Portsmouth Elementary School shooting

The Portsmouth Elementary School Shooting occurred on May 12, 2016, in Portsmouth, Ohio, United States, when 15-year-old military school cadet Jessie Wilson fatally shot 16 students and 5 staff members.

The incident remains one of the most deadliest mass shooting at either a high school or grade school in U.S. history and the fourth-deadliest mass shooting by a single person in U.S. history. The shooting prompted renewed debate about gun control in the United States, including proposals to make the background-check system universal, and for new federal and state gun legislation banning the sale and manufacture of certain types of semi-automatic firearms and magazines with more than ten rounds of ammunition.