October 30, 2003, Chicago, IL. Two teens were charged as adults Wednesday in connection with a shooting near Washington High School in Chicago's East Side community. Bennie Trevino and Samuel Lopez, both 15, were charged with one count each of aggravated battery with a firearm within 1,000 feet of a school, a felony in the shooting of another Chicago Public school student.

October 30, 2003,Wheeling, WV - A student at Moundsville Junior High has complied a hit list of other students at the school. Now, school officials are taking the threat very seriously. Phone calls from worried parents flooded the Newsroom who broke the story, and that prompted school officials to talk about an alleged threat at Moundsville Junior High. The hit list was discovered by a school official and school resource officer. Eight student names were on the list, which prompted anxious moments from parents. But the school district says the situation is under control. The situation remains under investigation- but the district has taken action. 

November 5, 2003, UK - A mother of the stabbed schoolboy Luke Walmsley broke down yesterday as she told how her family "has been ripped apart" by the killing. Jayne Walmsley, who was comforted by her estranged husband, Paul, had been told her only son died from a single stab wound to the heart after an altercation with another pupil on Tuesday in a corridor at their school. A knife was recovered at Birkbeck School and Community Arts College, in North Somercotes, Lincs.  Last night, a 15-year-old schoolboy arrested in connection with the stabbing was charged with murder. He will appear at Skegness magistrates' court this morning.

November 6, 2003, CONCORD, Calif. - Concord police have taken the suspects involved in an officer-involved shooting at the 3500 block of Northwood Drive into custody. A nearby school was under lock down temporarily, but that has now been lifted and parents are able to pick up their children.

November 6, 2003, San Antonio, TX - A 17-year-old accused of fatally shooting another teen during a street brawl was released on bond from Bexar County Jail. Jonathan Burns was charged with murder in Tuesday's death of Antony Moore, also 17. The brawl started at about 3:45 p.m. Tuesday when a group of teen boys rode their bicycles to a home in the Woodlake Park neighborhood in Northeast Bexar County, the Sheriff's Department said. The group of eight to 12 boys were looking to beat up Burns because one of the youths, who is 15, wanted to settle a simmering dispute that had started at Judson High School. When the boys found Burns, they ganged up against him, witnesses told deputies. Burns lives nearby. As the group fought, a resident came out of his home holding a rifle, Officer Morin said. He fired two rounds into the air to try to frighten the boys, Officer Morin said, but the teens didn't leave. Holstein put the rifle down, and the group went to beat him up, Morin said. Morin said Burns picked up the rifle and fired a shot, hitting Moore in the stomach. Moore died at Brooke Army Medical Center. "The 15-year-old brought his buddies with him, brought his backup," Morin said. Moore "just happened to be the unfortunate person in front of that bullet."

November 6, 2003, Washington, DC - A gunman fired several shots near Ballou Senior High School yesterday afternoon, causing no injuries but leaving students shaken as they ended their first day of classes at the Southeast Washington school since last month's mercury spill. As the shots rang out soon after dismissal of classes at 3:15 p.m., frantic security guards yelled to students, "Run!" and "Get inside! Now! Come on!" Students who had not been dismissed were held in the building. Minutes later, police arrested an 18-year-old and charged him with assault with a deadly weapon. The shooter was standing about a half-block from the school when he fired a pistol at a car.  Until the shooting, students had been enjoying their first day back at Ballou, which was closed Oct. 2 when a student stole mercury from an unlocked science room and it got spread around. "Everything was fine until now," said Tyneshia Cobb, 16. "It feels like we ain't safe nowhere. We got all this security out here, and we're still not safe."

November 8, 2003, Sugar Land, TX Marsai Murry, 17 and a senior at Sugar Land Hightower was shot and killed in the parking lot of a football stadium as her school played Houston Willow Ridge. Police believe the bullet was not intended for her.

November 12, 2003, Mt. Vernon, NY A 14-year-old girl was signed out of school by an unrelated 18 year-old who took her to his home and had sex with her. The girl’s parents had signed documents that only they could sign her out. Her parents report that she is Learning Disabled and want to know why the school let this happen. On the same day at the same school, a teachers aide was arrested for propositioning sex from another 14 year old. Last month two football players were arrested at this same school for sexual assault.

