1994 Clay Shrout (killed four on May 26, 1994): a Virtual Cemetery

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1994 Clay Shrout (killed four on May 26, 1994)

The 17-year-old got up about 5 a.m. in his Florence, Kentucky, home and shot his parents and sisters, ages 14 and 12. Then he went to a friend's house – a girl he had taken to the prom two weeks earlier - and made her drive him to classes at Ryle High School. Shrout showed his trigonometry teacher the gun and sat down at her desk, then silently held the class hostage for about 10 minutes until an assistant principal knocked on the door and offered to trade places with them. Shrout let the others go and gave up the gun about five minutes later when the first police officer arrived at the door. He later told police he was mad at his parents for taking away his weapons because he was flunking English.