 | 1 | A janitor was shot and wounded as he exited a school.[170] | |
1991 | ||||||
5 March 1991 | Bristol, England | 0 | 1 | 1 | 15-year-old Andre Crumpton opened fire inside a classroom at Colston's School, wounding housemaster Roderick Findlay before fleeing. Crumpton, who had apparently planned to kill eight people, was imprisoned for five years.[171][172] | |
5 October 1991 | Ivrea, Italy | 0 | 1 | 1 | A 12-year-old accidentally discharged his uncle's pistol in a classroom, wounding another student.[173] | |
1992 | ||||||
23 March 1992 | Nice, France | 1[n 1] | 1 | 2 | 20-year-old Fabrice Marsici, a law student, slightly wounded a woman inside a lecture hall before killing himself.[174] | |
13 August 1992 | Dorum, Germany | 1 | 0 | 1 | A 47-year-old teacher was shot and killed by her estranged husband in a classroom.[175] | |
16 October 1992 | Angerlo, Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 0 | During a demonstration in a classroom, a policeman accidentally discharged a gun.[176] | |
1993 | ||||||
15 May 1993 | Neuilly-sur-Seine, France | 1[n 1] | 0 | 1 | Neuilly kindergarten hostage crisis: After a two-day crisis at a kindergarten where a man held a class hostage, police assaulted the school and shot and killed the hostage-taker.[177] | |
6 October 1993 | Hausleiten, Austria | 1[n 1] | 1 | 2 | A 13-year-old boy shot and wounded his school's principal after being caught smoking. The shooter then killed himself.[178] | |
1994 | ||||||
4 March 1994 | Casal di Principe, Italy | 0 | 0 | 0 | As classmates were mocking a student, he pulled out a gun, which discharged, the shot hitting the wall of the classroom.[179] | |
5 April 1994 | Aarhus, Denmark | 3[n 1] | 2 | 5 | Aarhus University shooting: A 35-year-old student shot and killed two people and wounded two others in two cafeterias at Aarhus University before killing himself.[180] | |
24 October 1994 | Dulverton, England | 0 | 0 | 0 | A 13-year-old student fired a shotgun several times at Dulverton Middle School before being arrested.[181] | |
1995 | ||||||
1 February 1995 | Geneva, Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 0 | A 22-year-old man took his ex-girlfriend hostage with an assault rifle at a business school. He fired a shot into the ground before a 30-minute standoff with police, ending with the suspect's surrender.[182] | |
1996 | ||||||
14 February 1996 | Madrid, Spain | 1 | 0 | 1 | A member of the ETA shot and killed Autonomous University of Madrid professor Francisco Tomás y Valiente in his office.[183] | |
13 March 1996 | Dunblane, Scotland | 18[n 1] | 15 | 33 | Dunblane massacre: 43-year-old Thomas Hamilton opened fire inside Dunblane Primary School, killing sixteen students and a teacher and wounding fifteen other people before killing himself.[184] | |
7 October 1996 | Brussels, Belgium | 1 | 0 | 1 | A 15-year-old student armed with a handgun killed a classmate.[185] | |
1997 | ||||||
9 March 1997 | Kamyshin, Russia | 6 | 2 | 8 | First year cadet Sergei Lepnev of the Russian Military School opened fire on his commander and classmates, killing six and wounding two.[186] | |
5 May 1997 | Zöbern, Austria | 1 | 1 | 2 | 15-year-old Helmut Z. went to his secondary school with a revolver and attempted to sexually assault a classmate. The shooter killed a teacher who intervened and injured a second teacher as he fled.[178] | |
9 May 1997 | Rome, Italy | 1 | 0 | 1 | Killing of Marta Russo: A 22-year-old Sapienza University student was shot and killed on campus. A man was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the killing.[187] | |
31 May 1997 | Campobasso, Italy | 0 | 1 | 1 | 19-year-old Francesco Felicita opened fire inside a classroom at a technical institute for surveyors, wounding another student. He was disarmed by a policeman.[188][189] | |
1998 | ||||||
31 March 1998 | Tourcoing, France | 1 | 0 | 1 | 18-year-old Hassan Atrane was shot in the head by classmate Foued Zarati at Lycée Gambetta; he died the following day. Zarati said that Atrane had told him to fire a shot at him, saying the safety catch was on.[190] | |
17 June 1998 | Bryanston, England | 0 | 1 | 1 | Bryanston School student Michael Hobbes was shot in the chest on the school's firing range during an A-level physics experiment to calculate the speed of a bullet.[191] | |
1999 | ||||||
11 January 1999 | St. Gallen, Switzerland | 1 | 0 | 1 | A student's father shot and killed teacher Paul Spirig in a conference room at the Engelwies Realschule.[192] | |
5 March 1999 | Padua, Italy | 3 | 1 | 4 | A technician at the University of Padua opened fire on his bosses during a case meeting, killing one and wounding three (one person was grazed). Two of the wounded victims died of their injuries five and six years after the shooting.[193] | |
7 December 1999 | Veghel, Netherlands | 0 | 5 | 5 | A 17-year-old student opened fire in a computer room at ROC De Leijgraaf in an attempted honor killing, wounding a teacher and four students.[194] |
21st century
2000s
33 incidents.
