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There have been more than 200 school shootings since 1999. (newschannel5.com)
The list below does not include the 200-plus shootings at schools since April 20, 1999 in which less than five people were killed. (newschannel5.com)
Under this definition, there were 66 mass public shootings from 1999 to 2013, with seven incidents, or 10.6 percent, happening in schools or universities. (politifact.com)
Two happened in educational institutions: the 1966 tower shooting at the University of Texas, Austin, and the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. (politifact.com)
He believes the Lanza case fits the pattern of school shooters in some of the most famous incidents in recent memory, including the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado and the massacre at Virginia Tech in 2007. (wnd.com)

Bonnie Berkowitz, Washington Post , 4 Dec. 2023 Advertisement Powell was arrested Wednesday night in Beverly Hills during a traffic stop after his car was linked to a fatal shooting three days earlier in San Dimas. (merriam-webster.com)
James Queally, Los Angeles Times , 4 Dec. 2023 One more of their cases was in file review, while another was the police shooting of an armed suspect. (merriam-webster.com)
Grant Lancaster, arkansasonline.com , 3 Dec. 2023 Ryan Hopkins pleaded guilty in San Diego Superior Court to assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the May 7 shooting of 68-year-old Annette Pershal. (merriam-webster.com)
City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 Dec. 2023 The vehicle and handgun were also linked to the home robbery shooting , authorities said. (merriam-webster.com)
Meredith Deliso, ABC News , 2 Dec. 2023 Zion Carr, who witnessed his aunt Atatiana Jefferson's fatal shooting by police in 2019, will receive a $3.5 million settlement from Fort Worth, according to city officials. (merriam-webster.com)
Melissa Noel, Essence , 1 Dec. 2023 The name of the highway patrol officer involved in Sunday's shooting had not been disclosed as of late Tuesday afternoon. (merriam-webster.com)
Andrew Blankstein, NBC News , 22 Nov. 2023 No motive was known in the shooting , and no suspects were identified immediately. (merriam-webster.com)
A law enforcement officer walks by a car with bullet holes in the windshield in front of a Dollar General store, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023, in Jacksonville, Fla., at the scene of a mass shooting a day earlier. (yahoo.com)
There have been at least 130 mass shootings in 2023, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive , including Monday's deadly shooting . (cnn.com)
There have been more shootings at this point in 2023 than in any previous year since at least 2013. (cnn.com)
Police remove a victim from the Schemengees Bar & Grille Restaurant after deadly mass shootings in Lewiston, Maine, Oct. 26, 2023. (go.com)
The Gun Violence Archive, a database reporting on gun violence in the U.S., posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the Lewiston shooting is the worst to occur in 2023. (go.com)
It was also the 565th mass shooting in 2023 and the 31st mass murder, according to the organization. (go.com)

a clutch of outspoken student activists flipped the national script on school shootings in America. (merriam-webster.com)
In the wake of three recent mass shootings in America in the last two weeks, Republicans are once again showing their collective ass, deploying a litany of talking points about random stuff to clog up the national discourse on gun violence with anything and everything but guns. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
By one broad metric, there have been nearly 300 school shootings in America since 2013, according to Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund , an advocacy group that seeks to prevent gun violence. (politifact.com)

But in the 20 years since two students murdered 15 people at Columbine High School in Colorado, there have been nine more school shootings that resulted in the deaths of five students or school employees. (newschannel5.com)

Fresno shootings may refer to: Fresno meat plant shooting 2017 Fresno shootings, which occurred at a Motel 6 and the downtown area 2019 Fresno shooting, which occurred at a football watch party This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Fresno shootings. (wikipedia.org)
A mass shooting occurred on September 24, 2017, when a gunman opened fire at the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ in Antioch, Tennessee , part of the Greater Nashville area, killing one person and injuring six others. (wikipedia.org)
On October 1st, 2017, the Las Vegas shooting took the place of the Orlando nightclub shooting as the largest mass shooting in US history. (worldatlas.com)

As CBS News points out, there have been more mass shootings than days in the US this year, leaving 8,796 people dead from gun wounds in 2019 alone. (gamespot.com)

Students, a geography teacher, a football coach, and an athletic director are among the victims identified so far in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. (politifact.com)

