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By Jordan King
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A map shows where in the U.S. there have been mass shootings so far this year, with California, Illinois and Alabama seeing the most.
America's most recent mass shooting took place on Wednesday, when 14-year-old Colt Gray allegedly opened fire in Apalachee High School, in Winder, Georgia, killing students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo and teachers Richard Aspinwall and Christina Irimie.
It was the 21st mass shooting so far this year, according to a database maintained by the Associated Pressand USA Today with Northeastern University.
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California has seen the majority—five—with the most recent July 10 in Alameda, where Shane Killian was arrested in the shootings of his wife, her parents and his two children.
Before that, there were mass shootings in King City on March 3, Huntington Park on February 11, El Mirage on January 23 and Reedley on January 6.
There have been three shootings in Illinois, with the most recent on September 2, when four people sleeping on a Chicago train were shot in Forest Park.
The other two happened on January 21, in Joliet, where a man shot eight people, including seven of his relatives before he shot himself, and in Tinley Park, where a man killed his wife and three adult daughters in a domestic-related incident.
There have also been three shootings in Alabama, in West Blocton, where a man was charged with killing his wife and four children on July 18, in Birmingham, where people were shot in and outside of a nightclub on July 13, and also in Birmingham on February 16, when four men were killed in a drive-by shooting.
In Georgia, there have been two, with the first in a park in Dalton on August 24, when four young males were killed.
Other states that have had mass shootings this year, each with one, were in Syosset, New York, on August 25; Florence, Kentucky, on July 6; North Las Vegas, Nevada, on June 24; Fordyce, Arkansas, on June 21; Hudson, Florida, on June 12; Charlotte, North Carolina, on April 29; Yukon, Oklahoma, on April 22; and Richmond, Texas, on January 13.
As with many mass shootings, the violence on Wednesday has sparked a debate about gun control, with figures like Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene calling for "more good guys with guns," while the White House has said Congress needs to take action with tougher gun-control measures.
Colt Gray has been charged with four counts of felony murder and is expected to be tried as an adult. His father, Colin Gray, 54, has also been arrested and charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children.
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