Here is a list of some of Georgia’s gun-related incidents at schools and colleges.
Sept. 4, 2015: An 18-year-old student and a passerby were shot after a Grady-Carver high school football game.
Aug. 27, 2015: A 22-year-old student from metro Atlanta is shot to death in the student union of Savannah State University.
Oct. 3, 2014: A Fulton County high school student was fatally shot in a school parking lot after a football game.
Sept. 5, 2014: A Savannah State University student shot another student.
May 8, 2014: One person was shot in the parking deck of Georgia Gwinnett College.
May 5, 2014: A Paine College student was shot in the head after a drug deal gone bad, police said.
May 4, 2014: A Paine College student was injured by flying debris when someone fired into a dorm.
March 30, 2014: A shot was fired in university housing at Savannah State. No one was injured.
March 25, 2014: An argument between students led to shots fired in a Banneker High School parking lot in south Fulton County
Nov. 3, 2013: A Stephenson High School football player was shot during a fight with teenagers who were not students.
Sept. 21, 2013: A 20-year-old man was killed on the Savannah State University campus.
Aug. 20, 2013: A gunman fired shots at DeKalb County's Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy. No one was injured.
Feb. 27, 2013: A teenage girl accidentally shot herself in the thigh on the grounds of Grady High School in Atlanta
Feb. 1, 2013: A Clark Atlanta University student was charged with shooting a Morehouse College student after a fight. The victim's wounds were not life-threatening.
Jan. 31, 2013: A 14-year-old boy was shot in the neck at Price Middle School in Atlanta. He was treated and released. A 15-year-old boy was charged.
May 20, 1999: A 15-year-old student at Heritage High School in Rockdale County wounds six students with a .22-caliber rifle on the high school campus.
Sources: Everytown for Gun Safety and media reports
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