Tag: gun-reform

they wanted to attend a banquet; they wanted to go to church

On December 9, 2007, a shooter opened fire in two locations: Arvada, Colorado, where he used a 9mm handgun, and Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he used a Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle, resulting in the following deaths and injuries:

Tiffany Johnson 26 Youth With a Mission center, killed
Philip Crouse 24 Youth With a Mission center, killed
Dan Griebenow 24 Youth With a Mission center, wounded
Charlie Blanch 22 Youth With a Mission center, wounded
Stephanie Works 18 New Life Church, killed
Rachel Works 16 New Life Church, killed
David Works 51 New Life Church, wounded
Judy Purcell 40 New Life Church wounded
Larry Bourbonnais 59 New Life Church, wounded

A security person at the church opened fire on the perpetrator, shooting him ten times, before the shooter turned his 9mm handgun on himself and died.

they wanted to go to school

VIRGINIA TECH, April 16, 2007, 32 dead

An undergraduate student at the university killed 32 people and wounded 17 others with two semi-automatic pistols, a .22-caliber Walther P22 semi-automatic handgun and a 9 mm semi-automatic Glock 19 handgun. The shootings took place at two locations, a residence hall and an academic building, before the perpetrator turned his own life at the scene. Officials said the perpetrator’s choice of 9 mm hollow-point ammunition increased the severity of the 17 injuries.

Six others were injured jumping out of windows to escape the shooter.

Ross A. Alameddine, student, age 20
Christopher James Bishop, instructor, 35
Brian R. Bluhm, student, 25
Ryan Christopher Clark, student, 22
Austin Michelle Cloyd, student, 18
Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, professor, 49
Kevin P. Granata, professor, 45
Matthew Gregory Gwaltney, student, 24
Caitlin Millar Hammaren, student, 19
Jeremy Michael Herbstritt, student, 27
Rachael Elizabeth Hill, student, 18
Emily Jane Hilscher, student, 19
Jarrett Lee Lane, student, 22
Matthew Joseph La Porte, student, 20
Henry J. Lee (Henh Ly), student, 20
Liviu Librescu, professor, 76
G.V. Loganathan, professor, 53
Partahi Mamora Halomoan Lumbantoruan, student, 34
Lauren Ashley McCain, student, 20
Daniel Patrick O’Neil, student, 22
Juan Ramon Ortiz-Ortiz, student, 26
Minal Hiralal Panchal, student, 26
Daniel Alejandro Perez Cueva, student, 21
Erin Nicole Peterson, student, 18
Michael Steven Pohle, Jr., student, 23
Julia Kathleen Pryde, student, 23
Mary Karen Read, student, 19
Reema Joseph Samaha, student, 18
Waleed Mohamed Shaalan, student, 32
Leslie Geraldine Sherman, student, 20
Maxine Shelly Turner, student, 22
Nicole Regina White, student, 20

they wanted to go to school

On October 2, 2006, a shooting occurred at the West Nickel Mines School, an Amish one-room schoolhouse in the Old Order Amish community of Nickel Mines, a village in Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The gunman took hostages and shot ten girls, killing five, before taking his own life in the schoolhouse.

Dead
Naomi Rose Ebersol, 7, died at the scene, October 2, 2006.
Marian Stoltzfus Fisher, 13, died at the scene, October 2, 2006.[
Anna Mae Stoltzfus, 12, was declared dead on arrival at Lancaster General Hospital in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, October 2, 2006.
Lena Zook Miller, 8, died at Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania, October 3, 2006.
Mary Liz Miller, 8, died at Christiana Hospital in Newark, Delaware, October 3, 2006.

Injured
All of the surviving girls were hospitalized.

Rosanna King, 6
Rachel Ann Stoltzfus, 8
Barbie Fisher, 11
Sarah Ann Stoltzfus, 12
Esther King, 13

they wanted to go to church

The following people were killed by gunfire on May 21, 2006, at The Ministry of Jesus Christ Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

• Gloria Howard (72)
• Leonard Howard (78)
• Doloris McGrew (67)
• Darlene Mills Selvage (47)
• Erica Bell (24 years old), wife of the perpetrator, who he took with three children from the church to another location before killing her. Two of the children were found safely, and the shooter was captured while holding the third child, an infant who was unharmed.

Erica Bell’s mother, pastor Claudia Brown, was wounded during the shooting at the church.

they wanted to go to work

On January 30, 2006, a woman killed a former neighbor with whom she had argued. She then went to the mail processing plant in Goleta, California, gained access to the grounds, stole a badge from an employee who she told to leave, and entered the facility. In different areas, she shot and killed six employees using her Smith & Wesson 910 pistol before turning the gun on herself and taking her own life.

• Ze Vang Fairchild (37 years old)
• Beverly Ann Graham (54) (shot at home)
• Nicola Michelle Grant (42)
• Maleka M. Higgins (28)
• Dexter E. Shannon (57)
• Guadalupe Swartz (52)
• Charlotte Colton (44)

they wanted to go to church or come home after a weekend riding the trails on horseback

A gunman opened fire with a .38 caliber revolver outside the Sash Assembly of God church in Sash, Texas, on August 28, 2005. He killed two people there:

• James Wayne Armstrong (42 years old)
• Ernest Wesley Brown (61)

The perpetrator fled the area and came upon two women who had stopped their truck and horse trailer at an intersection on their way home from a weekend of horseback riding. He killed both with a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol.

• Holly Ann Love Brown (50)
• Ceri Litterio (46)

He later barricaded himself in his house, and after an hours-long standoff with police, took his own life.

they wanted to go to school

In Redlake, Minnesota, a fifteen-year-old boy killed his sleeping grandfather, Police Sergeant Daryl Allen Lussier, Sr., age 58, and his grandfather’s girlfriend, Michelle Leigh Sigana, age 32, at home using a Ruger MK II .22 caliber pistol.

He then drove to Red Lake Senior High School, taking his grandfather’s two police-issue weapons, a .40 caliber Glock 23 pistol and a Remington 870 12 gauge pump-action shotgun, a gun belt, and a bulletproof vest, where he killed seven others before he took his own life after an exchange of gunfire with police officers.

The school shooting victims were:

Derrick Brian Brun, age 28, Security Guard.
Neva Jane Wynkoop-Rogers, age 62, English teacher.
Alicia Alberta White, age 14, student.
Thurlene Marie Stillday, age 15, student.
Chanelle Star Rosebear, age 15, student.
Chase Albert Lussier, age 15, student.
Dewayne Michael Lewis, age 15, student.

they wanted to go to church

At the Living Church of God in Brookfield, Wisconsin, on March 12, 2005, a church member used a 9mm Beretta handgun to fire 22 rounds into the congregation, killing the minister and six others, including the minister’s son. Four others, including the minister’s wife, were wounded, one critically. The perpetrator shot and killed himself midway through the second of the three magazines he had brought with him.

The victims were:

• Gloria Sue Critari (55 years old)
• Harold Diekmeier (74)
• James Isaac Gregory (16)
• Randy Lynn Gregory (51)
• Gerald Anthony Miller (44)
• Bart J. Oliver (15)
• Richard Reeves (58)