[2] The suspect indicated that the attack was an act of revenge for the 2015 Charleston church shooting . (wikipedia.org)
The 15-year-old suspect, a sophomore at the school, was taken into custody after authorities responded to the shooting, officials said. (cnn.com)
He reiterated that there was still no information on a motive, particularly because the shooting suspect is currently not speaking to authorities. (cnn.com)
Officials had the shooting suspect in custody within "two to three minutes" of their arrival, he said. (cnn.com)
The 14-year-old shooting suspect is in custody. (10news.com)
The suspect in the shootings, a 21-year-old white man, considered the women inside the spas "sources of temptation," police said. (abc15.com)

In the 10 mass school shootings identified by Gun Violence Archive (from June 2013 to February 2018), 44 people were killed and 68 injured. (politifact.com)

A stricter definition was in a 2015 report from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service that defined 'mass public shooting' as a multiple-homicide incident in which four or more victims are murdered with firearms in at least one or more public locations, including schools. (politifact.com)
Communities are mourning the victims of a mass shooting in Nashville , Tennessee. (cnn.com)
Law enforcement officers in Maine are in the midst of a massive manhunt for the suspected gunman responsible for mass shootings that killed 18 victims and injured 13 more. (go.com)
The flag on the roof of the White House is lowered to half-staff to honor the victims of the Maine shootings. (go.com)
Eighteen people are dead after this week's mass shooting in Maine -- lives cut short when Robert Card opened fire in a bowling alley and a bar -- and the list of his victims includes people in their 70s and even a 14-year-old boy. (tmz.com)

So far Fatal Encounters has compiled data on about 6000 shooting incidents and trends are beginning to emerge, he told Fairfax Media. (smh.com.au)
Gun Violence Archive , a nonprofit tracking gun violence incidents, told PolitiFact that since Sandy Hook, there have been 10 school shootings reaching its mass shooting threshold. (politifact.com)
The Congressional Research Service found that from 2007 to 2013, there were seven mass public shootings in which 10 or more people were killed, and two of those incidents happened in schools. (politifact.com)
While Trump was quick to blame social media, mental illness, and video games, all three are found across the world with far fewer shooting incidents elsewhere. (gamespot.com)
The attack on Virginia Tech was one of the worst incidents in the history of mass shootings in the United States. (worldatlas.com)

On 12 August 2021, a mass shooting occurred in the Keyham area of Plymouth , England. (wikipedia.org)
People are susceptible to information about these events, but the mechanism is less clear," says Andres Gomez-Lievano, a co-author of the mass-shooting study, published in July in PLOS ONE . (scientificamerican.com)
A 14-year-old daughter of the pastor of a Baptist church in rural Texas was among those killed in a mass shooting at the church Sunday morning, the father told ABC News. (go.com)
The Sandy Hook shooting was, at the time, the second-deadliest mass shooting in the United States after the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech , in which a gunman killed 32 students and teachers before committing suicide. (history.com)
What looked like another mass shooting turned out to be a disgruntled employee with a single target - plus nine innocent bystanders shot by police officers . (gawker.com)
Not another senseless tragedy, not another crazy lone gunman, not another mass shooting. (gawker.com)
And 10 days later: A mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
The deadliest mass shooting at a high school or grade school, 20 children between six and seven years old were killed at a Newtown, Connecticut elementary school. (newschannel5.com)
The Chinese Communist Party's ghoulish determination to squeeze political points out of the Uvalde, Texas mass shooting continued on Monday and Tuesday with back-to-back editorials claiming the confused police response demonstrated the "systemic failure" of American democracy - and, in an odd ideological bank shot, systemic racism. (breitbart.com)
At least 17 people were killed in a Florida high school shooting on Valentine's Day, the latest mass shooting in the United States. (politifact.com)
Gun Violence Archive defines a mass shooting as an event where at least four people are injured or killed in a single incident, at the same general time and location, not including the shooter. (politifact.com)
The attack was the deadliest incident of violence against LGBT people in US history and, at the time, the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman. (worldatlas.com)
He cradled Fudge's wounded body in the tumultuous minutes after the mass shooting, watching his father die. (daytondailynews.com)
What Can You Do During a Mass Shooting? (medscape.com)

In the deadliest school shooting in American history, a 23-year-old senior from South Korea killed 32 students in two separate buildings on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. (newschannel5.com)
It is the deadliest school shooting since the attack in Uvalde, Texas, last May. (cnn.com)

