The school year began with mass shootings. It's about to go on Christmas break the same way
The US school year is heading into its Christmas holiday break similar to how it began – with a mass shooting.
The shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, on Monday was the 83rd school shooting recorded in 2024, surpassing 2023 for the most school shootings in a single year since CNN began tracking such incidents in 2008.
And the start of the academic year in early fall had been scattered with numerous shootings — including an apparent murder-suicide on the first day of classes at Rice University in Houston on August 26.
The following week, a 14-year-old shooter killed four victims at a high school in Winder, Georgia — making it the deadliest school shooting of the year.
Wisconsin shaken: The state has experienced a number of other scares in recent months. In May, police shot and killed a student who brought a gun near a middle school in the village of Mount Horeb, about 23 miles southwest of Madison.
The student was a minor and did not manage to enter the school. Nobody else was injured.
Then in November, a 13-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of planning a shooting in Kenosha, by Lake Michigan, after he tried to enter a secure area of an elementary school while carrying two bags. The boy had been searching online about school shootings, and had made several comments to other students about school shootings for months beforehand, police said.
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