A
student is comforted as he cries after a shooting at Sparks
Middle School in Nevada in 2013.
AP
There have been 11 school shootings in the US already
in 2018.
Most of the incidents were suicides and resulted in no
injuries, but they highlight increasing concerns communities
have about guns and school safety.
By this point last year, there were five school
shootings nationwide.
A 15-year-old boy walked into a Kentucky high school Tuesday with
a handgun and opened fire, killing two students and injuring 17
others.
Police responded quickly, apprehended the shooter, and secured
the scene. The injured students were transported to hospitals for
treatment as the shaken, rural community of Benton tried to make
sense of the tragedy that had just unfolded.
Just over three weeks into the new year, there have already been
11 school shootings in the US, including suicides and incidents
that left no one injured, The New York Times reported
Wednesday. The shooting in Kentucky is the third at a school this
week alone.
On Monday, a 16-year-old shot and injured a female
student several times at Italy High School in Texas. That same
day, someone in a pickup truck fired at a group of students
gathered in front of Net Charter School in New Orleans. A
14-year-old boy was injured.
School shootings have become all too familiar, even in the wake
of massacres at Virginia Tech in 2007 and Sandy Hook Elementary
School in 2012, which sparked outrage, but little policy change.
"The news cycles are so short right now in America, and there’s a
lot going on," Shannon Wattz, a gun control advocate, told The
Times. "But you would think that shootings in American schools
would be able to clear away some of that clutter."
By this time last year, there were five reported school
shootings, according to a running tally compiled by Everytown for Gun
Safety, a gun control advocacy group.
Since 2013, there have been 281 school shootings nationwide, an
average of about one shooting per week.
Here's a list of all the school shootings already in 2018:
- January 3: A 31-year-old man shot and killed himself in
the parking lot of his former elementary school in Michigan.
- January 4:Shots were fired at New
Start High School outside Seattle. No one was hit or hurt.
- January 5: A bullet from a pellet gun shattered the window of a
Forest City school bus full of students while in transit. No
one was injured.
- January 9: A 14-year-old male student committed suicide in the
bathroom of an elementary school in Arizona.
- January 10: A bullet fired from off-campus
hit a building at California State University, San Bernardino.
No one was injured.
- January 10: A student at Grayson College in
Texas accidentally fired a bullet
during a gun training session with an instructor, but no one
was hurt.
- January 15: Police in Marhsall, Texas,
responded to reports of
gunfire just after midnight on the Wiley College campus. A
stray bullet entered one of the dormitories, but no one was
hit.
- January 20: A Winston-Salem State University
football player was shot and killed during an
on-campus event.
- January 22: A 16-year-old shot and injured a female
student several times at Italy High School in Texas.
- January 22: Someone in a pickup truck fired at a group of students
gathered in front of Net Charter School in New Orleans. One boy
was injured.
- January 23: A 15-year-old student at a high
school in Kentucky shot and killed two students
and injured 17 others.
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