9/24/2003 Rocori High School
Cold Spring, MN
Aaron Rollins, 17, Male,
Student
Athletic Field/GymUnknownShooting
2
Fifteen-year-old Jason McLaughlin opened fire on
students at their high school. A gym teacher apparently
talked him into dropping the gun. Motive is not known.
Aaron Rollins was shot in the neck and died. Seth Bartell,
a freshman, sustained gunshot wounds to the chest and
head and later died on Oct 10, 2003.
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9/24/2003 Rocori High School
Cold Spring, MN
Seth Bartell, 14, Male,
Student
Athletic Field/GymUnknownShooting
2
Fifteen-year-old Jason McLaughlin opened fire on
students at their high school. A gym teacher apparently
talked him into dropping the gun. Motive is not known.
Aaron Rollins was shot in the neck and died. Seth Bartell,
a freshman, sustained gunshot wounds to the chest and
head and later died on Oct 10, 2003.
10/16/2003 Woodrow Wilson Middle
School
Roanoke, VA
Ronald Lee Mayfield Jr.,
55, Male, Teacher
Near SchoolSuicideJump
Mayfield, an English teacher, jumped to his death from
bridge two days after he was exonerated in the alleged
assault of a student. His body was discovered in the
Roanoke River, a day after he was reported missing. A
suicide note was found in a vehicle parked nearby. It is
not clear that he knew he had been exonerated of the
charges. He had been under investigation for shoving a
student.
10/23/2003 Matthew Henson Elementary
School
Landover, MD
Unknown, , Male, Other School Parking LotUnknownShooting
A custodian found a man's body on an elementary
school's parking lot about 6:00 a.m. The victim has been
shot multiple times. The campus was closed for the day
and students were bussed to a nearby high school.
10/30/2003 Anacostia Senior High School
Washington, DC, DC
Devin M. Fowlkes, 16,
Male, Student
On CampusGang-RelatedShooting
A 16-year-old student was fatally shot in front of Anacostia
Senior High school as students were leaving a
homecoming dance about 3:15 pm. Police suspected that
the student was caught in the crossfire of gang activity.
11/5/2003 Balboa High School
San Francisco, CA
DeShawn Dawson, 15,
Male, Student
Bus/Bus StopGang-RelatedShooting
The victim was struck in the face by an errant bullet
allegedly fired by a 16-year-old student from Burton High
School. Dawson was reported to be an innocent
bystander to a fight aboard the municipal bus.
11/7/2003 Hightower High School
Sugar Land, TX
Marsai Murry, 17,
Female, Student
Athletic Field/GymUnknownShooting
Marcus Hudgins, 21, is accused of killing the 17-year-old
senior at Hightower High School who was hit by a bullet
fired at a group of men outside Mercer Stadium in Sugar
Land near the end of a football game between her school
and Willowridge High School.
11/10/2003 Martin Luther King
Elementary School
Elementary School
Buffalo, NY
Unknown, , Male, Student School Parking LotUnknownShooting
Unidentified male, who was believed to be in his late
teens or early twenties, was shot to death in the back
parking lot of Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School
after students had gone home at about 4:00 pm. A
teacher who was working late found the body next to his
car.
12/2/2003 Fermi Elementary School
Chicago, IL
Unknown, , Male, Other Athletic Field/GymUnknownShooting
Police officer shot and killed a man who pointed a revolver
at the officer on the field of Fermi Elementary School at
about 9:30 p.m.
12/8/2003 Porter High School
Porter, OK
Unknown, 15, Male,
Student
Bus/Bus StopUnknownStab/Slashing
The victim was stabbed by another student while on a
school bus around 7:00 a.m. The suspect ran from the
scene after the bus stopped.
Page 36 of 49National School Safety Center's Report on School Associated Violent Deaths Print Date 3/3/2010