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Deadliest mass shootings in the United States by year Year Incident Location Deaths Injuries Ref; 2011 Seal Beach shooting: Seal Beach, California: 8 1 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting† Newtown, Connecticut: 27 2 2013 Washington Navy Yard shooting† Washington D.C. 12 1 2014 Montgomery County shootings† Montgomery County ...
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator 1 March 8, 1782 Massacre 96 2 Gnadenhutten, Ohio (then part of the Indian reserve / Ohio Country) : Gnadenhutten massacre – Pennsylvania militia round up and execute 96 unarmed pacifist Christian Delaware (Lenape) Indians, including 69 women and children, as revenge for raids against settlers (carried out by other Indians) as well as in ...
Map of 2,872 terrorist incidents in the contiguous United States from 1970 to 2017. KEY: Orange: 2001–2017; Green: 1970–2000 Terrorism deaths in the United States In the United States, a common definition of terrorism is the systematic or threatened use of violence in order to create a general climate of fear to intimidate a population or government and thereby effect political, religious ...
A drone attack on U.S. military outpost Tower 22 killed 3 U.S. military personnel and wounded 47 others. Ansar Allah al-Awfiya and Islamic Resistance in Iraq: Spillover of the Israel-Hamas war: 30 January Bombing 4 5 Sibi, Pakistan: 2024 Sibi bombing: A bombing at a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf political
Four officers were shot in the deadliest attack on U.S. law enforcement since 2016. The four officers were killed in suburban Charlotte as they approached a home to serve a warrant for a felon ...
The Monterey Park shooting on January 21, 2023, that left 10 people dead at a Lunar New Year party is now among the deadliest mass shootings in US history.
This list does not include bombing campaigns/runs (such as the attack on Pearl Harbor and the bombing of Tokyo) or massacres such as the Rape of Nanjing, which, despite potentially massive casualties, are not typically classified as "battles", since they are usually one-sided engagements or the nation attacked is not officially at war with the ...
The worst contamination at the Capitol was in the Hart Senate Office Building. In all, five people died, and 22 people became infected with variations of anthrax disease. [43] Of those who died, two were employees of American Media, two were postal workers and one was a New York hospital employee who worked near the mail room. [44]