Terror in US schools and workplaces

Adapted from a report by the BBC

Date: Tuesday, 8 October, 2002

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The US has a long and tragic history of shootings

The string of sniper shootings in Maryland is the latest in a long history of gun attacks in the United States.

On 5 March 2001 a pupil at a school in California, killing two students and injuring 13 others. The teenager was later to 50 years in prison.

On 26 December 2000, a man shot dead seven people at an internet company in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Police a company employee, 42-year-old Michael McDermott, who was found with an AK-47, a shotgun and a handgun sitting in the lobby.

On 29 February 2000, the shooting of a six-year-old Michigan schoolgirl by one of her classmates pushed the gun law to the centre of the presidential election campaign. A six-year-old boy killed Kayla Rolland in front of a teacher and 22 other school pupils, using a .32 semi-automatic handgun. Police said the gun was illegally by the boy's uncle.

In November 1999 two people were killed and two others when a man at a shipyard office in Seattle, Washington. Earlier that month 40-year-old Byran Uyesugi, a Xerox corporation worker, killed seven people in Honolulu, Hawaii.

In September 1999 three people were shot dead at a hospital in Anaheim, California by Dung Trinh. Police said he was about his mother's death.

On 5 August the same year three people were killed in Pelham, Alabama, when a 34-year-old man at his workplace.

Shooting rampage

Eight days earlier, nine people were killed when trader Mark Barton went on a shooting rampage at two local stock trading firms in Atlanta, Georgia after first killing his wife and two children. He later turned the gun on himself.

On 11 June 1999 three people were killed and four others by a gunman who at a busy suburban Detroit office building in Southfield, Michigan.

Two months earlier, Sergei Babarrin, 70, was shot dead by police after walking into the Mormon church's Family History Museum library in Salt Lake City, Utah and opening fire, killing two people.

In the same month, two student gunmen killed 12 other students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado before killing .

In July 1998 a gunman with a history of mental illness his way into the US Capitol in Washington DC, killing two police officers before being shot and captured.

In March 1988, a state lottery worker shot four state lottery and then killed himself in Newington, Connecticut.

In December 1997 at Heath High School in West Paducah, Kentucky, a 14-year-old boy killed three students attending a meeting in December 1997.

Two months earlier, at Pearl High School in Pearl, Mississippi, a 16-year-old boy stabbed his mother at home, then went to school and shot to death two students, including his girlfriend.

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