But new evidence reinforces the idea that mass shootings, publicized in the media, may have a contagious effect. (scientificamerican.com)

At least three teenagers were killed Tuesday afternoon in a shooting at a high school in Oakland County, Michigan, according to authorities. (cnn.com)
Our live coverage of the Michigan high school shooting has ended. (cnn.com)
A 16-year-old boy, who was among three students killed at the shooting at Oxford High School, died in an Oakland Sheriff's deputy's car on the way to the hospital, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said. (cnn.com)
The store where the shootings took place is near Edward Waters University, a historically Black school with about 1,000 students. (yahoo.com)
The school said the man was spotted on campus by a security guard shortly before the shootings and asked to leave when he refused to identify himself. (yahoo.com)
Before the shooting at the school, the gunman had also murdered his mother at her home. (newschannel5.com)
After inviting a handful of friends to have lunch with, a student pulled out a handgun and killed four people before fatally shooting himself at a high school outside of Seattle. (newschannel5.com)
An 11th grade students at Madison Jr/Sr high school explains what he heard and say during and after the shooting at his school. (10news.com)
Those weren't school shootings. (10news.com)
How many school shootings have there been in recent years? (politifact.com)
There isn't one uniform way of tracking school shootings in the United States. (politifact.com)
Methodologies and definitions vary with each group collecting data, offering a range of numbers on the prevalence of school shootings in recent years. (politifact.com)
The group defines a school shooting as any time a firearm discharges a live round inside a school building or on a school campus or grounds. (politifact.com)
Its definition for a school shooting is an incident that takes place on property of an elementary, secondary or college campus (including playgrounds, sidewalks, stadiums, parking lots). (politifact.com)
Those were the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting and the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. (politifact.com)
Some 90 percent of school shootings over more than a decade have been linked to a widely prescribed type of antidepressant called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs, according to British psychiatrist Dr. David Healy, a founder of RxISK.org, an independent website for researching and reporting on prescription drugs. (wnd.com)
But Healy argued that if this were the case, "we should not find that comfortably over 90 percent of school shootings are linked to medication intake. (wnd.com)
Monday's shooting unfolded over about 14 minutes, according to police, and spanned two floors of the school. (cnn.com)
This summer alone has seen several mass shootings, including at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers, and at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York, where a gunman killed 10 Black people in a racist attack. (boston.com)
School shootings are growing increasingly common in the US. (worldatlas.com)
One study of more than 2,000 teens found that greater concern about school shootings and violence predicted increases in anxiety and panic six months later. (cdc.gov)
Students who have been exposed to a school shooting are less likely to be employed later in life. (cdc.gov)
In response to the Robb Elementary School (in Uvalde, Texas), supermarket (in Buffalo, New York), and other mass shootings, the Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs (IWGYP) has compiled a list of resources to help youth, families, educators, and community members cope with and talk about community trauma, as well as provide psychological first aid. (cdc.gov)

The shooting happened Saturday afternoon at a Dollar General store in New Town, a predominantly Black neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida. (yahoo.com)
That count includes the Florida shooting. (politifact.com)

The killings of two Americans and the wounding of a third Friday by the new recruit to an Afghan village police force brought the number of U.S. forces killed in "insider" shootings - attacks by Afghan allies on Western troops - to nine in 11 days. (latimes.com)

The shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio took place over the weekend. (gamespot.com)
Trump on two mass shootings: 'God bless the people of El Paso Texas. (katc.com)
President Donald Trump on Sunday weighed in on two mass shootings that occurred 13 hours apart from one another in Texas and Ohio, writing in a tweet, "God bless the people of El Paso Texas. (katc.com)
Trump called the El Paso shooting an "act of cowardice" on Saturday and said there "are no reasons or excuses that will ever justify killing people. (katc.com)
Today's shooting in El Paso, Texas, was not only tragic, it was an act of cowardice. (katc.com)
The President also relayed in a tweet that he had spoken with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, about the El Paso shooting and had offered the "total support" of the federal government to the state. (katc.com)

