The Shooting At East High School in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2007: Four Students Are Stopped by Multiple Shots

The search for two people who shot at a school complex in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday is still going on.

Six adults were shot on the King Estate campus, which houses four different schools just before students were released, according to the police chief.

Four students died that day: They are: Tate Myre, 16; Hana St.Luotine, 14; and Justin Shilling, 17. One teacher and six students were injured.

Officials believe the attackers are targeting a specific person but do not say who that person is. The shooting is still being investigated by investigators.

He added: “We believe that this is related to ongoing conflicts in our city that have driven violence throughout our city and we’ll continue to follow up on leads to identify those responsible.”

There were more than 30 rounds fired at this campus. That is not right. We thank God that many more students were not injured as a result of this action,” he added.

The video shows that the attackers entered the gates of the high school at the scene of the shooting.

The shooting at East High School was reported at 9:47 a.m., and police and medical responders arrived very quickly to find two men with gunshot wounds, Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas said.

The surge of violence is a people problem, and it is people in the community who have become unable to solve conflict without using firearms, as he stated during a press conference last month. It’s sad because it’s leaving lots of trauma in our communities.

An unarmed teenager confessed to shooting four students and wounding seven others at a high school in Michigan on Dec. 28, 2014, after he opened fire

A teenager accused of killing four students and wounding seven others at a Michigan high school last year is expected to plead guilty to murder charges Monday, prosecutors said.

Crumbley, who was 15 years old when the shooting happened, previously pleaded not guilty to the charges, but is expected to change his plea at a hearing.

Prosecutors accused the teenager’s parents of giving their son easy access to a gun and ignoring signals that he was threatening before the shooting, which resulted in four counts of manslaughter against them.

The charges against the parents have not been proven, and the couple should not be held responsible for what their son did, according to court documents.

The trial for the parents was supposed to start Monday but was delayed last month and will start in January. Meanwhile, Jennifer and James Crumbley remain in custody at a county jail.

Students and teachers relied on tactics they’d learned in active shooter drills to protect themselves. When gunfire broke out, frightened students barricaded doors and called for help. The children were prepared to fight back, with some carrying scissors.

Police said that the teen had a long gun and many high-capacity magazines when he opened fire at the school.

Why a gunman died at a high school: What he did and what he could do about it, and how we can prevent it

The police and locked doors at the high school prevented more killings.

“This could have been much worse,” police Commissioner Michael Sack said. The individual had many high-capacity magazines on him. That’s a whole lot of victims there.”

Alexandria was looking forward to her Sweet 16, her father told CNN affiliate KSDK. Kuczka was looking forward to retiring soon, according to her daughter.

The gunman died at a hospital after a gun battle with officers, Sack said. He was a graduate from the school last year.

“We need to keep the public and inform the public … on how we can prevent gun violence. We should never ever allow that to happen because of the fact that it’s preventable.

Jean Kuczka and the St Louis School Shooting Tuesday: A Memories with Jean and Dejah Robinson and Alexander Allen-Brown

Alexandria had an outgoing personality, loved to dance and was a member of her high school’s junior varsity dance team, her father Andre Bell told KSDK.

Her friend Dejah Robinson said the two were planning to celebrate Halloween together this weekend. Robinson fought back tears while talking about her friend and co-worker, who she described as being always funny and always smiling.

One of the alumni who remembered Jean Kuczka was Alexis Allen-Brown. She was kindhearted. She was sweet. She always made you laugh even when you wasn’t trying to laugh,” Allen-Brown said.

In her biography on the school’s website, Kuczka said she had been at Central VPA High School since 2008. “I believe that every child is a unique human being and deserves a chance to learn,” she wrote.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/25/us/st-louis-school-shooting-tuesday/index.html

Associated student and teacher of a school shooting victim, Jeremiah Sack, 19, was arrested at 11 years old and released from the juvenile detention facility

Seven other teens were injured, some with gunshot or graze wounds. One had a fractured ankle. They were all in stable conditions, the police commissioner said.

The commissioner said that there was no mystery as to what would happen when he entered. He had it out and entered in a threatening manner.

Adrianne said students thought the drill was a real one until they heard the sirens.

Adrianne told KSDK that the class stayed put until students saw their assistant principal come up to one of the classroom’s locked windows. We all had to jump out the window when we opened it, as the teacher said to come on.

