1992 Bard College at Simon's Rock shooting

1992 Bard College at Simon's Rock shooting
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Location	Great Barrington, Massachusetts, U.S.
Coordinates	42°12′32″N 73°22′48″W / 42.209°N 73.38°W / 42.209; -73.38
Date	December 14, 1992 c. 10:20 p.m.
Target	Students and faculty of Bard College at Simon's Rock
Attack type	Mass shooting, school shooting
Weapons	SKS semi-automatic rifle
Deaths	2
Injured	4
Perpetrator	Wayne Lo

On December 14, 1992, a

On the morning of December 14, 1992, Simon's Rock receptionist Teresa Beavers searched a package addressed to Wayne Lo from the North Carolina company Classic Arms and found

That night, an anonymous person phoned school officials, claiming that Lo was armed with weapons and was going to kill members of the Robinson family. The caller identified himself as another student with whom Lo had dinner that night. The Robinsons contacted the college provost, Ba Win, and went with their children to stay at Win's home in Lee, Massachusetts. There they called the dean to locate Lo; no precaution was taken, however, and the police were never notified.^[1]

Lo was hiding the ammunition which he had ordered two days earlier. On December 14, at around 10:00 a.m. Lo travelled by taxi to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and purchased a SKS semi-automatic rifle at Dave's Sporting Goods store.^[1] The shooting began at approximately 10:20 p.m. in the school security area. He shot Theresa Beavers twice in the abdomen, and later fatally shot a Spanish language professor Ñacuñán Sáez while he was driving his Ford Festiva. Lo then fatally shot student Galen Gibson who had left the library to assist whoever had crashed their car, unaware that there was a gunman on campus. Lo also wounded another student. Afterward, Lo walked towards a dormitory where he wounded two freshmen students. Lo's rifle jammed and he dropped his weapon before he walked to the student union building and phoned police to tell them of his actions. Lo surrendered to police without further incident.^[2]

Those killed in the shooting were student Galen Gibson, 18, and professor Ñacuñán Sáez, 37. Gibson was a poetry major from

In a February 2013 episode of

Wayne Lo (Chinese: 駱文;^[4]) was born in Tainan, Taiwan,^[5] to Chia Wei Lo, a fighter pilot, and Lin Lin Lo, a violin teacher, both Mainland Chinese immigrants to Taiwan.^[2] The Lo family moved to the United States in spring 1981, living in a suburban neighborhood in Rockville, Maryland, while Chia Wei Lo was assigned to a diplomatic post in Washington, D.C.^[2] While living in Maryland, the 7-year-old Lo became a violinist with the Montgomery County Youth Orchestra.^[2]

His family returned to Taiwan in 1983, after Chia-Wei relinquished his position that year. The family later settled in northwest

On February 3, 1994, Lo was found guilty on all 17 charges against him and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences without possibility of parole.[6] In 2024, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court banned life without parole sentences for crimes committed by offenders under the age of 21.^[7]

Lo spent nine months at a

Through an intermediary, Lo sold art he made in prison, donating proceeds to The Galen Gibson Fund.[12]

Lo was an inspiration for the 2019 feature film Cuck by director Rob Lambert. Rob rode the school bus with Wayne while they both lived in Billings, Montana.^[13]