Date | Location | Deaths | Injuries | Total | Description | |
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2000 | ||||||
16 March 2000 | Brannenburg, Germany | 1 | 1[n 1] | 2 | A 57-year-old director was shot by a 16-year-old student and later died in hospital. The student attempted suicide by shooting himself and went into a coma.[195] | |
31 May 2000 | Wasserbillig, Luxembourg | 0 | 1[n 1] | 1 | Wasserbillig crèche hostage crisis: A man armed with a pistol and grenades took 45 children and seven teachers hostage at a creche. The standoff ended when a police sniper shot and wounded the hostage-taker and he was arrested.[196] | |
24 November 2000 | Pisa, Italy | 1 | 1[n 1] | 2 | Fabio Ciaralli shot and stabbed his ex-wife Barbara Novelli to death in her classroom at the University of Pisa before attempting suicide by stabbing himself.[197] | |
2001 | ||||||
18 January 2001 | Stockholm, Sweden | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16-year-old Nicola Vasmatzis was shot and killed in a restroom by a 19-year-old student at Bromma secondary school.[198] | |
13 March 2001 | Moscow, Russia | 1 | 0 | 1 | Students at school no. 828 found a gun in the courtyard and accidentally fired it, fatally shooting a 7-year-old pupil.[199] | |
19 May 2001 | Pinerolo, Italy | 2[n 1] | 0 | 2 | 38-year-old Grant Dunn, an English teacher at the Marie Curie Lycee, shot and killed 19-year-old student Emanuela Ferro, who he had a romantic interest in, in the school car park. Dunn shot himself to death at the scene.[200] | |
16 December 2001 | Kluczbork, Poland | 2[n 1] | 1 | 3 | A 62-year-old man shot and wounded his wife on school grounds, then killed a 34-year-old bystander and himself.[201] | |
2002 | ||||||
19 February 2002 | Freising/Eching, Germany | 4[n 1] | 1 | 5 | Adam Labus, 22 years old, armed himself with a pistol and homemade bombs. Labus went to his company where he previously worked in a taxi and shot two employees; the manager died at the scene and the foreman succumbed to his injuries later. Labus took the taxi again to go to a business school, where he killed the director and shot a teacher before shooting himself in the head and dying.[202] | |
March 2002 | Myerscough and Bilsborrow, England | 0 | 1 | 1 | As student Rik Aindow was setting up clay pigeon traps at Myerscough College, a student accidentally discharged a shotgun, wounding him.[203] | |
26 April 2002 | Erfurt, Germany | 17[n 1] | 1 | 18 | Erfurt school massacre: 19-year-old expelled student Robert Steinhäuser shot and killed 16 people, including a policeman, before killing himself.[204] | |
29 April 2002 | Vlasenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2[n 1] | 1 | 3 | Vlasenica school shooting: A 17-year-old student shot and killed his history professor and wounded his math professor before killing himself at Vlasenica High School.[205] | |
2003 | ||||||
11 March 2003 | Klazienaveen, Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 0 | A police officer who was at a primary school to conduct a lesson about law enforcement accidentally fired his service weapon, the bullet striking a wall.[206] | |
May 2003 | Schlosswil, Switzerland | 0 | 1 | 1 | As a pensioner fired a gun at crows in his field to scare them away, a bullet struck an 8-year-old student playing in a schoolyard.[207] | |
2 July 2003 | Coburg, Germany | 1[n 1] | 1 | 2 | Coburg shooting: A 16-year-old student shot and wounded his teacher before shooting himself dead.[208] | |
25 August 2003 | Hamina, Finland | 0 | 0 | 0 | A 17-year-old student fired a gun multiple times while barricaded on the roof of Vehkalahti Upper Secondary School. He surrendered to police.[209] | |
2004 | ||||||
13 January 2004 | The Hague, Netherlands | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16-year-old student Murat Demir killed deputy director Hans van Wieren in the canteen of Terra College.[210] | |
