User:Corgi Stays/sandbox
Mass shootings in Hawaii in 2023
Mass shootings in Puerto Rico in 2023
This is a list of mass shootings that took place in the United States in 2023. Mass shootings are incidents in which several people are victims of firearm-related violence. Several different inclusion criteria are used; there is no generally-accepted definition.[2][3] Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit research group that tracks shootings and their characteristics in the United States, defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people, excluding the perpetrator(s), are shot in one location at roughly the same time.[4] As of Sepember 30, at least 571 people have been killed and 1,947 other people have been injured in 487 shootings.
The Congressional Research Service provides a definition of four or more killed.[5][6] The Washington Post and Mother Jones use similar definitions, with the latter acknowledging that their definition "is a conservative measure of the problem", as many shootings with fewer fatalities occur.[7][8] The crowdsourced Mass Shooting Tracker project applies the most expansive definition: four or more shot in any incident, including the perpetrator.[9][10]
A 2019 study of mass shootings published in the journal Injury Epidemiology recommended developing "a standard definition that considers both fatalities and nonfatalities to most appropriately convey the burden of mass shootings on gun violence."[11] The authors of the study further suggested that "the definition of mass shooting should be four or more people, excluding the shooter, who are shot in a single event regardless of the motive, setting or number of deaths."[12]
Definitions[edit]
- Stanford University MSA Data Project: three or more persons shot in one incident, excluding the perpetrator(s), at one location, at roughly the same time. Excluded are shootings associated with organized crime, gangs or drug wars.[13]
- Mass Shooting Tracker: four or more persons shot in one incident, at one location, at roughly the same time.[14][10]
- Gun Violence Archive/Vox: four or more shot in one incident, excluding the perpetrators, at one location, at roughly the same time.[15][16]
- Mother Jones: three or more shot and killed in one incident at a public place, excluding the perpetrators. This list excludes all shootings the organization considers to be "conventionally motivated" such as all gang violence and armed robberies.[8]
- The Washington Post: four or more shot and killed in one incident at a public place, excluding the perpetrators.[7]
- ABC News/FBI:[n 1] four or more shot and killed in one incident, excluding the perpetrators, at one location, at roughly the same time.[17]
- Congressional Research Service: four or more shot and killed in one incident, excluding the perpetrators, at a public place, excluding gang-related killings and those done with a profit-motive.[18]
Only incidents considered mass shootings by at least two of the above sources are listed below. Many incidents involving organized crime and gang violence are included.
List[edit]
| 2023 date | Location | State or territory | Dead | Injured | Total | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 31, 2017 | Highlands Ranch, Colorado | 2[n 2] | 6 | 8 | Copper Canyon Apartment Homes shooting: After being called to a home for a report of a disturbance, five police officers were shot in an "ambush-style" attack. One officer was killed and the other four were wounded. Two other people were also wounded in a neighboring apartment. Officers later re-entered the apartment with a SWAT team and killed the suspect; another officer was injured in this exchange.[19] | |
| November 5, 2017 | Sutherland Springs, Texas | 27[n 2][n 3] | 22 | 49 | Sutherland Springs church shooting: A gunman approached the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs and killed two people outside before entering and shooting at the congregation, killing 26 people (including an unborn child) and injuring 22. He was confronted by a local man with a gun, and they exchanged gunfire before entering a vehicle. The man flagged down another person and they began a high-speed chase of the gunman, which ended when the gunman went off the road and was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.[20][21][22] | |
| October 1, 2017 | Paradise, Nevada | 61[n 2] | 411 | 472 | 2017 Las Vegas shooting: A man on the 32nd floor of a hotel opened fire on a country music festival happening outside, killing 60 people and injuring 867 others, with 411 of them suffering from gunshot wounds. The man then shot himself.[23][24][25][26][27] | |
| September 24, 2017 | Antioch, Tennessee | 1 | 8[n 2] | 9 | Burnette Chapel shooting: A man killed a woman outside the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ before entering the chapel and wounding seven others. During a struggle with an usher, the man shot himself in the chest. The usher ran to his car to get his own pistol and held the man at gunpoint until police arrived to arrest him.[28] | |
