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Unclassified <br />On February 8, 2008, at 8:35 a.m., Latina Williams (female), 23, armed with a handgun, <br />began shooting in a second -floor classroom at Louisiana Technical College in Baton Rouge, <br />Louisiana. She fired six rounds, then reloaded and committed suicide before police arrived. <br />Two people were killed; no one was wounded. <br />On February 14, 2008, at 3:00 p.m, Steven Phillip Kazmierczak, 27, armed with a shotgun <br />and three handguns, began shooting in the Cole Hall Auditorium at Northern Illinois Univer- <br />sity in DeKalb, Illinois. He had attended graduate school at the university. Five people were <br />killed; 16 were wounded, including three who were injured as they fled. The shooter commit- <br />ted suicide before police arrived. <br />On March 3, 2008, at 12:15 p.m, Album Edward Blake, 60, armed with a handgun, began <br />shooting in a Wendy's restaurant in West Palm Beach, Florida. One person was killed; four <br />were wounded. The shooter committed suicide before police arrived. <br />On May 25, 2008, at 2:25 a.m., Ernesto Villagomez, 30, armed with a handgun, began <br />firing inside Player's Bar and Grill in Winnemucca, Nevada. Two people were killed; two <br />were wounded. The shooter was killed by a citizen with a valid firearm permit before <br />police arrived. <br />On June 25, 2008, at 12:00 a.m., Wesley Neal Higdon, 25, armed with a handgun, began <br />firing at his co-workers in the Atlantis Plastics factory in Henderson, Kentucky. Prior to the <br />incident, he was reprimanded by a supervisor for having an argument with a co-worker and <br />was escorted from the plant. He returned a short time later and began shooting. Five people <br />were killed; one was wounded. The shooter committed suicide before police arrived. <br />27, 2008, at 10:18 a.m., <br />shooting in the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee. <br />Two people were killed; seven were wounded. The shooter was restrained by citizens before <br />police arrived and took him into custody. <br />On September 2, 2008, at 2:15 p.m., Isaac Lee Zamora, 28, armed with a rifle, shot a police <br />officer at the shooter's home and then drove down Interstate 5 near Alger in Skagit County, <br />Washington, shooting drivers and another police officer. Six people were killed, including <br />one police officer; four were wounded, including one police officer. The shooter drove to a <br />police station and surrendered 40 minutes after the incident began. <br />On January 24, 2009, at 10:37 p.m., Erik Salvador Ayala, 24, armed with a handgun, bega <br />shooting at a crowd outside of The Zone, an under -21 nightclub in Portland, Oregon, and <br />then shot himself before police arrived. He died in the hospital two days later. Two people <br />were killed; seven were wounded. <br />Key <br />it-'_ Commerce <br />0 Education <br />Government <br />.i Open Space <br />un' Residences <br />Health Care <br />3 House of Worship <br />Unclassified 30 <br />