Stockton Schoolyard Shooting

Date: January 17, 1989 • Location: Stockton, United States

Patrick Purdy opened fire in an elementary school in Stockton, California, killing 5 and wounding 32 others.

The Stockton schoolyard shooting occurred at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, California, on January 17, 1989. The perpetrator, 24-year-old Patrick Purdy, shot and killed five children and wounded thirty-one others—all but one of them children—before committing suicide approximately three minutes after first opening fire.