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The Charleston church shooting, also known as the Charleston church massacre, was an anti-black mass shooting and hate crime that occurred on June 17, 2015, in Charleston, South Carolina. Nine people were killed, and one was injured, during a Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest black church in the Southern ...
On May 15, 2022, a mass shooting occurred at the Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, California, United States. The Orange County church was hosting a congregation of the Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church for Sunday services. The shooter killed one person and wounded five others. [2][3] A suspect, 68-year-old David Chou of Las Vegas ...
2024 For a more comprehensive list, see List of mass shootings in the United States in 2024. Date Location Dead Injured Total Description September 7, 2024 Laurel County, Kentucky 0 5 5 Interstate 75 Kentucky shooting: Five people were shot and injured when a lone gunman shot civilians in passing by cars on the Interstate 75 in Kentucky. Three other people suffered injuries due to vehicle ...
Crews on Monday tore down a Texas church where a gunman killed more than two dozen worshippers in 2017, using heavy machinery to raze the small building even after some families sought to preserve ...
1996 February 28 New Liberty Baptist Church in Tyler, Alabama, was burned and an arrest was made. 1996 March 5 St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in Hatley, Mississippi, was burned. 1996 March 20 New Mount Zion Baptist Church in Ruleville, Mississippi, was burned. 1996 March 27 Gay's Hill Baptist Church of Millen, Georgia, was burned.
The Vestavia Hills church shooting occurred on June 16, 2022 at 6:22 p.m. local time in Vestavia Hills, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. A man entered the St. Stephen's Episcopal Church and opened fire during a potluck meeting, which the church had previously advertised. Two people were killed at the scene, a third died later in hospital, and ...
On November 5, 2017, at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, a local man, Devin Kelley, shot and killed 26 people and wounded 22 others. Kelley was shot and wounded by another local resident, then killed himself after a car chase. It is the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history [2] and the deadliest at an American place of ...
The West Freeway Church of Christ shooting took place on December 29, 2019, in White Settlement, Texas, in the United States. Two people in the congregation were killed before the gunman was fatally shot by 71-year-old Jack Wilson, a volunteer security team member. The attack was live-streamed, as are all services at the church. [2]