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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 September 21, 2024 Birmingham, Alabama 4 17 21 September 2024 Birmingham shooting: Four people were killed and seventeen others were wounded after multiple shooters opened fire outside a bar in the Five Points South neighborhood. September 7, 2024 Laurel ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 October 2024. Incidents involving multiple victims of firearm violence For a more comprehensive list, see List of mass shootings in the United States. Memorials for some of the deadliest mass shootings that occurred in the United States. Clockwise from top left: The 2017 Las Vegas shooting, the Orlando ...
The incident was formerly the deadliest American mass shooting and is currently the third-deadliest. December 14, 2012: Newtown, Connecticut: 28 [n 1] 2: Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed twenty-six people and himself. He first killed his mother at their shared home before taking four of her guns and driving ...
1900–1920. 1918–1920. World War One and Russian Civil War sniper. Regular member of The 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death. One of the highest confirmed number of kills of any female at 93 kills using only the iron sights of a 7.62×54mm Mosin-Nagant Model 1891. 93. Russian Republic. Timothy Murphy. 1751–1818.
10 Mass shooting against African-American shoppers at a Tops Friendly Markets. Suspect said motive was to prevent others from 'eliminating the white race' Robb Elementary School shooting: 2022 May 24 Uvalde: Texas: 22 One of the deadliest school shootings in American history, [47] leaving 19 children and 2 adults dead. The perpetrator was ...
Veshkayma, Ulyanovsk Oblast. Russia. 3. 1. F. Ruslan Akhtyamov, 26. No. Suicide. The # symbol indicates the massacre's ranking by number of deaths (since this list is sorted by death toll, not by date or by number of overall casualties).
Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock in 1996. The longest confirmed kill in World War II was by German sniper Matthäus Hetzenauer at 1,100 metres (1,200 yd). The science of long-range sniping came to fruition in the Vietnam War. US Marine Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock held the record from 1967 to 2002 at 2,286 m (2,500 yd). [ 12 ]
In 2021, there were 26,000 gun suicides and 21,000 gun homicides, together making up a sixth of deaths from external causes. Gun deaths make up about half of all suicides, but over 80% of homicides. [5] Gun deaths in 2021 rose to levels not seen since the 1990s, but remained below rates of the 1970s. [6]