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O – Any other weapons, such as bombs, hand grenades, Molotov cocktails, poison and poisonous gas, as well as vehicle and arson attacks A – indicates that an arson attack was the only other weapon used V – indicates that a vehicle was the only other weapon used E – indicates that explosives of any sort were the only other weapon used
1989 Cleveland Elementary School shooting: 24-year-old Patrick Edward Purdy fatally shot five children and wounded 32 others at the Cleveland Elementary School before taking his own life. The victims were children of refugees from Southeast Asia. Purdy had a history of violence, alcoholism, drug addiction, and criminality. [31] [32] February 14 ...
Inside were the schoolmaster, Enoch Brown, and a number of young students. Brown pleaded with the warriors to spare the children; nonetheless, he was shot, beaten with a club and scalped, and warriors then clubbed and scalped the children. Brown and ten children were killed. [3] [4] One scalped child, Archie McCullough, survived his wounds. [4] [3]
A sign reading: 'I AM AN AMERICAN', on the Wanto Co grocery store at 401 - 403 Eighth and Franklin Streets in Oakland, California, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, 8th December 1941.
Harris and Klebold, who planned for roughly a year, and hoped to have a large number of victims, intended for the attack to primarily be a bombing and only secondarily a shooting. However, the pair chose to launch a shooting attack after the several homemade bombs they planted in the school failed to detonate. Their motive remains inconclusive.
5. James Earl Ray. On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot and killed Martin Luther King Jr. during a speech at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tenn., forever changing history.
In the worst attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor, three hijacked planes slammed into the Pentagon and New York's landmark World Trade Center on Tuesday, demolishing the two 110-story towers ...
On September 28, 1982, 12-year-old Mary Kellerman was hospitalized after consuming a capsule of Extra Strength Tylenol; she died the next day. [1] [2] On September 29, six other individuals consumed contaminated Tylenol, [1] including Adam Janus (27), Stanley Janus (25), and Theresa Janus (20), who each took Tylenol from a single bottle.