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Eight-year-old Shequila Bradley was shot and killed at Oakland Elementary School in Greenwood, South Carolina, on September 26, 1988. A 19-year-old gunman entered the school and opened fire in the cafeteria and a third-grade classroom; Shequila was in her classroom and died at the scene. Another eight-year-old student, Tequila Thomas, was also shot and died a few days later. Nine other students and staff were wounded.

The shooter used a .22-caliber revolver reported to have been stolen from his grandmother. He had no direct connection to the school, and reports from the time say he had a history of mental health issues and may have been motivated by ridicule he experienced at other schools. He was apprehended and later charged with two counts of murder, nine counts of assault and battery with intent to kill, and one count of carrying a firearm; he was found guilty but mentally ill and sentenced to death in May 1989.

The Greenwood community remembers Shequila and Tequila with a memorial garden at the school, which has been renamed Eleanor S. Rice Elementary School.