In A Long History Of Michigan School Shootings, Oxford Was Different

In the wake of the Oxford school shooting, The New York Times ran a Dec. 7 op-ed written by a teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. It carried the headline, “Will My Students Ever Know A World Without School Shootings?”

To answer that question would require a precise definition of a “school shooting.”

In Parkland, Florida, the term “school shooting” conjures up the nightmare reality of a 19-year-old former student entering a high school and indiscriminately shooting 34 people, of whom 17 died.

That type of shooting is similar to the Nov. 30 Oxford, Michigan, school shooting, in which 15-year-old Ethan Crumbley shot 11 people in what appears to be an indiscriminate selection of victims. Four of those people died.

The Parkland and Oxford shootings were both similar to and different from the 1999 Columbine High School tragedy in which two teenagers shot and killed 12 students and one teacher.

But a review of available data on shootings that occurred on or near K-12 school property in Michigan over the past 50 years reveals that the Oxford shooting may have been unique in this state’s history. Columbine, Parkland and Oxford appear to have in common the fact that a shooter had the intent of indiscriminately killing people.

The overwhelming majority of school shootings in Michigan over the past 50 years, by contrast, have been either gang-related or involved some type of previous dispute between parties, leading to gunfire.

Only a few Michigan school shootings since 1970 have had such a high profile.

In 1978, a 15-year-old student at Everett High School in Lansing who was known for wearing a Nazi pin and talking about Adolf Hitler was jeered by classmates. That student was described by authorities as “a brilliant loner,” according to news accounts. The student had a dispute with a classmate who was taunting him; he took out a gun and shot and killed the classmate and injured a second student.

According to news accounts, a doctor who examined the shooter said he had an extremely rare form of mental illness and was a “true paranoiac.” The Ingham County prosecutor declared the student mentally ill. The student entered a no-contest plea and was sentenced to 3 ½ years of court-supervised mental health treatment. There was concern if he was tried in court, he would be found not guilty by reason of insanity and then released.

In 1993, a Chelsea teacher walked out of a grievance meeting, returned with a pistol, and shot and killed the school superintendent. He also wounded a principal and a teacher who was the union representative. After the shooting, the shooter went to nearby science lab and sat quietly, looking over papers until the police chief found him and arrested him, according to news reports.

In 1992, three gunmen wearing ski masks shot six students with buckshot at 11 a.m. in the hallway of Finney High School in Detroit.

But in the 1980s and 1990s, school shootings were not rare in the city of Detroit. In fact, three separate school shootings occurred on a single day: March 27, 1995. And according to news reports at that time, police believed the masked gunmen who opened fire at Finney High School were involved in gangs.

Determining how many school shootings there have been in Michigan depends on what exactly is the definition of a “school shooting.”

Several national databases track what their creator defines as a school shooting. A database assembled by the Advanced Thinking in Homeland Security program at the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security, appears to be the most ambitious. The K-12 School Shooting Database, as it is known, is the most comprehensive collection of articles about events that occurred before news articles became accessible on the internet.

This database records 82 times in Michigan when “a gun is brandished, is fired, or a bullet hits school property for any reason, regardless of the number of victims, time of day, or day of week.”

Though it has a wide scope, the K-12 School Shooting Database is by no means all-encompassing.

According to it own description, “The database compiles information from more than 25 different sources including peer-reviewed studies, government reports, mainstream media, non-profits, private websites, blogs, and crowd-sourced lists have been analyzed, filtered, deconflicted, and cross-referenced.”

The database lists no shooting incidents on school grounds in Michigan in the years 1979-1981. But a quick search on the archives of Newspapers.org discovered that on May 2, 1980, the Detroit Free Press reported a 17-year-old was shot while leaving Northwestern High School around 1:45 p.m.

And the database is spotty when it comes to tracking older shootings, which is problematic for researchers before the arrival of the internet.

