In 1922, Bath Township, Michigan approved the creation of the first Bath Consolidated school district. Unfortunately, in order to pay for the new school, the township property taxes were increased. Andrew Kehoe, Michigan native and trustee of the new Bath township school board, was outraged by the tax increase and his loss in the town clerk 1925 election and began plotting a massacre of the citizens and schoolchildren of Bath Township. On May 18, 1927, he would put his plan into action. Andrew would become the mastermind behind America’s deadliest school massacre to date, which would claim the lives of 45 innocent victims, including 38 children.