Stockton schoolyard shooting
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The Stockton schoolyard shooting was an act of mass murder which 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 with a single pistol shot to the head approximately three minutes after first opening fire.
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