November 14, 2003, SHELBYVILLE, Ind. -- More than 850 students skipped classes Friday after some received an e-mail that warned a Columbine-style attack would happen that day at school. Of the students who stayed away, about 600 attend Shelbyville High School, and the rest attend Shelbyville Middle School, officials said. The high school students who missed classes represented more than half of the school's student body. The e-mail "scared a lot of people and disrupted their daily routine, and that absolutely is terrorism," Principal Adams said.

November 15, 2003, Atlanta, GA. - The atmosphere at two Clayton County schools has returned to normal a week after rumors of possible gang-related violence prompted increased police patrols. Jackie Hubbert, a Clayton assistant superintendent, reported no incidents at Forest Park High School and Babb Middle School since last Friday's high alert. The alert included asking parents to avoid sending their children to school in red or blue shirts. Those colors are commonly associated with the Bloods and Crips street gangs, though authorities have no concrete evidence of any connection to those groups. Hubbert said officials were focused on protecting students' safety, especially after school, when drive-by shootings were rumored to be possible, with anyone in those colors as targets.

November 25, 2003,  Orange, TX Police in Orange, Texas, were able to thwart a plan by two teenagers to shoot more than 20 students at Victor High School in southeastern Texas. The two 16-year-olds, a boy and a girl, were charged with conspiracy to commit murder. Three other students were expelled but have not been charged.

November 25, 2003, Toronto, Canada Gunfire erupted outside the Scarborough Centre for Alternative Studies sending one student to the hospital with wounds to the upper body. He is expected to recover.

December 5, 2003, San Antonio, TX A St. Francis Academy 16 year-old student saw a bullet tear through his jacket just missing his stomach. Two other shots slammed into a pickup truck with a parent and student inside but they were not injured. School had just dismissed when the drive by and three shots happened. Teachers chased the car and got the license number.

December 5, 2003, Oklahoma City, OK A senior at Douglas high school, Tenisha Griffin, suffered fractures in her nasal cavity and a shattered tooth after a bullet from a small handgun struck her on the lip, authorities said. Parents said their children knew the fight was planned but did not tell anyone at the school.

December 5, 2003, Carbondale, IL Brad DeDecker, a volunteer assistant football coach at Carbondale high school, was shot in the left thigh Friday night outside the school during the junior varsity basketball game. Trevis S. Thompson, 17, was taken into custody after school officials and an on-scene officer apprehended him outside the school as he allegedly tried to flee.

February 2, 2004, Washington, DC James Richardson, 17, a student at Ballou High School, died after being shot several times in the chest. Another student with a wound to his leg was treated and released.

February 2, 2004, Dunedin, New Zealand Children arriving at Ocean View School were ushered into a back room by teachers while police cordoned off the area and the armed offenders squad moved in. At least four bullets had just slammed into the school, breaking several windows. The culprit turned out to be an 8 year-old boy who was shooting at a Magpie with his father’s unsecured gun and ammunition. The boy cannot be charged but the parents likely will be.

February 3, 2004, Miami, Florida - A 14 year old boy (Jaime Gough) had his throat cut allegedly by his 14 year old friend (Michael Hernandez). He was found in the Southwood Middle school (Miami-Dade County Schools) bathroom by another student around 8:30am. It was not immediately know who had killed the student so the school went into a lock-down. Hernandez was found with, according to Investigators, the murder weapon -- a serrated folding knife -- plastic gloves and blood-covered jacket were found in his backpack. At that time he confessed and informed police that he had planned on killing another student who did not attend school that day.  A Forensic Psychologist brought in to evaluated the case stated that, ''I would be very surprised if this kid wasn't sending out lots of signals,''. ``But it also wouldn't be surprising if people around him didn't pick up on them.''

