Title: 16 School Shootings That Took Place Before Columbine
Headings: 16 School Shootings That Took Place Before Columbine
Unspeakable Times
16 School Shootings That Took Place Before Columbine
The Enoch Brown School Massacre
St. Mary's Parochial School
South Pasadena Junior High School
Swarthmore College
Cleveland Elementary School (San Diego)
Frontier Middle School
The University Of Texas
Rose-Mar College
Olean High School
California State University, Fullerton
University Of Michigan
Cleveland Elementary School (Stockton)
University Of Iowa
Oakland Elementary
Thurston High School
Westside Middle School

Content: Loukaitis proceeded to kill a teacher and two classmates before being disarmed by a school official. While Loukaitis expressed remorse, he never gave a clear motivation for his actions. He was eventually tried as an adult and sentenced to 189 years in prison. The University Of Texas
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On August 1, 1966, 25-year-old architectural engineering student and ex-Marine sharpshooter Charles Whitman murdered his wife and mother and then climbed to the observation deck of a clock tower at the University of Texas at Austin. Once there, he took out a sniper rifle and began shooting at the people below. During his 96-minute shooting spree, Whitman killed 13 people and wounded more than 30 others before being gunned down by police, but his total victim account ended up being 17. The event is considered to be the first school mass shooting in modern US history and is credited for bringing the phrase "mass shooting" to the American lexicon, outside of war. An autopsy later showed that he had a nickel-sized brain tumor, which could have played a role in his mental instability. Rose-Mar College
On November 12, 1966, Robert Smith entered the salon of Rose-Mar College of Beauty in Mesa, AZ.