One of the latest mass murders in the United States occurred Monday night in Philadelphia, where a 40-year-old man is accused of killing a man in a home and then fatally shooting four others on neighborhood streets before surrender to the police.
Gun violence spiked as the US celebrated the July 4 holiday, leaving more than a dozen dead and nearly 60 injured, including children as young as 2, in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Louisiana, Texas, Florida and Washington, DC.
The Philadelphia shooting is the nation’s 29th mass murder of 2023 in which four or more people were killed, not including the shooter, in a 24-hour period, according to a July 5 database maintained by The Associated Press. and USA Today in association with Northeastern University.
So far this year, the nation has witnessed the highest number of mass murders and deaths on record to date in a single year. There have been more than 550 incidents of mass murder since 2006, according to the database, in which at least 2,900 people have been killed and at least 2,000 people have been injured.
This is what happened in every mass murder in the US this year:
Kellogg, Idaho: June 18
A 31-year-old man is accused of shooting dead four members of a neighboring family in their apartment on Father’s Day. The man was upset that the neighbor’s 18-year-old son had reportedly exposed himself to the man’s children, according to a police document.
Sequatchie, Tennessee: June 15
A 48-year-old man is believed to be responsible for killing himself and five others, including three children and his estranged wife, at a home where police responded to a shooting and arrived to find the residence on fire, authorities said. . A seventh person suffered gunshot wounds and was found alive in the home after firefighters extinguished the flames.
Mesa, Arizona: May 26
A 20-year-old man fatally shot four men and wounded a woman in a 12-hour crime spree in the greater Phoenix area, authorities said. He told police that he met the victims randomly that day in a variety of places, including a park and a convenience store, and became angry when the topic of drugs came up.
Nash, Texas: May 23
Authorities jailed an 18-year-old man in connection with the shooting of his parents, sister, and brother inside a home. A co-worker of the victim who came to the home after one of the victims failed to show up for work told police that the man said that “he had killed his family because they were cannibals and they were going to kill him.” eat”.
Allen, Texas: May 6
A 33-year-old man with a stockpile of legally purchased firearms killed eight people and injured seven others at a Dallas-area shopping mall. He had posted online about misogynist and white supremacist views of him. A police officer fatally shot him within four minutes.
Lake Wales, Florida: May 2
A 38-year-old man is suspected of fatally shooting a woman and her three children after police were called to an apartment complex where the bodies were found. After an hour-long standoff at a motel, the man was fatally shot by police.
Henryetta, Oklahoma: May 1
A 39-year-old man fatally shot his wife, three children and two friends before killing himself, authorities said. They were all found dead on his rural property. He was a convicted rapist who had been released from prison early, despite facing new sex charges in a separate case.
Mojave, California: April 30
Four people were found shot to death inside a mobile home in a remote Mojave Desert community, authorities said. There were no immediate arrests, but two people were wanted for questioning as “persons of interest.”
Cleveland, Texas: April 28
A 38-year-old man was arrested after a four-day manhunt. Authorities allege the man charged into a neighbor’s home, killing five people, including a 9-year-old boy, after his neighbors told him to stop firing his AR-style rifle because a baby was trying to sleep.
Bowdoin, Maine: April 18
A 32-year-old man confessed to fatally shooting four people, including his parents, in a home. From there he fled and fired at moving vehicles on a highway. Several vehicles were hit by gunfire, but the three injured people were a family, all in the same car.
Dadeville, Alabama: April 15
Six suspects, ranging in age from 15 to 20, have been charged with reckless murder in connection with a shooting at a Sweet 16 birthday party that killed four people and injured at least 32 others. Two high school seniors were killed . The other two dead were 19 and 23 years old.
Louisville, Kentucky: April 10
A 25-year-old bank employee armed with a rifle opened fire at his workplace, killing five people, including a close friend of the Kentucky governor, as he broadcast the attack live on Instagram, authorities said. Police arrived while shots were still being fired inside the Old National Bank and killed the shooter during an exchange of fire.
