The newest mass killing within the United States occurred Wednesday evening in Lewiston, Maine, when a person opened fireplace at a bowling alley and a bar, killing at the very least 16 individuals, two legislation enforcement officers instructed The Associated Press. Dozens of individuals have been additionally wounded.
The alert for Lewiston was made shortly after 8 p.m. because the sheriff’s workplace reported that legislation enforcement businesses have been investigating “two active shooter events.”
The man recognized as an individual of curiosity in a mass killing in Maine is a firearms teacher educated by the navy and was not too long ago dedicated to a psychological well being facility, based on a state police bulletin.
The capturing was the nation’s thirty sixth mass killing this 12 months, based on a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University. At least 188 individuals have died in these killings, that are outlined as incidents during which 4 or extra individuals have died inside a 24-hour interval, not together with the killer — the identical definition utilized by the FBI.
So far this 12 months, the nation has witnessed the second-highest quantity on file of mass killings and deaths so far in a single 12 months. Only 2019 had extra mass killings. According to the database, there have been greater than 560 mass killings since 2006, during which at the very least 2,900 individuals died and at the very least 2,000 have been injured.
Here’s what occurred within the different U.S. mass killings this 12 months.
ROMEOVILLE, ILLINOIS: Sept. 17
A pair, their two kids — ages 7 and 9 — and three canine have been discovered fatally shot of their suburban Chicago dwelling. Police have been requested to test on the household after one member didn’t present for work that morning and cellphone calls went unanswered, authorities stated. A 32-year-old man was suspected within the deaths. He died days later after a fiery crash in Oklahoma, together with a passenger, and had a relationship with the victims, police stated.
LAKE TOWNSHIP, OHIO: Aug. 24
Five members of a household, together with three kids, have been discovered useless at a house in Lake Township, Ohio, by law enforcement officials performing a welfare test. Authorities say a husband and spouse and their two daughters and son died from gunshot wounds and their deaths are being investigated as a home dispute that turned lethal. It’s unclear who fired the photographs.
OKLAHOMA CITY: Aug. 16
Police in Oklahoma City stated a 28-year-old man fatally shot three younger kids — ages 9, 5 and a pair of — and his estranged spouse earlier than taking his personal life. Officers visited the household dwelling following a report of a home disturbance. Authorities described the couple as married however separated and stated police had by no means been known as to a home disturbance on the dwelling earlier than. They added that investigators haven’t but decided a motive.
HAMPTON, GEORGIA: July 15
A 40-year-old man is accused of fatally capturing 4 individuals, all of their 60s, in a suburb south of Atlanta. Police stated the person’s motive was not instantly clear. The killings set off an enormous search that ended with a shootout that killed the person in one other suburb about 15 miles (24 kilometers) away. The trade of gunfire wounded a sheriff’s deputy and two law enforcement officials.
SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA: July 4
Multiple males are believed to have exchanged gunfire at an annual Independence Day block get together simply earlier than midnight, leaving at the very least 4 individuals useless and at the very least seven others injured, based on police. Suspects weren’t rapidly recognized, and arrests weren’t instantly made.
PHILADELPHIA: July 3
A 40-year-old man is accused of opening fireplace randomly with an AR-15-style rifle, killing 4 individuals and wounding 4 others, together with a 2-year-old, in a southwest Philadelphia neighborhood. Authorities stated the person fatally shot one other individual in a row home the day earlier than.
GREEN POND, SOUTH CAROLINA: July 2
A 33-year-old man was charged with homicide within the killings of his sister-in-law and 11-year-old daughter after authorities discovered six individuals useless and one individual in crucial situation at a house whereas responding to studies of a home fireplace and stabbings, officers stated. They didn’t instantly determine a motive. The man was later charged in reference to the opposite 4 deaths, based on media studies.
KELLOGG, IDAHO: June 18
A 31-year-old man is accused of fatally capturing 4 members of a neighboring household of their condo on Father’s Day. The man was upset that the neighbor’s 18-year-old son had reportedly uncovered himself to the person’s kids, a police doc alleges.
