Roseburg had school shooting in 2006

Ray Locker | USA TODAY

Roseburg, Ore., where 13 people were killed and 20 others injured at Umpqua Community College Thursday, was the scene of another, albeit far less deadly, school shooting in February 2006.

That's when 14-year-old Vincent Leodoro walked into Roseburg High School carrying a semi-automatic pistol loaded with hollow-point bullets and shot fellow student Joseph Monti four times in the back while they were in the school courtyard.

Monti, then 16, survived.

But Monti suffered nerve damage that caused numbness to his foot, according to expert medical testimony during Leodoro's 2006 trial.

Leodoro was convicted of attempted murder, assault and several weapons charges. The shooting was motivated in part by animosity over girls.

After shooting Monti, Leodoro walked to a nearby restaurant, where panicked customers watched as he stood outside and pointed the gun to his head. He then surrendered to police.

"We're trying to come up with what the beef was," Roseburg Police Sgt. Aaron Dunbar said at the time. "But there's indication there was some problem at some level."

Two students followed Leodoro down the street and shouted at him to stop. He kept walking and pointed the gun at them at one point, Dunbar told KOMO news.

Leodoro walked about 500 years to a local barbecue restaurant, followed by police cars with their sirens blaring, the restaurant's cook told KOMO.

The 35 customers in the restaurant "were all freaking out. Some of them were getting under the tables," cook Kenny Russell said.

Russell saw Leodoro with the gun to his head. "He looked really distraught, really upset."

At the time in 2006, the Roseburg incident was the first school shooting in Oregon since 1998, when Kip Kinkel killed two students and wounded several others at Springfield's Thurston High School. He was sentenced to nearly 112 years in prison.

The shooter in Thursday's incident at the community college was killed by police.