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Mass shootings involving AR-15–style rifles

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…
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…
Christchurch mosque shootingsOn the 15th of March 2019, a worshipper walking toward the entrance of the Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch greeted an armed man with the words "Hello, brother!" It was a Friday, and the congregation had gathered for prayer. Within minutes,…
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…
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.…
2022 Buffalo shootingThe 2022 Buffalo shooting took ten lives at a grocery store on the 14th of May 2022. The store was a Tops Friendly Markets in the East Side neighborhood of Buffalo, New York. Three more people were wounded. This documentary follows several…
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…
2020 Nova Scotia attacksPortapique is a rural beachside community in Nova Scotia, 130 km north of Halifax. On the night of the 18th of April 2020, its residents began calling 9-1-1 about gunshots and fires. Over the next two days, a 51-year-old denturist named…
Uvalde school shootingThe Uvalde school shooting began on the 24th of May 2022, when an 18-year-old former student named Salvador Ramos entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. He killed 19 students and 2 teachers. Law enforcement officers killed him 77…
North Hollywood shootoutThe North Hollywood shootout began at 9:16 on the morning of the 28th of February 1997, when Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu walked into a Bank of America branch in Los Angeles carrying rifles. Both men wore body armor. Before they…
Annunciation Catholic Church shootingThe Annunciation Catholic Church shooting struck a Minneapolis parish on the morning of the 27th of August 2025, during the first week of the school year. An all-school Mass was scheduled for 8:15 a.m. at the Church of the Annunciation, in…
2023 Lewiston shootingsThe 2023 Lewiston shootings began at 6:54 p.m. on the 25th of October 2023, inside a bowling alley in Maine. A youth league event was under way at Just-In-Time Recreation when 40-year-old Robert Card walked in. The first emergency call…