March 16, 2004, Malcolm, Neb. - School officials say they "got lucky" when authorities arrested a teenager with 20 homemade bombs and a rifle in the parking lot of his.  A 17 year old student was also found with a note saying he wanted to injure everyone at the school except for three friends. The student was arrested Tuesday in the parking lot of Malcolm High School after a staff member saw him swigging liquor from a flask and putting on a black overcoat. He was charged Wednesday with attempted murder. Police who searched the student car found a bolt-action rifle, several rounds of ammunition, small bottles of propane and rigged containers of a petroleum-based propellant.  "It had the potential of going badly," said Superintendent Gene Neddenriep. "With this student, at this school, on this particular day, we were successful. We got lucky."

March 16, 2004, FORSYTH, Mont. - Two 8-year-old boys and an 11-year-old schoolmate were arrested after they buried a loaded handgun in a playground sandbox and plotted to shoot and stab a third-grade girl during recess.  The Sheriff said the boys told investigators they intended to harm the young girl because she had teased two of them.  The plot was uncovered late Wednesday morning, about a half-hour before recess, when another student alerted school officials.  The gun, a .22-caliber revolver, had two bullets in it, Hayworth said. School Superintendent Dave Shreeve said a box of bullets also was found nearby. They three were charged Thursday in juvenile court with conspiracy to commit assault with a weapon. Shreeve said the classmate approached the principal in the lunchroom and told her about the plot. School officials found the gun, then pulled the three suspects and the intended victim out of class for questioning.  The school has about 200 students in kindergarten through the sixth-grade. Many of the parents arriving to pick up their children Thursday said they were not even aware of the incident until they heard news reports.  

March 19, 2004, Washington DC - Police officers were dispatched Friday to all 147 District public schools and 15+ private schools  in response to an Internet bomb threat that said five devices had been planted at five schools.  The message - which was received shortly before 6 a.m - did not specify which schools may be involved.  "As a precautionary measure, we have directed each district commander to send officers to every school within their district to work with school security and maintenance and search the schools," said Metropolitan Police Department Sgt. Joe Gentile.  "It's being handled as a local, one-time prank, and students are being kept inside under the shelter in place policy," DCPS spokeswoman Prenell Neeley  "We're following the lead of police. According to Neeley, police were conducting walk throughs of the buildings to determine whether anything looked suspicious or out of place."  Gentile said it wasn't clear whether evacuations would be necessary. He said bomb-sniffing dogs would be used if needed, and that other agencies - including the U.S. Park Police and U.S. Capitol Police - were ready to assist.

April 4, 2004, Morristown, N.J. -- A student at Fairleigh Dickinson University was wounded during a fight at the school dance and is charged with weapons offenses. Robert Brock-Murray, 21, of Atlantic City brought a knife to the dance at the school's Florham Park campus and used it in a threatening way, authorities said. He was shot once in the abdomen during the fight, which left six others injured. Brock-Murray's behavior added to the turmoil of that evening, Joseph A. Devine, chief of investigations for the Morris County Prosecutor's Office. The dance, attended by about 400 people, was held as an after-party for attendees of a fashion show sponsored by a student group.

April 14, 2004, Zanesville, OH - Police were called to the school around noon after the 14-year-old allegedly threatened another student with a gun.  School officials had taken possession of the loaded .380-caliber, semi-automatic handgun prior to the police' arrival. An investigation revealed a second boy was involved. The 15-year-old student was charged with illegal conveyance or possession of deadly weapon in a school safety zone.  An arrest warrant was executed.  While some members of the West Muskingum community have expressed concerns about the district not telling families more about the incident, officials said it was handled to avoid inducing panic. The situation was managed without the school having to go on a lockdown, where students are kept in classrooms. Wourms said staff members were able to handle the situation in a way in which a lockdown wasn't necessary. This is the second time a student at West Muskingum High School has brought a gun to school while Gary Ankrim has been principal. In January 1999, a freshman was expelled after officials found a .25-caliber gun in his locker. The gun was not loaded, but a magazine with six bullets was found in a gym bag.

April 15, 2004, Camden, N.J. - The 16-year-old boy, who attends the Camden County Vocational Technical High School in Gloucester Township, is charged with making terroristic threats. He was arrested after students reported the threats to school officials.