Math teacher David Williams told CNN everyone went into “drill mode,” turning off lights, locking doors and huddling in corners so they couldn’t be seen.

Instead, deputies quickly found out there had not been any stabbings in the school but that 27 students and a teacher were missing, the sheriff’s office said. Authorities soon found all the students and the teacher at a local cafe, the sheriff’s office added. All of the missing students were accounted for and reunited with their families and guardians, authorities said.

Sack said that the eight minutes between officers’ arrival and making contact with the shooter was not very long and that officers had to go through a school with few exits and lots of students and staff who were evacuated.

The calls came in from people hiding in different locations, and that’s when police started searching for them and allowing them to leave the building.

A SWAT team that was together for a training exercise was also able to quickly load up and get to the school to perform a secondary sweep of the building, Sack said.

School shootings: How do we look at them? A consultant who specializes in school shootings warning signals red flags, wrote in the Washington Post, Dec. 2002

Mary Ellen O’Toole is a former FBI special agent and profiler who has studied school shootings for more than 20 years, and said that the general public does not know what to look for.

The key is to look out for drastic changes in behavior, said school safety consultant Melissa Reeves, past president of the National Association of School Psychologists.

For some, it’s increased outward behavior. There will be an increase in grievances. An escalate, possibly in anger. We will see an escalation in difficulty managing their emotions,” Reeves said.

“We’re still seeing significant changes, but they may now be starting to withdraw,” Reeves said. They are no longer having a conversation with groups of friends. They are spending more time on the internet.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/26/us/school-shootings-warning-signs-red-flags-xpn/index.html

Leaking is limited because the shooter talks about what they want to do and when they plan it for the purpose of preventing violence at school

In nearly every case I have seen it. She said that leaking is limited because the shooter talks about what they want to do before they commit the crime.

The offenders are usually done due to the fact that they are excited about what they will do. Some people say that it is a cry for help and that if they are discovered, they could be used for that purpose.

They plan it for those who want to be violent. They think about it. They dream about it. They prepare for it. For them, that period of time is very pleasant. They enjoy it.”

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/26/us/school-shootings-warning-signs-red-flags-xpn/index.html

What do students and school administrators should know about a gunshot victim during the 2021 shooting: A Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management in K-12 Schools

A few days before the 2021 school shooting in Oxford, Michigan, the 15-year-old suspect posted a photo of a gun on Instagram with the caption: “Just got my new beauty today. SIG SAUER 9mm,” Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald said.

That post is not necessarily a cause for alarm. Under certain conditions, residents under age 18 can possess a gun in Michigan.

Hours before the deadly attack, a teacher reported seeing a drawing by the suspect that included “a semiautomatic handgun pointing at the words ‘the thoughts won’t stop help me,” the lead prosecutor said. She said it also had a drawing of a bullet with the words “blood everywhere” written above it and the words “my life is useless” printed on it.

It is worth telling a teacher or school official if the social media post or disturbing remark in class is not indicative of a real threat.

It is important that the students know what red-flag behaviors are, so that they can call in on a confidential line.

She said that they aim for prevention with knowing what warning behaviors are, how to spot them and how to use appropriate intervention in an objective and compassionate way.

The US Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center and the US Department of Education advise that regardless of how students report concerns, those messages should be actively monitored and that the information should go to a school threat assessment team.

The core team “should include an administrator, at least one school mental health professional (school psychologist, school counselor, school social worker), and a school resource officer (SRO)/law enforcement,” Reeves and colleagues wrote about behavioral threat assessment and management in K-12 schools.

“Oftentimes, when we’re doing the threat assessment is where we find out there’s abuse going on in the home. Or that one parent just got arrested for domestic violence and they’re sitting in jail. Or the one grandma that was their caretaker who they loved just died. They now feel like they don’t have anyone.

If someone makes a threat but it is found to be not true, low level or transient, law enforcement won’t need to be involved. School personnel can work with the student and parents by implementing a problem solving and/or conflict resolution process,” Reeves and her colleagues wrote.

An officer of the law may become involved in a consultative or direct role if the threat needs to be mitigated. Local law enforcement should immediately receive reports of weapons, threats of violence, and physical violence.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/26/us/school-shootings-warning-signs-red-flags-xpn/index.html

Multiple Stabbings in a Monrovia Elementary School: The Case of a Student Known to Behaving Like a Video Game

The student was taken to the guidance counselors office where he told them what he was making was a video game.

