In addition to our own reporting, we rely on local news outlets, school and district websites, news alerts via online search engines, the Gun Violence Archive, David Riedman’s K-12 School Shooting Database, and the Center for Homeland Defense and Security’s Naval Postgraduate School’s K-12 School Shooting database. The total number of people killed or injured does not include the suspect or perpetrator. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in a Birmingham suburb. At least two people died and another was hospitalized after a shooting Thursday evening at St. While we only track incidents resulting in at least one bullet wound, total injuries are not necessarily the result of gunfire. The church shooting Thursday in Alabama is just the latest recent high-profile shooting in May and June, starting with a racist attack that killed 10 Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. Injuries included in this tracker may be major or minor. Incidents may be added out of sequence as it can take time for verification. While suicides and attempted suicides are serious issues of health and safety, many of the critical questions and debates that those incidents raise for educators and the broader public are often distinct from those generated by school shootings. The numbers of incidents, injuries, and deaths reported in this tracker do not include suicides or self-inflicted injuries. We do not track incidents in which the only shots fired were from an individual authorized to carry a gun, such as a school resource officer, and who did so in their official capacity. that occur while school is in session or during a school-sponsored event.that happen on K-12 school property or on a school bus, and.where any individual, other than the suspect or perpetrator, has a bullet wound resulting from the incident,.This page refers to incidents that meet all the following criteria: We hope to provide reliable information to help inform discussions, debates, and solutions. There is no single right way of calculating numbers like this, and the human toll in the immediate aftermath and long term is impossible to measure.
With this tracker, Education Week aims to provide a clear accounting of K-12 school shootings.
Those statistics are used to fuel ongoing debates about gun control, arming teachers, and school security. In the emotionally charged aftermath of school shootings, politicians, activists, news media, and ordinary citizens often cite statistics that can present a distorted view of how many of these incidents occur. Contact Informationįor media or research inquiries about this data, contact. Be the first to know as law enforcement conduct manhunts, investigate shootings. We are no longer tracking that information. the latest homicides and robberies, and the most intriguing court cases. A previous version of this table included the age, sex, and status of the suspect(s).
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