What the records say
- When
- 1988
- Kind
- Shooting
- Killed
- 2
- Coordinates
- 34.23° N, 82.14° W
- Description
- 1988 school shooting in Greenwood, South Carolina
- Injured
- 9
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
1988 Oakland Elementary School shooting
Mass shooting in Greenwood, South Carolina
The Oakland Elementary School shooting was a school shooting in 1988 in Greenwood, South Carolina, United States, in which 19-year-old James William Wilson Jr. shot and killed two students and wounded seven other students, a teacher, and a gym coach at Oakland Elementary School. He shot people in the cafeteria and in a classroom. Wilson had a history of mental illness.
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