October 18, 1957 - Laurie Dann
Her actions on a single morning in 1988 placed her among a rare and grim category: those who carried out targeted violence against young children in an institutional setting. The attack at Hubbard Woods Elementary School in Winnetka, Illinois left one eight-year-old dead and several other students wounded, culminating in a hostage situation before her death by suicide. The case drew national attention both for the vulnerability of the victims and for the failures of the systems that had encountered her deteriorating mental state in the years prior.
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Nicholas Brent Corwin (1980–1988) was an eight-year-old boy who was shot and killed by thirty-year-old mentally ill woman Laurie Dann, inside an elementary school in Winnetka, Illinois, United States, on May 20, 1988. Dann also shot several other students, all of whom survived, then took a family hostage, injuring an occupant with a gunshot before committing suicide. Earlier that day, Dann had tried to poison several acquaintances and set fires in a school and a daycare.
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