School shootings

Students at Morgan State University received an emergency alert that warned of shots fired near a residence hall on Tuesday night.

In this year’s Sandy Hook Promise “Just Joking” PSA, directed by the Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Henry-Alex Rubin, well-known comedians perform their act in front of live audiences. They deliver lines that the audience thinks are jokes … but later learn that every line is a real threat made by a school shooter.

Kai Koerber was a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when a gunman murdered 14 students and three staff members there on Valentine’s Day in 2018. Seeing his peers — and himself — struggle with returning to normal, he wanted to do something to help people manage their emotions on their own terms.

The mother of a 6-year-old who shot his teacher in Virginia pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge of felony child neglect, seven months after her son used her gun to critically wound the educator.

The school district apologized for not giving parents any warning or guidance before it sent students home with a Winnie the Pooh-themed book about what to do in the event of a school shooting.

Police said the shooter was in custody.

A spate of threats and false reports of shooters have been pouring into schools and colleges across the country for months, raising concerns among law enforcement and elected leaders.

Nashville police said she was also armed with a handgun.

A sheriff said that a body was found Wednesday night during a search in the Colorado woods near where they had found an abandoned car that belonged to a 17-year-old student accused of shooting two administrators at his Denver high school earlier in the day. Park County Sheriff Tom McGraw said the body was found not far from the car...

The two adults injured were transported to hospitals, according to authorities.

Two school administrators were shot on Wednesday morning at a Denver high school after a handgun was found on a student subjected to daily searches, authorities said.

The Michigan State University police department released footage of the MSU gunman roaming university halls the night of the deadly campus shooting.

“At that moment I thought that I was going to die,” sophomore Claire Papoulias, who said she was sitting in class when a gunman entered, told TODAY. “I was so scared.”

Since the 2008 mass shooting at Northern Illinois University, FBI statistics show active shootings across the U.S. have increased sharply — especially in the last few years, and we spoke to a survivor of that tragic day on its anniversary.

Since the 2008 shooting, FBI statistics show active shootings across the U.S. have increased sharply — especially in the last few years.  Patrick Korellis, a senior at the time of the Northern Illinois University shooting on Feb. 14, 2008, said he remembers that day vividly. “It will always be apart of me, and it’s always in my head,” Korellis recalled….

After Abigail Zwerner was shot by a 6-year-old student on Jan. 6, other teachers are speaking out with anger and sadness, but not shock.

The Virginia teacher who was shot by a 6-year-old student at the Richneck Elementary on Jan. 6 will sue the school district following the school official’s failure to act.

A Virginia school board is scheduled to vote this week on the departure of its superintendent after a 6-year-old student shot and wounded his first-grade teacher.

Police say two students were killed and an adult was injured in a shooting at a Des Moines school on the edge of the city’s downtown. An 18-year-old was later charged with murder.

Parents and teachers in the Virginia city where a first-grader shot his teacher have lambasted school administrators for what they say is a misguided emphasis on attendance and other education statistics over the safety of children and staff.