Title: Mass School Shootings: A History - ABC News
Headings: Mass School Shootings: A History
Mass School Shootings: A History
Content: Police detained him within a mile of the school. He remains in custody and is expected to stand trial for the shootings in January. On Oct. 2, 2006, a gunman took about a dozen girls hostage, killing at least three of them, at a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County, police said. The shooter was among the dead when police arrived. On March 21, 2005, 16-year-old Jeff Weise shot and killed five classmates, a teacher and an unarmed guard at a high school on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota, where about 5,000 Native Americans live, before taking his own life. Weise had killed his grandfather and his grandfather's companion before heading to school that day. Between late 1997 and early 1998, there were three school shootings within months of one another. On May 21, 1998, two teenagers were killed and more than 20 people were hurt when 15-year-old Kip Kinkel opened fire at a Thurtson High School in Springfield, Ore ., after killing his parents. Kinkel was sentenced to nearly 112 years in prison.