The child’s backpack was searched by the school resource officer, who was notified by the administrators that the student was in possession of a gun.

“Self-reported information is some of the least reliable information that you can have. The former FBI special agent said that you need other sources to corroborate what the person is telling you.

She said you should look for something else that might suggest that this person is having violent thoughts. To find out if there have been incidents at the home, you need to speak with the parents, teachers and law enforcement.

After careful team consideration, these types of consequences should be only implemented after supportive interventions are used.

Keeping a student of concern at school limits the chance for them to be at home alone and conduct research if they decide to carry out an act of violence.

“We need parents to be more aware of what is happening in their child’s life and what they may have in their possession. We need students to report, we need school staff, and we need parents to reach out if their child is struggling.

“Not just writing, but also reading, writing, and being aware of gun safety is what I want my students to be able to do,” Adams said.

The totality of those behaviors is what it is. So one person may know about leakage. One person may know, ‘Yeah, I heard that he has access to a gun.’” And another person might report a separate concern about the same student, O’Toole said.

Reeves said students are often in the best position to notice red flags – whether those clues are on social media, in the classroom or outside of school.

The teacher had representatives from the store call to the police when she arrived at the school with the students, and they said there were multiple stabs at the school.

Shortly before 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, deputies received a call about multiple stabbings at Green Valley Elementary School in Monrovia, according to a news release from the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office. Monrovia is roughly 40 minutes west of Baltimore.

The Los Alamos Elementary School teacher who killed a sixth grader in the early hours of Friday’s shooting is Abby Zwerner

Earlier in the day, the teacher had allegedly attempted to call the front office to get permission to take students outside but did not receive a response and believed the school seemed “eerily quiet,” the sheriff’s office said.

The teacher then decided to lead the students through the woods up to a nearby cafe – a decision which authorities say she made due to her taking a part in emergency management procedures.

She has them remove their brightly colored clothing and accessories to avoid being noticed, as they are walking through the woods.

The teacher was taken into custody, which does not mean she was criminally arrested or charged, authorities said. They said that she was taken to a hospital for evaluation but not handcuffed.

The school district said school officials held a meeting for parents of the impacted students to get more information and services for the children and will also have additional mental health staff at the school over the coming says for children and staff who need support, district officials said.

The teacher thought she had died when she looked at the student as he aimed the gun at her, and told NBC in her first interview since the incident that she can’t forget.

“We were doing math … an announcer came on she was like, ‘lockdown, I repeat lockdown,’” said fifth grader Novah Jones, who was located in a different classroom. “I was scared … it was like my first lockdown and I didn’t know what to do, so I just hid under my desk like everybody was.”

The Newport News Police Department stated that the teacher wounded in Friday’s shooting was listed in stable condition by Saturday.

Authorities and the Newport News public school district did not name the teacher, but her alma mater, James Madison University, identified her as Abby Zwerner.

How Did It Happen: The Case for a Boy Who Was Locked by a Gun and Killed at a High School in Michigan

The boy was taken into police custody, the Police Chief Steve Drew said, and that it wasn’t an accidental shooting.

There had been an altercation between the teacher and the student, who had the firearm, Drew said. No other students were involved in the firing of the single round.

Though she was able to return home safely, Novah said she had trouble sleeping that night, worried that “he still had the gun and he was going to come to my house.”

As the investigation continues, the elementary school will remain closed Monday and Tuesday to give the community “time to heal,” Principal Briana Foster Newton said in a statement.

According to a legal notice sent to the Newport News School Board by Zwerner’s attorney, the student was placed on suspension for one day after he “slammed” Zwerner’s cell phone and cursed at guidance counselors two days before the shooting.

Authorities are “working diligently to get an answer to the question we are all asking – how did this happen? We are trying to make sure the child gets the support and services that he needs as we try to understand what happened.

America’s latest mass shooting, until the inevitable next one, wrote a new community in the roll call of colleges stigmatized by tragedy. To Virginia, Northern Illinois, and University of Virginia, add Michigan State University.

More horror, in yet another city, in the cycle of sudden death that can strike anyone, anywhere. On the eve of the 5th anniversary of the massacre at the high school in Florida, the shootings at Michigan State happened, killing three students and injuring five more. Five people died in a shooting at the Northern Illinois University 15 years ago.

