There have been 21 mass shootings in the United States so far this year, including the shooting in Dayton, Ohio and a shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.
Definitions of mass shooting are generally vague, but WHIO used the criteria of at least four people shot and killed to create the following timeline.
- Sebring, Florida SunTrust Bank Shooting (1/23/19); five dead
- State College, Pennsylvania, shooting spree (1/24/19); four dead
- Rockmart, Georgia, shootings (1/24/19); four dead, one injured
- Ascension Parish, Louisiana domestic shooting (1/26/19); five dead
- Palm Springs, California, teens shooting (2/3/19); four dead
- Polk County, Texas shooting (2/11/19); four dead
- Aurora, Illinois, manufacturing plant shooting (2/11/19); five dead, five injured
- Clinton, Mississippi, hostage shooting (2/16/19); five dead
- West Chester Township, Ohio, apartment shooting (4/28/19); four dead
- St. Louis domestic gunfight (5/13/19); five dead
- Des Moines, Iowa, family shooting (6/15/19); four dead
- San Jose standoff shooting (5/25/19); five dead
- Virginia Beach, Virginia, municipal building shooting (5/31/19); 12 dead, several more injured
- Washington Indian Reservation shooting (6/8/19); five dead
- San Jose, California, relatives shooting (6/23/19); five dead
- St. Louis apartment building shooting (7/6/19); five dead
- San Fernando Valley shootings (7/24/19); four dead, two injured
- Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting (7/28/19); four dead, 12 injured
- Chippewa Falls Residential shooting (7/28/19); five dead, two injured
- El Paso, Texas Walmart shooting (8/3/19); 20 dead, 26 injured
- Dayton, Ohio, Oregon District shooting (8/4/19); 10 dead, at least 16 injured
In total, that is 129 people dead, and more than 64 wounded at the shootings in this list.
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