The Naval Postgraduate School’s database had no incidents for 1973. A search in Newspapers.com of the terms “school shooting” for that year uncovered at least two shootings on school property not included in the database.

For instance, the Detroit Free Press reported that in April 1973, a student at Detroit Northeastern High School fired a gun, shattering a door glass and injuring a teacher’s aide. Two students were arguing outside the school building, and one of them pulled out a gun and fired. That shooting is not in the database.

The Detroit Free Press reported on Nov. 29, 1973, that a 15-year-old girl was shot in the leg in a hallway of Detroit Northwestern High School. According to the article, she walked into the hallway and was hit by a bullet intended for another student. That shooting is also not in the database.

Michigan Capitol Confidential is publishing all the data on school shooting incidents from the websites Everytown for Gun Safety and the K-12 School Shooting Database.

The answer to the New York Times op-ed’s question of whether there will ever be a world without school shootings, history shows there is a long list of school shootings.

In 1927, a 15-year-old girl was shot during rifle practice at Central High School in Detroit. She was examining her score when another member of the class shot a weapon, and a bullet struck her in the leg.

In 1932, a 7-year-old boy was shot dead by his 5-year-old classmate, who had brought a pistol to the St. Francis Parochial School in Detroit and was playing with it.

In 1937, a 12-year-old boy shot the principal of a Toledo school and then tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head. He survived. The boy said he wanted to force the principal to drive him and a girl he had a crush on to a store and buy them ice cream cones.

In 1939, a 9-year-old accidentally shot his 8-year-old cousin during recess while the two were on the Covert school grounds in South Haven.

In 1956, a 14-year-old shot a fellow student in the back of the neck and mouth during math class at Edmore High School in Stanton in what one report labeled a “grudge match.”

In 1968, a ninth-grader shot five students at Willow Run High School, just as classes had finished. No one died, but three students were taken to the hospital. The superintendent said there was a dispute among the individuals and it was not race-related.

MICHIGAN’S GUN-RELATED INCIDENTS ON OR NEAR SCHOOL PROPERTY SINCE 1970

Oct. 5, 1970

Pontiac Central High School, Pontiac

Four teenagers were shot during a racial disturbance on a street close to school property and near a church, at about 10:30 a.m. The students were not on school property but were about a half block away at a popular meeting place for students. There had been fights between students in the days leading up to the shooting. Source: Detroit Free Press. Oct. 6, 1970.

May 27, 1971

Benton Harbor High School, Benton Harbor

A 16-year-old male student was shot in the arm before class at Benton Harbor High School. The motive for the shooting was a year-old feud between the students and school-related. Source: The Herald-Palladium. May 28, 1971.

Sept. 15, 1972

Saginaw High School, Saginaw

A 17-year-old male student shot two other 17-year-old male students at 2 p.m. in the hallway of Saginaw High School. The shooting was a result of a month-long argument between two students. One of the students shot was an innocent bystander. Source: The Times Herald. Sept. 15, 1972.

May 27, 1975

Pitcher School, Detroit

A 9-year-old boy shot a 13-year-old classmate outside of the victim’s home. The shooting did not occur on school property. The two students at Pitcher School in Detroit had fought numerous times on school grounds. Source: Detroit Free Press. May 28, 1975.

Feb. 2, 1976

Murray-Wright High School, Detroit

A group of about 10 people who were not students were ejected from Murray-Wright High School. As they left, two of them pulled guns and fired shots into the building and wounded five students. The shooting was triggered over “jealousy over a girlfriend.” Source: Ludington Daily News. Feb. 13, 1976.

Nov. 10, 1976

Burt Elementary School, Detroit

A man walked into his estranged wife’s second-grade classroom at Burt Elementary where she was a teacher. He shot and killed her. The teacher had transferred to the school from a different school, in an effort to get away from her estranged husband. Source: Detroit Free Press. Nov. 11, 1976.

