Stockton schoolyard shooting

When

17 Jan 1989

Kind

Shooting

Killed

6

Coordinates

37.98° N, 121.30° W

Description

January 1989 school shooting in Stockton, California, USA

Injured

32

1989 mass shooting in Stockton, California, U.S.

The Stockton schoolyard shooting occurred at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, California, on January 17, 1989. The perpetrator, 24-year-old Patrick Purdy, shot and killed five children and wounded thirty-one others—all but one of them children—before committing suicide approximately three minutes after first opening fire.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Stockton schoolyard shooting: Patrick Edward Purdy kills five children, wounds 30 and then shoots himself in Stockton, California”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Beim Stockton-Massaker werden fünf Schüler einer Grundschule in Stockton (Kalifornien) bei einem Amoklauf getötet und dreißig verletzt”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page