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The Olean High School shooting was a school shooting that occurred on December 30, 1974 at Olean High School in Olean, New York, United States. The gunman, 17-year-old Anthony F. Barbaro, an honor student and member of the school's rifle team, indiscriminately shot at people on the street from windows at the third floor of the school building. Three people were killed and another 11 people were injured during the shooting.〔(Sniper at high school kills 3 and wounds 11 ), ''St. Petersburg Times'' (December 31, 1974)〕〔(Teen sniper kills three, 11 wounded ), ''The Bryan Times'' (December 31, 1974)〕 On November 1, 1975, Barbaro hanged himself in his prison cell at the Cattaraugus County Jail.〔(Upstate Youth in Sniper Trial a Suicide, ''The New York Times'' ) (November 2, 1975)〕〔(He regretted his life ), ''St. Petersburg Times'' (November 5, 1975)〕〔(Young man found dead in jail cell ), ''Eugene Register-Guard'' (November 2, 1975)〕 ==Details== The incident began during the afternoon of December 30, 1974, when Barbaro left his house with his mother's car. He told his brother, Chris, that he was going target shooting. Barbaro arrived at Olean High School at approximately 2:50 p.m. After leaving his car, he entered the school building through an opened side entrance and proceeded to the third floor where he set off a smoke bomb. Unable to open the locked door to the student council room, Barbaro shot off the lock, entered the student council room, and tied the door shut. A 12-man custodial crew was doing routine maintenance in the basement of the school at this time. When they heard a fire alarm sound, the 12-man maintenance crew rushed to the third floor, where they smelled smoke and heard gunshots. Eleven of the men then retreated to the ground floor. Anthony Barbaro was then confronted by Earl Metcalf, one of the custodians, who was investigating the source of the smoke. Barbaro, then seeing Metcalf through the glass window of the student council room, shot and killed him.〔 Barbaro then positioned himself in the student council room on the third floor of the school. There, he began shooting at people outside of the school. While a secretary was calling the Olean Fire Department, George Pancio, a school administrator, rushed to the third floor where he found Melcalf's body lying in the corridor and thought Melcalf was overcome by smoke. Pancio began dragging Melcalf's body out of the area, but soon realized that Melcalf had been shot in the chest and was dead. Pancio then fled and returned to the first floor. Pancio said twenty shots were fired in about an hour's time span. By 5:20 p.m., over 50 local and county police officers were surrounding the school building,〔 and a National Guard armored vehicle had arrived to remove the injured victims.〔 Two police officers and four National Guardsmen soon entered the school and threw tear gas grenades into the student council room,〔〔(3 Killed and 9 Wounded By an Upstate Sniper, 18 ), ''The New York Times'' (December 31, 1974)〕〔(New York youth faces charges in sniper deaths of 3 persons ), ''The Free-Lance Star'' (December 31, 1974)〕〔 where Barbaro was found unconscious inside the room wearing a defective gas mask.〔〔 Barbaro was laid onto a stretcher and transported by ambulance to the hospital, examined and, suffering no injuries, was then transferred to the Olean City Jail.〔〔 According to police Barbaro had fired 31 shots.〔(Funeral services for shooting victims ), ''Adirondack Daily Enterprise'' (January 3, 1975)〕 Three people were killed in the shooting, and eleven others were wounded.〔〔(Schoolboy sniper kills 3 ), ''Ellensburg Daily Record'' (December 30, 1974)〕〔(High school sniper kills three people ), ''The Prescott Courier'' (December 31, 1974)〕 Those killed were Earl Metcalf, Neal Pilon, and Carmen Wright Drayton, who was six months pregnant.〔〔〔(Sniper at school kills 3 ), ''The Milwaukee Sentinel'' (December 31, 1974)〕 Earl Metcalf, 62, was killed inside the school building, while Columbia Gas Co. employee Neal Pilon, 58, was shot while crossing the street outside of the school. Carmen Wright, 25, was shot in the head inside her car while driving by the school. Both Pilon and Wright were pronounced "dead on arrival" at Olean General Hospital.〔 Seven people survived the shooting with gunshot wounds, while four others sustained injuries from flying glass fragments.〔 Eight of the wounded victims were Olean city firemen responding to a fire complaint at the school.〔〔(Honor student held as sniper ), ''Ocala Star-Banner'' (December 31, 1974)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Olean High School shooting」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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