Feb. 22, 1978

Everett High School, Lansing

A 15-year-old male student shot another 15-year-old male to death and wounded another student. After the shooting, which took place in a hallway, the shooter walked over to a teacher and handed him his gun, a knife and a box of ammunition. The victim had taunted the shooter moments before for wearing a Nazi pin. Source: Lansing State Journal. Feb. 23, 1978.

April 4, 1978

Fordson High School, Dearborn

An 18-year-old student was shot in the head at 1:30 p.m. by a 16-year-old student, who used a handgun. The incident took place in a locker room. Source: Detroit Free Press. April 15, 1978.

Nov. 8, 1982

Cooley High School, Detroit

Two students were shot at 8:10 a.m. in a hallway by accident. The shooter, another student, was showing off a handgun at the other end of the corridor. Source: Detroit Free Press. Nov. 9, 1982.

Dec. 20, 1982

Finney High School, Detroit

A 15-year-old male was shot at 8:55 a.m. in the hallway after three men, armed with guns, approached him and demanded his jacket. He surrendered the jacket, and they shot him. There were more than 300 students in the hallway when the shooting happened. Source: Battle Creek Enquirer. Dec. 21, 1982.

Sept. 12, 1983

Henry Ford High School, Detroit

A 16-year-old student was shot after a fight that was believed to be gang-related. The fight happened at 8:45 a.m. near the main entrance of the school. The shooter had a handgun. Source: Detroit Free Press. Sept. 13, 1983.

Nov. 8, 1983

Highland Park High School, Highland Park

A 17-year-old male was shot and killed by a 15-year-old male at 7:40 a.m., before classes began. There had been a brief fight in front of a locker. The shooter had been hit in the back of the head and said he was bullied enough. Source: Detroit Free Press. Nov. 9, 1983.

April 18, 1984

Precious Blood School, Detroit

A 13-year-old female was shot and killed when she was accidentally shot by a classmate who was playing with a pistol. The student was shot at 11 a.m. by a 14-year-old male who brought a pistol to school and was showing it to another classmate. Source: Detroit Free Press. April 19, 1984.

July 10, 1984

Mumford High School, Detroit

An 18-year-old male was shot in the arm while walking outside near the school parking lot during a break. It was 11:15 a.m. Students said the victim was shot by mistake in a gang-related matter. Source: Detroit Free Press. July 11, 1984.

Oct. 22, 1984

Central High School, Detroit

A 16-year-old male and a 16-year-old female were shot during a fight in the hallway of Central High School at about 1:25 p.m. Source: Detroit Free Press. Oct. 25, 1984.

Oct. 25, 1984

Southeastern High School, Detroit

A 17-year-old male was fighting with a 15-year-old male, and a security guard grabbed the 17-year-old around the waist. The 17-year-old’s gun fell out of his jacket pocket during a struggle with the security guard. It hit the security guard’s foot, discharged and hit the 15-year-old male in the left leg. Source: Detroit Free Press. Oct. 26, 1984.

Oct. 18, 1985

Northwestern High School, Detroit

A man stepped out of a car that approached the grandstands during a high school football game and shot shotgun pellets into the stands. Six people were injured. Source: UPI. Oct. 18, 1985.

Jan. 23, 1987

Redford High School, Detroit

A 15-year-old male was shot in the stomach and left leg at 8:05 a.m. in gym class by another 15-year-old male. The students had been fighting previously. Source: Detroit Free Press. Jan. 24, 1987.

April 16, 1987

Murray-Wright High School, Detroit

A 17-year-old male was shot and killed and another 17-year-old male was wounded by a 14-year-old male shooter. The shootings happened in the front of an entrance to Murray-Wright High School. Source: UPI. April 16, 1987.

Nov. 4, 1987

Southwestern High School, Detroit

A 16-year-old male was shot while sitting in his car in the parking lot of Southwestern High School at 10:50 a.m. The shooter approached the victim, asked him for money and shot him when he said he didn’t have any money. Source: Detroit Free Press. Nov. 5, 1987.