3 June 2004 | Belfast, Northern Ireland | 1 | 0 | 1 | 31-year-old Kevin McAlorum was killed by two gunmen in his car in the driveway of Oakwood Primary School after he dropped off his child. The murder was believed to have had ties to the Irish National Liberation Army. Several parents witnessed the shooting.[211][212] | |
September 2004 | Beslan, Russia | 334[n 1] | 800+ | 1134+ | Beslan school hostage crisis: Members of the Riyad-us Saliheen Brigade of Martyrs occupied a school and took students and faculty hostage. On the third day, Russian forces stormed the school. At least 334 people were killed and over 800 injured.[213] | |
2005 | ||||||
7 March 2005 | Rötz, Germany | 0 | 0 | 0 | A 14-year-old fired a gun at his teacher in a classroom before being overpowered by the teacher and arrested. No one was hurt.[214] | |
22 April 2005 | Tempo, Northern Ireland | 0 | 1 | 1 | An elderly man shot and wounded 5-year-old Darragh Somers as he was on the playground of St Patrick's Primary School.[215] | |
22 June 2005 | Orléans, France | 1 | 0 | 1 | A 22-year-old student at the University of Orléans killed a 20-year-old woman he was infatuated with in a classroom before fleeing. He was arrested close to the school.[216] | |
12 July 2005 | Bologna, Italy | 1 | 0 | 1 | 32-year-old Domenico Bottari shot and killed 22-year-old student Riccardo Venier at the University of Bologna after he refused Bottari's advances.[217] | |
2006 | ||||||
20 November 2006 | Emsdetten, Germany | 1[n 1] | 8 | 9 | Emsdetten school shooting: A student opened fire at his former school, wounding eight people by gunfire before killing himself. Twenty-nine people were injured when the shooter detonated smoke grenades as he roamed the building.[218] | |
2007 | ||||||
11 March 2007 | Loughborough, England | 0 | 1 | 1 | A man was shot in the abdomen after an argument at a concert hosted by Loughborough University.[219] | |
6 July 2007 | Kusel, Germany | 1[n 1] | 1 | 2 | Michael B., a 24-year-old man suffering from cancer, met at the bus stop with his ex-girlfriend, a 16-year-old student who didn't want to talk to him and ran away to school. Michael chased the student and shot her in the thigh while she was at the entrance to the institution. The teachers who realized what happened chased Michael and, when Michael realized this, he shot himself in the head with his pistol and died in the hospital.[220][221] | |
7 November 2007 | Jokela, Finland | 9[n 1] | 1 | 10 | Jokela school shooting: 18-year-old student Pekka-Eric Auvinen opened fire inside Jokela High School, killing six students and two faculty members and wounding another person before fatally shooting himself.[222] | |
2008 | ||||||
23 September 2008 | Kauhajoki, Finland | 11[n 1] | 1 | 12 | Kauhajoki school shooting: 22-year-old student Matti Juhani Saari shot and killed ten people and wounded another at the Kauhajoki School of Hospitality before fatally shooting himself. Police determined he was inspired by the Jokela High School shooting.[223] | |
2009 | ||||||
7 January 2009 | Budapest, Hungary | 2 | 1[n 1] | 3 | A principal and teacher were shot to death and a security guard wounded at a private primary school. The security guard and the finance director of the school, who had both recently been fired, were arrested.[224] | |
23 January 2009 | Tromsø, Norway | 2[n 1] | 0 | 2 | A man shot and killed a female trainee teacher and then fatally shot himself in the car park of a kindergarten. The shooting occurred just as children were arriving for school.[225] | |
11 March 2009 | Winnenden/Wendlingen, Germany | 16[n 1] | 9 | 25 | Winnenden school shooting: A former student opened fire at Albertville-Realschule and fled in a stolen car, where he opened fire at a car dealership. He killed himself in a shootout after being shot by police. In total, the perpetrator killed fifteen people and wounded nine others.[226] | |
