DEADLIEST MASS SHOOTINGS IN US HISTORY
Added on: 14th Dec 2016
CHARLESTON CHURCH SHOOTING
(DEATH TOLL: 9)
The Charleston Church Shooting took place at the Emanuel
African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South
Carolina on June 17, 2015. Nine people were killed by a
gunman during a prayer service. After the attack, police
arrested 21-year-old Dylann Roof who later confessed that
he committed the shooting in hopes of igniting a race war.
UMPQUA COMMUNITY COLLEGE SHOOTING
(DEATH TOLL: 9)
The Umpqua Community College Shooting occurred on
October 1, 2015 at the UCC campus near Roseburg, Oregon.
Christopher Harper-Mercer, a 26-year-old enrolled at the
school, shot and killed an assistant professor and 8
students in a classroom. Up to 9 others were injured.
After a brief shootout with the police, Harper-Mercer was
wounded and committed suicide by shooting himself
in the head.
RED LAKE SHOOTINGS
(DEATH TOLL: 9)
The Red Lake Shootings occurred in two places in Red Lake,
Minnesota on March 21, 2005. That morning, 16-year-old
Jeffrey Weise killed his grandfather (a local police officer)
and his grandfather’s girlfriend at their home. After taking
his grandfather’s police weapons, he drove to Red Lake
Senior High School, where he shot and killed 7 people and
wounded 5 others. After the police arrived, Weise
committed suicide in a vacant classroom.
GENEVA COUNTY MASSACRE
(DEATH TOLL: 10)
The deadliest shooting event in Alabama history, the
Geneva County Massacre occurred in two Alabama
counties: Kinston and Coffee County on March 10, 2009.
In the incident, 10 people were killed by 28-year-old Michael
Kenneth McLendon. Five of his victims were family members
including his mother and two children. After engaging in an
exchange of fire with police, McLendon committed suicide.
PALM SUNDAY MASSACRE
(DEATH TOLL: 10)
The Palm Sunday Massacre was a mass shooting incident
that occurred in Brooklyn, New York in 1984. In the attack,
sole perpetrator Christopher Thomas killed ten people:
three women, a teenage girl and six children. All of the
victims were shot from close range, most in the head
and were found in relaxed poses sitting in couches and
chairs, suggesting that they had been taken by surprise.
JACKSONVILLE MASSACRE
(DEATH TOLL: 11)
On June 18, 1990, James Edward Pough killed nine people
and wounded four others in a General Motors Acceptance
Corporation car loan office in Jacksonville, Florida. The day
before, he also killed a prostitute and her pimp, wounded
two teenagers, and robbed a convenience store.
FAIRFIELD MASSACRE
(DEATH TOLL: 11)
The oldest mass shooting incident on the list, the
Fairfield Massacre dates back to August 22, 1928 when
Leung Ying, aged 29, killed 11 people and wounded another
4 on a farm near Fairfield, Solano County, California.
Ying was arrested by police the next day and sentenced
to death a few days later. Ying committed suicide in
his prison cell on October 22, about two weeks
before his set execution date.
EASTER SUNDAY MASSACRE
(DEATH TOLL: 11)
On Easter Sunday on March 30, 1975, James Urban Ruppert,
armed with two handguns and a rifle, shot and killed 11
family members in his mother’s house at 635 Minor Avenue
in Hamilton, Ohio. The killing spree, known as the Easter
Sunday Massacre, is the deadliest mass shooting inside a
private residence in US history. Ruppert has been serving
two life sentences at the Allen Oakwood Correctional
Institution in Lima, Ohio.
AURORA SHOOTING
(DEATH TOLL: 12)
The Aurora Shooting occurred on July 20, 2012 in Aurora,
Colorado when sole gunman James Holmes shot into the
movie theatre’s audience during a midnight screening of
the film The Dark Knight Rises. In the attack, Holmes killed
12 people and injured 70 others. In 2015, he was given
12 life sentences, one for every person he killed and
3,318 years for the attempted murders of those he wounded.
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