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Botcast: Summary of school shootings in November 2024

Overview of shootings on campus, trends, catastrophic financial risk from recent court cases, and 'duty of care' for school officials.

David Riedman

Dec 04, 2024

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GoogleLM summary of shootings on campus in November 2024.

Every shooting at a school in November 2024

David Riedman

Dec 2

Every shooting at a school in November 2024

On November 12, fifty (50) shots were fired in the parking lot of Woodlawn High School in Alabama during a fight after a varsity basketball game. Amazingly, only one student was wounded in the hail of automatic gunfire (likely another modified Glock). The prior weekend, a father was killed in front of his child when he was ambushed by 4 gunmen while leaving a basketball game at Hillcrest High School in Illinois. This was the second fatal shooting at a Hillcrest High sports event after a student was killed at a football game last year.

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David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.