SEQUATCHIE, TENNESSEE: June 15
A 48-year-old man is considered chargeable for killing himself and 5 others — together with three kids and his estranged spouse — in a house the place police responded to a capturing and arrived to search out the residence ablaze, authorities stated. A seventh individual suffered gunshot wounds and was discovered alive on the dwelling after firefighters extinguished the flames.
MESA, ARIZONA: May 26
A 20-year-old man shot 4 males to dying and wounded a girl in a 12-hour crime spree in metro Phoenix, authorities stated. He instructed police that he met the victims at random that day at a variety of locations, together with a park and a comfort retailer, and have become indignant when the topic of medication got here up.
NASH, TEXAS: May 23
Authorities jailed an 18-year-old man in reference to the shootings of his mother and father, sister and brother inside a house. A sufferer’s co-worker who went to the house after one of many victims failed to point out up for work instructed police that the person stated “he had killed his family because they were cannibals, and they were going to eat him.”
ALLEN, TEXAS: May 6
A 33-year-old man with an arsenal of legally-purchased firearms killed eight individuals and wounded seven others at a Dallas-area purchasing heart. He had posted on-line about his white supremacist and misogynistic views. A police officer fatally shot him inside 4 minutes.
LAKE WALES, FLORIDA: May 2
A 38-year-old man was suspected of fatally capturing a girl and her three kids after police have been known as to an condo advanced the place they discovered the our bodies. After an hourslong standoff at a motel, police fatally shot the person.
HENRYETTA, OKLAHOMA: May 1
A 39-year-old man fatally shot his spouse, her three kids and their two associates earlier than killing himself, authorities stated. They have been all discovered useless on his rural property. He was a convicted rapist who had been free of jail early, regardless of dealing with new intercourse costs in a separate case.
MOJAVE, CALIFORNIA: April 30
Four individuals have been discovered fatally shot inside an RV in a distant Mojave Desert neighborhood, authorities stated. There have been no rapid arrests, however two individuals have been being hunted for questioning as “persons of interest.”
CLEVELAND, TEXAS: April 28
A 38-year-old man was arrested after a four-day manhunt. Authorities allege that the person charged right into a neighbor’s dwelling and killed 5 individuals, together with a 9-year-old boy, after his neighbors requested him to cease firing his AR-style rifle as a result of a child was making an attempt to sleep.
BOWDOIN, MAINE: April 18
A 32-year-old man confessed to fatally capturing 4 individuals, together with his mother and father, at a house. From there he fled and fired photographs at transferring autos on a freeway. Several autos have been hit by gunfire however the three individuals injured have been a household all in the identical automotive.
DADEVILLE, ALABAMA: April 15
Six suspects — ages 15 to twenty — have been charged with reckless homicide in reference to a capturing at a Sweet 16 birthday celebration that killed 4 individuals and injured at the very least 32 others. Two highschool seniors have been killed. The different two killed have been 19 and 23.
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY: April 10
A 25-year-old financial institution worker armed with a rifle opened fireplace at his office, killing 5 individuals — together with an in depth pal of Kentucky’s governor — whereas livestreaming the assault on Instagram, authorities stated. Police arrived as photographs have been nonetheless being fired inside Old National Bank and killed the shooter throughout an trade of gunfire.
MONROE, LOUISIANA: March 31
A 37-year-old man was arrested on arson and homicide costs after a hearth killed 4 individuals in a house, KNOE-TV reported.
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE: March 27
A 28-year-old killed three kids and three adults in a capturing at a small Christian elementary college earlier than being killed by police. The shooter was a former pupil there. Police have stated the shooter “was assigned female at birth” however used masculine pronouns on social media.
SUMTER, SOUTH CAROLINA: March 21
A 42-year-old former soldier shot and killed three kids as they slept of their dwelling whereas their mom frantically sought assist, authorities stated. He additionally killed an Army soldier who was on the dwelling earlier than killing himself. The shooter and the youngsters’s mom have been divorced.
