Theresa Beavers, a 42-year-old female of White/Caucasian ethnicity, was working as a campus security guard at Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, on the night of December 14, 1992, when an 18-year-old student, Wayne Lo, began a shooting rampage shortly after 10:20 p.m. The attack left two people dead—Ñacuñán Sáez, a Spanish professor, and Galen Gibson, a student—and four others wounded.
Beavers was among the injured; contemporary reports described her condition as critical but stable in the immediate aftermath. She survived the attack, and later reporting noted she used a wheelchair during a return to campus events in 1993.
Lo moved across the small Berkshire County campus with a semi-automatic rifle, firing at random at students and faculty. The scene that followed was chaotic, with emergency responders converging on the college as the scope of the attack became clear. The killings of Sáez and Gibson, and the wounding of Beavers and three others, sent shockwaves through the tight-knit academic community and the wider region.
Police apprehended Wayne Lo that night. He was later tried and convicted, receiving two life sentences plus additional years, leaving him incarcerated without the possibility of parole. Accounts of the trial and subsequent interviews have chronicled his explanations and the community’s efforts to remember the victims and support the survivors. There were no other suspects; Lo was the sole perpetrator.
Public records and news coverage do not indicate that Theresa Beavers died as a result of the December 14, 1992 attack; instead, they describe her as a survivor who sustained serious injuries. Later obituaries for a Berkshire County woman of the same name record a death in 2022 from illness, decades after the campus shooting, underscoring that Beavers did not perish in the 1992 event.
