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School shootings, violence actually on decline in U.S.

Kevin Fagan, Will Kane San Francisco Chronicle

Last updated Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 3:31pm

SAN FRANCISCO -- Seven shot dead at an Oakland college this week. A private school headmistress gunned down last month in Florida by a teacher she fired, who then kills himself. Three Ohio teens killed by another high school student in February.

Judging by the media attention lavished on the recent shooting rampage that left seven dead in Oakland, Calif., and other attacks over the past several years, it would seem America is embroiled in an ever-increasing chaos of school shootings. But statistics show it is not.

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Classes resume at Ohio high school after shooting

Thomas J. Sheeran The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, March 2, 2012 - 8:06am

CHARDON, Ohio -- Students returned to the Ohio high school where a shooting earlier this week killed three teens and wounded two others.

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T.J. Lane, a suspect in Monday's shooting of five students at Chardon High School is taken into juvenile court by Geauga County deputies in Chardon, Ohio Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. Three of the five students wounded in the attacks have since died. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

Prosecutors say school shooting suspect fired at random

Michael Muskal Los Angeles Times

Last updated Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 6:08pm

Ohio school shooting suspect T.J. Lane randomly chose the targets of his shooting rampage at a suburban high school, fired 10 shots from a handgun and was also armed with a knife, a prosecutor said Tuesday during a court hearing.

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Community members attend a during a prayer service for victims of a school shooting at Chardon Assembly of God in Chardon, Ohio Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. A gunman opened fire inside the Chardon High School's cafeteria at the start of the school day Monday, killing one student and wounding four others. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

Death toll rises to 3 in school shooting

Thomas J. Sheeran The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 12:20pm

CHARDON, Ohio — The death toll rose to three Tuesday in the shooting rampage in an Ohio high school cafeteria as schoolmates and townspeople grappled with the tragedy and wondered what could have set the teenage gunman off.

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A distraught Ava Polaski, a sophomore, leaves school grounds with her mother Misty Polaski following a shooting in Chardon, Ohio on Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. A teenager described as a bullied outcast at Chardon High School opened fire in the cafeteria Monday morning, killing one student and wounding four others before being caught a short distance away, authorities said. The suspect, whose name was not released, was arrested near his car a half-mile away, the FBI said. He was not immediately charged. (AP Photo/The Plain Dealer, Thomas Ondrey)

February has brought spate of school shootings

Lisa Hoffman Scripps Howard News Service

Last updated Monday, February 27, 2012 - 6:02pm

This month alone, at least four shootings of students have occurred in schools across the country, including Monday’s deadly attack outside Cleveland, Ohio.

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Doug Gasper, a ninth grader at Chardon High School, is hugged by his mother, Sandy, as they leave Maple Elementary School Monday, Feb. 27, 2012, in Chardon, Ohio. Students assembled at Maple Elementary School after a shooting took place at the high school. A gunman opened fire inside the high school's cafeteria at the start of the school day, wounding four students, officials said. A suspect is in custody. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Gunman opens fire in school cafeteria; 5 students shot

Thomas J. Sheeran The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, February 27, 2012 - 1:57pm

CHARDON, Ohio — A teenager described as a bullied outcast at his suburban Cleveland high school opened fire in the cafeteria Monday morning, killing one student and wounding four others before being caught a short distance away, authorities said.

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The 9-year-old boy accused of accidentally shooting a classmate at a Bremerton, Wash. elementary school is led away after his juvenile detention hearing in Kitsap County, Wash. Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. Authorities say the boy brought a handgun to school Wednesday and the weapon discharged from inside his backpack, critically wounding 8-year-old Amina Kocer-Bowman. (AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Ken Lambert, Pool)

Boy, 9, charged in school shooting, has had tumultuous life

Maureen O'Hagen The Seattle Times

Last updated Friday, February 24, 2012 - 11:31am

PORT ORCHARD, Wash. -- The pale 9-year-old walked into the Kitsap County Juvenile Court on Thursday, looking dazed in his orange jumpsuit. There was a television camera in one corner; reporters filled nearly half the seats.

Police say that on Wednesday, he took a loaded gun to a Bremerton elementary school, and that it went off in his backpack just before the final bell rang. The routine of third grade -- school, homework, play -- had changed in a split second.

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A third-grade student from Armin Jahr elementary school in Bremerton, Wash. is loaded into an ambulance after being shot by a fellow student on Wednesday February 22, 2012 at the school. She was transferred to the ambulance from a helicopter at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after being shot in the stomach. (AP Photo/seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo)

Third-grader in critical condition after school shooting

Christine Clarridge, Lark Turner The Seattle Times

Last updated Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 10:49am

BREMERTON, Wash. -- A third-grade student was in critical condition at Seattle's Harborview Medical Center after being shot in the abdomen Wednesday at a Bremerton elementary school.

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Columbine High School Principal Frank DeAngelis at a candlelight vigil at the Columbine Memorial at Clement Park near Littleton, Colo., on Sunday, April 19, 2009. DeAngelis was the principal at the time of the attack. (AP Photo/Chris Schneider)

Columbine principal will change interview policy after Roy incident

Steven K. Paulson The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, January 27, 2012 - 2:31pm

DENVER -- Columbine High School principal Frank DeAngelis says he will no longer do interviews for visitors about the 1999 mass shootings at his school unless they are cleared by security.

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