| September 10, 2017 | Plano, Texas | 9[n 2] | 1 | 10 | 2017 Plano shooting: A man entered his ex-wife's home while she was hosting a football-watching party and killed her and seven others, and wounded one other. He was killed by police.[29] | |
| August 28, 2017 | Clovis, New Mexico | 2 | 4 | 6 | Clovis library shooting: A sixteen-year-old killed two people and wounded four others at a public library before surrendering to police.[30] | |
| July 1, 2017 | Little Rock, Arkansas | 0 | 28 | 28 | Little Rock nightclub shooting: Twenty-eight people were injured (twenty-five directly by gunfire) when shooting broke out in a nightclub where rapper Finese 2Tymes was performing.[31] | |
| June 30, 2017 | New York City, New York | 2[n 2] | 6 | 8 | Bronx-Lebanon Hospital attack: A former hospital employee killed a doctor and wounded six others before he committed suicide. | |
| June 14, 2017 | San Francisco, California | 4[n 2] | 5 | 9 | San Francisco UPS shooting: A gunman entered his workplace and singled out coworkers, killing three and wounding five, before committing suicide.[32] | |
| June 14, 2017 | Alexandria, Virginia | 1[n 2] | 6 | 7 | Congressional baseball shooting: A gunman shot and wounded four people, including Republican Congressman and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, while they were practicing for the Congressional Baseball Game. Two others were also injured in other ways. The gunman was killed after being engaged by Capitol police officers assigned to protect Scalise and by police officers responding to the scene.[33] | |
| June 8, 2017 | Eaton Township, Pennsylvania | 4[n 2] | 0 | 4 | Eaton Township Weis Markets shooting: An employee of a Weis Markets supermarket who was working a night shift barricaded the exits and killed three coworkers before killing himself.[34] | |
| June 6, 2017 | Sandy, Utah | 3[n 2] | 2 | 5 | Sandy, Utah attack: A man rammed a vehicle containing his ex-girlfriend, three children and one other adult, opened fire, killing two and wounding two, then committed suicide.[35] | |
| June 5, 2017 | Orlando, Florida | 6[n 2] | 0 | 6 | Orlando factory shooting: A former employee entered the factory through a rear exit and killed five employees and then himself.[36] | |
| May 27, 2017 | Lincoln County, Mississippi | 8 | 1[n 2] | 9 | 2017 Mississippi shootings: A man killed eight people, including several family members and a sheriff's deputy, at three separate houses. He was injured by police and then arrested. The shooter later said he had intended to commit suicide by cop.[37] | |
| May 12, 2017 | Kirkersville, Ohio | 4[n 2] | 0 | 4 | Kirkersville shooting: After taking two people hostage, a man shot and killed a police officer and two nurses at a nursing home before he killed himself. | |
| April 13–18, 2017 | Fresno, California | 4 | 0 | 4 | 2017 Fresno shootings: A black supremacist killed a white security guard at a hotel, then killed three other white people five days later. The attacks, committed against white people by a black suspect, were racially motivated as the suspect believed there was a race war taking place between white and black people and spoke of his hatred for white people, specifically white men. He was taken into custody by police.[38] | |
| March 26, 2017 | Cincinnati, Ohio | 2[n 4] | 16 | 18 | Cincinnati nightclub shooting: Two men were killed and sixteen people were wounded after a fight escalated into a shooting at a crowded nightclub. One person was arrested.[39] | |
| January 6, 2017 | Broward County, Florida | 5 | 6 | 11 | Fort Lauderdale airport shooting: A man killed five people and injured six in a shooting at Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport before running out of ammunition and lying on the ground to surrender to police. Thirty to forty other people were also hurt, with injuries not directly caused by gunfire.[40] |
Monthly statistics[edit]
| Month | Mass shootings | Total number dead
(including the shooter/s) |
Total number wounded
(including the shooter/s) |
Occurred at a school or university | Occurred at a place of worship |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 52 | 87 | 205 | 0 | 0 |
| February | 43 | 54 | 160 | 2 | 0 |
| March | 40 | 55 | 110 | 1 | 0 |
| April | 53 | 62 | 242 | 0 | 0 |
| May | 84 | 93 | 315 | 2 | 0 |
| June | 68 | 65 | 323 | 1 | 0 |
| July | 87 | 76 | 353 | 0 | 0 |
| August | 39 | 53 | 161 | ||
| September | 21 | 26 | 78 | 0 | 0 |
| October | |||||
| November | |||||
| December | |||||
| Total | 487 | 571 | 1,947 | 6 | 0 |
| Source:[41] | |||||
Notes[edit]
- ^ The FBI does not use the "mass shooting" term but uses a broader term, "mass murder" when four or more victims are slain, in one event, at one location, not including the perpetrator.[10]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Cite error: The named reference
:0was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Cite error: The named reference
:1was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Including at least one of the perpetrators
References[edit]
- ^ "Mass Shootings in 2023". Gun Violence Archive.
