1995 Richland High School shooting

1995 criminal attack in Tennessee, US December 2025 January 2025 1995 Richland High School shooting Lynnville, Tennessee, United States November 15, 1995 CST School shooting, double-murder Revenge for poor grades 2 1 James Ellison Rouse Rouse, Stephen Abbott Guilty on all counts Rouse: First-degree murder Second-degree murder Attempted first-degree murder Abbott:Criminal responsibility (4 counts) yes Rouse:Life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, plus 42 yearsAbbott:40 years imprisonment; commuted to 27 years imprisonment .22-caliber Remington Model 522 Viper semi-automatic rifle The Richland High School shooting was a school shooting that occurred on Wednesday, November 15, 1995,https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9800EEDC1231F933A25757C0A9669C8B63&sec=health&spon=&pagewanted=2 The Well-Marked Roads to Homicidal Rage New York Times April 10, 2000 LAURIE GOODSTEIN and WILLIAM GLABERSON in Lynnville, Tennessee, a small community located in Giles County. Seventeen-year-old James Ellison "Jamie" Rouse, a senior student at the school, murdered one teacher and one student, and seriously wounded another teacher.Meyer Richrd E. When The Shooting Stops https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-22-ss-24169-story.html December 17, 2016 Los Angeles Times April 22, 2000 Perpetrator Jamie Rouse James Ellison Rouse 1978 08 05 U.S. First degree murder (2 counts), Attempted murder (2 counts) Life without parole Turney Center Industrial Complex Incarcerated James "Jamie" Ellison Rouse was born on 8/5/1978. During his junior year in 1995, he held his brother Jeremy at gunpoint, as punishment for the threat, the boys parents took away Jamie's gun, though he later obtained the rifle used in the subsequent school crime. For his senior year yearbook entry, Jamie wrote a threatening reference leaving his bad memories to his two younger brothers. He also got in a fight with two students in spring 1995 during which he kept threatening to kill the boys, Rouse was suspended for three days for the fight.https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/national/041000rampage-killers.html?scp=111&sq=killers%2520review&st=Search Rampage Killers: The Well-Marked Roads to Homicidal Rage archive.nytimes.com Shooting Rouse used a .22-calibre Remington Viper semi-automatic rifle,http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/weird/kids1/index_1.html School Killers — The List — Crime Library March 10, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140310051132/http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/weird/kids1/index_1.html December 4, 2020 March 10, 2014 which he hid behind bushes before driving to retrieve his friend. His friend Stephen Abbot drove Jamie Rouse the rest of the way to Richland High School. He parked the car outside the school, and Rouse entered through the north entrance hallway. Inside the hallway he confronted teachers Carolyn Yancey and Carolyn Foster.http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/12/48hours/main611470.shtml https://web.archive.org/web/20040415202458/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/12/48hours/main611470.shtml dead April 15, 2004 The mind of a school killer 48 Hours CBS News Rebecca Leung He then shot both teachers in the head in the view of over fifty students in the hallway. He then aimed his rifle at football coach Ron Shirey; however, he missed and fatally shot freshman Diane Collins in the throat. He was then tackled by a male student and an agriculture teacher, who forcibly took the rifle away from him. Carolyn Foster was killed by a gunshot wound to the head, while Carolyn Yancey survived in serious condition. Trial Rouse was convicted as an adult of one count of first-degree murder, one count of second-degree murder, and one count of first-degree attempted murder. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole plus 42 years.Violence Goes to School https://web.archive.org/web/20141021191956/http://www.sino.trellisinteractive.com/nfa/chronology.html October 21, 2014 Stephen Abbott was convicted of criminal responsibility for second degree murder and criminal response for attempted first and second degree murder as a judge decided Abbott knew what Jamie Rouse was planning because Rouse had told him, "It's going to happen today." Abbott was sentenced to 40 years in prison.https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-22-ss-24169-story.html When The Shooting Stops April 22, 2000 Los Angeles Times Abbott's sentence was later reduced to 27 years, and he was released from prison on January 26, 2014.Detailed Results https://foil.app.tn.gov/foil/details.jsp 2025-05-23 foil.app.tn.gov Aftermath On December 4, 1995, Rouse's 14-year-old brother Jeremy was arrested and charged with solicitation to commit first-degree murder for trying to get other students to finish the shooting.https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1995/12/06/police-arrest-teens-brother-in-tennessee-school-killing/ POLICE ARREST TEEN'S BROTHER IN TENNESSEE SCHOOL KILLING December 6, 1995 Rouse is currently imprisoned in the Turney Center Industrial Complex.https://www.columbiadailyherald.com/article/20160125/NEWS/301259976 U.S. Supreme Court rules on juvenile offenders January 25, 2016 July 12, 2021 Columbia Daily Heraldhttps://books.google.com/books?id=PmxaDwAAQBAJ&dq=James+Ellison+Rouse+south+central&pg=PA113 9781440856259 Mass Shootings in America: Understanding the Debates, Causes, and Responses May 25, 2018 ABC-CLIOhttps://ww.en.freejournal.org/9612425/1/richland-high-school-shooting.html Richland High School shooting. The Richland High School shooting was a school shooting that occurred on Wednesday, November 15, 1995, in Lynnville, Tennessee, Ahttps://www.columbiadailyherald.com/story/news/education/2022/01/08/discipline-dominates-concerns-maury-county-public-schools/9116293002/ 'Relearn school': Discipline amid pandemic dominates concerns at Maury County schools https://foil.app.tn.gov/foil/details.jsp Detailed Results As of January 2016, he was up for resentencing due to the Supreme Court cases Miller v. Alabama and Montgomery v. Louisiana, which have banned juvenile offenders from getting a mandatory life without parole sentence and required those who were previously sentenced to life to be given a chance for a resentencing.https://www.columbiadailyherald.com/article/20160125/news/301259976 U.S. Supreme Court rules on juvenile offenders The Daily Herald December 4, 2020http://www.tncourts.gov/courts/court-criminal-appeals/opinions/2019/08/14/james-ellison-rouse-v-state-tennessee James Ellison Rouse v. State of Tennessee | Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts www.tncourts.gov December 4, 2020 See also List of school shootings in the United States (before 2000) List of school-related attacks References 35.3371 -87.0319 type:event_region:US-TN title Category:1990s crimes in Tennessee Category:1995 disasters in the United States Category:1995 in Tennessee Category:1995 murders in the United States Category:American prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment Category:Attacks on schools in 1995 Category:Deaths by firearm in Tennessee Category:Giles County, Tennessee Category:High school killings in the United States Category:High school shootings in the United States Category:Murder in Tennessee Category:November 1995 crimes in the United States Category:School shootings committed by pupils Category:School shootings in Tennessee Category:Revenge