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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 ...
Under the Everytown for Gun Safety definition ("any incident in which four or more people are shot and killed, excluding the shooter") there were an average of 19 mass shootings in the U.S. each year from 2009 to 2020, with 947 wounded by gunfire and 1,363 fatally shot. [26]
2. Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting †. Newtown, Connecticut. 26. 2. 2012. LVAn assessment by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department determined that 413 people were injured by gunfire of the approximately 869 injured.[4] In November 2019, a woman who was paralyzed during the shooting was pronounced dead[5] A second woman was ...
Mass shootings on the rise. There have been more than 385 mass shootings across the US so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as an incident in ...
Excluded are shootings associated with organized crime, gangs or drug wars. [12] Mass Shooting Tracker: four or more persons shot in one incident, at one location, at roughly the same time. [13] [9] Gun Violence Archive/Vox: four or more shot in one incident, excluding the perpetrators, at one location, at roughly the same time. [14] [15]
Excluded are shootings associated with organized crime, gangs or drug wars. [12] Mass Shooting Tracker: four or more persons shot in one incident, at one location, at roughly the same time. [8] [9] Gun Violence Archive/Vox: four or more shot in one incident, excluding the perpetrators, at one location, at roughly the same time. [13] [14]
Gun violence is a term of political, economic and sociological interest referring to the tens of thousands of annual firearms-related deaths and injuries occurring in the United States. [ 2 ] In 2016, a U.S. male aged 15–24 was 70 times more likely to be killed with a gun than a French male or British male.
The Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as four or more people shot in one incident (not including the shooter), reports more than 14,000 people killed and over 29,000 injured in 2017.