List of school attacks in Argentina

The following is a list of school attacks in Argentina, including stabbings and shootings that took place in daycare centers, schools, universities and other educational centers. Excluded from this list are the following:

  1. Incidents that occurred as a result of police actions
  2. Suicides or suicide attempts involving only one person.

List

Date Location Perpetrator Dead Injured Description
6 May 1997 Escuela de Educación Secundaria Técnica "Manuel Belgrano" in Buenos Aires Unnamed 0 1 A 19-year-old student shot and injured a 21-year-old classmate in the arm with a .32-caliber handgun during an argument relating to football teams.[1]
9 May 1997 Escuela Media N° 2 in Burzaco, Buenos Aires Province Leonardo Aguirre 1 0 A 14-year-old student stole his father's Argentine National Gendarmerie service weapon, which he had been carrying around for alleged self-defense, and shot his classmate, Cristian Fernández, to death, by accident. He was charged with manslaughter.[1]
2 July 1997 San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Buenos Aires Province Unnamed 0 1 A 19-year-old was shot in the shoulder by a classmate.[2]
3 July 1997 Centro Experimental del Adolescente N° 8 in Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego Province Unnamed 0 1 A 16-year-old female (who was not a student of the institution) repeatedly stabbed a 16-year-old female student with a switchblade in the school bathroom after a fistfight.[3]
15 July 1997 Concordia, Entre Ríos Province Unnamed 0 1 A 16-year-old student was shot in the back during recess by a classmate.[2]
16 October 1997 Escuela Nº 72 in Merlo Partido, Buenos Aires Province Darío 0 1 During a fight relating to a romantic conflict, a student shot a 13-year-old classmate with a .22 short revolver.[4]
22 May 1999 Escuela N° 27 in Boulogne Sur Mer, Buenos Aires Province Unnamed 0 1 A 13-year-old student shot an 11-year-old female classmate with a .32-caliber revolver.[5]
3 June 1999 Escuela N° 7 in Adrogué, Buenos Aires Province Unnamed 0 1 A 13-year-old student stabbed a classmate of the same age during a fight.[6]
12 August 1999 Escuela N° 48 in Almirante Brown Partido, Buenos Aires Province Unnamed 0 1 A 6-year-old student stabbed a 14-year-old student with a knife after alleged insults towards the perpetrator's sister.[7]
11 May 2000 Escuela Mariano Necochea in Las Heras, Mendoza Province Gonzalo D. 0 1 A 15-year-old student shot a classmate with a .32-caliber revolver before throwing the weapon out the window and being subsequently arrested.[8]
4 August 2000 Escuela de Enseñanza Media N° 9 in Rafael Calzada, Buenos Aires Province Javier Ignacio Romero 1 1 Rafael Calzada school shooting: A 19-year-old former student shot one classmate dead and injured another before fleeing back home, where he was then arrested.
11 December 2000 Complejo Educativo San Antonio de Padua in Olavarría, Buenos Aires Province Unnamed 1 0 A 15-year-old stabbed his physics teacher to death after she flunked him in a test.[9]
23 May 2001 Escuela N° 39 "Justo Jose de Urquiza" in Melchor Romero, Buenos Aires Province Unnamed 1 0 A 15-year-old stabbed a 19-year-old after they had a discussion on school safety and possible security flaws.[9]
24 April 2003 Escuela Sendas Verdes in Buenos Aires Alberto Gristaldi 1 0 A 51-year-old man entered a private school and shot his 48-year-old wife, who worked there as an administrator, twelve times with a .38 handgun, killing her on the spot.[10]
28 September 2004 Instituto N° 202 "Islas Malvinas" in Carmen de Patagones, Buenos Aires Province Rafael Solich 3 5 Carmen de Patagones school shooting: A 15-year-old student shot three classmates to death along with injuring another five before being tackled and taken into custody. He could not be prosecuted due to his young age.
18 September 2007 Escuela Normal "Julio Argentina Roca" in Monteros, Tucumán Province José Miguel García 1 0 A 19-year-old student stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death.[11]
