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2010s mass murders in the United States

  • Parkland high school shootingThe Parkland high school shooting began at 2:19 p.m. on the 14th of February 2018, when an Uber driver dropped a 19-year-old passenger at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Dismissal was twenty minutes away. The…
  • Charleston church shootingThe Charleston church shooting began with an ordinary Wednesday-night Bible study on the 17th of June 2015. Thirteen people gathered at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Twelve of them were…
  • 2016 shooting of Dallas police officersThe 2016 shooting of Dallas police officers began on the 7th of July, at about 8:58 in the evening, when an SUV stopped sideways on Lamar Street with its hazard lights blinking. Officers had cleared that street ahead of a protest march, so…
  • Sandy Hook Elementary School shootingThe Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, on the 14th of December 2012 left 26 people dead. Twenty of them were children, all six or seven years old. The other six were adult staff members, and every one of them…
  • 2017 Las Vegas shootingThe 2017 Las Vegas shooting began on the 1st of October 2017, on the last night of a country music festival, and many people in the crowd first took the sound for fireworks. The gunfire came from a suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay…
  • Pulse nightclub shootingPulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was winding down its weekly Latin Night at around 2:00 a.m. on the 12th of June 2016. Last call had been announced, and about 320 people were still inside. The Saturday event drew a mostly Latino…
  • Pittsburgh synagogue shootingThe Pittsburgh synagogue shooting began on the morning of the 27th of October 2018, a Saturday, inside the Tree of Life building in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood. Three separate congregations were worshipping under that one roof. Each was…
  • 2011 Tucson shootingThe 2011 Tucson shooting began at a table set up outside a Safeway supermarket in Casas Adobes, Arizona, a community just north of Tucson. At 10:10 on the morning of the 8th of January 2011, United States Representative Gabrielle Giffords…
  • 2012 Aurora theater shootingThe 2012 Aurora theater shooting began inside Theater 9 of a Century 16 multiplex in Aurora, Colorado, on the 20th of July 2012. It happened during a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises, and about 400 people had filled the room.…
  • 2015 San Bernardino attackThe 2015 San Bernardino attack began in a rented banquet room at the Inland Regional Center in California, on the 2nd of December 2015. The room belonged, for that day, to the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health. A training…
  • Sutherland Springs church shootingOn the 5th of November 2017, a regular Sunday service at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, became the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history. It also became the deadliest at an American place of worship, surpassing…
  • 2019 El Paso Walmart shootingAt 10:15 on the morning of the 3rd of August 2019, a young man sat in a parked car outside a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. He opened his laptop and visited the imageboard 8chan. There he started a thread with a two-word title, "ITS TIME". The…
  • Hart family murdersThe Hart family murders, a murder-suicide in 2018, took the lives of two women and their six adopted children. Years before, one of those children became known across the country through a single photograph. In 2014, at a protest in…

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