1995 Blackville–Hilda High School shooting

School shooting December 2025 December 2025 1995 Blackville–Hilda High School shooting Blackville, South Carolina, United States Teachers October 12, 1995 School shooting, murder-suicide 2 (including the perpetrator) 1 Anthony Sincino .32 caliber revolver Suspension The Blackville–Hilda High School shooting was a school shooting that occurred on October 12, 1995, at Blackville–Hilda High School in Blackville, South Carolina, United States.Two dead in high school shooting - UPI Archives https://www.upi.com/Archives/1995/10/12/Two-dead-in-high-school-shooting/5659813470400/ 2025-09-15 UPI en The gunman, 16-year-old Anthony Sincino, was a student at Blackville–Hilda High School who was suspended from school at the time of the shooting. He fatally shot one teacher and wounded another teacher before committing suicide.http://www.schoolsafety.us/pubfiles/savd.pdf 2007-01-28 School Associated Violent Deaths National School Safety Center https://web.archive.org/web/20061211144218/http://www.schoolsafety.us/pubfiles/savd.pdf 2006-12-11 dead 2013-09-19 US School Violence Fast Facts https://www.cnn.com/us/u-s-school-violence-fast-facts 2025-09-15 CNN en Incident On October 12, 1995, the perpetrator entered through a back door armed with a .32 caliber revolver and entered the classroom of a math teacher Johnny Thompson and shot him in the face. He exited the room and confronted another math teacher Phyllis Senn who was later found dead in the teachers work room.https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-10-13-mn-56551-story.html Student Shoots Teacher, Kills Himself 1995-10-13 Los Angeles Times 2019-07-05 en-US 0458-3035 Ms. Senn was believed to have died of a heart attack but an autopsy revealed that she was killed by a gun shot. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1995/10/14/Carolina-teacher-died-from-bullet/5588813643200/ Carolina teacher died from bullet United Press International 14 October 1995 upi.com 18 January 2021 She was hit once in the back of her right shoulder, and the bullet entered a lung, causing her to bleed out rapidly.S. Carolina teacher died of gunshot wound https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1995/10/15/s-carolina-teacher-died-of-gunshot-wound/ 2024-11-29 Tampa Bay Times en1995-10-13 Student Opens Fire, Kills Self https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/national/1995/10/13/student-opens-fire-kills-self/e9338ea2-1e00-4b2e-bec6-427ea845d5fa/ 2025-09-15 The Washington Post en-US 0190-8286 A student that was in the room across the hall from the first victim, stated that Sincino did not look angry or mad during the shooting, but that he looked like he did not know exactly what he was doing.https://apnews.com/b287c54b476cd54894206aecc2d97561 Teacher, Student Dead in High School Shooting, Second Teacher Wounded Smith Bruce AP News 2019-07-052022-03-31 South Carolina has history of school shootings https://www.yahoo.com/news/south-carolina-history-school-shootings-184036698.html 2025-09-15 Yahoo News en-US Sincino's body was later found outside the school office door after he committed suicide by shooting himself in the right temple.https://www.deseretnews.com/article/444693/STUDENT-SHOOTS-TEACHER-THEN-TURNS-GUN-ON-HIMSELF.html https://web.archive.org/web/20181001072209/https://www.deseretnews.com/article/444693/STUDENT-SHOOTS-TEACHER-THEN-TURNS-GUN-ON-HIMSELF.html dead October 1, 2018 Student Shoots Teacher Then Turns Gun on Himself 1995-10-13 DeseretNews.com en 2019-07-05S.C. student shoots teacher, kills himself https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1995/10/13/s-c-student-shoots-teacher-kills-himself/ 2025-09-15 Tampa Bay Times en Perpetrator Sincino was African American, and all the people who he attacked or attempted to attack (such as the school's principal, who Sincino allegedly stalked for some time prior to the shooting) were white, which fueled speculation that the shooting was racially motivated, an assertion backed by Sincino's mother, who blamed her son's actions on him being the victim of Institutional racism. R. Langford James 22 October 1995 Teen's life full of contradictions The Augusta Chronicle United States Sincino had a history of disciplinary problems within the school, which he was expelled from in 1994, subsequently facing another expulsion for making obscene hand gestures on a school bus after he was readmitted in 1995. These disciplinary actions were regarded as being unnecessarily harsh by people like Sincino's friend Latisha Grant, and there was a pervasive belief in the community that this was due to Sincino being African American. Katherine S. Newman Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/katherine-s-newman/rampage/9780786722372/ 18 January 2021 2005 Basic Books 9780465051045 See also List of school shootings in the United States by death toll References 33 21 50 N 81 15 50 W type:event_scale:5000 title Category:Barnwell County, South Carolina Category:High school killings in the United States Category:1995 murders in the United States Category:1995 in South Carolina Category:Murder–suicides in South Carolina Category:Crimes in South Carolina Category:October 1995 crimes in the United States Category:High school shootings in the United States Category:School shootings committed by pupils Category:Attacks on schools in 1995 Category:School shootings in South Carolina