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Justin Doucet's friends saw him as a quiet, friendly kid — they had no idea what macabre fascinations apparently lurked in a skeleton-adorned journal and a notebook labeled his "deadly diary."
A gunman opened fire at a high school in southern Germany on Wednesday. Here is a glance at some of the worst school shootings in recent years:
Dozens of high school students gathered before classes Thursday for a brief memorial service a day after authorities said one 15-year-old girl shot and killed another in a crowded hallway.
The head of Interpol said Tuesday that police cannot be blamed for school shootings like the one in Finland because they cannot know in advance what the suspect is going to do.
Finns at Sunday church services mourned the victims of a school massacre in which a lone gunman killed nine fellow students and a teacher before shooting himself.
Investigators who searched the hard drive of a boy who plotted to attack a Pennsylvania high school found no evidence he tried to encourage others to follow suit, including a teen who went on a killing spree at a high school in Finland, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
A teenager who admitted plotting a school attack near Philadelphia had communicated online about the Columbine massacre with a teenage outcast who killed eight people and himself in a high school shooting in Finland, the Pennsylvania boy's attorney said Monday.
A teenage killer's deadly school rampage has put Finns on the defensive about their relationship to guns.
A bullied teenage outcast with radical views scribbled a suicide note bidding farewell to his family before unleashing an indiscriminate killing campaign at his high school, police said Thursday.
An 18-year-old gunman opened fire at his high school in this placid town in southern Finland on Wednesday, killing seven other students and the principal before mortally wounding himself in a rampage that stunned a nation where gun crime is rare.
School officials were trying to determine how a suspended student who shot four before killing himself was able to enter his school while carrying two guns — all while 26 security cameras were keeping watch.
Students and teachers at a German high school where a teenager killed 16 people paid tribute Thursday to the victims of the Virginia Tech shooting, weeping and hugging as they marked the fifth anniversary of their own tragedy.
A teenager shot his former girlfriend four times outside her high school, then killed himself in one of two fatal U.S. school shootings Wednesday, authorities said. Jessica Forsyth, 17, was taken to Hurley Medical Center in Flint, where she was in serious but stable condition, hospital spokeswoman Christie White said Wednesday afternoon.
As the Amish prepared to bury four young victims of a horrific school shooting, they asked to be allowed to do so in private.
Charles Carl Roberts IV started buying supplies for a siege six days before storming the one-room Amish school. He made a checklist of what to bring. He wrote out four suicide notes.
A 32-year-old milk truck driver took about a dozen girls hostage in a one-room Amish schoolhouse Monday, barricaded the doors with boards and killed at least three girls and apparently himself, authorities said.
Police Investigating Homicide at Leestown Middle School in Lexington, Kentucky"A fatal shooting" occurred on Tuesday morning, June 9, 2009, at a middle school in Lexington, Kentucky.
In Response To A March School Shooting, Germany May Seek Ban on Paintball, LaserTagIn response to the Winnenden school shooting in March, the German government is moving ahead with a plan to ban paintball, which politicians describe as a game that glorifies murder and teaches people to kill.
Police arrest man for school shooting hoaxPolice arrested an 18-year-old man in the early hours of Friday who had threatened to 'shoot some people dead' at a school in Breda.
Germany school shooting: Police foil second 'high school plot' A second high school massacre due to be carried out on Adolf Hitler's birthday has been foiled after bomb making equipment and knives were found in a teenager's bedroom, German police said.
At around 9:30 Wednesday morning a gunman who is identified as a 17-year-old former student of the Albertville school in Winnenden, Germany began firing into a crowd of students and faculty.
Details in Gay Student's Slaying are Revealed in Prosecution BriefLawrence "Larry" King wasn't sexually harassing fellow eighth-grade student Brandon McInerney in the weeks leading up to King's shooting death, prosecutors contend in court documents.
Deputies: Plan To 'Shoot Up' School Foiled Police said a plot to shoot up a western North Carolina school was foiled on Thursday by a teenager hundreds of miles away.
Spat between girls, 15, leads to fatal school shootingThe shooting around 11 a.m. Wednesday set off a confused chain of events at the Fort Lauderdale's Dillard High School; Students screamed and ran when the victim fell to the floor, one student said the girls were arguing when one of the girsl pulled out a gun and shot the other.
Student fatally shot at Dillard High School A 10th-grader was fatally shot as classes were underway at Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale Wednesday afternoon, and another 15-year-old armed with a chrome, semiautomatic handgun was arrested shortly afterward, authorities said.
Finnish Gunman Fascinated with Columbine ShootingsIt was Finland's second school massacre in less than a year and the two attacks had eerie similarities.
Gunman Opens Fire With Automatic Weapon In Finnish College. No Details Yet.Police said the gunman, thought to be a 22-year-old student, was then disarmed, but local media say he shot himself. He was carrying an automatic weapon and wearing a ski mask when he entered the college in Kauhajoki, reports said.
Unarmed and vulnerable - Roanoke.comI am licensed to carry a concealed handgun in the commonwealth of Virginia, and do so on a regular basis.
Israel imposes West Bank lockdownIsrael has imposed further restrictions on the West Bank, following the shooting of eight students at a seminary in Jerusalem. The occupied territory already has more than 500 Israeli roadblocks, according to UN figures, and Palestinians in the West Bank on Saturday were fear …
Nine Dead and 35 Wounded After School Shooting.... in JerusalemAt least nine people are dead and 35 wounded after an armed man opened fire at a Jewish seminary in west Jerusalem. The attacker reportedly entered a library where about 80 people were gathered at the yeshiva, or religious school, and killed eight people on Thursday. He w …
Israeli Army Radio is reporting eight deaths, and thirty five injured, in a shooting that took place at a Jewish school in Jerusalem.
Boy's Killing, Labeled a Hate Crime, Stuns a Town Hundreds of mourners gathered at a church here on Friday to remember an eighth-grade boy who was shot to death inside a junior high school computer lab by a fellow student in what prosecutors are calling a hate crime.
Why Are We Continually Surprised by School Shootings?We cannot control the motives or demons that afflict mass shooters, but we can control the environment to a degree. This means that schools must think broadly.
Police in Portsmouth Ohio are saying a teacher and one other person have been shot in Notre Dame Elementary in Portsmouth, Ohio. Portsmouth is near the southernmost part of Ohio and lies just across the Ohio river from West Virginia.
Teen in Plymouth plot in touch with Finnish gunmanThe Finnish teen who killed eight people and himself last week had communicated online with Dillon Cossey, the local youth who admitted to plotting a Columbine-style assault at Plymouth Whitemarsh High School.
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Finland gunman suicide note foundPolice in Finland have found a suicide note written by an 18-year-old student shortly before he went on a gun rampage at his school and killed eight people.
Mourning BeginsFlags are flying at half-mast Thursday in memory of the victims of the Jokela school shooting. Memorial services are being held in various parts of country.
School House Gunman kills eight after YouTube threat [Video]Finland was coming to terms with its first school massacre last night after an 18-year-old pupil shot dead seven classmates and his headmistress.
Fatal shooting at school in FinlandAt least seven people have been killed and several others injured in a shooting at a school in southern Finland, medical officials say.
Video games do no harm to children, insists Sims creator One of the video games industry's most respected figures has called for an end to the debate over whether the games are harmful to children.
Mom charged with buying Pa. teen weapons...The mother of a 14-year-old who authorities say had a cache of guns, knives and explosive devices in his bedroom for a possible school attack was charged Friday with buying her son three weapons.
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