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News Articles: School Shootings

A student cries after the 2019 attack on a public school in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The attack, by two former students, resulted in 10 deaths, including the attackers, who turned their weapons on themselves. It was one of the deadliest school attacks in the country's history.

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  • Global Health

School attacks are on the rise in Brazil, prompting debate over solutions

The numbers are far less than in the U.S. but school attacks are definitely on the increase, prompting soul-searching — and a national debate over strategies to prevent future tragedies.

April 12, 2023
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By:
  • Jill Langlois
People walk past the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, in Nashville, Tenn., on Monday, where victims were taken after a shooting at the Covenant School.

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  • Health

At a Nashville hospital, the agony of not being able to help school shooting victims

A pediatric surgeon and his colleagues at Vanderbilt University Medical Center had prepared for a mass casualty event, but the victims of Monday's shooting had already died by the time they arrived.

March 31, 2023
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan
Jennifer Crumbley (left) and James Crumbley (right), the parents of Ethan Crumbley, a teenager accused of killing four students in a shooting at Oxford High School in Oxford, Mich., appear in court in Rochester Hills, Mich., on Feb. 8, 2022. Jennifer and James Crumbley can face trial for involuntary manslaughter, the state appeals court said Thursday.

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  • National

Michigan school shooter's parents can face trial for manslaughter, court rules

The parents of a teenager who killed four students at Oxford High School can face trial, the state appeals court said in a groundbreaking case of criminal responsibility for the acts of a child.

March 23, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Clayton County Schools

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  • News

Georgia schools struggle with how to stop violence at their doors

In a moment where gun violence has reached record highs, educators say they alone can’t keep students safe.

October 19, 2022
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By:
  • Riley Bunch
Reagan Gaona stands beside the Unfillable Chair memorial in front of Santa Fe High School in Texas. The memorial is dedicated to the eight students and two teachers killed in a May 2018 shooting. To the left is a sign displaying solidarity with Uvalde, Texas, a city that experienced a similar school shooting in May 2022.

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  • Mental Health

4 years after a school shooting in a small Texas city, 'There is still a lot of pain'

In 2018, a 17-year-old gunman killed 10 people at Santa Fe High School. But even with an influx of time and money for mental health services, the community is still struggling with grief and trauma.

August 12, 2022
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By:
  • Renuka Rayasam
Columbine Principal Frank DeAngelis listens to his students, survivors of the shooting, in April 2019 as he attends "Columbine 20 Years Later: A Faith-based Remembrance Service" at Waterstone Community Church in Littleton, Colo. A dozen students and one teacher were massacred by two heavily armed students.

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  • National

A small, growing group of survivors advises school leaders after mass shootings

Frank DeAngelis was principal at Columbine High School in Colorado when 12 students and a teacher were killed there. He helps lead a group that offers aid and a sounding board after each fresh attack.

June 23, 2022
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By:
  • Leila Fadel and
  • Christopher Dean Hopkins
A truck passes crosses placed along the highway to honor the victims killed in the recent school shooting at Robb Elementary School.

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  • National Security

The creator of the FBI mass shooting protocol is 'shocked' by Uvalde police response

After Sandy Hook, Katherine Schweit created a program to navigate similar crises. She says the way law enforcement handled the shooting in Uvalde went against everything they trained for.

June 09, 2022
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  • Sacha Pfeiffer,
  • Michael Levitt,
  • and 1 more
Families hug outside the Willie de Leon Civic Center where grief counseling will be offered in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: The endurance of parents

NPR's Scott Simon remarks on how parents have felt hard times compounding for the last several years between pandemic disruptions and inflation, and now fears over school shootings.

June 04, 2022
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  • Scott Simon
Ethan Crumbley attends a hearing at Oakland County circuit court in Pontiac, Mich., on Tuesday over where the teen will be detained as he awaits trial. Crumbley, 15, is charged with the fatal shooting of four fellow students and the wounding of seven others, including a teacher, at Oxford High School in November.

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  • Law

Judge to rule if Michigan school shooter will stay in an adult jail

Text messages and items from a journal were offered by prosecutors as reasons to keep Ethan Crumbley in a cell at the Oakland County Jail instead of having him transferred to a juvenile facility.

February 22, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
The American flag flies at half-staff on Dec. 2, 2021, outside of Oxford High School in Oxford, Mich.

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  • National

The teen charged in a Michigan school shooting will pursue an insanity defense

A 15-year-old charged with killing four students at a Michigan high school will pursue an insanity defense as he, his parents and school officials face a new lawsuit over the November attack.

January 27, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Mourners grieve at Oxford High School in Oxford, Mich., on Wednesday, the day after a gunman opened fire at the school, killing four students and wounding seven other people.

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  • National

Michigan's attorney general wants to investigate the Oxford school shooting

State AG Dana Nessel said her office is the "perfect agency" to conduct a full review of the shooting that killed four students. The investigation would focus on the events leading up to the tragedy.

December 05, 2021
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  • Matthew S. Schwartz
A makeshift memorial seen outside Oxford High School in Oxford, Mich., on Wednesday honors the four students who were fatally shot and seven people who were injured.

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  • National

Michigan authorities consider charges against the school shooting suspect's parents

Oakland County prosecutor Karen McDonald said the parents of the suspect failed to keep a recently purchased firearm out of the hands of their son, who is accused of killing four classmates.

December 02, 2021
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
People embrace as they visit a makeshift memorial outside of Oxford High School on Wednesday in Oxford, Mich.

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  • National

What we know about the young victims of the Oxford High School shooting in Michigan

Oxford High School lost four young students in a shooting this week. The victims, many of them athletes on school teams, were between 14 and 17 years old.

December 02, 2021
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz and
  • Deepa Shivaram
Students hold candles during a prayer vigil after the shootings at Oxford High School on Tuesday in Oxford, Mich.

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  • National

15-year-old boy charged with murder, terrorism in Michigan high school shooting

Charges against the boy were announced a few hours after authorities reported the death of a fourth teen from Oxford High School in southeastern Michigan.

December 01, 2021
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  • The Associated Press
Mourners visit a makeshift memorial outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14, 2020, during the two-year anniversary of the Parkland shooting that killed 17 people and injured another 17.

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  • National

A Florida school district will pay $25 million to the families of Parkland victims

The agreement with the families of 52 people killed, injured or traumatized by the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas settles claims of the families of the deceased and all but one of the injured.

October 19, 2021
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  • Greg Allen
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