March 4, 1988

Detroit

A 13-year-old female was playing with a gun on a school bus and accidentally fired it, hitting a 12-year-old in the thigh. Source: Detroit Free Press. March 5, 1988.

June 16, 1988

Joy Middle School, Detroit

A 14-year-old male shot a 15-year-old male in the right leg while the two were in the stairwell of Joy Middle School. The students had been involved in a fight earlier in the day. The 14-year-old went home after the fight, got a pistol and returned to shoot the victim. Source: Detroit Free Press. June 21, 1988.

Aug. 31, 1988

Central High School, Detroit

A 17-year-old male was shot in the left arm and right leg while he was in a hallway at Central High School. Police said it was a gang-related shooting. Source: Detroit Free Press. Sept. 1, 1988.

Nov. 4, 1992

Finney High School, Detroit

Six students at Finney High School were grazed by buckshot after three gunmen wearing ski masks opened fire in a crowded hallway at 11 a.m. Police believe the shooting was gang-related. Source: The Herald-Palladium. Nov. 5, 1992.

Nov. 4, 1992

Mumford High School, Detroit

A student was shot while walking out of Mumford High School at 2:45 p.m. Police believe the motive was gang-related. Source: The Herald-Palladium. Nov. 5, 1992.

Nov. 4, 1992

Marcus Garvey Academy, Detroit

A 16-year-old male, a 14-year-old male and a 15-year-old female were wounded in a drive-by shooting as they walked past Marcus Garvey Academy, a K-5 school. Source: The Herald-Palladium. Nov. 5, 1992.

Dec. 17, 1993

Chelsea High School, Chelsea

Chelsea high school teacher Stephen Leith walked out of a grievance meeting and returned with a pistol and shot and killed the school superintendent. He also wounded a principal and a teacher who was the union representative. After the shooting, Leith went to a nearby science lab and sat quietly looking over papers until the police chief found him and arrested him. Source: Detroit Free Press. Dec. 17, 1983.

Feb. 8, 1994

Osborn High School, Detroit

A 19-year-old male was shot to death while driving away from Osborn High School at 12:10 p.m. while still in the student parking lot. Source: Detroit Free Press. Feb. 9, 1994.

March 27, 1995

Pershing High School, Detroit

A 16-year-old male was shot multiple times in the chest at 2 p.m. He was in the hallway of Pershing High School. Source: Detroit Free Press. March 29, 1995.

March 27, 1995

Redford High School, Detroit

A 15-year-old female was shot in the right knee when an 18-year-old student’s gun was accidentally fired as he removed it from a locker in the Redford High School hallway. Source: Detroit Free Press. March 29, 1995.

March 27, 1995

Denby High School, Detroit

A 15-year-old male student was shot in the head at 3 p.m. on a sidewalk near Denby High School’s baseball field. The motivation: to take his Grant Hill gym shoes. Source: Detroit Free Press. March 29, 1995.

March 17, 1997

Pershing High School, Detroit

A 16-year-old male was shot and killed while walking away from a dispute in the Pershing High School parking lot. The victim was shot in the back, in the afternoon. Source: The Associated Press. March 18, 1997.

Feb. 25, 1998

Reed City Middle School, Reed City

A 13-year-old male shot and killed himself near his locker. He used a rifle his father had given him. Source: The Herald-Palladium. Dec. 9, 1998.

March 25, 1998

Coldwater High School, Coldwater

An 18-year-old male died after shooting himself in the mouth with a shotgun in the parking lot of Coldwater High School. Source: Battle Creek Enquirer. March 26, 1998.

Feb. 29, 2000

Buell Elementary, Flint

A 6-year-old boy shot and killed a 6-year-old girl in class at Buell Elementary School. The shooter was living with an uncle in what prosecutors called a flophouse. The shooter told his mother that he didn’t mean to shoot the girl. Source: Lansing State Journal. March 21, 2000.

