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/ 15 February 2008

Gunman kills five, then himself at Illinois college

A black-clad man fired into a lecture hall packed with students at an Illinois university on Thursday, killing five people and wounding 18 before shooting himself dead, police and college officials said. The gunman stepped onto the lecturer’s stage near the end of a mid-afternoon geology class at Northern Illinois University and began shooting down the room.

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/ 6 December 2007

Gunman kills nine at Nebraska shopping mall

A lone gunman killed eight people and wounded five others before taking his own life in Omaha, Nebraska, on Wednesday, the worst shooting in the United States since the Virginia Tech massacre earlier this year that left 33 dead. The killer, armed with a rifle, went on a rampage in a mall busy with Christmas shoppers.

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/ 21 September 2007

Two students shot at US university

Two students were shot and wounded, one seriously, at Delaware State University early on Friday, and the campus was locked down as police searched for a gunman, officials said. At the university’s main entrance, swing-arm gates were down to prevent people from driving on to campus.