Spring
1988:
Pinellas County,
Florida. Pinellas Park
High School -- two students in the
cafeteria with
guns fatally shoot an assistant
principal and wound another
teacher and a
student teacher. (Later
school officials would block distribution of a
student
newspaper containing the account of events.) Didn't even make the
national news, maybe because there was only one death and it was an
adult (though that casualties were so relatively light was pure luck). School
violence is not new; it's only newly bloody enough to make the news.
Sources: http://journalism.arizona.edu/faculty/Patten/article.html and St. Petersburg Times article "Painful reminders for some" from the series "MASSACRE AT SCHOOL" by Stephen Hegarty, April 2, 1999.