Stockton schoolyard shooting
1989 mass shooting in Stockton, California, U.S. / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Cleveland Elementary School shooting (also known as the Stockton schoolyard shooting and the Cleveland School massacre) occurred on January 17, 1989, at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, California, United States, when 24-year-old Patrick Purdy, who had an extended criminal history, shot and killed five students and wounded 32 others. As first responders arrived at the scene, Purdy committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.
1989 Cleveland Elementary School shooting | |
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Location | Stockton, California, U.S. |
Coordinates | 37°58′56″N 121°18′03″W |
Date | January 17, 1989; 35 years ago (1989-01-17) 11:59 am – 12:02 pm (PST) |
Target | Students and faculty at Cleveland Elementary School |
Attack type | School shooting, mass shooting, mass murder, murder-suicide, domestic terrorism, suicide attack, arson, hate crime |
Weapons | |
Deaths | 6 (including the perpetrator) |
Injured | 32[2] |
Perpetrator | Patrick Purdy |
Motive | Unknown (possibly xenophobia, eviction, and legal stress) |
The attack was the U.S. non-college school shooting with the highest number of fatalities and injuries until the Columbine High School massacre, and of all U.S. school shootings in the 1980s, it had the largest number of victims.