10 April 2009 | Athens, Greece | 1[n 1] | 3 | 4 | OAED Vocational College shooting: A 19-year-old vocational school student opened fire inside the school and wounded a student. He wounded two people as he ran away before killing himself nearby.[227] | |
28 April 2009 | Harstad, Norway | 0 | 0 | 0 | A 9-year-old student at Kanebogen primary school fired a shotgun twice in the playground before his gun was taken away by a teacher. No one was hurt.[228] | |
26 November 2009 | Pécs, Hungary | 1 | 3 | 4 | A 23-year-old student at the University of Pécs opened fire during a lecture, killing a student and wounding three other people before fleeing and surrendering at a local clinic.[229] |
2010s
25 incidents.
Date | Location | Deaths | Injuries | Total | Description | |
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2010 | ||||||
11 May 2010 | Elbasan, Albania | 2[n 1] | 0 | 2 | 19-year-old Endrit Llabaj shot and killed his 18-year-old girlfriend Gerta Baja at Mahir Domi High School. He killed himself as police pursued him on the outskirts of Elbasan.[230] | |
2011 | ||||||
January 2011 | Torre del Greco, Italy | 0 | 1 | 1 | 59-year-old Fabrizio Panaro was shot multiple times by unidentified gunmen while working in the courtyard of the Domenico Morelli middle school. Students were present at the school, some in the courtyard.[231] | |
2012 | ||||||
19 March 2012 | Toulouse, France | 4 | 4 | 8 | Toulouse and Montauban shootings: 23-year-old Mohammed Merah opened fire at a Jewish day school in an Islamic terrorist attack, killing a rabbi and three children and wounding four other people. Merah was killed by police on 22 March.[232] | |
30 March 2012 | Orivesi, Finland | 0 | 0 | 0 | A 23-year-old man fired two shots with a flare gun, hitting his ex-girlfriend's father in the arm in an office building. After the incident, he left and drove to Orivesi High School, took his rifle, and went to the third floor, apparently after his ex-girlfriend. He then knocked on the door to the classroom and tried to shoot the teacher who opened the door, but the gunman's rifle didn't fire and the teacher was able to shut the door. The gunman then fired four rounds through the door but did not hit anyone. He was apprehended by police outside the school and the gunman dropped his rifle.[233] | |
22 May 2012 | Memmingen, Germany | 0 | 0 | 0 | A 14-year-old stole three of his father's firearms and fired multiple shots at school and on a sports field, striking no one. He surrendered after a several-hour standoff.[234] | |
25 May 2012 | Sankt Pölten, Austria | 2[n 1] | 0 | 2 | An armed 37-year-old man entered Volksschule Wagram and walked his two children out of the classroom. His 7-year-old daughter managed to escape unscathed, but he took his 8-year-old son to a cloakroom and shot him in the head. The father then fled from the school grounds in his car, and later killed himself after he crashed the car on a local farm road. The most likely motive for his actions is that he wanted to get revenge on his wife. The 8-year-old died two days later.[235] | |
4 September 2012 | Parempuyre, France | 0 | 0 | 0 | After two assailants assaulted a man outside the Jean-Jaurès primary school and fired a shot, the man ran inside the school courtyard. An attacker followed and fired two shots, one in the air and another at the school. The attackers were arrested.[236] | |
5 December 2012 | Naples, Italy | 1 | 0 | 1 | 50-year-old gang member Luigi Lucenti was shot and killed by hitmen in the courtyard of a nursery in Scampia.[237] | |
2013 | ||||||
25 March 2013 | Montreuil, France | 0 | 1 | 1 | A 25-year-old man was shot outside a nursery.[238] | |
