Parkway South Junior High School shooting

In St. Louis County, Missouri, United States, on Thursday, January 20, 1983, Parkway South Junior High School (this facility is currently known as Parkway South Middle School) eighth-grader David F. Lawler shot two of his classmates then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide. Randall Kroger, 15, was shot in the chest and died at 12:28 p.m. and 15-year-old Greg Saffo (Palmer) was injured in the shooting and sent to a local hospital.

Lawler brought two family-owned pistols to the school in a blue duffel bag. He had received the ammunition for the shooting as a Christmas present.

According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,

"Police believe the shootings may have been spurred by a remark Palmer had made to another youth concerning Lawler's older brother, Ken. [...] Tim Palmer, 16, Greg's brother, said Greg had told him that he had called Ken a derogatory name for a sissy. But Tim Palmer said that although his brother disliked Ken, he had barely known David Lawler."