The gunman carried two handguns (leaving behind a .22-caliber Citadel 1911-22 Tactical semi-automatic pistol and a .223-caliber DPMS A-15 semi-automatic rifle in his blue Nissan Xterra ), and after fatally shooting Melanie Crow outside, he entered the church from the rear, according to police. (wikipedia.org)
The inquiry, which reviewed available records for more than 200 police shooting cases over the last decade, found that these cursory police investigations create a separate standard of justice and fuel the fear among some citizens that officers can shoot people with impunity. (chicagotribune.com)
But in the Ware case, as in many other police shootings, it took a civil suit for the troubling details of the case to emerge publicly. (chicagotribune.com)
Local law enforcement officials conduct an inquiry into every police shooting. (chicagotribune.com)
The shaky phone video of a white police officer shooting an unarmed black man eight times in the back in South Carolina on Saturday is shocking, but not that surprising. (smh.com.au)
Police confront protesters after the announcement of the grand jury decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in November last year. (smh.com.au)
A protester wears tape over her mouth during a silent demonstration against what they say is police brutality after the Ferguson shooting of Michael Brown. (smh.com.au)
Mr Burghart noticed a spike in police shootings last August in the wake of media reports on the killing of Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, and he speculates that when fear between officers and citizens increases, it spurs violence. (smh.com.au)
Friday's shooting, which came as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan was drawing to a close, took place in the village of Kanesk, said Aqa Noor Kentoz, Farah's provincial police chief. (latimes.com)
Insider shootings, carried out by Afghan police, soldiers or other members of the security apparatus, have risen sharply this year, with the pace intensifying in recent weeks. (latimes.com)
Recent Examples on the Web In less than 90 minutes on Sunday afternoon, two 911 calls led police in Texas and Washington to two mass shootings that pushed the nation to a gruesome milestone. (merriam-webster.com)
The policy change, announced by the mayor and acting police chief, comes in the wake of Justine Damond's shooting death. (startribune.com)
Paris struck by major violence overnight as residents protest the shooting of a teenager by police, with major deployment expected tonight. (breitbart.com)
Black Lives Matter activists gathered outside Scotland Yard on Saturday, just yards away from where Queen Elizabeth II is lying in state, to protest against the police shooting a drill rapper who allegedly drove a car at officers. (breitbart.com)
Hundreds gathered outside Christ Medical Center on Friday to cheer Chicago Police Officer Danny Golden, 31, who was released from the hospital after being paralyzed in an off-duty shooting. (breitbart.com)
2016-07-30T21:59:24-04:00 https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvNmU3XC8yMDE2MDczMDIyMTAxODAwM19oZC5qcGciLCJlZGl0cyI6eyJyZXNpemUiOnsiZml0IjoiY292ZXIiLCJoZWlnaHQiOjUwNn19fQ== Shooting for Survival is a 1975 FBI police training film detailing procedures and techniques for confronting and arresting armed suspects. (c-span.org)
Shooting for Survival is a 1975 FBI police training film detailing procedures and techniques for confronting and arresting armed suspects. (c-span.org)
He and his brother Joshua Clavell were under the watch of counter terrorism police when the shooting occurred. (theage.com.au)
The shootings took place at two different locations in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday night, according to police. (go.com)
Emergency dispatchers begin to receive 911 calls detailing a male shooting at Just-In-Time Recreation, a bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine, formerly known as Sparetime, State Police Col. William Ross told reporters during a news conference Thursday morning. (go.com)
The Lewiston Police Department releases a photo of a white SUV that may be connected to the shooting. (go.com)

The investigators applied a mathematical model and found that shootings that resulted in at least four deaths launched a period of contagion, marked by a heightened likelihood of more bloodshed, lasting an average of 13 days. (scientificamerican.com)
Underscoring the scope and perniciousness of the problem, another such shooting took place just hours later in nearby Kandahar province, but did not result in any deaths except that of the assailant, an Afghan soldier. (latimes.com)
Throughout a 34-year span, from 1966 to 2006, there were six mass public shootings that resulted in the deaths of 10 or more people. (politifact.com)
The shooting resulted in 50 deaths, including the gunman, and 53 were injured. (worldatlas.com)

[ 1 , 2 ] This was yet another in a relentless string of mass shootings with which we struggle to come to grips. (medscape.com)

The majority of the state's 19 mass shootings over the past six decades were carried out by men who legally possessed firearms, an investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found. (talkingpointsmemo.com)

Law enforcement from multiple departments joined state officials and family members on Monday for a celebration of life service for Bradley Haas, 63, who died following the shooting on Nov. 17. (nhpr.org)
Officials have not identified a motive for the shooting. (politifact.com)
Officials still have not determined a motive in the Nashville shooting. (cnn.com)