17 May 2013 | Gothenburg, Sweden | 0 | 1 | 1 | A man was shot and wounded in the schoolyard of Hammarkullsskolan in Angered.[239] | |
15 June 2013 | Vittoria, Italy | 1 | 0 | 1 | A school janitor shot and killed 54-year-old teacher Giovanna Nobile at the Istituto Comprensivo "F.Pappalardo". He attempted to flee the scene, but was tackled by another teacher and arrested.[240] | |
4 December 2013 | Shkozet, Albania | 1 | 0 | 1 | A 17-year-old student, named as Endrin Baraku killed a 15-year-old classmate with an automatic rifle at Beqir Cela High School. He surrendered in Durrës.[241] | |
2014 | ||||||
8 January 2014 | Pristina, Kosovo | 1 | 1 | 2 | Two men were arrested after a 14-year-old was shot and killed and another teenager wounded in the yard of the “Emin Duraku” school.[242] | |
3 February 2014 | Moscow, Russia | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2014 Moscow school shooting: A 15-year-old student killed his teacher and held his class hostage before shooting two policemen, one fatally, as they arrived at the scene. The shooter eventually surrendered and was apprehended.[243] | |
27 October 2014 | Viljandi, Estonia | 1 | 0 | 1 | A 15-year-old student shot and killed Ene Sarap, his German language teacher at the Paalalinna School. Four other students were also present during the shooting. In 2015, he was sentenced to nine years in jail.[244] | |
2017 | ||||||
16 March 2017 | Grasse, France | 0 | 4 | 4 | A 17-year-old fired shots at Alexis de Tocqueville high school, wounding four people. Anti-terrorist commandos were sent to the scene and the shooter was arrested.[245] | |
6 December 2017 | Villenave-d'Ornon, France | 0 | 0 | 0 | During a dispute outside Léon-Blum elementary school, a man fired a rifle several times in the air. The shooter was arrested as children present were taken into the school for safety.[246] | |
2018 | ||||||
29 January 2018 | Nazaré, Portugal | 1 | 0 | 1 | A 40-year-old man fired shots in a schoolyard during a dispute between two families, killing a man.[247] | |
9 May 2018 | Mistelbach, Austria | 0 | 1 | 1 | 18-year-old Mario S. fired a shotgun at the Mistelbach school centre, wounding a 19-year-old. The gun jammed after the first shot, causing the shooter to flee. He was imprisoned for six years and committed to psychiatric care.[248] | |
17 October 2018 | Kerch, Crimea[n 5] | 21[n 1] | 67 | 88 | Kerch Polytechnic College massacre: 18-year-old student Vladislav Roslyakov detonated a bomb inside Kerch Polytechnic College before opening fire on people. Twenty people were killed and 67 others wounded before the shooter killed himself.[249] | |
2019 | ||||||
22 January 2019 | Moissy-Cramayel, France | 0 | 0 | 0 | A 7-year-old student fired a gun in the playground at Grès elementary school, causing no injuries.[250] | |
25 January 2019 | Abalakovo, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia | 0 | 0 | 0 | A ninth-grader tried to shoot his classmate with a shotgun, but after he disappeared, the gunman began shooting at the school windows. The shooter was detained; he turned out to be a student in a special education class. There were no casualties.[251] | |
27 May 2019 | Brześć Kujawski, Poland | 0 | 2 | 2 | An 18-year-old student detonated explosives and shot at people at Władysław Łokietek Elementary School, wounding a student and janitor.[252] | |
4 September 2019 | Brest, France | 0 | 0 | 0 | During a brawl at the entrance of Dupuy-de-Lôme High School, someone fired a gun, striking nobody.[253] | |
22 November 2019 | Velika Plana, Serbia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 46-year-old Goran Todorović, armed with a rifle, entered the Economics and Tourism School "Vuk Karadžić" and took a class hostage. He was overpowered by a teacher, firing two shots in the process.[254] |
2020s
28 incidents.
