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Finland School Shooter Left Suicide Note

Nation mourns premeditated rampage that claimed 9 lives

(Newser) - The Finnish gunman who killed nine people, including himself, and injured a dozen others yesterday left a suicide note in which he said goodbye to his family and "indicated his will against society," the AP reports. Police say the 18-year-old, who also attempted to set the school afire,...

Finnish School Shooter Dies; Toll Now 9

Teen turned gun on self, warned of spree on YouTube

(Newser) - The teen who killed eight in a Finland school today has died in a hospital after a self-inflicted gunshot. Five boys, two girls and a woman identified as the school's principal were killed in the rampage in Tuusula, 40 miles north of Helsinki. "He was moving systematically through the...

Finland School Shooting Linked to YouTube

18-year-old kills eight at high school; clips warned of spree

(Newser) - At least eight people are dead at a high school in Finland where an 18-year-old opened fire today, CNN reports, and the killer seems to have left warnings of the spree on YouTube. Suspected gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen, in critical condition at a hospital north of Helsinki, posted a video earlier...

Philly Police Foil Teen's Plot to Attack School

Seize huge cache of weapons on display in his bedroom

(Newser) - Police near Philadelphia raided the home of a 14-year-old boy and seized an arsenal of weapons—including an assault rifle and homemade grenades, along with 30 air-powered guns—the boy apparently wanted to use in a Columbine-style attack.  The home-schooled teen said he felt bullied and tried to recruit...

Ohio School Shooting Not Out of the Blue

'I got something for you all,' threatened the suspended teen

(Newser) - Asa Coon, the Cleveland 14-year-old who shot two teachers and two classmates yesterday before turning his gun on himself, had a troubled past that included fights at school and a suicide attempt, reports the AP. Coon twice spent time in juvenile facilities, was charged with domestic violence against his mother,...

Cleveland Teen Shoots Four, Then Kills Self

Two adults, two students injured in spree; motive uncertain

(Newser) - A 14-year-old student killed himself after opening fire at his Cleveland high school today, inflicting non-fatal gunshot wounds on two adults and two students, Reuters reports. The incident occurred in early afternoon at SuccessTech Academy. Various media reports suggested that the boy had been suspended prior to the shooting spree....

Student Charged in Del. State Shooting

Freshman faces attempted murder rap; victims still hospitalized

(Newser) - An 18-year-old Delaware State freshman was charged with attempted murder today in Friday's shooting of two other students. The alleged gunman had been in a fight with one of the victims earlier in the week and sought revenge after an unidentified person spit in his face, the Wilmington News Journal ...

Delaware St. Shooting Probe Focuses on Students

Authorities ID 2 'persons of interest'

(Newser) - Police have identified two students as "persons of interest" in the investigation of the shooting of two fellow students early this morning on the Delaware State campus. One was in custody for questioning this afternoon, the AP reports. One of the two 17-year-old victims refused to answer questions from...

Two Students Wounded in Delaware State Shooting

Campus locked down; gunman sought

(Newser) - Two students were wounded early this morning in a shooting at Delaware State University. The campus was locked down, as police search for the shooter. Both students are alive, one with serious wounds that a university spokesman called “potentially life-threatening.” Classes are canceled for the day, with students...

Amish Community Heals, Slowly
Amish Community Heals, Slowly
Sep 13, 2007 12:12 PM CDT

Amish Community Heals, Slowly

Nearly a year after school shootings, town makes peace with the aftermath

(Newser) - It's been almost a year since the shooting spree at an Amish schoolhouse in rural Pennsylvania in which five girls were killed and five wounded. In the Lancaster New Era, the families talk with stunning directness about the particular pain of losing a child and making peace with the "...

Virginia Tech Massacre 'Could Have Been Stopped'

Official report says college should have warned students of shootings

(Newser) - A state investigation into the Virginia Tech massacre, in which 33 students and teachers were killed, concluded that college authorities could have saved lives by acting more quickly to warn students after the first shootings. The report, released last night after the New York Times obtained a copy,  also...

Shooting Report Levels No Blame at Virginia Tech

School's response deemed okay, some upgrades recommended

(Newser) - Virginia Tech's response to the April shootings that left 33 dead got a free pass in an internal review today, CNN reports. Although the university should improve its communications systems and means of monitoring troubled students, the report says, it found no fault with how school officials and police handled...

4th Suspect Sought in Schoolyard Executions

Grieving families lay victims to rest

(Newser) - An arrest warrant has been issued for a fourth male believed to be involved in a triple schoolyard execution that has rocked the community of Newark—and as many as six people may have been involved, reports the Newark Star Ledger. Nicaraguan national Rodolfo Godinez, 24, is considered a "...

California Student Shoots Three in Video Game Row

(Newser) - A California college student is under arrest after an argument over a video game console left one man dead and two others wounded. Jonquel Brooks opened fire late Monday night in a Fresno apartment building, after an argument over a Sony Playstation escalated. Brooks, on leave from Fresno State, turned...

Privacy Laws Tie Colleges' Hands
Privacy Laws Tie Colleges' Hands
Apr 19, 2007 1:43 PM CDT

Privacy Laws Tie Colleges' Hands

Mentally ill students shielded by federal regs; parents, others can't be notified

(Newser) - Despite numerous red flags, Cho Seung-Hui was able to live in a Virginia Tech dorm and plot a campus massacre in part because the law limits colleges' ability to seek help for adult students who do not request it. Stalking complaints and a report that Cho was suicidal did not...

Cho Guns Were Legal Despite Police Record

Judge's ruling of "mental illness" no deterrent in Virginia

(Newser) - Killer Cho Seung-Hui's gun purchases were completely legal, despite his 2005 brushes with the police for stalking fellow students and threatening suicide. The judge who deemed him "an imminent danger to himself because of mental illness" ordered Cho to outpatient treatment; Virginia blocks gun sales only to those who...

Gunman Mails Manifesto
Gunman Mails Manifesto
Apr 19, 2007 6:01 AM CDT

Gunman Mails Manifesto

(Newser) - Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui took a time out from his murder spree to mail a macabre package of videos, photographs and a delusional diatribe to NBC News. The images, posted between the dorm shootings and the carnage at Norris Hall, show him in combat gear, wielding the guns used...

Cho's Macabre Plays Warned Of Violence

Playwriting class submissions cast their writer as "school shooter" type

(Newser) - Ian MacFarlane, a former classmate of Seung Cho, blogs on AOL about two plays written by the Virginia Tech killer for a writing class. The short pieces, along with other compositions, writes MacFarlane, were "like something out of a nightmare," imagining bizarre murders and exuding an obsession with...

VT Student Was at Columbine
VT Student Was at Columbine
Apr 18, 2007 7:53 AM CDT

VT Student Was at Columbine

First Columbine, now Virginia Tech: Regina Rohde has lived through both

(Newser) - A veteran of the Columbine massacre has now relived that high school tragedy as a graduate student at Virginia Tech. Regina Rohde, a master's candidate in the department of fisheries and science, was a freshman at Columbine in 1999. "They're strikingly similar," Rohde says of the shootings.

&quot;He Was Just Like a Shadow&quot;
"He Was Just Like a Shadow"
Apr 18, 2007 7:30 AM CDT

"He Was Just Like a Shadow"

Roomates say Cho was silent, stalked girls, threatened suicide

(Newser) - Former roommates say Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui had talked about suicide and stalked three women—scaring one so much her parents called the police. Two who had lived with him say they suspected Cho might be the gunman as soon as they heard the description. "He was just...

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