Mass shootings

The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said that the gun of the man responsible for Thursday afternoon's Publix supermarket shooting became jammed as a result of the "brave actions" of the 69-year-old grandmother.

According to a recent report from the National Commission on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice, the number of homicides across the country during the first quarter of 2021 was up 24 percent compared with the same period in 2020 and up 49 percent from 2019.

The situation was made worse when the man with the skateboard "began doing hand gestures as if he was shooting into the crowd" in response to the panic.

A grieving father of one of the victims of a recent Miami concert shooting proclaimed during a press conference that the gunman responsible "must burn."

The FBI and Texas Department of Public Safety arrested Coleman Thomas Blevins, 28, of Kerrville, on Friday by the FBI.

Miami-Dade police said they believed the incident on early Sunday morning to be "a targeted act of gun violence."

VTA shooter Samuel James Cassidy appeared to target his victims when he opened fire at his Santa Clara VTA workplace. Another worker who witnessed the shooting, Kirk Bertolet, said that Cassidy "took his vengeance out on very specific people."

The suspected shooter killed eight people during the incident on Wednesday before taking his own life.

Charlie Johnson was shot dead outside a nightclub hours before he had been due to graduate from the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota.

Six mass shootings took place on May 8, followed by another six on May 9, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

A teacher, seven eighth-graders and a school staff member were the nine pronounced dead, with 21 others hospitalized, in Kazan. Russian media said the suspect was a former student at the school.

A lull in school shootings during the COVID pandemic is all but certain to end as students return to the classroom from a mentally exhausting lockdown in an increasingly armed society.

The suspect allegedly held a standoff with police for 13 hours on Wednesday, during which time he reportedly shot bullets at officers outside.

The man accused of killing 10 people at a Colorado grocery store has been accused of trying to kill 19 others, including 11 police officers, court records show.

Fifty-three percent of U.S. adults think gun laws should be stricter than they currently are—a 7-point drop from September 2019.

"We as a country cannot come together just accepting this as a way of life," Frank DeAngelis told Newsweek.

Representative Jared Patterson took the tragedy as an opportunity to Tweet about HB 1927, a bill approved by the House last Thursday that eliminates licenses for handguns in Texas unless they're prohibited by state or federal laws from owning a firearm.

The Gun Violence Project found there has been a mass shooting every day in the past week except for Wednesday.

The victims include two 19-year-olds, three people over the age of 60 and at least four members of the Sikh community.

Hole, a 19-year-old from Indiana, was identified as the gunman from Friday's mass shooting in Indianapolis by law enforcement officials.

Eight people were killed and several others were wounded in the late-night attack on Thursday.

Gutternberg's message came hours after a gunman killed eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis.

Robert Shook was reportedly shot six times, but managed to raise the alarm which alerted police to the incident.

Trooper Juan Rojas Tovar was shot while pursuing the man suspected of carrying out a deadly mass shooting at a cabinet manufacturing facility in Bryan, Texas, about two hours earlier.

There have been over 100 mass shootings in the U.S. since the start of 2021. Nevertheless, Boebert has remained steadily opposed to Democratic firearm reform efforts.

President Biden is set to sign three executive orders targeting gun violence on Thursday, but student activists are calling on the president to do more with his executive authority.

Adams reportedly killed himself on Thursday, the morning after five were left dead in a mass shooting in Rock Hill, South Carolina.

One woman and six men were shot in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood after a fight broke out late Monday night.

A large crowd of people had gathered to celebrate Easter in W.C. Patton Park in Birmingham, Alabama when gunfire erupted.

"A child was just shot dead among three others in an office building, welcome to America," Parkland survivor Cameron Kasky tweeted on Thursday.