Even though more people are dying due to gun violence, there is still futile anger over the politics of gun control and disagreements over firearms that mean that nothing will be done.

School shootings are becoming more frequent, exposing more kids to horrors, and millions more to a nagging feeling that it could happen to them, according to studies.

“They are terrified, their parents are terrified,” Michigan Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin told CNN on Tuesday after meeting survivors and family members from Michigan State, which is in her district. “It’s terrorizing and we either do something about something that is terrorizing our population, or we don’t care about it.”

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel told CNN that when she dropped her kids off at Michigan State a year-and-a-half ago she thought, “It is going to be a miracle if we get these kids through four years of college without some sort of an incident like this taking place, because they happen so frequently.”

Monday’s killings led to a heartbreaking only-in-America moment, when a young Parkland survivor counseled stricken Michigan State Spartans on how to process their nightmare and what they would experience in the years ahead.

A previous generation of students was marked by the Columbine High School shooting in Littleton, Colorado, in 1999 that killed 12 students and a teacher, and the Virginia Tech massacre in which 32 people died in 2007.

Alexandria Verner, one of three students who died, was remembered by her Clawson Public Schools Superintendent Billy Shellenbarger as “everything you’d want your daughter or friend to be.” Brian and Arielle Anderson graduated from high schools in Grosse Point in Michigan in 2021.

“How is it possible that this happened in the first place, an act of senseless violence that has no place in our society and in particular no place in school,” asked Jon Dean, superintendent of Grosse Pointe Public Schools. It touched our community twice.

It is easy to write that after a mass shooting in Washington the usual rituals of regret and mourning played out but without any expectation of politicians taking action to stop it again.

President Joe Biden and a bipartisan group of senators did pass the most significant gun safety law in decades last year, though it failed to ban any weapons and fell well short of what the White House, gun control advocates and most Americans want to see. Future gun control legislation is unthinkable with Republicans now holding a narrow House majority.

Firearms reform activists will hope that the Democratic sweep of the governorship and both chambers of the state legislature in Michigan will open the possibility of significant changes to the law – but gun politics remain treacherous for lawmakers in swing states who want to cling onto power.

Biden decried a family’s worst nightmare, which is occurring far too often in the country, while speaking at the conference of county executives.

Arguments regarding gun control are just as prepared as those against it. Second Amendmentists say that the answer is to have more guns on the streets to allow people to defend themselves as well as harden schools and universities. Many point out that often, shootings are perpetrated by gunmen with troubled mental histories or who become isolated or alienated from their society.

There isn’t much effort from the Republicans in Washington to spend the money needed to change mental health services. Republican governors and legislatures in the states are relaxing gun laws in a way that will make it easier to get guns.

Michael McRae said his son became bitter after his mother died and evil after police found a motive for the Michigan State rampage. The gunman’s sister told CNN her brother was socially isolated and a criminal history with weapons. Police said he had a history of mental health issues.

Red flag laws may be able to be used to take guns from the mentally ill, if more pro-active action by loved ones and others were taken. Katherine Schweit, a former FBI senior official and active shooter expert, said people who see relatives deteriorating mentally need to act.

High-yield student, mother and teenage student charged with improper storage of a firearm for a minor in Norristown, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina

She told CNN’s Jake Tapper that they needed to report things. “It’s the ‘see something, say something’ that has prevented us having the terrorist events in the United States. We need to do the same thing for these types of situations.”

It could save lives. There are three Michigan State students who will never graduate, and their fellow Spartans who are now stained by the plague of gun violence.

There have been at least three times an elementary school student brought a weapon to campus this year and a woman and man in Pennsylvania and North Carolina have been charged after a six-year-old brought a gun to school.

The mother in Norristown was arrested in February after her son brought a gun to school.

The Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office said that a 30-year-old woman was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and reckless endangerment for failing to secure a firearm in her home. It’s unclear if he has an attorney.

Zwerner’s attorney, Diane Toscano, has alleged that concerned teachers and employees alerted administrators three times on the day of the shooting that the student had a gun and was threatening people. Toscano alleged the administrators “failed to act” despite having “knowledge of imminent danger.”

Devlin obtained the gun through a straw purchase conducted by a Norristown man on March 4, 2022, the statement from the district attorney’s office said. Straw purchases occur when someone buys a gun for another who is ineligible to own it.

She was ordered to not have contact with children as a part of her bond conditions. The preliminary hearing will be held on February 24.

