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
Norinco Type 56S semi-automatic rifle
Taurus PT92 pistol[1]
Arson fire
Deaths
6 (including the perpetrator)
Injured
32[2]
Perpetrator
Patrick Purdy
Motive
Unknown (possibly racism, eviction, and legal stress)
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. His victims were predominantly Southeast Asian refugees.
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.
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