School Violence
Red Lion Area School District has seen two acts of school violence in its existence:
On February 2, 2001, William Michael Stankewicz, made a machete attack on a kindergarten class at North Hopewell - Winterstown Elementary School that wounded 11 children, the principal, and two teachers.
On April 24, 2003, eighth-grade student James Sheets entered Red Lion Area Junior High School armed with his stepfather's pistols and subsequently killed the school's principal, Eugene Segro, before killing himself. (See Red Lion Area Junior High School shooting.)
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