Updated 2-2-99
Bus/Transportation-Related SCHOOL-ASSOCIATED VIOLENT DEATHS
JULY 1992 - PRESENT
Internet: www.nssc1.org
E-mail: june@nssc1.org
In-House Report of the National School Safety Center
141 Duesenberg Drive, Suite 11 • Westlake Village, CA 91362 • Ph: 805/373-9977 • Fax: 805/373-9277
Dr. Ronald D. Stephens, Executive Director
Definition: A school-associated violent death is any homicide, suicide, or weapons-related violent death in the United States in which the fatal injury occurred:
• on the property of a functioning public, private or parochial elementary or secondary school, Kindergarten through grade 12, (including alternative schools);
• on the way to or from regular sessions at such a school;
• while person was attending or was on the way to or from an official school-sponsored event;
• as obvious direct result of school incident/s, function/s or activities, whether on or off school bus/vehicle or school property.
* Note: Not a scientific survey. Since information is taken from newspaper clipping services, it is possible that not all such clippings have reached the NSSC.
Deaths listed in this document are corroborated by written accounts in NSSC files .
**Boldface type indicates multiple deaths incident.
School Year: 1992-93 |
||||||||||
No. |
Date |
School |
Victim(s) |
Location of incident |
Cause of death |
|||||
1. |
1/15/93 |
Boston High School Boston, MA
|
Axel Reyes, 16 |
on subway on way home from school |
shot in gang-related brawl |
|||||
2. |
3/11/93 |
Southeastern Middle School Detroit, MI
|
Montae Rowser, 16 |
on city bus to school |
shot in chest during argument on bus with 16-year-old student from rival school
|
|||||
No. |
Date |
School |
Victim(s) |
Location of incident |
Cause of death |
3. |
5/21/93 |
Boston High School Boston, MA
|
Telly Coleman, 15, male |
leaving school subway station |
shot twice as a bystander to a student dispute |
School Year: 1993-94
4. |
10/14/93 |
Redford High School Detroit, MI |
Frank Miles, 15 |
front of school at bus stop |
shot accidentally by gang members
|
5. |
10/28/93 |
Gladstone Middle School Hazelwood, PA |
Michael Rozgonyi, 15 |
at school bus stop after Bane got off bus |
stabbed in neck with penknife by suspect Sean Bane, 14
|
6. |
1/28/94 |
Charles A. Mooney Middle School, Cleveland, OH |
Paul Wallace, 15 |
at bus stop at school |
stabbed, stomped and kicked by 5 people waiting at bus stop
|
7. |
2/1/94 |
Valley View Junior High School Simi Valley, CA |
Chad Patrick Hubbard, 14 |
at the school bus stop |
stabbed in heart with knife by classmate Phillip Hernandez, 14, who had been bullied by victim
|
8. |
2/15/94 |
Wallenberg High School San Francisco, CA |
Robert Tran, 17 |
at bus stop around corner from school |
shot in head with .38 handgun while defending a friend who was being attacked
|
School Year: 1994-95 - No violent bus-related deaths recorded
School Year: 1995-96
9. |
9/21/95 |
Jefferson Middle School |
Stephne Givens, 13 |
in front of the school as girl got off school bus |
stabbed in neck with a steak knife pulled from backpack by 12-year-old girl classmate during argument over a boy
|
No. |
Date |
School |
Victim(s) |
Location of incident |
Cause of death |
|||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
10. |
11/2/95 |
Dade County School Bus |
Catalino “Nick” Sang, 42, waiter disgruntled with IRS seized bus filled with 13 disabled students & 3 adults & held them hostage for 15-mile ride to restaurant
|
in doorway of school bus stopped at Joe's Stone Crab Restaurant, a tourist spot where Sang had been a waiter for 7 years |
shot as a bus hijacker by police when talks for surrender failed |
|||
11. |
12/14/95 |
Oxon Hill High School |
Charles “Chuckie” Marsh, 17 |
at bus stop after school; shot during scuffle for coat |
shot by masked youths during robbery of classmate's coat at bus stop
|
|||
12. |
2/22/96 |
Jenkins High School |
Dwayne Cedric Martin, 17 |
on school grounds as students lined up for bus rides home |
shot with .380 automatic pistol by Keith Antoine Green, 15, after 3 days of ongoing fights/arguments
|
|||
13. |
2/29/96 |
Beaumont High School |
Kyunia Taylor, 15, pregnant student |
on school bus on 28.way to school |
shot by young man who entered bus & shot with .38 caliber gun the bus driver, Richard Lanemann, 60 (who recovered) & victim
|
|||
14. |
3/23/96 |
St. Louis Children's Hospital St. Louis, MO |
Diamond Taylor, 3 mos. premature child;
|
died later in hospital |
Kyunia Taylor's unborn daughter, 3 mos. premature, who died March 23, 1996
|
|||
15. |
3/25/96 |
Eleanor Roosevelt High School |
Gary White, Jr., 16, a junior at the school |
a block from his home; standing in for younger brother, who had hit younger sister of the killer on the school bus ride home
|
stabbed in the back & chest with a carving knife by Riccardo DeWayne Walker, 15, standing in for younger sister, who was hit by victim's brother on the bus ride home
|
|||
No. |
Date |
School |
Victim(s) |
Location of incident |
Cause of death |
16. |
5/14/96 |
Bingham Middle School |
Justin Allgood, 15, thought to be distraught over recent car accident deaths of 2 friends. |
died on school bus he seized after shooting driver Sula Bearden in thigh & driving away alone in bus. |
suicide: shot self with .357 Magnum after hijacking school bus, speeding through residential neighborhood & causing 3 accidents before crashing into 2-story house
|
School Year: 1996-97
17. |
10/9/96 |
Jacksonville Senior High School Sherwood, AR |
Earl Jamerson Routt, 20 high school student |
shot to death by a Jacksonville Junior High student in a feud that ended on a school bus |
shot 6 times with a .22 caliber revolver by Willis Johnson, 14, on a school bus after a feud
|
School Year: 1997-98 - No violent bus-related deaths recorded
School Year: 1998-99
18. |
11/2/98 |
E.T. Booth Middle School |
Josh Belluardo, 13, an eighth-grade student |
attacked and struck from behind as victim stepped off his school bus Monday afternoon, Nov. 2, 1998; perpetrator had thrown paper wads at victim & taunted him during bus ride home |
struck in the back of the head, kicked in the stomach and hit in the face by a 15-year-old, unidentified due to his status as a juvenile; autopsy pending; victim went into a coma & died 48 hours after beating |
Source: National School Safety Center, 2-2-99