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This page documents Violent Crimes at Ivy League Universities, including murders, rapes, suicides, bombings, and other related incidents. This is primarily a list; crimes that have too many details listed should have their own article, keeping only the bare essentials on this page.

Every crime listed needs a verifiable citation. Uncited crimes will be removed. For inclusion on this page, crimes listed must have been commited by or against a member of the stated college's community, or on the college campus. Alumni and former employees do not count.

Items should ideally list both the perpetrator and the victim(s) of the crime, the date it occurred, and the location where it occurred.

Crimes are listed first alphabetically by school, then by type of crime, then chronologically.

Suicides

 * 2005, March. Anthony Abanto, 22 years old, was found dead in his dorm room, an apparent suicide.


 * 2005, December 19. English Ph.D. candidate Patrick Tweed was found dead in his apartment, an apparent suicide.

Suicides

 * 2000, April 20. Puneet Bhandari, a 21 year-old senior at Columbia, killed himself by putting himself in the path of an Amtrak Metroliner train in Iselin, New Jersey after involvement in an honor code scandal.


 * 2005, November 17. Columbia Engineering Professor Nayyar Perwez Shahabuddin killed himself in his hotel room. The cause of death was suffocation by helium.

Murders

 * 2001, January 27. Dartmouth College professors Half and Susanne Zantop were stabbed to death in their home in Etna, NH, not far from the Dartmouth Campus. They were killed by Robert Tulloch, 17, and James Parker, 16. Parker received 25 years to life, Tulloch received a life sentence. See also

Suicides

 * 1997, April 11. Dartmouth Professor of Native American Studies and Anthropology Michael Anthony Dorris, 52 years old, committed suicide in his hotel room by suffocaing himself with a plastic bag.

Suicides

 * 2002, December 6. Harvard junior Marian H. Smith '04, 19 years old, killed herself.

Murders

 * 2005, December 25: William Hurt, 25 years old, was shot at the Philly Diner on the Penn campus. He died later that morning. Jonathan Morales was arrested 4 days later and charged with the murder.

Suicides

 * 2005, October 10. Kyle Ambrogi, a 21 year-old senior in the Wharton School of Business and member of the Penn football team, committed suicide Monday night in his home in Havertown, PA.

Rapes

 * 2005, January 21. "An 18-year-old female student reported that she was sexually assaulted early Friday morning by a college-age male near 40th and Pine streets" in the alley behind Allegro Pizza at about 3am.

Suicides

 * 2003, January 20. Gabor Katona, a 2nd year Princeton graduate student, killed herself.


 * 2004, September 5. 19 year old Princeton sophomore Melissa Huang was found dead in her room. She died after ingesting cyanide.

Murders

 * In 1974, Yale junior Gary Stein was killed in a robbery. Melvin Jones was convicted in the case and spent fifteen years in prison.


 * In 1977, Yale student Bonnie Garland was killed by a former boyfriend, Yale graduate Richard Herrin. The support of the Yale Catholic community for the perpetrator resulted in his conviction for manslaughter rather than murder.


 * In 1991, the killing of Christian Prince on Hillhouse Avenue in the Yale campus resulted in a brief decline in applications and resulted in a re-examination of Campus security.


 * In 1998, student Suzanne Jovin was stabbed to death. Leaked allegations that her thesis advisor was a suspect led to the end of his career at Yale, but the crime remains unsolved.

Bombings

 * On May 1, 1970, an explosive device was detonated in the Ingalls Rink during events related to the trial of Black Panther Bobby Seale.


 * On June 24, 1993, computer science professor David Gelernter was seriously injured in his office in Arthur K. Watson Hall by a bomb sent by serial killer Ted Kaczynski, a.k.a the Unabomber.


 * On May 21, 2003, an explosive device went off at the Yale Law School, damaging two classrooms.