Feb. 2, 2001

Osborn High School, Detroit

Two students and a teacher were grazed by gunfire after a student fired a gun in their classroom at Osborn High School. Police thought the student wanted to get classes dismissed early after a bomb hoax was called into the school earlier that day. Source: CNN. Feb. 2, 2001.

Oct. 26, 2001

Benito Juarez Academy, Saginaw

A 17-year-old boy was accidentally shot in the left calf at about 1:45 p.m. at Benito Juarez Academy. The gun was in the pocket of another student’s jacket and was fired while students were playing with the jacket. Source: Fort Myers News-Press. Oct. 29, 2001.

Nov. 12, 200

Caro Learning Center, Caro

A 17-year-old gunman killed himself after taking a teacher and a student hostage in a three-hour standoff with police. The 17-year-old gunman was upset about breaking up with his girlfriend two days earlier and smuggled a rifle and shotgun into the school. Source: The Michigan Daily. Nov. 14, 2001.

Dec. 2, 2002

Osborn High School, Detroit

A 15-year-old male accidentally shot himself in the leg with a handgun at 10 a.m. inside Osborn High School. The school had metal detectors. Source: Lansing State Journal. Dec. 3, 2002.

Dec. 2004

Saginaw High School, Saginaw

Shots coming from a car were fired into the parking lot at Saginaw High School during lunch hour. Source: The Herald-Palladium. Sept. 29, 2005.

Aug. 2005

Arthur Hill High School, Saginaw

A drive-by shooter fired three shots from a shotgun and blew out the back window of car in the school parking lot after Arthur Hill High School had let out. Source: The Herald-Palladium. Sept. 29, 2005.

Sept. 24, 2005

Saginaw High School, Saginaw

A 15-year-old student and a 14-year-old student were shot at about 11:30 p.m. during a drive-by shooting. They were leaving a homecoming dance. Source: The Herald-Palladium. Sept. 29, 2005.

Oct. 11, 2005

Farmington High School, Farmington

A 17-year-old male brought a shotgun to school and fired it inside one of the bathrooms at Farmington High School after 8 a.m. No one was injured. The shooter brought the shotgun to the school in three pieces and then assembled it in the bathroom and then shot it at the ceiling. Source: KFVS-TV. Oct. 11, 2005.

Oct. 19, 2005

Saginaw High School, Saginaw

A 15-year-old male was shot in the chest by another 15-year-old male inside Saginaw High School. Source: The Michigan Daily. Oct. 20, 2005.

Dec. 6, 2005

Central High School, Detroit

An 18-year-old former student was shot and injured in a vestibule of Central High School. Source: Detroit Free Press. Dec. 10, 2005.

Jan. 13, 2006

Osborn High School, Detroit

An assistant principal confronted two male students in a hallway of Osborn High School. One of the students took out a gun and fired a shot down the hall. No one was injured. Source: The Detroit News. Jan. 14, 2006.

June 15, 2006

Pershing High School, Detroit

A 16-year-old male was shot in the back by four men. The men drove up to him and shot him outside Pershing High School at about 6:05 p.m. Source: Detroit Free Press. June 16, 2006.

Jan. 4, 2007

Northwestern High School, Detroit

A 14-year-old girl was shot in her left leg at 3:50 p.m. when she was standing across the street from Northwestern High School. Two men in a car shot at her as she was standing with a group of students. Source: Detroit Free Press. Jan. 5, 2007.

March 7, 2007

Herbert Henry Dow High School, Midland

A male student shot and killed his 17-year-old ex-girlfriend as they were in the parking lot of H.H. Dow High School. The shooter had called the student and asked her to meet him at the high school so he could return some of her belongings. The ex-girlfriend and her mother drove to the school. When she got out of the car, the ex-boyfriend pulled out a gun, shot her and then shot himself in the head. Source: Detroit Free Press. March 8, 2007.

