School Shooting
Recent Highlights
All Stories for School Shooting
Virginia: Mother of six-year-old boy who shot school teacher charged with child neglect
Fp Staff •A grand jury in Newport News has charged the boy's 25-year-old mother with felony child abuse and a misdemeanour charge of endangering a child by careless storage of a handgun
Nashville school shooting: Why Twitter has restricted a US lawmaker's account
•Twitter has temporarily restricted Marjorie Taylor Greene's Congressional account after the Republican lawmaker posted a graphic that referred to a ‘Trans Day of Vengeance’ following the school shooting in Nashville
US: Caught with gun in school, teen flees after shooting spree; car found with unidentified body nearby
Fp Staff •It occurred at a school shaken by frequent lockdowns and violence, including the recent killing outside the school of a classmate that prompted East High School students to march on the Colorado Capitol earlier this month
US: One dead, another injured in shooting outside high school in Arlington
•The police responded to Lamar High School just before 7 am, after reports of a shooting just outside the school building. Officers found a male student with an apparent gunshot wound; he was taken to a hospital but later died of his injuries
Teacher shot by 6-year-old 'red flag for the country', says mayor
•The boy shot and wounded the teacher with a handgun in a first-grade classroom on Friday at Richneck Elementary School, according to authorities. The shooting was not accidental and was part of an altercation. No students were injured
Teacher shot by elementary school student during altercation in Virginia classroom
•No students were injured in the shooting at Richneck Elementary School, police said. The teacher — a woman in her 30s — suffered life-threatening injuries
Victims of Uvalde school shooting files lawsuits, seeks $27 billion
•The lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in Austin on Tuesday, says officials failed to follow active shooter protocol when they waited more than an hour to confront the attacker inside a fourth-grade classroom
Explained: How US school shootings have become more frequent and deadlier
•With more than two months left, 2022 is already the worst year for school shootings on record. As of 24 October, there have been 257 shootings on school campuses — passing the total of 250 for all of 2021
How US schools are trying to protect their students post Uvalde shooting tragedy
•Multiple states now mandate or encourage panic buttons in US schools, and a growing number of districts are shelling out tens of thousands of dollars per school for them
Funerals to begin for Texas school shooting victims as Joe Biden vows action on guns
•Uvalde's first funerals are set for Tuesday, with others scheduled through mid-June. The huge number of victims, many with horrific wounds, has left the town's two funeral homes turning to embalmers and morticians from across Texas for help