Although some students thought their former teacher, Shane Schumert, would return to the school and “do something,” nobody really saw it coming when he did.

On March 6, 2012, Schumert returned to Episcopal High School, a private high school in Florida where he had worked until earlier that morning when he had been fired with an AK-47 assault rifle hidden in a guitar case. He shot and killed the school’s headmistress, Dale Regan, and then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide.

Details concerning why Schumert was dismissed have not been released, but one student, Maria Boyance, told a local newspaper that she heard he had been fired and was escorted out of the school. Boyance described Schumert as being an “awkward man.”

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A community college in Raleigh, North Carolina, was under lockdown this morning because an armed intruder is supposedly on the school’s campus. The local sheriff’s office received a phone call at 9:00am this morning saying that a man with a gun was on Wake Technical Community College’s campus.

“No one is allowed in or off of Main Campus at this time,” a note on the school’s website said. “We will post more information as it becomes available.

An hour after the phone call was received, it was reported that the police had blocked the main entrance to the school. Luckily for morning commuters, the traffic near the school was not affected. Police deputies went to the campus and investigated the call.

The lockdown was lifted around 10:45am and classes are expected to resume again at 1:00pm EST today. Luckily, nobody was hurt in this incident.

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Stanley Roring is a student at Crafton Hills College in Yucaipa, CA. Roring recently posted terroristic threats on Facebook that made it clear that he wanted to carry out a school shooting similar to the one that terrorized Virginia Tech several years ago.

School district police found Roring’s threatening posts hours after he published them on Facebook. They then reported the threat to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.

“It was information reported from someone who is a friend or acquaintance of (Roring’s) on Facebook,” said a spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, Cindy Bachman. “Obviously, it was very alarming once that was read.”

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A high school senior in Omaha, Nebraska, shot the principal and an assistant principal yesterday at Millard South High School. Both Principal Curtis Case, 45, and Assistant Principal Vicky Kaspar, 58, were hospitalized at the Creighton University Medical Center. Case is in serious yet stable condition, but Kaspar died during the night. The Millard schools were briefly put under lock-down until police found the suspect.

CNN reports that the shooter was identified as Robert Butler Jr., the son of an Omaha Police Department detective. Police found dead him inside his car shortly after the shooting. His wounds were apparently self-inflicted, and the police are not looking for any other suspects. No other students were injured.

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During a public Bay District School Board Meeting this past Tuesday, Clay Duke opened fire at board members, starting with superintendent Bill Husfelt.

The Florida school board meeting had started normally, but things took a violent turn when the floor was opened to the public for comment. Duke stood up, spray painted a red “V” on the wall and brandished a gun, ordering the audience and women out of the room. He then opened fire. None of the remaining board members were hit, but once authorities entered the room the gunman turned the weapon on himself.

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