Date | Location | Deaths | Injuries | Total | Description | |
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2021 | ||||||
11 May 2021 | Kazan, Russia | 9 | 23 | 32 | Kazan school shooting: 19-year-old former student Ilnaz Galyaviev killed nine people and wounded 23 others at Gymnasium N°175. He left the school as policemen arrived and was arrested.[255] | |
15 July 2021 | Malaga, Spain | 2[n 1] | 0 | 2 | María Ángeles Guerrero, a 46 year old primary school worker, was killed by shotgun shots outside the primary school by his 55 year old partner, who killed himself before the shooting.[256] | |
20 September 2021 | Perm, Russia | 6 | 24[n 1] | 30 | Perm State University shooting: 18-year-old student Timur Bekmansurov opened fire at Perm State University, killing six people and wounding 23 others before being shot by police and arrested.[257] | |
13 October 2021 | Leioa, Spain | 0 | 0 | 0 | A young man fired shots at the University of the Basque Country, hitting no one, before being arrested.[258] | |
18 October 2021 | Oktyabrsky district, Perm Krai, Russia | 0 | 1 (indirectly) | 1 | A sixth-grader brought a gun into his school and fired two shots at a wall and a fiberglass door. An 11-year-old student was injured by shards of broken glass. The school principal convinced the shooter to give her the gun, after which the gunman was detained.[259] | |
22 October 2021 | San Severo, Italy | 0 | 1 | 1 | An 83-year-old man fired a pistol in the courtyard of the 'Petrarca-Padre Pio' secondary school, wounding a janitor in the head. The shooter, who claimed that he had fired by accident, was charged with attempted murder.[260] | |
16 November 2021 | Loures, Portugal | 0 | 1 | 1 | A drill band was invited to perform at the Escola Secundária José Cardoso Pires. Another group of the same musical style of around 10 elements, and rival of the first group, knowing that they were going to perform at the school, went to the place and tried to enter the school. They were denied entry, causing them to start to shoot and throw glass bottles through the school bars. A 16-year-old who was performing with his band at the school was shot in the knee. The shooters dispersed.[261] | |
2022 | ||||||
24 January 2022 | Heidelberg, Germany | 2[n 1] | 3 | 5 | Heidelberg University shooting: An 18-year-old student opened fire with a rifle and shotgun in a lecture hall at Heidelberg University, killing one person and wounding three others before killing himself.[262] | |
28 March 2022 | Krasnoyarsk, Russia | 0 (1 at the perpetrator’s home) | 0 | 1 | Krasnoyarsk kindergarten shooting: a 19-year-old woman, after killing her father at home as a result of a quarrel, came to kindergarten N°31 at about 2 p.m. with a shotgun hidden under her outerwear, where she intended, as it later turned out, to commit a mass murder of boys, but was disarmed by one of the kindergarten employees, after which she was detained.[263] In July 2023, Dvorkina was sentenced to 17 years in prison.[264] | |
26 April 2022 | Veshkayma, Russia | 5[n 1] | 1 | 6 | Veshkayma kindergarten shooting: A 26-year-old man killed a man at his home before stealing his victim's gun and firing shots at a kindergarten, killing two children and a staff member and wounding another staff member. The shooter killed himself.[265] | |
6 May 2022 | Rotterdam, The Netherlands | 2 | 2 | 4 | John S., a 38 year old man without any criminal record, opened fire in a day care in Rotterdam, killing a 13 year old boy and a 18 year old girl and wounding a 5 year old kid and a 20 year old woman, before he was arrested later.[266] | |
26 September 2022 | Izhevsk, Russia | 19[n 1] | 23 | 42 | Izhevsk school shooting: A former student, 34-year-old Artyom Kazantsev, shot at people inside School No. 88, killing eighteen people and wounding 23 others before killing himself.[267] | |
2023 | ||||||
5 February 2023 | near Epsom, England | 3[n 1] | 0 | 3 | 39-year-old George Pattinson shot and killed his 45-year-old wife Emma, the headteacher of Epsom College, and their 7-year-old daughter Lettie before killing himself at their home in school grounds.[268] | |
3 May 2023 | Belgrade, Serbia | 10 | 6 | 16 | Belgrade school shooting: 13-year-old Kosta Kecmanović fired randomly at students and staff at Vladislav Ribnikar Model Elementary School, killing nine students and a security guard and wounding six other people before surrendering.[269] | |
