School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports

The end of 2025 brings a final count of 232 shootings at k-12 schools with 204 victims who were killed or wounded. Both the number of shootings (blue) and the number of victims (green) are significant reductions from the post-COVID closure peak.

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -54:12 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. The Tragic Repetition of School Shootings (aired 12/17/2025) by A Public Affair on WORT in Madison, WI. This week marks the 1-year anniversary of the shooting at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison. Meanwhile the search for the Brown University shooter is ongoing.

Paper: Are School Shootings a Unique Form of Violence?

The Brown University school shooting investigation appears to have hit a wall because police officials didn’t have any new info about the suspect to share last night or this morning (12/18). Officials have confirmed that zero of the 1,200 cameras on the Brown University campus recorded the suspect entering or leaving the scene. Brown’s cameras are also not connected to the new $1M Providence PD Real-time Crime Monitoring Center.

Guest: Retired police chief Patrick Flannelly served 27 years with Lafayette Police Department which borders Purdue University in Indiana. He served 10 years as chief of the department and now hosts of the Coptimizer Podcast. Brown University has 235 buildings (most built between 1770-1926) on its 143-acre urban campus in downtown Providence, RI. The school has 20,000 students in a community of 200,000 people.

When I was in high school in the DC Metro area, an unidentified sniper shot 13 random people over a 22 day period in October 2002. Police only identified and caught the suspects because they started leaving clues at the crime scenes. Providence Police released a new video of the Brown University school shooting suspect. It’s now +60 hours after 2 students were killed and 9 students were wounded when a gunman opened fire during an econ exam prep session on Saturday at 4pm.

New Paper: Run, Hide, or Freeze: Social and Emotional Influence on Behavior in an Immersive School Shooting Simulation Abstract: As school shootings rise in frequency across the United States, understanding how individuals respond during such crises is critical for developing effective safety protocols. This study used an immersive, computer-based simulation to investigate how social influence and emotion level from non-player characters (NPCs) affect behavior during an active shooter event.

At 4pm on Saturday, December 13, a gunman dressed in all black and a mask opened fire inside a classroom during an economics exam prep session at Brown University. He fired approximately forty 9mm rounds inside the room and police found two additional loaded 30-round magazines. Unlike most other school shootings and mass shootings, the gunman fled before police arrived while he still had additional ammo and potential victims were inside the building.

Two students (11th and 10th grader) have been arrested for plotting a mass shooting at Pasadena Memorial High (Houston, TX suburbs).

Article (pre-submission/pre-publication): Early Medical Response in Active-Shooter Incidents. A Systematic Review of After-Action Reports Guests: Dr. Dominique Wong is an attending physician the Cabell Huntington Hospital Emergency Department and chair of the hospital’s Medical Readiness Committee.