Murder of Nick Corwin

Nicholas Brent Corwin was an eight-year-old boy who was shot and killed by Laurie Dann, inside an elementary school in Winnetka, Illinois, United States, on May 20, 1988. Dann also shot several other students, all of whom survived, then took a family hostage and set a fire in their house before committing suicide. Earlier that day, Dann had tried to poison several acquaintances and set fires in a school and a daycare.