In North Carolina, Marvin Ray Davis, 58, was charged with a misdemeanor count of improper storage of a firearm to protect a minor after an unloaded 9 mm handgun was discovered in a 6-year-old’s backpack at Fairview Elementary on Tuesday, according to a news release from the Rocky Mount Police Department.

The department told CNN that Davis resided in the same home as the child. He was released on bond and will be in court on March 1, the release said.

It’s unclear if Davis has an attorney and CNN has made several attempts to contact him. CNN has also reached out to Nash County Public Schools for comment.

The situation should serve as a reminder to all gun owners to make sure their weapons are secured in a safe way, said the police chief. “This was a preventable situation,” he added.

A 12-Year-Old Student in a Los Angeles Center for Studies of Sexual Explosive Explosions at a High-Redshift Elementary School

Zwerner was released from the hospital last month, a hospital spokesperson confirmed. The teacher has undergone four surgeries since the shooting, NBC reported, most recently on her hand, which Zwerner still cannot fully use.

Zwerner told NBC that some days can be hard to get out of bed. “Some days are better than others where I’m able to get out of bed and make it to my appointments. But from going through what I’ve gone through, I try to stay positive.”

The boy who allegedly shot Zwerner will not be criminally charged, Newport News Commonwealth’s Attorney Howard Gwynn told CNN affiliate WTKR earlier this month.

The fallout from the incident was swift, drawing harsh criticism from parents and leading the school board to vote to oust Superintendent George Parker III. Richneck Elementary’s assistant principal, Ebony Parker, resigned two weeks after the shooting and the principal, Briana Foster Newton, was reassigned to another school, though the district did not say where.

There is an ongoing investigation and the school district can’t comment on whether someone else was aware that a gun was on the campus.

Zwerner knew, she said, she had been shot – the bullet went through her left hand before getting lodged in her chest, where fragments of it remain – but her first thought was of the safety of her other students.

“I was terrified,” she said. My initial reaction was that your children need to leave, you know? ‘This is not a safe classroom anymore.’ I was just trying to get my kids out of there.

The boy has an “acute disability” and was under a care plan that required a parent to attend school with him, though he was unaccompanied on the day of the shooting, his family has said in a statement. “We will regret our absence on this day for the rest of our lives,” the statement read.

An associate student shot and wounded two faculty members at a Denver high school, killing Abby Toscano, 47, on Oct. 23, 2009

The outpouring of support from her family and complete strangers is “hard to comprehend sometimes,” she said, but is deeply appreciated and “truly inspiring.”

“But I am following very closely the Newport News prosecutor to see what they do in this case and who they do charge, ultimately, if they do charge anybody.”

I can hold those accountable and that is what I intend to do, said Toscano. Abby’s going to have to deal with this her entire life, both physically, emotionally.”

Zwerner, who NBC reported could not get into details about what happened prior to the shooting, is also dealing with emotional injuries, too.

The memories from that day are vivid and she is not sure when it will go away. “I think about it daily. Sometimes, I have nightmares.

A male student shot and wounded two faculty members at a Denver high school on Wednesday and then fled the scene, spurring a citywide search for his whereabouts, according to city officials.

The East High School: The Largest Comprehensive High School in Denver, and a Denver Historic Landmark for the Jacobethan Revival Architecture

“We are looking for the suspect,” Mayor Michael Hancock said. We will hold the suspect accountable for putting everyone in danger and wounding the two staff members who were trying to keep everyone safe, as we will find him and we will bring him to justice.

The mayor asked people to look out for the student, described as an African American juvenile with afro and wearing a hoodie. The mayor thinks the student should be considered dangerous and willing to use a weapon.

The mayor said another student was taken to the hospital with an allergic reaction. Paramedics were at the scene when the shooting occurred, and were able to treat the wounded immediately.

East High School has about 2,500 students across 9th through 12th grades and is the largest and highest-performing comprehensive high school of all Denver Public Schools, according to the school system.

The high school is located in the City Park neighborhood of the Colorado capital and is considered a Denver Historic Landmark for its architecture in the Jacobethan Revival style. The clock tower atop the school is similar in style to Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, the school website notes.

School officials will be implementing a “controlled release” of students once police allow, according to a tweet from Denver Public Schools. Students who commuted on their own will be escorted to their cars, while students that ride the bus and are dropped off at a different location will be held on campus until the bus arrives.