14 June 2023 | Lukavac, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0 | 1 | 1 | A former student shot and wounded a teacher in the Lukavac Elementary School.[270] | |
8 September 2023 | Lohr am Main, Germany | 1 | 0 | 1 | A 14-year-old shot another student in the head on the grounds of the Nägelsee school center, killing him.[271] | |
28 September 2023 | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2023 Rotterdam shootings: After killing a mother and daughter at a residence, a 32-year-old man shot and killed a teacher at the Erasmus University Medical Center. The shooter was arrested.[272] | |
9 November 2023 | Offenburg, Germany | 1 | 0 | 1 | Mateja Z., a 15-year-old student, shot twice at a classmate of the same age who died in the hospital. The student was talked into dropping the weapon by an adult and was arrested.[273] | |
7 December 2023 | Bryansk, Russia | 2[n 1] | 5 | 7 | Bryansk school shooting: A 14-year-old girl opened fire inside a classroom with a shotgun, killing another student and wounding five people before killing herself.[274] | |
21 December 2023 | Prague, Czech Republic | 15[n 1][n 2] | 25 | 41 | 2023 Prague shootings: After killing his father at their home, 24-year-old student David Kozák opened fire inside the Faculty of Arts building at Charles University, killing thirteen people and wounding 25 others before killing himself. Another student fell to her death as she hid from the shooter.[275] | |
2024 | ||||||
2 April 2024 | Vantaa, Finland | 1 | 2 | 3 | Viertola school shooting: A bullied 12-year-old student shot at three other students in the Viertola school, killing a boy and wounding two girls. The shooter was arrested in Siltamäki, Helsinki.[276] | |
7 May 2024 | Istanbul, Turkey | 1 | 0 | 1 | Murder of Ibrahim Oktugan: Principal Ibrahim Oktugan was shot and killed by a 17-year-old expelled student.[277] | |
21 August 2024 | Sanski Most, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 3 | 1[n 1] | 4 | Sanski Most school shooting: 50-year-old janitor Mehmed Vukalić allegedly shot and killed three other employees of the Sanski Most Gymnasium before shooting himself. He survived his wound and was arrested.[278] | |
4 September 2024 | Stockholm, Sweden | 0 | 1 | 1 | A student was shot due to a "personal conflict" at a school in Trångsund.[279] | |
7 November 2024 | Saint-Florent-sur-Auzonnet, France | 0 | 0 | 0 | A man allegedly threatened his ex-partner with a knife outside a school during dismissal. The ex-partner's father fired a shot at the man that struck the school gate. Both men were arrested.[280] | |
2025 | ||||||
4 February 2025 | Örebro, Sweden | 11[n 1] | 6 | 17 | Örebro school shooting: A former student opened fire with multiple weapons at Campus Risbergska, killing ten people and wounding six others. The shooter killed himself.[281] | |
21 May 2025 | Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain | 1 | 0 | 1 | Andriy Portnov, 52, a former advisor to former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, was shot dead by unknown assailants in a car while dropping off his children at the entrance of an American school in Pozuelo. Andriy was fatally shot in the back and head, and the attackers subsequently fled the scene into a wooded area. The attack is suspected to have been motivated by a settling of scores.[282] | |
10 June 2025 | Graz, Austria | 11[n 1] | 11 | 22 | 2025 Graz school shooting: A former student opened fire at the Bundes-Oberstufenrealgymnasium Dreierschützengasse, killing at least ten people and wounding 11 others before killing himself.[283] |
See also
- List of school attacks in Finland
- List of school attacks in Germany
- List of school attacks in Russia, including events that occurred in Siberia and other Asian parts of Russia, such as the Blagoveshchensk college shooting
- List of school shootings in Canada
- List of school shootings in the United States (before 2000)
- List of school shootings in the United States (2000–present)
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp Including the perpetrator or suspect
- ^ a b One by falling
- ^ Including two perpetrators
- ^ a b Two by gunfire
- ^ Russia (de facto), Ukraine (de jure)
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