27 March 2008 Escuela Media Nº 1 in Villa Gesell, Buenos Aires Province Unnamed 1 0 A 17-year-old student stabbed his male classmate, 18-year-old Jonatan Otero, to death with a box cutter.[12]
16 April 2008 Escuela N° 96 “José Manuel Estrada” in Paraná, Entre Ríos Province Unnamed 0 1 An 18-year-old female student was stabbed inside of a school bathroom.[13]
23 August 2011 Colegio Pedro Ferré in Corrientes, Corrientes Province Unnamed 0 1 A student was stabbed in the stomach by a classmate during recess.[14]
10 October 2013 Escuela N° 29 "Arnaldo Ferrarotti" in Pilar, Buenos Aires Province Unnamed 0 1 A 12-year-old student stabbed a 13-year-old classmate with a knife after a fistfight.[15]
20 May 2015 Escuela Media Nº 4 in Formosa, Formosa Province Unnamed 0 2 A 40-year-old man stabbed a 15-year-old student after he got into a discussion with his son, also 15. A teacher was also stabbed after he tried to intervene.[16]
15 April 2015 Jardín de Infantes "Estrellas Traviesas" in San Francisco, Córdoba Province Mauro Bongiovanni 1 0 A 45-year-old man, after escaping from a psychiatric hospital, entered the daycare center where his ex-wife, 44, worked and slit her throat with a kitchen knife in front of all the children aged 3 and 4 in her care. In August 2016, the attacker was sentenced to life imprisonment.[17]
9 June 2017 Escuela Media Nº 11 in Florencio Varela, Buenos Aires Province Unnamed 0 1 A 16-year-old student stabbed a 14-year-old student twelve times with a knife after being repeatedly bullying for his obesity.[18]
27 April 2018 Escuela Normal "Señorita Irma Rita Barbosa Fonteina" in Curuzú Cuatiá, Corrientes Province Unnamed 0 3[n 1] A student stabbed two other classmates with a knife before being beaten with a chair and disarmed.[19]
31 August 2018 Colegio Parroquial San Francisco de Asís in Córdoba, Córdoba Province Unnamed 0 1 A secondary student stabbed a 14-year-old classmate in the ear with scissors during a fight.[20]
20 February 2019 Escuela Normal "Dr. José Benjamín Gorostiaga" in La Banda, Santiago del Estero Province Unnamed 0 1 A 14-year-old student lit a firework and threatened a teacher before stabbing the school's vice principal in with a Tramontina kitchen knife. In his possession were three more fireworks and a small gas canister.[21]
10 November 2020 Escuela "Club de Danza" in Buenos Aires Sebastián Damián Villarreal 0 3[n 1] A 30-year-old student stabbed his teacher at a dance school, along with the school's owner, with a butcher knife, before being shot by police in the glutes.[22] His trial began in August 2026.[23]
1 April 2025 Escuela de Educación Primaria N° 5 "Jorge A. Susini" in Ensenada, Buenos Aires Province Unnamed 0 2 A 17-year-old stabbed two classmates, 12- and 16-year-old siblings, in the face.[24]
7 April 2025 Instituto Privado "Santa Domenica" in Gregorio de Laferrère, Buenos Aires Province K.C. 0 1 A 14-year-old girl stabbed a classmate in the head with a pocketknife at a private school.[25]
10 September 2025 Escuela 4-042 "Marcelino H. Blanco" in La Paz, Mendoza Province Unnamed 0 0 A 14-year-old girl fired shots with a 9mm pistol and threatened to kill multiple people at her school before surrendering to police after a five-hour standoff, reportedly staging the shooting as retaliation for bullying.[26]
25 November 2025 Escuela Media de Alderetes, Alderetes, Tucumán Province Unnamed 0 1 A 13-year-old student stabbed a 13-year-old classmate multiple times with a Tramontina-brand kitchen knife.[27]
30 March 2026 Escuela Nº 40 “Mariano Moreno” in San Cristóbal, Santa Fe Province Unnamed 1 8 San Cristóbal school shooting: A 15-year-old student opened fire with a shotgun at his school, killing a 13-year-old student and injuring several more before a doorman of the school tackled and disarmed him.[28][29]
20 May 2026 Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral in Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz Province P.B. 0 1 A 46-year-old university staff member repeatedly stabbed a 32-year-old student.[30]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Including the perpetrator.