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA: March 13 to 14
A 28-year-old man was suspected of killing 4 individuals in in a single day shootings. Authorities stated the person approached a police officer and stated he had shot two individuals in Birmingham and two individuals in St. Clair County.
DALLAS, TEXAS: March 12
An 18-year-old man and 20-year-old lady have been charged within the deadly shootings of 4 individuals at an condo. They instructed police they’d damaged into the house to take cash. The man admitted to capturing all the victims. The lady had dated one of many victims, they usually have been concerned in a custody dispute over their son. An toddler was discovered unhurt on the scene.
MIAMI LAKES, FLORIDA: March 10
Police discovered three females and two males useless from obvious gunshot wounds inside a house, officers stated. The wounds of 1 man gave the impression to be self-inflicted, main investigators to imagine the case was a murder-suicide.
COCOA, FLORIDA: March 1
A 36-year-old man was arrested after fatally capturing his teenage daughter, her mom and two different individuals, authorities stated. Deputies responded after certainly one of two surviving kids had known as a relative for assist.
DAPHNE, ALABAMA: Feb. 22
A 21-year-old man was accused of killing his grandparents, his brother and a household pal with a handgun and pickaxe. Their our bodies have been discovered within the yard of his grandparents’ dwelling and inside a bed room in the home, police stated.
ARKABUTLA, MISSISSIPPI: Feb. 17
A 52-year-old man shot and killed six individuals together with his ex-wife and stepfather at a number of places in a tiny rural neighborhood, authorities stated. The man was armed with a shotgun and two handguns. A household pal stated he had a historical past of psychological sickness. One sufferer was shot and killed whereas sitting in a pickup truck exterior a comfort retailer.
LUTTRELL, TENNESSEE: Jan. 29
A 52-year-old man who complained of getting “a devil in his head” fatally shot 4 kids in his dwelling earlier than setting the residence ablaze and capturing himself, based on a prosecutor. The kids have been ages 5 to fifteen.
HALF MOON BAY, CALIFORNIA: Jan. 23
A 66-year-old man was charged with killing seven individuals in back-to-back shootings at two mushroom farms. He pleaded not responsible. Prosecutors stated he opened fireplace on the mushroom farm the place he labored, killing 4 co-workers and wounding one other one. They stated he then drove to a mushroom farm he was fired from in 2015 and fatally shot three former co-workers.
MONTEREY PARK, CALIFORNIA: Jan. 21
A 72-year-old man opened fireplace on a principally aged crowd at a Lunar New Year dance, killing 11 individuals and wounding 9. The man later died of an obvious self-inflicted gunshot wound. The bloodbath has been known as the deadliest capturing in Los Angeles County historical past.
GOSHEN, CALIFORNIA: Jan. 16
Authorities introduced greater than two dozen arrests throughout a gang crackdown following the deadly shootings of six individuals — together with a teenage mom and her child — that investigators imagine stemmed from a gang rivalry. Two males have pleaded not responsible to the homicide costs.
CLEVELAND, OHIO: Jan. 13
A 41-year-old man was accused of fatally capturing his father, sister and nephew in addition to one other man and critically wounding an 8-year-old lady. The man pleaded not responsible. Police alleged that he shot victims within the head in several rooms of a house, then flagged down a police cruiser and directed officers to the scene.
HIGH POINT, NORTH CAROLINA: Jan. 7
A forty five-year-old man fatally shot his spouse and three kids after which himself. Authorities stated all 5 lived collectively within the dwelling. Two others escaped the home. One of the survivors was a relative of the household and one other was an acquaintance. Both have been of their 20s.
ENOCH, UTAH: Jan. 4
A 42-year-old man fatally shot his 5 kids, his mother-in-law and his spouse after which killed himself two weeks after his spouse filed for divorce. Child protecting providers had opened an investigation of the person on baby abuse and threats to his household simply weeks earlier than the killing.
Associated Press reporter Mike Balsamo contributed to this report.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”