Columbine High SchoolLittleton, CO

Date: April 20, 1999

Victims: 13 killed, 23 wounded

Offenders: Dylan Klebold 17, Eric Harris, 18

Incident: Active Shooter

Dylan KleboldEric Harris

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Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

Date: April 16, 2007

Victims: 32 killed, 17 injured

Offender: Seung Hui Cho

Incident: Active ShooterSeung Hui Cho

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Northern Illinois, DeKalb, IL

Date: February 14, 2008

Victims: 6 killed, 18 injured

Offender: Steven Kazmierczak

Incident: Active ShooterSteven Kazmierczak

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Fort Hood, Killeen, TX

Date: November 5, 2009

Victims: 13 killed, 30 wounded

Offender: Nidal Malik Hasan

Incident: Active Shooter Nidal Malik Hasan

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Columbus Regional Medical Center Shooting (aka Doctors Hospital)

Date: March 27, 2008

Location: Columbus, GA

Shooter: Charles Johnston

Victim(s): 3 Deaths

Hospital Area : 5th Floor

Event: A 63-year-old retired school teacher entered the hospital at 3:30 PM with a gun, went to the 5th floor, and opened fire on hospital workers. His mother had died of natural causes in 2004 on the 5th floor. One of the victims was a truck driver he encountered in the parking deck. Shooter bore a grudge against a nurse over his mother’s treatment.5

Central Peninsula General Hospital Shooting Date: November 26, 2008

Location: Soldotna, AK

Shooter: Joseph A. Marchetti

Victim(s): 2 Deaths/1 Injury

Hospital Area : Imaging Dept/ Main Corridor

Event: A former employee who lost his job as a digital imaging technician a day earlier entered the hospital shortly before 10:00 AM armed with a .223 caliber semiautomatic rifle and a .9mm pistol. He opened fire on his ex-supervisors, killing one and wounding the other.

During the 40-minute shooting spree, the gunman, after shooting his first victim, spotted him later sitting in a wheelchair bleeding, and shot him again.

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Pinelake Health & Rehab Center Shooting

Date: March 29, 2009

Location: Carthage, NC

Shooter: Robert Stewart

Victim(s): 8 Deaths, 3 Wounded (including shooter)

Event: A 45-year-old gunman burst into a North Carolina nursing home and started shooting, barging into the rooms of terrified patients, sparing some from his rampage, without explanation, while killing seven residents and a nurse caring for them. Stewart’s ex-wife, who was married to him for 15 years, said he had violent tendencies. Victims ranged in age from 39 (nurse) to 98.

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Long Beach Memorial Medical Center Shooting

Date: April 16, 2009

Location: Long Beach, CA

Shooter: Mario Ramirez

Victim(s): 3 Deaths (Gunman)

Hospital Area : Rear of Hospital Pharmacy

Event: A pharmacy technician showed up for work at 11:47 AM brandishing two handguns; killed his boss and another manager and then fatally shot himself. All three men worked in the outpatient pharmacy. There were layoffs the previous month, but none other projected. A friend felt he was concerned about losing his job.

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Valley Hospital Shooting

Date: August 16, 2010

Location: Las Vegas, NV

Shooter: Susan Kapfer

Victim(s): 2 Deaths

Hospital Area : Patient Room

Event: Susan Kapfer, 50, shot and killed her husband Michael, 55, at 4:40 AM at Las Vegas' Valley Hospital before killing herself. She had spent the night in his private room. Her husband suffered from deteriorating health. She left a suicide note in her car dated three days before. Note ended, “They (hospital) just don’t care.”

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Johns Hopkins Hospital Shooting

Date: September 16, 2010

Location: Baltimore, MD

Shooter: Paul Warren Pardus

(aka Warren Leo Davis)

Victim(s): 2 Deaths/1 Injury

Hospital Area : Patient Room

Event: Dr. Cohen was giving the 50-year-old man some news about the care and condition of his mother just outside the doorway of her room. The gunman grew "over-whelmed" when the doctor told him about the care of his mother and pulled a small semi-automatic handgun from his waistband.

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Creighton University Medical Center Shooting

Date: September 29, 2010

Location: Omaha, NE

Shooter: Jeffery Layten

Victim(s): 1 Death/3 Injuries

Hospital Area : Front Lobby

Event: A 39-year-old man led police on a car chase, and then opened fire hours later at an Omaha hospital. Police report he was wanted for domestic assault and terroristic threats. A friend reported he was distraught about his marital problems and didn’t want to live anymore.

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Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Emergency Room

Date: July 31, 2013

Location: Boston, MA

Shooter: Raymond Wallace (inmate)

Victim(s): 2 injuries (inmate and deputy)

Hospital Area : Emergency RoomBoston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said the shooting happened around noon in the emergency room of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. The two officers from Middlesex County were removing the inmate's handcuffs when the man grabbed for the gun of one of the officers, he said. During the struggle that followed, one of the deputies was shot in the leg. The other deputy sheriff then fired his weapon, striking the prisoner in the chest, Davis said.

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Wentworth-Douglass Hospital

Date: December 30, 2014

Location: Dover, NH

Shooter: Mark Lavoie

Victim(s): 2 Deaths (Murder/Suicide)

Hospital Area : Critical Care Unit

Event: “I want to start off by saying this is going to be officially ruled a murder-suicide, when in all actuality, it is a double suicide,” Lavoie wrote.He posted that his wife had been suffering from mental illness since childhood. He wrote that she had been “trying to escape the bi-polar demons that have been swirling around in her brain since childhood and now because of my selfishness in dialing 911 she is experiencing the only thing she feared more than her illness…life support on a respirator.”“I am more than happy to sacrifice my life to fix my doing and join her spirit in a happier place,” Lavoie wrote.

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Brigham and Women's Hospital

Date: January 20, 2015

Location: Boston, MA

Shooter: Stephen Pasceri

Victim(s): 2 Deaths (including shooter)

Hospital Area : 2nd Floor Exam Room

“There’s something in the past that upset this guy to come in looking for this particular doctor,” Police Commissioner William Evans said at a press conference (in regards to the murder of Dr. Michael Davidson, a cardiovascular surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital).

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UNC Healthcare Wellness Center

Date: January 1, 2015

Location: Cary, NC

Shooter: Anton Bezak

Victim(s): No Injuries

Hospital Area : Stand Alone Wellness Center

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