Mass Shootings

Authorities say two people were killed and at least 30 others wounded in mass shootings overnight in three states

After a significant drop in mass shootings in the United States during a pandemic-hit 2020, this year has seen several deadly ones.

A gunman killed 8 people and injured multiple others before fatally shooting himself Wednesday morning at a Valley Transportation Authority yard north of downtown San Jose, California, according to authorities.

California Governor Gavin Newsom spoke at the scene of Wednesday’s mass shooting in San Jose, Calif., to condemn the deaths of 8 victims at a workplace murder-suicide. “Pick a state. And here we are, in the United States of America, where we’re experiencing something that is not experienced anywhere else in the world. There’s a sameness to this.”

The only survivor of the mass shooting at an Orange office building in March that left four people, including her 9-year-old son, dead was released Wednesday from the hospital.

For many, the fear of contracting an invisible virus is suddenly compounded by the forgotten yet more familiar fear of getting caught in a random act of violence.

As mass shootings continue to plague the U.S., Congress has done little to in response.

President Joe Biden urged Congress to pass gun control measures after a gunman opened fire at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, Ind., on Friday, killing 8 and injuring several others.

Mass shootings in the Atlanta area and Boulder, Colorado, have renewed the once-ongoing national conversation sidelined by the coronavirus pandemic: How do we end gun violence?

The mother of one of the victims of the 2018 Parkland school shooting, said she spoke to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., after the freshman lawmaker was hit with widespread backlash last week for outlandish comments she made on social media, including one suggesting the shooting was a “false flag.” According to Linda Beigel Schulman, whose son, Scott Beigel, was killed in...

If there’s one silver lining in the tumultuous year of 2020, it’s this: The number of mass shootings that happened in public was the lowest in more than a decade.

Last year’s rampage at a Virginia Beach city government building was the latest in a string of high-profile mass shootings

The man who committed the worst atrocity in New Zealand’s modern history when he slaughtered 51 worshippers at two Christchurch mosques unexpectedly pleaded guilty to all charges Thursday.

An Illinois man who made more than 27,000 crosses to commemorate victims of mass shootings across the country is retiring.

In the two years since the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, the federal government and states have tightened some gun regulations.

After a white supremacist discussed plans on Facebook for a mass shooting at a synagogue, police in Washington used a new law to quickly seize his 12 firearms, long before he was convicted of any crime. But when a Tennessee father became alarmed about his son after receiving a suicidal text message, he said the police determined they could not...

Ten new pro-gun laws will take effect in Texas in four weeks, less than a month after 22 people died in a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, NBC News reported. Gov. Greg Abbott signed the measures after they were passed in a 2019 legislative session that the National Rifle Association, called “highly successful” at the time, celebrating...

A total of 25 people were shot in a span of less than four hours on Sunday morning in Chicago, and police are scrambling to increase patrols to address the spasm of violence.

As school shootings continue to happen across the country, campuses and medical centers are taking steps to be prepared in the event of a potential emergency.