Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) uses the Crime Prevention Research Center’s research on school shootings. There were many other cases during this hearing where it looked like people were using our research, but this is clearly our work. Here are our sources:
“Schools that Allow Teachers to Carry Guns are Extremely Safe: Data on the Rate of Shootings and Accidents in Schools that allow Teachers to Carry” This data looks at every time that a gun is fired at school from an accidental discharge all the way up to a mass public shooting.
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We have updated the data through the end of last year for mass shootings at schools through the end of 2024 here. Here are just some of the details that we have on these nine mass public school shootings from 2000 to 2024.
| Year | Month | Day | State | City | Attacker Name | Age of Perpetrator | Race | Sex | Location | Summary | Details | Total Killed | Killed in public | Wounded | Suicide | Killed by police |
| 2006 | 10 | 2 | Pennsylvania | Nickel Mines | Charles Carl Roberts IV | 33 | White | Male | School | Charles Carl Roberts, 32, shot 10 young girls in a one-room schoolhouse in Bart Township, killing 5, before taking his own life. | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2012 | 12 | 14 | Connecticut | Newtown | Adam Peter Lanza | 20 | White | Male | School (The Sandy Hook Elementary School) | Adam Lanza, aged 20, killed 26 people and himself at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. He first killed his mother at their shared home before taking her guns and driving to the school. Lanza brought four guns with him; A Bushmaster .223 caliber XM15-E2S rifle, a Glock 10mm handgun, a Sig-Sauer P226 9mm handgun, and an Izhmash Saiga-12 12 gauge shotgun which was later found in the trunk of the car and not used in the shootings. During the attack, 20 first-grade children aged six and seven were killed, along with six adults, including four teachers, the principal, and the school psychologist. Two others were injured. Lanza used the Bushmaster .223 caliber rifle against all of the victims at the school. He then took his own life with one of the handguns as police arrived at the school. According to the state’s chief medical examiner, H. Wayne Carver, all of the victims were shot between 3 and 11 times. | 27 | 26 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2014 | 10 | 24 | Washington | Marysville | Jaylen Fryberg | 15 | American Indian | Male | School (Marysville Pilchuck High School) | The Marysville Pilchuck High School shooting occurred in Marysville, Washington, on October 24, 2014, when 15-year-old freshman student Jaylen Fryberg shot five other students at Marysville Pilchuck High School, fatally wounding four, before fatally shooting himself. | Fryberg’s father, Raymond Fryberg, was arrested the following year for illegally purchasing and owning the gun used in the shooting, among other firearms. | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 | 5 | 18 | Texas | Santa Fe | Dimitrios Pagourtzis | 17 | White | Male | School (Santa Fe High School) | A school shooting occurred at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, United States, in the Houston metropolitan area, on May 18, 2018. Ten people – eight students and two teachers – were fatally shot and thirteen others were wounded. The suspected shooter was taken into custody and later identified by police as Dimitrios Pagourtzis, a 17-year-old student at the school. | 10 | 10 | 13 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2018 | 2 | 14 | Florida | Pompano Beach (Parkland) | Nikolas J. Cruz | 19 | Hispanic | Male | School (Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School) | Former student, Nikolas Cruz, 19, opens fire with an AR-15 rifle, killing at least 17 people and injuring at least 14 others. According to law enforcement, the suspect activated a fire alarm to draw people outside to increase casualties. Cruz is arrested | 17 | 17 | 15 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2021 | 11 | 30 | Michigan | Oxford | Ethan Crumbley | 15 | White | Male | School | A 15-year-old student opened fire at Oxford High School initially killing three students and wounding seven others and a teacher, before being arrested. One of the wounded died a day later. The suspect was charged with four counts of murder and seven counts of attempted murder while his parents, who bought him the gun used in the shooting as an early Christmas present, were charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter. | Ethan Crumbley was charged with terrorism. | 4 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 5 | 24 | Texas | Uvalde | Salvador Rolando Ramos | 18 | Hispanic | Male | School (Robb Elementary School) | An 18-year-old gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School. | 21 | 21 | 18 (including the perpetrator’s grandmother at home) | 0 | 1 | |
| 2023 | 3 | 27 | Tennessee | Nashville | Audrey Elizabeth Hale | 28 | White | Female | School (The Covenant School) | A former student at the elementary school, allegedly entered The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee and opened fire on students and staff, killing six victims (three children and three adults). | The shooter targeted the school and church in the attack. Police believe “resentment” may have been a motive. The shooter was transgender. A police spokesperson told ABC News that Hale was assigned female at birth, and pointed to a social media account linked to Hale that included use of the pronouns he/him. | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 9 | 4 | Georgia | Winder | Colt Gray | 14 | White | Male | School (Apalachee High School) | The suspect, 14-year-old Colt Gray, allegedly shot eleven people at Apalachee High School. Two students and two teachers were killed, while nine others were injured, seven by gunfire. | The father of a 14-year-old boy accused of killing four people at a high school in the US state of Georgia has been arrested and charged with murder. Colin Gray, 54, is facing four charges of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight of cruelty to children. | 4 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
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