Virginia Tech | History of major shootings on college campuses

By: Melanie Hicken

Posted: 4/26/07

Aug. 1, 1966 - University of Texas at Austin

From the top of a 27-story tower, Charles J. Whitman shot and killed 13 people and wounded 31 others before he was killed by police fire.

July 12, 1976 - California State University at Fullerton

A school custodian, Edward C. Allaway, shot and killed seven people and wounded two others in the basement of a library.

Nov. 1, 1991 - University of Iowa

Gang Lu, a graduate physics student, shot and killed five people and paralyzed another after he did not receive an award for his dissertation.

Dec. 14, 1992 - Simon's Rock College of Bard

Wayne Lo shot and killed two people and wounded four others before surrendering to police.

Aug. 15, 1996 - San Diego State University

A 36-year-old graduate student Frederick Davidson shot and killed three professors while defending his engineering thesis.

Aug. 28, 2000 - University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

A 36-year-old student shot and killed a professor after being dropped from a doctoral program, and then killed himself.

Jan. 16, 2002 - Appalachian School of Law

A 43-year-old law student Peter Odighizuwa shot and killed three people and injured three others.

Oct. 28, 2002 - University of Arizona Nursing College

A 40-year-old student who was failing academically shot and killed three people.

Sept. 2, 2006 - Shepherd University

Douglas Pennington shot and killed his two sons, who were students at the school, and then himself.

-- Compiled by Melanie Hicken, news editor

SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education