1995 Blackville–Hilda High School shooting

On October 12, 1995, a school shooting occurred at Blackville–Hilda High School in Blackville, South Carolina. The perpetrator, 16-year-old Anthony Sincino, was a student at the school who had been suspended at the time of the attack. Sincino entered the school through a back door armed with a .32 caliber revolver.

Sincino first entered the classroom of math teacher Johnny Thompson and shot him in the face. He then left the room and confronted another math teacher, Phyllis Senn, in the teachers' work room. Senn was found dead and was initially believed to have died of a heart attack, but an autopsy later determined she had been shot once in the back of her right shoulder, with the bullet entering a lung and causing rapid blood loss. A student in a classroom across the hall from the first shooting later stated that Sincino did not appear angry during the attack, but instead seemed as though he did not know exactly what he was doing.

Sincino's body was subsequently found outside the school office door; he had died by suicide, shooting himself in the right temple.

Sincino was African American, while those he attacked or allegedly attempted to attack — including the school's principal, whom he had allegedly stalked prior to the shooting — were white. This fueled speculation that the shooting was racially motivated, an assertion supported by Sincino's mother, who attributed her son's actions to his being a victim of institutional racism. Sincino had a documented history of disciplinary problems at the school, including an expulsion in 1994 and a subsequent expulsion for making obscene hand gestures on a school bus after he was readmitted in 1995. Some in the community, including Sincino's friend Latisha Grant, viewed these disciplinary actions as unnecessarily harsh, and there was a broader belief locally that the severity of the discipline was connected to Sincino being African American.