21 mass shootings in U.S. in 2019
A body armor-wearing gunman took nine lives in Dayton’s Oregon District early Sunday, injuring 26 others and adding to the carnage of recent mass shootings in the United States.
By at least one reckoning, there have been a total of 21 mass shootings in the U.S. so far this year, including Sunday’s shooting in Dayton and Saturday’s shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. Nearly 130 people have been killed in those shootings.
Counting what is and isn’t a mass shooting can be difficult. There is no single uniformly accepted definition of what a mass shooting is, despite the fact that the term is widely used. The U.S. Justice Department defines a “mass shooting” as one shooting in which three or more victims are killed in a single attack.
In the past week, there have been at least three mass shootings nationally in which at least three people were killed — in Gilroy, Calf., on July 28, at an El Paso Texas Walmart on Saturday, and in Dayton early Sunday morning.
What follows is a list of mass shootings this year in the United States in which at least four people were shot:
■ Sebring, Florida, SunTrust Bank Shooting (1/23/19); five dead.
■ State College Pennsylvania shooting spree (1/24/19); four dead.
■ Rockmart, Georgia, shootings (1/24/19); four dead, one injured.
■ Ascension Parish, Louisiana, domestic shooting (1/26/19); five dead.
■ Palm Springs teens shooting (2/3/19); four dead.
■ Polk County Texas shooting (2/11/19); four dead.
■ Illinois manufacturing plant shooting (2/11/19); five dead, five injured.
■ Clinton, Mississippi, hostage shooting (2/16/19); five dead.
■ West Chester Twp. apartment shooting, Butler County (4/28/19); four dead.
■ St. Louis domestic gunfight (5/13/19); five dead.
■ Des Moines family shooting (5/16/19); four dead.
■ San Jose standoff shooting (5/25/19); five dead.
■ Virginia Beach municipal building shooting (5/31/19); 12 dead, several more injured.
■ Washington Indian Reservation shooting (6/8/19); five dead.
■ San Jose relatives shooting (6/23/19); five dead.
■ St. Louis apartment building shooting (7/6/19); five dead.
■ San Fernando Valley shootings (7/24/19); four dead, two injured.
■ Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting (7/28/19); four dead, 12 injured.
■ Chippewa Falls residential shooting (7/28/19); five dead, two injured.
■ Texas Walmart shooting (8/3/19); 20 dead, 26 injured.
■ Dayton Oregon District shooting (8/4/19); 10 dead, at least 16 injured.
In this total, there are 129 people dead, and more than 64 wounded.