An expelled student dressed in all black and carrying two guns opened fire at Gutenberg Gymnasium School in the eastern German city of Erfurt Friday morning, killing 17 people before shooting himself. This tragic incident caused the death of two young girls, 14 teachers, a police officer who responded to the scene, and the gunman. According to police chief Manfred Grube, the gunman, armed with a...

A publication of the U.S. Secret Service and the U.S. Department of Education, this report is an expansion of the earlier Interim Report on the Prevention of Targeted Violence in Schools, released in October 2000. After the 1999 shooting incident at Columbine High School, the two agencies began the safe school initiative to examine the "thinking, planning and other pre-attack behaviors engaged in...