USA•A NATION OF CONSTANT SHOOTINGS
Here’s a look at some of the nation’s deadliest rampages since 2012
APR.02.2012 7 people killed
Seven people were killed when a 43-year-old former student opened fire at Oikos University. One Goh was charged with seven counts of murder, but psychiatric evaluations concluded he suffered from long-term paranoid schizophrenia and was unfit to stand trial.
JUL.20.2012 12 people killed
James Holmes, 27, dressed in tactical clothing and set off tear gas grenades, fatally shot 12 people and injured 70 inside a Century 16 movie movie theater, during the midnight, in Aurora, Colorado. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
AUG.05.2012 6 people killed
In Oak Creek, Wisconsin, 40-year-old gunman Wade Michael Page fatally shot six worshippers and wounded four others at a Sikh Temple before committing suicide by shooting himself in the head after he was shot in the stomach by a responding police officer
SEPT.27.2012 6 people killed
In Minnesota’s deadliest workplace rampage, Andrew Engeldinger, who had just been fired, pulled a gun and fatally shot six people, including the company’s founder. He also wounded two others in Minneapolis before taking his own life.
DEC.14.2012 26 people killed
In Newtown, Connecticut, an armed 20-yearold man entered Sandy Hook Elementary School and used a rifle to kill 26 people, including 20 first graders and six adult school staff members. He then killed himself.
JUL.26.2013 6 people killed
Pedro Vargas, 42, went on a shooting rampage at his Hialeah, Florida, apartment building, gunning down six people before officers fatally shot him.
SEPT.16.2013 12 people killed
Aaron Alexis, a mentally disturbed civilian contractor, shot 12 people to death at the Washington Navy Yard before he was killed in a police shootout.