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A mass shooting is a violent crime in which one or more attackers use a firearm to kill or injure multiple individuals in rapid succession. There is no widely accepted specific definition, and different organizations tracking such incidents use different criteria.
In the Columbine shooting, the perpetrators, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, were able to murder 13 people, then commit suicide before the first SWAT team even entered the school. Average response time by law enforcement to a mass shooting is typically much longer than the time the shooter is engaged in killing.
Kansas City Massacre: Four law enforcement officers and a fugitive were killed, with three law enforcement officers wounded in a shootout between the two groups. [91] March 6, 1933 Cleveland, Ohio: 6 [n 6] 6 12: 1933 Cleveland shootings: A mentally ill man shot five people to death and injured six others before being shot to death by police. [92]
Authorities responded by issuing an alert to law enforcement agencies statewide which cautioned that Card was “known to be armed and dangerous” and was suffering from psychotic episodes.
The FBI doesn’t have a specific definition for mass shooting and defines “mass killings” as an incident in which four or more victims are killed, which can include gun violence.
Hundreds of law enforcement agents were scouring communities around Lewiston, Maine, for a person of interest in connection with two shootings at a bowling alley and bar that killed at least 16 ...
The U.S. has substantially more mass shootings (in which four or more people are killed) than other developed countries. [34] 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).
CNN tracked mass shootings in the US using data from the Gun Violence Archive, a non-profit group formed in 2013 to track gun-related violence. Both CNN and GVA define a “mass shooting” as a ...