- ^ Borchers, Callum (October 4, 2017). "The vague definition of 'mass shooting' complicates media coverage". Washington Post. Archived from the original on October 21, 2020. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
...'mass shooting' is a term without a universally-accepted definition.
- ^ Bjelopera, Jerome (March 18, 2013). "Public Mass Shootings in the United States" (PDF). Congressional Research Service. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 9, 2013. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
There is no broadly agreed-to, specific conceptualization of this issue, so this report uses its own definition for public mass shootings.
- ^ "General Methodology". Gun Violence Archive. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
- ^ Borchers, Callum (October 4, 2017). "The squishy definition of 'mass shooting' complicates media coverage". Washington Post. Archived from the original on October 21, 2020. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
...'mass shooting' is a term without a universally-accepted definition.
- ^ "Public Mass Shootings in the United States: Selected Implications for Federal Public Health and Safety Policy". Congressional Research Service. April 16, 2013. Archived from the original on June 2, 2021. Retrieved January 4, 2022.
- ^ a b Berkowitz, Bonnie; Lu, Denise; Alcantara, Chris (September 14, 2018). "More than 50 years of U.S. mass shootings: The victims, sites, killers and weapons". Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 1, 2021. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
- ^ a b Follman, Mark; Aronsen, Gavin; Pan, Deanna (September 20, 2018). "A Guide to Mass Shootings in America". Mother Jones. Archived from the original on May 28, 2019. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
- ^ "About the Mass Shooting Tracker". Mass Shooting Tracker. Archived from the original on April 6, 2020. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
- ^ a b c Michelle Ye Hee Lee (December 3, 2015). "Obama's inconsistent claim on the 'frequency' of mass shootings in the U.S. compared to other countries". Washington Post. Archived from the original on March 5, 2021. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
- ^ Marisa Booty; Jayne O'Dwyer; Daniel Webster; Alex McCourt; Cassandra Crifasi (2019). "Describing a "mass shooting": the role of databases in understanding burden". Injury Epidemiology. 6: 47. doi:10.1186/s40621-019-0226-7. PMC 6889601. PMID 31828004.
- ^ Clayton, Abené (December 13, 2019). "What counts as a mass shooting? The dangerous effects of varying definitions". The Guardian. Archived from the original on March 23, 2021. Retrieved April 8, 2021.
- ^ "Mass Shootings in America". Stanford Libraries. Archived from the original on January 7, 2022. Retrieved July 2, 2019.
- ^ "About the Mass Shooting Tracker". Mass Shooting Tracker. Archived from the original on April 6, 2020. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
- ^ "General Methodology". Gun Violence Archive. Archived from the original on August 26, 2018. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
- ^ Lopez, German (December 4, 2015). "The debate over how to define mass shootings is ridiculous". Vox. Archived from the original on January 4, 2022. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
- ^ Keneally, Meghan (June 5, 2019). "There were 2 deadly mass shootings a month so far in 2019". ABC News. Archived from the original on January 6, 2022. Retrieved June 29, 2019.
- ^ Bjelopera, Jerome (March 18, 2013). "Public Mass Shootings in the United States". Congressional Research Service. Archived from the original on December 6, 2019. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
There is no broadly agreed-to, specific conceptualization of this issue, so this report uses its own definition for public mass shootings.
