​2012 February 27th

3 students were killed by Thomas “TJ” Lane, another student, in a rampage at Chardon High School in Chardon, OH. Three others were injured.

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​2012 April 6th
Jake England, 19, and Alvin Watts, 32, killed  3 in Tulsa, Oklahoma

2012 April 2nd
A former student, 43-year-old One L. Goh killed 7 people at Oikos University, a Korean Christian college in Oakland, CA.



​2012 May 29th
Ian Stawicki opened fire on Cafe Racer Espresso in Seattle, WA, killing 5 and himself after a citywide manhunt.



​2012 July 20th
During the midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, CO, 24-year-old James Holmes killed 12 people and wounded 58. Holmes was arrested outside the theater.

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​2012 December 11Th​
December 11 On Tuesday, 22-year-old Jacob Tyler Roberts killed 2 people.

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​2011 January 8th
Former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ) was shot in the head by 22-year-old Jared Loughner. Loughner opened fire on an event Giffords held at a Safeway market in Tucson, AZ.  6 people were killed, including Arizona District Court Chief Judge John Roll, one of Giffords’ staffers, and a 9-year-old girl. 19 people were shot in total. Loughner has been sentenced to seven life terms plus 140 years, without parole.

2011 September 6th
Eduardo Sencion, 32, entered an IHOP restaurant in Carson City, NV and wounded 12 people, and killed 5, including three National Guard members.



​2011 October 14th
Eight people died in a shooting at Salon Meritage hair salon in Seal Beach, CA. The gunman, 41-year-old Scott Evans Dekraai, killed 6 women and two men dead, while just one woman survived. It was Orange County’s deadliest mass killing.

2010 August 3rd
Omar S. Thornton, 34, gunned down Hartford Beer Distributor in Manchester, CT after getting caught stealing beer. 9 people were killed, including Thornton, and two were injured.

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​2009 March 29th. ​​
​​8 people killed in a shooting at the Pinelake Health and Rehab nursing home in Carthage, NC. The gunman, 45-year-old Robert Stewart, was targeting his estranged wife who worked at the home and survived. Stewart was sentenced to life in prison.

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​2009 April 3rd ​
Jiverly Wong, 41, opened fire at an immigration center in Binghamton, New York before committing suicide. He killed 13 people and wounded 4.​​

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​2009 November 5th ​
Forty-three people were shot by Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan at the Fort Hood army base in Texas. Hasan killed 13 and wounded 29.

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​2008 February 7th ​
​6 people killed and 2 were injured in a shooting spree at the City Hall in Kirkwood, Missouri. The gunman, Charles Lee Thornton, opened fire during a public meeting after being denied construction contracts he believed he deserved. Thornton was killed by police.

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​2008 February 14
Steven Kazmierczak, 27, opened fire in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University, killing 6 and wounding 21. The gunman shot and killed himself before police arrived. It was the fifth-deadliest university shooting in US history.
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2007 February 12th ​
In Salt Lake City’s Trolley Square Mall, 5 people were shot to death and 4 others were wounded by 18-year-old gunman Sulejman Talović. One of the victims was a 16-year-old boy.

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​April 16, 2007.
Virginia Tech became the site of the deadliest school shooting in US history when a student, Seung-Hui Choi, gunned down 56 people. Thirty-two people died in the massacre.

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​2007 December 5th​
A 19-year-old boy, Robert Hawkins, opened fire inside a department store in the Westroads Mall in Omaha, NE. Hawkins killed 9 people and wounded 4 before killing himself. The semi-automatic rifle he used was stolen from his stepfather’s house.
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March 25, 2006. ​
​7 shot dead and 2 were injured by 28-year-old Kyle Aaron Huff in a shooting spree through Capitol Hill in Seattle, WA. The massacre was the worst killing in Seattle since 1983.

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​2006 October 2nd
An Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster, PA was gunned down by 32-year-old Charles Carl Roberts, Roberts separated the boys from the girls, binding and shooting the girls. 5 young girls died, while 6 were injured. Roberts committed suicide afterward.
 

 

​2005 March 12th
A Living Church of God meeting was gunned down by 44-year-old church member Terry Michael Ratzmann at a Sheraton hotel in Brookfield, WI. Ratzmann was thought to have had religious motivations, and killed himself after executing the pastor, the pastor’s 16-year-old son, and 7 others.4 were wounded. 3 killed

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​2005 March 21st ​
Teenager Jeffrey Weise killed his grandfather and his grandfather’s girlfriend before opening fire on Red Lake Senior High School, killing 9 people on campus and injuring 5. Weise killed himself.
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2003 July 8th ​
Doug Williams, a Lockheed Martin employee, shot up his plant in Meridian, MS in a racially-motivated rampage. He shot 14 people, and killed 7 before killing himself.​
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2000 December 26th​
Edgewater Technology employee Michael “Mucko” McDermott shot and killed 7 of his coworkers at the office in Wakefield, MA. McDermott claimed he had “traveled back in time and killed Hitler and the last 6 Nazis.” He was sentenced to 7 consecutive life sentences.

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​1999 April 20th
In the deadliest high school shooting in US history, teenagers Eric Harris and Dylan Kiebold opened fire on Columbine High School in Littleton, CO. They killed 13 people and wounded 21 others. After the massacre, they took their own lives.
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1999 July 29th ​
Mark Orrin Barton, 44, murdered his wife and two children with a hammer before shooting two Atlanta day trading firms. Barton, a day trader, was believed to be motivated by huge monetary losses. He killed 12, including his family, and injured 13 before killing himself.
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1999 September 15th​
Larry Gene Ashbrook opened fire on a Christian rock concert and teen prayer rally at Wedgewood Baptist Church in Fort Worth, TX. He killed 7 people and wounded 7 others, almost all teenagers. Ashbrook committed suicide soon after.
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Chicago Homicides

Chicago police confirm 'tragic number'​ of 500 homicides​​​​

Chicago reached “a tragic number” today, according to Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy: Its homicide total for the year hit 500, the highest annual total since 2008.
Source: Tribune reporters
5:24 p.m. CST, December 28, 2012

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​​NEW YORK STATE​
​414 homicides in 2012​​​​​​​​
Source: New York Daily News
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New York City reports record low murder rate for 2012
myfoxny.com  - ‎13 hours ago‎​
December 27th 2012
New York City officials say that there will be a record low number of murders and shootings in the city in 2012. As of Friday morning, there have been 414 homicides in 2012 - the previous record low was 471 homicides in 2009. The number of murders has ...CONCERT ONE​
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