Last Friday morning, eight high school students and two teachers lost their lives in Santa Fe, Texas, the sixth fatal school shooting of 2018. That same night, a woman was killed on the campus of Mount Zion High School in Jonesboro, Georgia.
The students leave behind empty desks and diplomas. They all leave futures and families and friends, a painful collection of what-ifs. Each of their stories is unique, yet they each converge on a painful truth: They died at one of our schools.
We said, “Never again.” But again is now. Today, we add the names of the most recent victims to our list of those we’ve lost in school shootings since Columbine. This list serves to keep our collective memory of these victims alive, but it also reminds us of the terrible human cost of gun violence; the terrible cost of insufficient support for troubled young people; and the terrible cost of our national complacency.
2018
May 18 | Mount Zion High School
The name of this victim has not yet been released.
May 18 | Santa Fe High School
Jared Black
Shana Fisher
Christian Riley Garcia
Aaron Kyle McLeod
Glenda Ann Perkins
Angelique Ramirez
Sabika Sheikh
Christopher Jake Stone
Cynthia Tisdale
Kimberly Vaughan
March 20 | Great Mills High School
Jaelynn Willey
March 7 | Huffman High School
Courtlin Arrington
February 14 | Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
Alyssa Alhadeff
Martin Duque Anguiano
Scott Beigel
Nicholas Dworet
Aaron Feis
Jaime Guttenberg
Chris Hixon
Luke Hoyer
Cara Loughran
Gina Montalto
Joaquin Oliver
Alaina Petty
Meadow Pollack
Helena Ramsay
Alex Schachter
Carmen Schentrup
Peter Wang
January 31 | Lincoln High School
Ralph Kennedy
January 23 | Marshall County High School
Preston Ryan Cope
Bailey Nicole Holt
2017
December 7 | Aztec High School
Francisco "Paco" Fernandez Jr.
Casey Jordan
November 14 | Rancho Tehama Elementary School
Danny Lee Elliot
Barbara Ann Gilsan
Michelle Iris McFadyen
Joseph Edward McHugh III
Diana Lee Steele
September 13 | Freeman High School
Sam Strahan
April 10 | North Park Elementary School
Karen Elaine Smith
Jonathan Martinez
2016
September 28 | Townville Elementary School
Jacob Hall
Jeffrey Osborne
June 8 | Jeremiah Burke High School
Raekwon Brown
February 12 | Independence High School
May Kieu
2015
November 20 | Mojave High School
Taylor Brantley
February 15 | Tenaya Middle School
Benito Aguirre
2014
November 20 | Miami Carol City High School
Khambrel Manning
October 24 | Marysville Pilchuck High School
Shaylee Chuckulnaskit
Andrew Fryberg
Zoe Galasso
Gia Soriano
October 3 | Langston Hughes High School
Kristofer Hunter
August 14 | Saunders Elementary School
John A. Nieves Jr.
Bryant Wilder Jr.
June 10 | Reynolds High School
Emilio Hoffman
April 21 | St. Mary Catholic School
Nina Castro
April 11 | East English Village Preparatory Academy
Darryl Smith
2013
December 13 | Arapahoe High School
Claire Davis
October 21 | Sparks Middle School
Michael Landsberry
August 23 | North Panola High School
Roderick Bobo
January 7 | Apostolic Revival Center Christian School
Kristopher Smith
2012
December 14 | Sandy Hook Elementary School
Charlotte Bacon
Daniel Barden
Rachel D'Avino
Olivia Engel
Josephine Gay
Dawn Hochsprung
Dylan Hockley
Madeleine Hsu
Catherine Hubbard
Chase Kowalski
Nancy Lanza
Jesse Lewis
Ana Márquez-Greene
James Mattioli
Grace McDonnell
Anne Marie Murphy
Emilie Parker
Jack Pinto
Noah Pozner
Caroline Previdi
Jessica Rekos
Avielle Richman
Lauren Rousseau
Mary Sherlach
Victoria Leigh Soto
Benjamin Wheeler
Allison Wyatt
October 19 | Banner Academy South High School
Terrance Wright
March 6 | Episcopal School of Jacksonville
Dale Regan
February 27 | Chardon High School
Demetrius Hewlin
Russell King Jr.
Daniel Parmertor
2011
March 30 | Worthing High School
Tremaine De Ante' Paul
January 5 | Millard South High School
Vicki Kaspar
2010
October 1 | Alisal High School
Jose Daniel Cisneros
February 5 | Discovery Middle School
Todd Brown
2008
November 12 | Dillard High School
Amanda Collette
October 16 | Henry Ford High School
Christopher Walker
August 21 | Central High School
Ryan McDonald
August 14 | Lakota Middle School
Omero Mendez
February 12 | E.O. Green Junior High School
Lawrence "Larry" King
2007
January 3 | Henry Foss High School
Samnang Kok
2006
October 2 | West Nickel Mines School
Naomi Rose Ebersol
Marian Stoltzfus Fisher
Lena Zook Miller
Mary Liz Miller
Anna Mae Stoltzfus
September 29 | Weston High School
John Klang
September 27 | Platte Canyon High School
Emily Keyes
August 30 | Orange High School
Rafael Castillo
August 24 | Essex Elementary School
Linda Lambesis
Mary Alicia Shanks
2005
November 8 | Campbell County High School
Ken Bruce
March 21 | Red Lake Senior High School
Derrick Brun
Dewayne Lewis
Chase Lussier
Daryl Lussier
Neva J. Rogers
Chanelle Rosebear
Michelle Sigana
Thurlene Stillday
Alicia White
March 2 | Cumberland City, Tennessee
Joyce Gregory
2004
February 2 | Ballou High School
James Richardson
2003
September 24 | Rocori High School
Seth Bartell
Aaron Rollins
April 24 | Red Lion Area Junior High School
Eugene Segro
April 14 | John McDonogh High School
Jonathan Williams
2002
February 20 | Washington High School
Joseph Johnson Jr.
2001
March 30 | Lew Wallace High School
Neal Boyd IV
March 5 | Santana High School
Randy Gordon
Bryan Zuckor
2000
May 26 | Lake Worth Middle School
Barry Grunow
February 29 | Buell Elementary School
Kayla Rolland
1999
November 19 | Deming Middle School
Araceli Tena
April 20 | Columbine High School
Cassie Bernall
Steve Curnow
Cory DePooter
Kelly Fleming
Matthew Kechter
Daniel Mauser
Daniel Rohrbough
Rachel Scott
Isaiah Shoels
John Tomlin
Lauren Townsend
Kyle Velasquez
William "Dave" Sanders
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