John Joseph Gillette, a 48-year-old male teacher of unspecified ethnicity, was fatally shot on April 24, 1998, at a school dance held at Nick's Place in Edinboro, Pennsylvania. The tragic incident occurred during an 8th-grade dinner dance at James Parker Middle School, where Gillette was a popular science teacher.
The perpetrator, 14-year-old Andrew Jerome Wurst, arrived at the dance with his father's .25-caliber pistol concealed under his jacket. Wurst had previously left a suicide note
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