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2024 For a more comprehensive list, see List of mass shootings in the United States in 2024. Date Location Dead Injured Total Description June 21, 2024 Fordyce, Arkansas 4 10 [n 1] 14 2024 Fordyce shooting: A 44-year-old man opened fire at the Mad Butcher Grocery Store, killing four civilians and injuring nine others, including two police officers. The suspect, identified as Travis Posey from ...
English: Chart showing outcomes of active shooter attacks (U.S., 2000-). Suggested caption: A New York Times study reported how outcomes of active shooter attacks varied with actions of the attacker, the police (42% of total incidents), and bystanders (including a "good guy with a gun" outcome in 5.1% of total incidents). [cite]
By mid-May 2021, there were 10 mass shootings per week on average; by mid-May 2022, there was a total of 198 mass shootings in the first 19 weeks of the year, which represents 11 mass shootings a week. The FBI designated 61 active shooter incidents. There were ten mass shootings in 2019, two in 2020, and six in 2021.
A 25-year-old man shot four police officers at a police station, killing three, before committing suicide. November 7, 1994 Wickliffe, Ohio: 1 4: 5: Wickliffe Middle School shooting: A 37-year-old former student entered the building and shot and killed the custodian and wounded three other adults before he was arrested. October 23, 1994
2003 Chicago warehouse shooting: A 36-year-old man shot and killed six employees at his former workplace before being killed by police. August 19, 2003 Detroit, Michigan: 3 1 4: A 37-year-old man shot his four children, killing three, before setting the house where the murders occurred on fire. July 8, 2003 Meridian, Mississippi: 7: 8 15
The FBI defines an active shooter as “one or more individuals actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area.” Among the four Texas shootings listed for 2023 ...
An active shooter is the perpetrator of an ongoing mass shooting. The term is primarily used to characterize shooters who are targeting victims indiscriminately and at a large scale, who oftentimes, will either commit suicide or intend to be killed by police. More generally, an active perpetrator of a mass murder may be referred to as an active ...
The shooter was later found dead. December 26 Garland: Texas: 3 1 4: 14-year-old Abel Acosta went inside a convenience store and opened fire. Three teenagers were killed and a fourth person was wounded. December 26 Fayette: Mississippi 0 7 7: Seven people were wounded at a party in the early morning. An 18-year-old was later arrested. December 26