America’s history of mass killings
Fifty years of gun massacres
August 1, 1966
Charles Joseph Whitman, a 25-year-old former US Marine, kills 16 and wounds at least 30 while shooting from the University of Texas clock tower.
July 18, 1984
James Huberty, 41, shoots dead 21 people, including children, and wounds 19 at a Mcdonald’s in San Ysidro, California.
August 20, 1986
Patrick Henry Sherrill, a part-time postman, kills 14 postal workers and wounds six in Edmond, Oklahoma.
October 16, 1991
George Hennard, 35, crashes his pickup truck into a Luby’s Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, before shooting 23 people and wounding 27 others.
April 20, 1999
Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, kill 12 fellow students and one teacher, and wound 24 others at Columbine High School in Colorado.
April 16, 2007
Seung-hui Cho, a 23-year-old student, kills 32 people and wounds 17 in a rampage on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia.
April 3, 2009
Jiverly Wong, 41, shoots 13 people and wounds four at an immigrant community centre in Binghamton, New York.
November 5, 2009
Nidal Malik Hasan, a US Army major, kills 13 people and injures 32 at Fort Hood, Texas.
July 20, 2012
James Holmes, 24, opens fire at a late-night premiere of a Batman film in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 people and wounding 70.
December 14, 2012
Adam Lanza, 20, guns down 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Two others are wounded.
December 2, 2015
Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 29, kill 14 and wound 22 at a training event for public health workers at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California.
June 12, 2016
Omar Saddiqui Mateen, 29, kills 49 and injures 58 when he opens fire inside Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando.