Timeline of US mass shootings

Deaths

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April 20 1999

Two heavily armed teenagers, Eric

Harris and Dylan Klebold, go on a
rampage at Columbine High School
in Littleton, Colorado, shooting 12
students and a teacher to death, and
wounding more than 20 others,
before taking their own lives

October 2 2002

John Allen Muhammad and

Lee Boyd Malvo ambush 13
people, killing 10 of them, in a
string of sniper-style
shootings that terrorise the
Washington area

10
April 16 2007

32

Gunman Seung-Hui Cho

slaughters 32 people and
kills himself at Virginia
Tech, a university in
Blacksburg, Virginia

April 3 2009

Vietnamese immigrant
Jiverly Wong opens re at an
immigrant services centre in
Binghamton, New York, killing
13 people and wounding four.
He then kills himself

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July 20 2012

12

August 5 2012

Wade Michael Page, a white

supremacist, walks into a Sikh
temple in Oak Creek,
Wisconsin, shooting six
worshippers and wounding four
others, including a policeman.
The gunman kills himself after
being shot by a police ofcer

A masked gunman kills 12 people

and wounds 70 when he opens re
on moviegoers at a midnight
premiere of the Batman lm The
Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, a
Denver suburb. James Eagan
Holmes, a former graduate student,
is sentenced to life in prison after
being found guilty on all 165 counts

September 16 2013

12

Aaron Alexis, a former navy

reservist working as a
government contractor, kills 12
people at the Washington Navy
Yard. Eight people are injured.
The gunman was killed by police

May 23 2014

Gunman Elliot Oliver Robertson

Rodger kills six people and
wounds 14 others in a drive-by
shooting in the Isla Vista
section of Santa Barbara,
California, spraying bullets
from his car until it crashes.
He is found dead inside

June 17 2015

A white supremacist gunman kills

nine black churchgoers during a
Bible study session at a historic,
predominantly black, church in
Charleston, South Carolina. The
suspect, Dylann Roof, is awaiting
trial

July 16 2015

Muhammad Youssef
Abdulazeez dies in a reght
with police after a rampage
at two military facilities in
Chattanooga, Tennessee,
killing ve and injuring two.
Abdulazeez is shot dead

5
October 2015

Gunman Christopher Harper-Mercer

storms on to the campus of Umpqua
Community College near Roseburg,
Oregon, and opens re, killing nine
people and wounding seven others
before he is shot by the police. He
then commits suicide

November 27 2015

Gunman Robert Lewis Dear

storms a Planned Parenthood
health clinic in Colorado,
Springs, Colorado, killing three
people and wounding nine.
Police arrest the gunman

December 2 2015

14

Shooters Syed Rizwan Farook and

his wife, Tashfeen Malik, kill 14
people and wound 22 when they
open re at a social services agency
in San Bernardino, California

June 12 2016

Omar Mateen shoots 49

people dead in a gay
nightclub in Orlando,
Florida. He is killed by
police

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