Up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time," he said. (telegraph.co.uk)

President Barack Obama has claimed that he goes shooting "all the time", while attempting to reassure American gun-owners that he respects their rights to use firearms. (telegraph.co.uk)

The Dollar General store where the shootings occurred is a short walk for residents of Grand Park, a Jacksonville neighborhood of modest brick and cinderblock homes. (yahoo.com)

The shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, left at least 26 dead. (go.com)

The gunman, 22-year-old Jake Davison from Plymouth, shot and killed five people (including his mother) and injured two others before fatally shooting himself. (wikipedia.org)
He then walked through the church, shooting six more people. (wikipedia.org)
[7] The prosecution later claimed that Samson hoped to "kill at least 10 white people" in the shooting as revenge for the Charleston church shooting. (wikipedia.org)
People use either broad or restrictive definitions of mass shootings to reinforce their stance on gun control. (politifact.com)
In an interview posted Sunday by the sports media group High Top Sports, Richardson attributed the decision to "talking to my team" - "you know, my management team," he clarified - and added, "There's a lot of stuff going on with AR-15s and shooting and stuff, and a lot of people hit me up just talking about it, asking me if I was supporting that stuff. (boston.com)
In the wake of two mass shootings over the weekend in the US, which together left more than 30 people dead and over 50 injured, President Trump has blamed social media, mental illness, and video games for the numbers of similar tragedies that have gripped the country in recent months and years. (gamespot.com)
Multiple sources tell ABC News that at least 16 people have died in the shooting. (go.com)
Maine Gov. Janet Mills tells reporters during a news conference the death toll from the shooting is now 18 people, with another 13 people injured. (go.com)
The Aurora theater shooting, which happened in Colorado , left 12 people dead and 58 others injured. (worldatlas.com)
And you don't expect people to be shooting at you at a concert. (medscape.com)
The devastating shooting on October 1 in Las Vegas killed 58 people and injured more than 500 others. (medscape.com)

The city has also set up a fund to help support the survivors of the shooting, the mayor said . (cnn.com)

Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said Tuesday night that their office did not hear any rumors about the shooting beforehand. (cnn.com)
The family notified authorities, but by then the shooting had already begun, the sheriff said. (yahoo.com)
The Deputy Sergeant (victim), Sheriff, and a Chief Deputy travelled to a rural property to conduct a welfare check on the resident who had exhibited signs of mental instability in the days prior to the shooting. (cdc.gov)

With each tragedy, we hear arguments about gun violence, mental health, how firearms should be regulated and what's driving the prevalence of mass shootings. (politifact.com)
The film uses dramatizations and scenes recorded at a shooting range to show the proper use of firearms by law enforcement. (c-span.org)

If you're shooting a scene that takes place in a building that has windows or open doors in the background that need removing, a green screen can be a useful tool - especially if the view out the window features a distracting billboard or scenery, for example. (adobe.com)
The bowling alley where the shooting took place posts on Facebook that it is 'devastated' for the community and the staff. (go.com)

Lee will visit the scene of the March 19 shooting in the southern town of Tainan and the hospital where Chen Shui-bian was treated after suspicions were raised on the March 19 shooting. (chinadaily.com.cn)
Lee, head of a forensics institute in the U.S. state of Connecticut, is set to interview doctors and nurses who treated Chen in Tainan, as well as inspect the jeep and the scene of the shooting. (chinadaily.com.cn)

Society has endured too many senseless acts of violence and horrific mass shootings. (gamespot.com)

Explore clever green screen video shooting and post-production tips. (adobe.com)
Explore whether balance training can improve the coordination ability and shooting ability of athletes . (bvsalud.org)

The city law was challenged with aggressive legal action from gun-rights activists , including the Colorado State Shooting Association and the local chapter of the National Rifle Association. (talkingpointsmemo.com)

Samson was charged with first-degree murder immediately subsequent to the shooting. (wikipedia.org)
Minneapolis officer Mohamed Noor was charged with murder and manslaughter in the shooting death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond in July. (startribune.com)
A top U.S. forensic expert and veteran of high-profile cases such as the O.J. Simpson murder trial said he discovered on Friday new clues to the mysterious shooting on Chen Shui-bian. (chinadaily.com.cn)

When one officer thought the driver raised a gun, he opened fire, shooting the driver five times before reloading and shooting him once more. (chicagotribune.com)

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