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.
From Wikipedia
On May 20, 1988, 30-year-old Laurie Dann carried out a series of attacks in and around Winnetka, Illinois, United States, resulting in the death of 8-year-old Nick Corwin and injuries to six other people. In addition to the attacks in Winnetka, Dann mailed or personally delivered snacks poisoned with arsenic to several of her intended victims, however the doses were too diluted to cause harm.
The attacks began with taking two of her former babysitting client's sons on a supposed trip to a fair, but instead she drove them to Ravinia Elementary School in Highland Park where she set off an incendiary device inside a hallway, but the fire was put out without causing serious damage. Dann then drove the two children to a Jewish daycare where her ex-sister-in-law's daughter attended where she attempted to enter with a jerry can of gasoline, but she was stopped by staff. Dann then returned the two boys to their home, where she first tried to poison them, then set their house on fire, but the two children and their mother escaped.
Dann then drove to Hubbard Woods Elementary School in Winnetka, where she opened fire, killing Corwin and injuring five students. Dann then fled and took refuge inside a man's home after feigning that she was a rape victim who had just shot her attacker, but the police were after her because they were unaware it was in self defense. Eventually, after the police zeroed in on her location, she shot the man and went into a bedroom where she fatally shot herself.
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