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[Date]: May 21, 1998
[Location]: Springfield, Oregon
[Deaths]: 4
[Injuries]: 23
[Description]: Thurston High School shooting: After killing his parents at home, 15-year-old Kip Kinkel drove to Thurston High School, where he killed two students and wounded 23 others. After pleading guilty, he was sentenced to 111 years of prison.
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[Date]: November 14, 2017
[Location]: Rancho Tehama Reserve, California
[Deaths]: 6
[Injuries]: 18
[Description]: Rancho Tehama Reserve shootings: 43-year-old Kevin Neal injured one student at Rancho Tehama Elementary School and fatally shot five adults at several locations. The secretary heard the gunfire near the school and ordered the school to go on lockdown. After a custodian and the teachers put it into action, Neal rammed a truck into the gate of the school and fired at the classrooms, hitting one student when a bullet pierced the wall. Neal fatally shot himself after sheriff's deputies rammed his vehicle during a pursuit.
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[Date]: January 17, 1989
[Location]: Stockton, California
[Deaths]: 6
[Injuries]: 32
[Description]: Stockton schoolyard shooting: 24-year-old Patrick Edward Purdy fatally shot five children and wounded 32 others at the Cleveland Elementary School before taking his own life. The victims were children of refugees from Southeast Asia. Purdy had a history of violence, alcoholism, drug addiction, and criminality.
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[Date]: May 4, 1970
[Location]: Kent, Ohio
[Deaths]: 4
[Injuries]: 9
[Description]: Kent State shootings: During protests of the Vietnam War at Kent State University, armed National Guard Soldiers opened fire on unarmed students, killing four people.
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[Date]: July 12, 1976
[Location]: Fullerton, California
[Deaths]: 7
[Injuries]: 2
[Description]: California State University, Fullerton massacre: The gunman, 37-year-old Edward Charles Allaway, was a custodian at the California State University, Fullerton library. Allaway killed seven people and wounded two others in the library's first-floor lobby and at the building's Instructional Media Center (IMC), located in the basement.
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[Date]: August 1, 1966
[Location]: Austin, Texas
[Deaths]: 18
[Injuries]: 31
[Description]: University of Texas tower shooting: 25-year-old engineering student Charles Whitman got onto the observation deck at the University of Texas-Austin, from where he killed 17 people and wounded 31 during a 96-minute shooting rampage. He had earlier murdered his wife and mother at their homes. It was the deadliest shooting on a U.S. college campus until the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007.
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