List of school shootings known to be linked to SSRIs(Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor)
Eric Harris age 17 (first on *Zoloft *then *Luvox*) and Dylan Klebold aged 18 (Colombine school shooting in Littleton, Colorado), killed 12 students and 1 teacher, and wounded 23 others, before killing themselves. Klebold's medical records have never been made available to the public.
Jeff Weise, age 16, had been prescribed 60 mg/day of *Prozac *(three times the average starting dose for adults!) when he shot his grandfather, his grandfather's girlfriend and many fellow students at Red Lake, Minnesota. He then shot himself. 10 dead, 12 wounded.
Cory Baadsgaard, age 16, Wahluke (Washington state) High School, was on *Paxil *(which caused him to have hallucinations) when he took a rifle to his high school and held 23 classmates hostage. _He has no memory of the event.
Chris Fetters, age 13, killed his favorite aunt while taking *Prozac*.
Christopher Pittman, age 12, murdered both his grandparents while taking *Zoloft*.
Mathew Miller, age 13, hanged himself in his bedroom closet after taking *Zoloft *for 6 days.
Jarred Viktor, age 15, stabbed his grandmother 61 times after 5 days on *Paxil*.
Kip Kinkel, age 15, (on *Prozac and Ritalin*) shot his parents while they slept then went to school and opened fire killing 2 classmates and injuring 22 shortly after beginning Prozac treatment.
Luke Woodham, age 16 (*Prozac*) killed his mother and then killed two students, wounding six others.
A boy in Pocatello, ID (*Zoloft*) in 1998 had a Zoloft-induced seizure that caused an armed stand off at his school.
Michael Carneal (*Ritalin*), age 14, in West Paducah, Kentucky, opened fire on students at a high school prayer meeting, killing three teenagers and wounding five others.
A young man in Huntsville, Alabama (*Ritalin*) went psychotic, chopping up his parents with an ax and also killing one sibling and almost murdering another.
Andrew Golden, age 11, (*Ritalin*) and Mitchell Johnson, aged 14, (*Ritalin*) shot 15 people, killing four students, one teacher, and wounding 10 others.
TJ Solomon, age 15, (*Ritalin*) high school student in Conyers, Georgia opened fire on and wounded six of his class mates.
Rod Mathews, age 14, (*Ritalin*) beat a classmate to death with a bat.
James Wilson, age 19, (*various psychiatric drug*s) from Breenwood, South Carolina, took a .22 caliber revolver into an elementary school killing two young girls, and wounding seven other children and two teachers.
Elizabeth Bush, age 13, (*Paxil*) was responsible for a school shooting in Pennsylvania.
Jason Hoffman (*Effexor and Celexa*) -- school shooting in El Cajon, California
Jarred Viktor, age 15, (*Paxil*), after five days on Paxil he stabbed his grandmother 61 times.
Chris Shanahan, age 15 (*Paxil*) in Rigby, ID who out of the blue killed a woman.
Jeff Franklin (*Prozac and Ritalin*), Huntsville, AL, killed his parents as they came home from work using a sledge hammer, hatchet, butcher knife and mechanic's file, then attacked his younger brothers and sister.
Neal Furrow (*Prozac*) in LA Jewish school shooting reported to have been court-ordered to be on Prozac along with several other medications.
Kevin Rider, age 14, was withdrawing from *Prozac *when he died from a gunshot wound to his head.
Initially it was ruled a suicide, but two years later, the investigation into his death was opened as a possible homicide. The prime suspect, also age 14, had been taking *Zoloft *and other SSRI antidepressants.
Alex Kim, age 13, hanged himself shortly after his *Lexapro *prescription had been doubled.
Diane Routhier was prescribed *Welbutrin *for gallstone problems. Six days later, after suffering many adverse effects of the drug, she shot herself.
Billy Willkomm, an accomplished wrestler and a University of Florida student, was prescribed *Prozac *at the age of 17. His family found him dead of suicide -- hanging from a tall ladder at the family's Gulf Shore Boulevard home in July 2002.
Kara Jaye Anne Fuller-Otter, age 12, was on *Paxil *when she hanged herself from a hook in her closet. Kara's parents said ".... the damn doctor wouldn't take her off it and I asked him to when we went in on the second visit. I told him I thought she was having some sort of reaction to Paxil..."
Gareth Christian, Vancouver, age 18, was on *Paxil *when he committed suicide in 2002,(Gareth's father could not accept his son's death and killed himself.)
Julie Woodward, age 17, was on *Zoloft *when she hanged herself in her family's detached garage.
Matthew Miller was 13 when _he saw a psychiatrist because he was having difficulty at school. The psychiatrist gave him samples of *Zoloft*. Seven days later his mother found him dead, hanging by a belt from a laundry hook in his closet.
Kurt Danysh, age 18, and on *Prozac*, killed his father with a shotgun. He is now behind prison bars, and writes letters, trying to warn the world that SSRI drugs can kill.
Woody ____, age 37, committed suicide while in his 5th week of taking *Zoloft*. Shortly before his death his physician suggested doubling the dose of the drug. He had seen his physician only for insomnia. He had never been depressed, nor did he have any history of any mental illness symptoms.
A boy from Houston, age 10, shot and killed his father after his *Prozac* dosage was increased.
Hammad Memon, age 15, shot and killed a fellow middle school student. He had been diagnosed with ADHD and depression and was taking *Zoloft *and "other drugs for the conditions."
Matti Saari, a 22-year-old culinary student, shot and killed 9 students and a teacher, and wounded another student, before killing himself. Saari was taking an *SSRI *and a *benzodiazapine*.
Steven Kazmierczak, age 27, shot and killed five people and wounded 21 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 amounts of Xanax in his system.
Finnish gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen, age 18, had been taking *antidepressants *before he killed eight people and wounded a dozen more at Jokela High School -- then he committed suicide.
Asa Coon from Cleveland, age 14, shot and wounded four before taking his own life. Court records show Coon was on *Trazodone*.
Jon Romano, age 16, on *medication for depression*, fired a shotgun at a teacher in his New York high school.
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