February 5, 1981 - Luke Woodham
Woodham carried out two separate acts of lethal violence on the same morning in 1997, first at home and then at school, making his case one of the earlier instances of what became a recognized pattern in American school shootings. The Pearl, Mississippi attack predated the more widely covered school shootings later in the decade and drew attention to warning signs that investigators and schools had largely lacked frameworks to address.
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The 1997 Pearl High School shooting occurred on October 1, 1997, at Pearl High School in Pearl, Mississippi, United States. The gunman, 16-year-old 11th grade student Luke Woodham (born February 5, 1981), shot and killed two students and injured seven others at the school after killing his mother by bludgeoning and stabbing at their home earlier that morning.
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