Death by Paxil @ Euchred!

12 RECENT SCHOOL/TEEN SHOOTERS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF

PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS

Resulting in 54 Killed

And 105 Wounded

* Dekalb, Illinois – February 14, 2008: 27-year-old Steven Kazmierczak shot and

killed five people and wounded 16 others before killing himself in a Northern

Illinois University auditorium. According to his girlfriend, he had recently been

taking Prozac, Xanax and Ambien. Toxicology results showed that he still had

trace amount of Xanax in his system.

* Omaha, Nebraska – December 5, 2007: 19-year-old Robert Hawkins killed

eight people and wounded five before committing suicide in an Omaha mall.

Hawkins’ friend told CNN that the gunman was on antidepressants, and autopsy

results confirmed he was under the influence of the “anti-anxiety” drug Valium.

* Jokela, Finland – November 7, 2007: 18-year-old Finnish gunman Pekka-Eric

Auvinen had been taking antidepressants before he killed eight people and

wounded a dozen more at Jokela High School in southern Finland, then

committed suicide.

* Cleveland, Ohio – October 10, 2007: 14-year-old Asa Coon stormed through

his school with a gun in each hand, shooting and wounding four before taking

his own life. Court records show Coon had been placed on the antidepressant

Trazodone.

* Blacksburg, Virginia – April 16, 2007: The psychiatric drug history of Seung-Hui

Cho in the Virginia Tech Massacre was never made public. Initial reports stated

that “depression medication” was found among Cho’s belongings. But neither

his toxicology reports, nor his recent medical history were ever released to find

out whether Cho had been in withdrawal from psychiatric medication. (33 were

killed and 29 injured, but this was not included in the total of dead and wounded

cited above.)

* Red Lake, Minnesota – March 2005: 16-year-old Jeff Weise, on Prozac, shot

and killed his grandparents, then went to his school on the Red Lake Indian

Reservation where he shot dead 7 students and a teacher, and wounded 7

before killing himself.

* Greenbush, New York – February 2004: 16-year-old Jon Romano strolled into

his high school in east Greenbush and opened fire with a shotgun. Special

education teacher Michael Bennett was hit in the leg. Romano had been taking

“medication for depression”.

* El Cajon, California – March 22, 2001: 18-year-old Jason Hoffman, on the

antidepressants Celexa and Effexor, opened fire on his classmates, wounding

three students and two teachers at Granite Hills High School.

* Williamsport, Pennsylvania – March 7, 2000: 14-year-old Elizabeth Bush was

taking the antidepressant Prozac when she shot at fellow students, wounding

one.

* Conyers, Georgia – May 20, 1999: 15-year-old T.J. Solomon was being treated

with antidepressants when he opened fire on and wounded six of his classmates.

* Columbine, Colorado – April 20, 1999: 18-year-old Eric Harris and his

accomplice, Dylan Klebold, killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded 26

others before killing themselves. Harris was on the antidepressant Luvox.

Klebold’s autopsy reports were never released.

* Notus, Idaho – April 16, 1999: 15-year-old Shawn Cooper fired two shotgun

rounds in his school, narrowly missing students. He was taking a prescribed

SSRI antidepressant and Ritalin.

* Springfield, Oregon – May 21, 1998: 15-year-old Kip Kinkel murdered his

parents and then proceeded to school where he opened fire on students in the

cafeteria, killing two and wounding 22. Kinkel had been taking the

antidepressant Prozac.