- ^ Mele, Christopher; Healy, Jack (December 31, 2018). "Colorado Gunman Shoots 5 Officers Near Denver, One Fatally". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on August 14, 2018. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
- ^ Danner, Chas; Hartmann, Margaret (November 6, 2017). "26 Dead After Mass Shooting at South Texas Church". Intelligencer. New York Magazine. Archived from the original on October 31, 2018. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
- ^ Goldman, Adam; Pérez-Peña, Richard; Fernandez, Manny (November 8, 2018). "Texas Church Shooting Video Shows Gunman's Methodical Attack, Official Says". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 8, 2017. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
- ^ Killough, Ashley; LeBlanc, Paul (July 7, 2021). "Federal judge largely faults Air Force for 2017 Texas church shooting". CNN. Archived from the original on July 8, 2021. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
- ^ "Las Vegas Shooting Incident" (PDF). Gun Violence Archive. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
- ^ Torres-Cortez, Ricardo (January 19, 2018). "Sheriff: Person of interest part of Strip shooting probe; Paddock had child porn - Las Vegas Sun Newspaper". Las Vegas Sun. Archived from the original on January 19, 2018. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
- ^ Lacanlale, Rio (August 24, 2020). "California woman declared 59th victim of 2017 massacre in Las Vegas". The Las Vegas Review-Journal. Archived from the original on October 14, 2020. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
- ^ Lacanlale, Rio (September 17, 2020). "Las Vegas woman becomes 60th victim of October 2017 mass shooting". The Las Vegas Review-Journal. Archived from the original on September 22, 2020. Retrieved September 17, 2020.
- ^ "LVMPD Criminal Investigative Report of the 1 October Mass Casualty Shooting" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on March 9, 2020. Retrieved March 13, 2020 – via lvmpd.com.
- ^ "Tennessee church shooter admits to crime as bizarre Facebook posts surface". Fox News. September 25, 2017. Archived from the original on October 31, 2018. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
- ^ "Texas gunman killed ex-wife and friends". BBC News. September 14, 2017. Archived from the original on September 25, 2017. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
- ^ deGrandpre, Andrew; Wang, Amy B. (August 29, 2017). "16-year-old faces murder charges in New Mexico library shooting". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on November 3, 2018. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
- ^ Wilford, Greg (July 1, 2017). "At least 28 injured after 'multiple shooters' open fire at US nightclub". The Independent. Archived from the original on September 14, 2018. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
- ^ Ballenger, Grace. "Three Victims Dead in Shooting at UPS Warehouse in San Francisco". Slate Magazine. Archived from the original on November 27, 2018. Retrieved November 26, 2018.
- ^ Williams, Pete; Moe, Alex; Ortiz, Erik (June 14, 2017). "Congressman Steve Scalise, Three Others Shot at Alexandria, Virginia, Baseball Field". NBC News. Archived from the original on February 25, 2018. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
- ^ Becker, Dave (June 9, 2018). "Four dead in Weis Market shooting". PA Homepage. Archived from the original on September 15, 2018. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
- ^ Reavy, Pat (January 31, 2018). "'It's so twisted but I want her to die': Final reports give timeline of tragic Utah murders". Deseret News. Archived from the original on November 27, 2018. Retrieved November 26, 2018.
- ^ Harris, David; Hayes, Christal; Williams, Michael (June 5, 2017). "Orlando workplace shooting: Former employee kills 5, then himself". Orlando Sentinel. Archived from the original on October 31, 2018. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
- ^ Sterling, Joe; Prior, Ryan (May 29, 2017). "Sheriff's deputy, 7 others killed in Mississippi shootings". CNN. Archived from the original on October 31, 2018. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
- ^ Serna, Joseph; Branson-Potts, Hailey; Queally, James (April 18, 2017). "Suspect in Fresno shooting rampage spoke about racial conflict and black nationalism". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on October 31, 2018. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
- ^ Franko, Kantele (April 4, 2017). "Lawyer: Dead Cincinnati nightclub shooting suspect is victim". Associated Press. Archived from the original on October 31, 2018. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
- ^ Fleshler, David; Bryan, Susannah; McMahon, Paula; Trischitta, Linda (January 7, 2018). "Esteban Santiago: Details emerge of suspect in airport shooting". Sun-Sentinel. Archived from the original on October 30, 2018. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
- ^ "Mass Shootings in 2023". Retrieved January 1, 2023.
External links[edit]
- Gun Violence Archive Mass Shootings
- Mass Shooting Tracker Mass Shootings
- Mother Jones Mass Shootings
- USA Today Mass Shootings
- Vox Mass Shootings
- Washington Post Mass Shootings
- Jetter, Michael; Jay K. Walker (October 2018). "The Effect of Media Coverage on Mass Shootings" (PDF). IZA Institute of Labor Economics.
Category:2023 murders in the United States
Mass shootings in the United States
2023
2023