April 15, 2004, Topeka, KS - The coordinator of school psychology for Topeka Public Schools, said district staff members have provided counseling for several students related to the victim of a fatal shooting Sunday of an 18-year-old or involved in the police investigation into five recent drive-by shooting incidents that occurred over four days. Topeka Police and Topeka Public Schools USD 501 said in a news release that they were aware of rumors circulating through the community about gang activity and weapons violations around the schools, particularly Topeka High.  Parents are advised that the Topeka Police Department and USD 501 are doing everything possible to maintain a safe learning environment for the students at all schools in the area.

April 16, 2004, Topeka, KS - The shooting spree the week of the 5th of April involving some Topeka gang members have the community concerned  One community person stated, the shootings last week were scary because, even though it appears to be gang members shooting at each other, stray bullets can also hit innocent bystanders.  The recent gang activity isn't just a police problem; it's a community problem.  The police need to do something.  Maybe restoring the special anti-gang unit to its former strength would help. That unit was very successful in the mid-1990s in getting the gang problem under control. 

April 16, 2004, Victorville, CA - Community Leaders and Educators have little doubt that gang activities and hate-motivated behaviors are on the rise throughout this county.  Gang-related homicides in San Bernardino County increased 69 percent over the past 2 years, according to county stats.  But getting a bead on how significant the gang and hate-related problems are, and their impacts on local schools and communities, has been difficult.  County and local school administrators are joining law enforcement officials and community groups to assess school safety as it relates to gangs and hate activities at a public summit in Apple Valley today.

April 19, 2004, Shreveport, LA -  Shreveport student questioned over alleged school threat  Police questioned an 18-year old high school student about possible threats to shoot people at his school on Monday, a day before the fifth anniversary of the deadly Columbine school shootings in Colorado.  The student was taken into custody shortly after classes began, and police and sheriff's deputies converged on Byrd High School. Comments considered by some students to be threats were apparently made at a Sunday night church play about the Columbine shootings, Caddo Parish schools superintendent Ollie Tyler said. Officers searched the school but found no firearms.  The 1999 Columbine shootings left 12 students and one teacher dead.

April 20, 2004, San Bernardino, CA -  Arrested to was a 17-year-old boy after bringing a loaded handgun and two knives to Pacific High School of the San Bernardino City Unified School District, which was the fifth anniversary of the Columbine High School shootings.  Campus police arrested the boy.  It was later learned that he wasn't a student at Pacific High School.  He was arrested shortly after he walked onto the campus.  He had a loaded .380-caliber Lorain handgun and two knives.  It did not appear that he planned a Columbine-style attack, although his intentions were unclear.  A student at the school saw the armed youth and reported it to campus officials. School police arrested him and booked him for possessing weapons on campus.

April 21, 2004, Lowell, MI - The Lowell School District Officials, are considering whether to expel four 11-year-old middle-school students.  The students apparently talked about blowing up the building and brought a pop bottle filled with gasoline and oatmeal, which was discovered in a school locker.  The students had a plan to place the ingredients near a building generator, causing an explosion and chain reaction that would blow up the building, according to Lowell Police Chief Jim Valentine. A classmate told a parent about the plot and the parent notified the Principal. School employees seized the bottle and contacted police and the students' parents.

April 21, 2004, Lanark, IL - Lanark Police were informed anonymously that a student of Eastland High School allegedly had a "hit list" of students, school officials or members of the public whom he wished to harm. The list was never located and no arrests have been made.   This is the second such school investigation reported in this area this week.  The previous one was on Tuesday when police were called to the Freeport High School after school officials responded to what was perceived as threatening behavior by two alternative high school students. In that case, it turned out the threat was nonexistent.

April 22, 2004, Grant, LA -  Investigators were told that a 16-year-old student had said that a shooting would take place at Fairview High School of the Allen Parish School District similar to the massacre five years ago at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo.  That student has been arrested on those allegations.  He was arrested and booked with terrorizing.  There were no weapons  found and there was nothing to indicate that a shooting would actually be carried out.   "It appears as though the only purpose the student had in making the statements was to invoke fear within the school and community," Chuck Hurst, chief investigator for the Allen Parish sheriff said.