Title: VOA Special Report | History of mass shooters | College campus shootings
Headings: College campus shootings
VOA Special Report
College campus shootings
All of the shooters at colleges and universities had a history of mental illness
Mass shootings (1966 - 2019)
College and university mass shooting locations
Fatalities and college and university mass shootings
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Content: VOA Special Report | History of mass shooters | College campus shootings
People praying during a vigil Oct. 3, 2015, in Winston, Ore., in remembrance of the victims killed at Umpqua Community College. ( AP)
VOA Special Report
College campus shootings
All of the shooters at colleges and universities had a history of mental illness
Mass shootings (1966 - 2019)
The first mass shooting in modern U.S. history at a college or university took place in 1966 at the University of Texas at Austin. Fifteen people were killed and 31 others injured. Since then, eight more mass shootings have occurred on college campuses through 2019 — the majority of them taking place in the past 15 years. Mass shootings are defined by the Congressional Research Service as having four or more victims. In 2007, Virginia Polytechnic Institute became the scene of the deadliest mass shooting on a U.S. campus when a 23-year-old student of the school killed 32 people and injured 26 others on the campus located in Blacksburg, Virginia. The perpetrator, who had a history of mental health issues, committed suicide. The shooting at Virginia Tech received widespread media attention, and remains the third-most-deadly mass shooting in the United States. In the years between 2012 and 2015, there was a shooting at a U.S. college or university every year, including at Oikos University, a Korean Christian college in Oakland, California; Santa Monica College in Southern California;