May 10, 2007

Henry Ford High School, Detroit

Two 17-year-olds were outside of Henry Ford High School at about 2 p.m. when four people in a car opened fire on them. Police suspect the shooting was gang-related. Source: Detroit Free Press. May 11, 2007.

Oct. 16, 2008

Henry Ford High School, Detroit

Four teenagers were shot on a street near Henry Ford High School after class let out. A suspect in the shooting was involved in a fight with one of the victims earlier in the school day. Source: The Associated Press. Oct. 16, 2008.

Jan. 20, 2009

Beecher High School, Mount Morris Township

Four people, ranging in age from 16 to 20, were shot as they were in the parking lot of Beecher High School after a basketball game. Source: MLive. Jan. 21, 2009.

Feb. 17, 2009

Central High School, Detroit

A 17-year-old male shot a 19-year-old male, who shot a nearby 18-year old after the teenagers had been involved in a fight at Central High School. The shooting happened at 2:20 p.m. Source: Detroit Free Press. Feb. 18, 2009.

Sept. 7, 2010

Mumford High School, Detroit

A 14-year-old female and a 16-year-old male were both shot on the first day of classes as they were outside of Mumford High School. The two victims were on a street, leaving the school, when several juveniles confronted them. Then a 17-year-old male took out a gun and shot them. Source: The Herald-Palladium. Sept. 11, 2010.

Dec. 28, 2011

Northern High School, Flint

A person who was outside the Northern High School building was shot as a basketball game was ending. Source: MLive. Dec. 29, 2011.

Jan. 11, 2013

Osborn High School, Detroit

After a high school basketball game at Osborn High School, a group of people started a pick-up game across the street, in a field off school property. A fight broke out at the game and a 16-year-old male was shot. Source: WWJ-TV. Jan. 12, 2013.

Feb. 1, 2013

Martin Luther King High School, Detroit

A 15-year-old was shot and a 16-year-old was shot and killed after they tried to rob a high school coach who was walking to his car with two of his players after practice at 7:30 p.m. The coach was the shooter and was a reserve police officer that authorities ruled he was acting in self-defense. Source: Detroit Free Press. Feb. 18, 2013.

March 21, 2013

Davidson Middle School, Southgate

A 13-year-old used a handgun to kill himself in the bathroom of Davidson Middle School at 8 a.m. Source: USA Today. March 21, 2013.

April 11, 2014

East English Village Prep Academy, Detroit

A 14-year-old was shot and killed after a school event when four gang members fired into a crowd in the parking lot of East English Village Prep Academy. Source: WWJ-TV, April 12, 2014.

Dec. 17, 2014

Godfrey High School, Wyoming

A high school basketball player was shot in the leg. The player was in the parking lot, after leaving basketball practice at 8:05 p.m. Source: WXMI-TV. Dec. 18, 2014.

May 24, 2015

Southwestern Classical Academy, Flint

At 2 a.m. on a Sunday, an 18-year-old man and a 19-year-old man shot and wounded seven people who were in the parking lot of Southwestern Classical Academy. Police said the shooting was not connected to any school activity. Source: MLive. May 27, 2015.

Feb. 9, 2016

Muskegon Heights High School, Muskegon Heights

A 21-year-old man fired shots into a group of people in the parking lot of Muskegon Heights High School. They were leaving a basketball game. Three people were injured. Source: MLive. April 18, 2017.

Sept. 7, 2016

Detroit Collegiate Preparatory High School, Detroit

A high school principal was pulling into the parking lot of Detroit Collegiate Preparatory High School at 7 a.m. when someone fired a shot at his vehicle. Bullets hit his back window and two more shots were fired at the vehicle as the principal ran into the school building. Source: WWJ-TV. Sept. 7, 2016.

Nov. 11, 2016

Bay City Western High School, Auburn

A sheriff’s deputy who served as the school resource officer accidentally fired his gun inside Bay City Western High School classroom. The stray bullet went through a wall, ricocheted, entered a classroom and hit a teacher in the neck, causing a minor scratch. Source: MLive. Dec. 19, 2016.