References

  1. 1 2 "Un alumno mató a otro de un balazo". LA NACION (in Spanish). 10 May 1997. Retrieved 16 April 2025.
  2. 1 2 "La cronología". LA NACION (in Spanish). 17 May 2000. Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  3. ↑ "Otros hechos de violencia estudiantil". LA NACION (in Spanish). 4 July 1997. Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  4. ↑ "Un alumno de 13 años resultó herido de bala en el colegio". LA NACION (in Spanish). 16 October 1997. Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  5. ↑ Clarín, Redacción (22 May 1999). "Un alumno hirió de un balazo a una compañera". Clarín (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  6. ↑ "La violencia escolar suma más casos". LA NACION (in Spanish). 5 June 1999. Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  7. ↑ "Un chico de 6 años hirió a otro de 14". LA NACION (in Spanish). 12 August 1999. Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  8. ↑ "Hubo ayer otros tres casos de violencia escolar". LA NACION (in Spanish). 12 May 2000. Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  9. 1 2 "Dramáticos testimonios de un día impensable". LA NACION (in Spanish). 29 September 2004. Retrieved 16 April 2025.
  10. ↑ Paikin, Damián (24 April 2003). "El hombre que mató a su mujer de doce balazos en un colegio privado". Página 12 (in Spanish).
  11. ↑ "Tucumán: una estudiante fue degollada al salir de clase". infobae (in European Spanish). 25 October 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2025.
  12. ↑ "Un estudiante mató a otro en Villa Gesell". LA NACION (in Spanish). 28 March 2008. Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  13. ↑ "Los maestros afrontan los hechos de violencia escolar como pueden". El Litoral.
  14. ↑ "Corrientes: un alumno apuñaló a otro dentro de un colegio secundario". La Nueva (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  15. ↑ "Un alumno de 12 años apuñaló a otro durante un acto escolar | El Dia". El Día de La Plata (in Spanish). 12 October 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  16. ↑ "Violencia en una escuela: padre apuñaló a alumno y a profesor Diario La Capital de Mar del Plata". www.lacapitalmdp.com. Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  17. ↑ ""Marita" Lanzetti: se cumplen siete años del femicidio que marcó a la ciudad". El Periódico - San Francisco (in Spanish). 15 April 2022. Retrieved 16 April 2025.
  18. ↑ "Nuevos detalles del caso de un alumno apuñalado por otro en una escuela". infobae (in Spanish). 10 June 2017. Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  19. ↑ "Un alumno hirió a dos compañeros con un cuchillo en una escuela de Corrientes". infobae (in Spanish). 27 April 2018. Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  20. ↑ "Un alumno apuñaló a otro con una tijera: está en grave estado". infobae (in European Spanish). 31 August 2018. Retrieved 16 April 2025.
  21. ↑ Galinsky, Paula (20 February 2019). "Un alumno de 14 años apuñaló a la vicedirectora de su colegio durante un recuperatorio". Clarín (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  22. ↑ "La Justicia acusó al alumno que apuñaló a su profesora de intento de femicidio: evaluarán si es inimputable". infobae (in Spanish). 11 November 2020. Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  23. ↑ ""Vayánse o las mato": comenzó el juicio contra el hombre acusado de apuñalar a dos bailarinas en un estudio de danzas". infobae (in Spanish). 14 August 2026. Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  24. ↑ "Terror en una escuela de Ensenada: un adolescente apuñaló a dos chicos en pleno horario escolar". 0221 (in Spanish). 1 April 2025. Retrieved 16 April 2025.
  25. ↑ "Una alumna de un colegio privado de Laferrere atacó con una navaja a una compañera | Sospechaba que se burlaban de ella". Página/12 (in Spanish). 7 April 2025. Retrieved 10 June 2025.
  26. ↑ "Una testigo contó cómo fue el ataque a tiros de la adolescente que ingresó armada a la escuela de Mendoza". infobae (in European Spanish). 10 September 2025. Retrieved 23 September 2025.
  27. ↑ "Operaron a la adolescente que fue apuñalada por un compañero de curso en Tucumán por una complicación en su salud". infobae (in European Spanish). 27 November 2025. Retrieved 18 March 2026.
  28. ↑ "Un adolescente entró armado a un liceo de Argentina, mató a un chico de 13 años e hirió a otros alumnos". EL PAIS (in Spanish). 30 March 2026. Retrieved 30 March 2026.
  29. ↑ "Tiroteo en la escuela de San Cristóbal: el estado de salud de los ocho heridos". Rosario3 (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 March 2026.
  30. ↑ "Violento ataque en una universidad de la Patagonia: un trabajador apuñaló a un estudiante". infobae (in Spanish). 21 May 2026. Retrieved 29 August 2026.
This page is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.