Bath School disaster Bath Consolidated School before the bombing. Location Bath Township, Michigan, US Coordinates 42°49′00″N 84°26′57″W﻿ / ﻿42.81667°N 84.44917°W﻿ / 42.81667; -84.44917Coordinates: 42°49′00″N 84°26′57″W﻿ / ﻿42.81667°N 84.44917°W﻿ / 42.81667; -84.44917 Date May 18, 1927; 93 years ago (May 18, 1927) Target Bath Consolidated School, house and farm Attack type School bombing, mass murder, murder-suicide, suicide truck bombing, arson, uxoricide Weapons Explosives: Dynamite Pyrotol Firebombs Bolt-action rifle: Winchester Model 54 (.30-06) Deaths 45 (43 at the school including the perpetrator, 1 at the perpetrator's house and 1 later died in the hospital) Injured 58 Perpetrator Andrew P. Kehoe Motive Psychopathy, revenge for defeat in local election, personal and financial stress