This. I was in college at the time, not that college.
An MSD student who was not directly affected by the shooting is the granddaughter of a little boy who survived this because his family hid in a closet while Unruh was on his rampage.
Even before the Unruh incident was this. I never knew about it until I Googled the town for another reason (my BFF interviewed for a job there) and saw it on the Wiki page.
Same here. I would have said Columbine before reading this, though, but apparently I’ve temporarily conflated them in my mind. Stuff from when I was 13 and 14 are a bit jumbled up, as this was well before I paid any regular attention to any news.
I think I was either too young or not born for previous ones.
Edit: I think it may not have been until after Columbine that it clicked that it was Jonesboro in Arkansas, i.e., my home state.
I definitely remember the one in Paducah in 1997 (the school had a very memorable name for me), but I think I remember thinking it was another school shooting in a short period of time. I’m not sure what the first was, though. Maybe Pearl, Mississippi two months before?
Oklahoma PO, but watching the story in the moment, Kip Kinkel at Thurston High (1998).
Thought it was 4 dead in Ohio,
This is my first memory of one as well, I was 9
Dunblane, 1996.
Does Anwar Sadat’s assassination from October 1981 count? 11 other people also died. I was only 7, but it was a really big deal here.
I was going to say Columbine, but it must be one of the post office shootings, because I’d heard of going postal before Columbine happened.
Also San Ysidro for me.
And in the category of surprisingly depressing things I read today: I was refreshing my memory of this incident on the wiki page. The first sentence is “Not to be confused with Cleveland Elementary School shooting (Stockton).”
Same here.
Me, too. Family in Texas, so we paid attention.
I remember Sadat’s assassination very well, but I didn’t learn until later that other people were killed.
I remember hearing about the MacDonald’s shooting, but I don’t remember much about it, and I know the expression “going postal” came about because a postal worker had gone nuts with a weapon, but I never remembered the details of the crime.
What I remember vividly actually happened in Canada, of all places. It was in 1989, when Marc Lepine killed 14 women, and wounded 10 others at an engineering school, while shouting that feminists had ruined his life.
The Hoddle St massacre in Melbourne in 1987. There was another one nearby a few months later.