Monroe, Louisiana: March 31
A 37-year-old man has been arrested on arson and murder charges after a fire killed four people at a home, KNOE-TV reported.
Nashville, Tennessee: March 27
A 28-year-old man killed three children and three adults in a shooting at a small Christian elementary school before being killed by police. The shooter was a former student there. Police have said the shooter “was assigned female at birth” but he used masculine pronouns on social media.
Sumter, South Carolina: March 21
A 42-year-old ex-soldier shot and killed three children as they slept in their home as their mother desperately sought help, authorities said. He also killed an army soldier who was in the house before committing suicide. The shooter and the children’s mother were divorced.
Birmingham, Alabama: March 13-14
A 28-year-old man is suspected of killing four people in overnight shootings. Authorities said the man approached a police officer and told him that he had shot two people in Birmingham and two people in St. Clair County.
Dallas, Texas: March 12
An 18-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman were charged with shooting four people to death in an apartment. They told the police that they had broken into the house to take money. The man admitted to shooting all the victims. The woman had dated one of the victims and they were involved in a custody dispute over her son. A baby was found unharmed at the scene.
Miami Lakes, Florida: March 10
Police found three women and two men dead from apparent gunshot wounds inside a home, authorities said. One man’s injuries appeared self-inflicted, leading investigators to believe the case was a murder-suicide.
Cocoa, Florida: March 1
A 36-year-old man was arrested after fatally shooting his teenage daughter, her mother and two other people, authorities said. Deputies responded after one of the two surviving children called a relative for help.
Daphne, Alabama: February 22
A 21-year-old man was charged with killing his grandparents, brother and a family friend with a gun and a pickaxe. His bodies were found in the backyard of his grandparents’ house and inside a bedroom of the house, police said.
Arkabutla, Mississippi: February 17
A 52-year-old man shot and killed six people, including his ex-wife and stepfather, at various locations in a small rural community, authorities said. The man was armed with a shotgun and two pistols. A family friend said that he had a history of mental illness. A victim was shot to death while she was sitting in a van in front of a convenience store.
Luttrell, Tennessee: January 29
A 52-year-old man who complained of having “a demon in his head” fatally shot four children in his home before burning down the residence and killing himself, according to a prosecutor. The children were between 5 and 15 years old.
Half Moon Bay, California: January 23
A 66-year-old man has been charged with killing seven people in consecutive shootings at two mushroom farms. He pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors said he opened fire at the mushroom farm where he worked, killing four co-workers and wounding another. They said he then drove to a mushroom farm from which he was fired in 2015 and fatally shot three former co-workers.
Monterey Park, California: January 21
A 72-year-old man opened fire on a mostly elderly crowd at a Lunar New Year ball, killing 11 people and wounding nine. The man later died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. The massacre has been called the deadliest shooting in Los Angeles County history.
Goshen, California: January 16
Authorities announced more than two dozen arrests during a gang crackdown following the shooting deaths of six people, including a teenage mother and her baby, which investigators believe was the result of gang rivalry. Two men have pleaded not guilty to murder charges.
Cleveland, Ohio: January 13
A 41-year-old man was charged with fatally shooting his father, sister and nephew, as well as another man and seriously wounding an 8-year-old girl. The man pleaded not guilty. Police alleged that he shot the victims in the head in different rooms of a house, then flagged down a patrol car and directed officers to the scene.
High Point, North Carolina: January 7
A 45-year-old man fatally shot his wife and three children and then himself. Authorities said the five lived together in the home. Two others escaped from the house. One of the survivors was a relative of the family and another was an acquaintance. They were both 20 years old.
Enoch, Utah: January 4
A 42-year-old man shot dead his five children, his mother-in-law and his wife, then committed suicide two weeks after his wife filed for divorce. Child protective services had opened an investigation into the man for child abuse and threats to his family just weeks before the murder.
