US School Massacres with the Highest Fatalities

Because of another incident of scool massacre just recently in Oakland, CA, one of the staff thought it was about time someone did a compilation of the gruesome massacres that happened in the US. Our research showed there was already a lot in history that it wouldn't fit in one post so we decided to just show you the ones with the highest killings.

Charles Whitman

We'll start with Charles Whitman, a student in the Univerity of Austin, Texas, also a former marine sniper who gunned down 16 people and injured 32 other on August 1, 1966. Whitman killed his wife and mother at their homes. An autopsy later showed he had an aggressive brain tumor at the time of his death. He was taken down at the tower where he executed most of his victims. This was concluded to have contributed to his inability to control his emotions and his actions.
Whitman grew up with his father who was verbally and emotionally abusive.

The California State University, Fullerton Massacre. Casualties: 7. On January 17, 1996, Edward Charles Allaway, the school's custodian armed himself with a semi-automatic rifle he bought from a discount store and went berserk killing 7 people and hurt two more. He  was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.

Patrik Purdy

The Cleveland School massacre (also known as the Stockton schoolyard shooting). Casualties: 6. Patrick Edward Purdy was a drifter who had a long criminal record. On January 17, 1989, he shot and killed 5 schoolchildren aged 6 to 9, wounded 29 other kids and one teacher. This alcoholic who had been arrested several times was able to walk into a gun shop in Oregon and purchase an AK-47 without any problems. That assault rifle is what he used to kill those kids and himself. Measures were then taken in the US to ban assault weapons after that.

More to come...