Following the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting on February 14 , 2018 , Everytown stated that the shooting was the 18th school shooting of the year , a statistic the '' Washington Post '' called " flat wrong " . The instance Everytown counted as the first school shooting of the year regarded a 31-year-old man 's suicide in the parking lot of a Michigan school that had been closed for seven months . Another instance regarded a third-grader pressing the trigger on an officer 's holstered weapon , where the firearm discharged to the floor . Everytown 's basis for a school shooting is defined as " any time a firearm discharges a live round inside a school building or on a school campus or grounds " . '' USA Today '' reported that the " real number " of school shootings since January 1 , 2018 , was six . By '' TIME '' 's standards , the number was four
Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
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