Brampton Centennial, the first and forgotten high school shooting?

As I’m new here, I’ll post some questions I’m wondering that the Columbine sleuths have on here.

Search Up “Brampton Guardian - 1975 SCHOOL SHOOTING: "There were not words to describe this sort of thing..."

But anyways, how many of you are familiar with this particular case, I remember hearing about Columbine back in the day, being told how a gun incident once happened at Brampton Centennial Secondary School. This article claims also that this was the FIRST school shooting in North America, which is something I’m not sure of.


Interestingly, Brampton high schools have also been the sight of two other firearm related incidents, one in 2004 at Bramalea Secondary School when a teacher was killed in the parking lot by her husband. Not sure if this could be counted at a shooting like the first one.

Search Up - “CBC Teacher does after shooting in high school”

Also, this last one, at Chinguacousy Secondary School in 2005, I was actually in school when this happened, in the library at this school, we had lockdown drills before but this one felt serious. While a student was shot in the parking lot, the incident appeared to be gang related in some way, I never did find out what happened.

Search Up - “The Globe and Mail Student shot at Brampton, Ont., school parking lot“


But anyways, does anyone know more about the case way back in 1975. Keep in mind, when Columbine happened, the shooting at BCSS was nearly as old as Columbine’s shooting is now.

"Columbine sleuths" HAHAHAHA

I don’t know what the right word to use was, but you get my point.

Columbine sleuths? I don't even know what a Columbine is.

I've heard of the Brampton shooting before, just didn't know the name of the school. Only knew it as the Michael Slobodian case. Anthony Barbaro already beat him in shooting up a high school (technically), and there was also Verlin Spencer.

Interesting, the two other incidents you mention, are unlike the others. In the case of Anthony Barbaro, he shot from the school, I guess technically a school shooting, but that would make the Vegas shooting technically a hotel shooting in that regard.

The other one involving the principal back in 1940 at what appeared to be a meeting, also different.

BCSS was more or less what we think of when we hear of a “school shooting”, an intruder, a student or not, walks onto the school and starts shooting at people at random or targets a specific case as in the case at Polytechnique.

Fair enough.

There's actually a document available about the shooting on schoolshooters.info

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