The James Parker Middle School dance shooting was an incident that occurred on April 24, 1998, at a banquet facility in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, United States.
Andrew Jerome Wurst, 14, fatally shot 48-year-old John Gillette and wounded another teacher and two students[1] at Nick's Place, a nearby banquet hall[2] during an 8th-grade dinner dance.
One student noticed that he had become curt and unfriendly prior to the shooting, and had told others that he wanted to "kill people and commit suicide".
Before running out of ammunition, Wurst proceeded to enter Nick's Place, where the dance had been held, and subsequently fired and wounded teacher Edrye Boraten and two students, Jacob Tury and Robert Zemcheck.
[1] The shooting ended when the owner of Nick's Place, James Strand, intervened and confronted Wurst with his shotgun, ordering him to drop his weapon and later holding him at bay for 11 minutes.