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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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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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Bullying victim's father 'shocked' by details

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, November 13, 2011 - 9:19am

CLEARFIELD -- Breanna Jollerson returned to South Clearfield Elementary on Friday.

The 7-year-old, who sustained a concussion and a hairline fracture to her eye socket when she was attacked by a 6-year-old boy on Tuesday, wasn't too excited about returning, said her father, Patrick Jollerson, of Harrisville.

Normally Breanna rides a bus to school, but on Friday her father drove her so he could meet with the school's administrators and make sure she was in a different class.

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Football players recount their response to knife attack at school

Christine Clarridge The Seattle Times

Last updated Friday, October 28, 2011 - 9:07am

SEATTLE -- Travis Pickett was coming out of the locker room with a couple of his football buddies before school on Monday morning when he heard screaming.

As at any school, the hallways at Snohomish High School are loud, so the 17-year-old senior didn't think much of it at first. But then he saw the screaming girl coming out of the restroom, blood pouring out of her arm and a look of shock on her face.

When he went into the bathroom, he saw one girl lying on the floor and another standing still near a stall. The girl on the ground was holding her neck, he said. The other girl, the suspect, "looked nervous, but she wasn't going anywhere. She was standing there, like, 'Yeah, I did that."'

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