The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/shootings/)
Those who were killed came from nearly every imaginable race, religion and socioeconomic background, says the Washington Post, which is maintaining a database. Their ages range from the unborn to the elderly; 189 were children and teenagers.
Courses offered by private companies go beyond the “run, hide, fight” approach that the federal government has recommended since the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut. The active-survival classes commonly teach how to build barricades, break through windows, create distractions and care for the wounded.
At least 14,611 people in the U.S. were killed by guns last year, excluding most suicides, according to the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), a nonprofit that tracks shootings. That’s a nearly 7 percent drop compared to last year, and the first decline recorded by GVA in its five-year history.
Reginald Wallace, 47, who was released from prison in 2017 after serving 17 years for assault with a deadly weapon, was charged with killing three people at a Torrance, Ca., bowling alley and bar.
‘Mass hysteria’ at a Florida mall in late December sent eight people to hospitals over an incorrect report that there had been a shooting. The clattering of chairs in a fast-food restaurant was mistaken for gunshots.
Witnesses said the shooting stemmed from a fight between two large groups of people. One witness said the brawl blocked the entrance of Gable House Bowl and devolved into “complete chaos.”
Semiautomatic guns that “just spray” are blamed for incidents such as the one that killed a 13-year-old girl watching television in Milwaukee.
Nearly 40,000 people were killed by guns in the U.S. in 2017, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last year’s increase in the gun death rate was driven by suicides. Sixty percent of gun deaths last year were self-inflicted.
Prosecutors in Seattle’s King County are assembling data on shootings in the area to support a public health approach to gun violence. They hope it will help design interventions to prevent shootings.
Many mass shootings, especially those involving only members of one family, don’t get national attention. ABC News compiled a list of such incidents so far in 2018.