Oct. 3, 2017

Oxford High School, Oxford

An 18-year-old male punched a school administrator and when police responded, the 18-year-old male tried to grab the officer’s gun and the gun discharged. No one was shot. Source: Detroit Free Press. Oct. 5, 2017.

Nov. 3, 2017

Pattengill Academy, Lansing

A 15-year-old girl was shot inside a SUV what was in the parking lot of the school at about 4:30 p.m. Source: WILX-TV. Nov. 5, 2017.

Dec. 19, 2017

Beecher High School, Mount Morris Township

A teenage male was shot in the parking lot at 9:15 p.m. as about six to eight shots were fired after a high school basketball game. Source: MLive. Dec. 20, 2017.

Jan. 26, 2018

Dearborn High School, Dearborn

Someone fired shots from a car at 8 p.m. in the Dearborn High School parking lot during a basketball game. No one was injured. There was a fight in the high school hallway a short time before that. Source: Detroit Free Press. Jan. 27, 2018.

April 19, 2018

Jackson High School, Jackson

Shots were fired outside Jackson High School, and two bullets entered through windows of two separate classrooms, both of which were were occupied. No one was injured. The shots were believed to be fired from an apartment complex across the street. Source: MLive, April 20, 2018.

May 5, 2018

Fowlerville High School, Fowlerville

A Flint Police Department officer was off-duty and accidentally fired his gun into a gymnasium floor at a wrestling tournament at Fowlerville High School. Source: WILX-TV. May 30, 2018.

Aug. 30, 2018

Ottawa Hills High School, Grand Rapids

Two 17-year-olds, who were not students, were walking near school property when a vehicle passed by. Someone in the car lowered the window and fired several shots were fired at them. The shooting happened at 10:30 a.m. The victim who was shot in the foot arrived at the school building, seeking medical aid. Source: WWMT-TV. Aug. 30, 2018.

Oct. 12, 2018

Battle Creek Academy, Battle Creek

A gunshot was fired at 1 p.m., and one round went into a school building. No one was injured. Source: WWMT-TV. Oct. 12, 2018.

Oct. 25, 2018

Cody High School, Detroit

A 15-year-old student was shot at but not injured while on the property of Cody High School. No other information was provided. Source: WXYZ-TV. Oct. 26, 2018.

Nov. 21, 2018

Pentwater Public School, Pentwater.

A man shot at Pentwater Public School with a BB gun, shattering the windows of a door. The shooting took place in the evening when the school building was unoccupied. Source: Mason County Press. Nov. 26, 2018.

April 17, 2019

Flex High School, Flint

A 16-year-old male was outside the school building and fired a shot at 10 a.m. into Flex High School. The shooter had been in a fight with other students. Source: MLive. May 21, 2019.

June 21, 2019

Carman-Ainsworth High School, Flint Township

A 15-year-old boy was shot at 7:30 p.m. outside Carman-Ainsworth High School during a basketball game. Police said a fight involving 70 people spilled outside, and the student was shot. Source: MLive. June 24, 2019.

Jan. 17, 2020

Three Fires Elementary School, Howell

A parent accidentally shot himself while in the school parking lot at 3 p.m. A father was picking up his child when his gun went off by mistake when the man was adjusting himself inside his car. Source: WDIV-TV. Jan. 17, 2020.

July 14, 2020

Willow Woods Elementary School, Sterling Heights

Someone fired a shot into the air. This happened in the parking lot of the school, which was empty. Police investigators said there was a fight before the shooting and believe the people involved in the fight had no association with the school. Source: The Detroit News. July 14, 2020.

Sept. 9, 2021

Tri-County Education Center, Royal Oak Township

Two groups of teens got into a fight. One of the teens went home, got a gun and then fired a shot into the ground in the parking lot of the Tri-County Education Center. The center is an alternative middle and high school. Source: The Detroit News. Sept. 9, 2021.