US Mass Shooting

A shooting last weekend at a children's birthday party in California that left four dead was the 17th mass killing this year the lowest number recorded since 2006, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University. Experts warn that the drop doesn't necessarily mean safer days are here to stay and that it could simply represent a return to average levels. Sir Isaac Newton never studied crime, but he says What goes up must come down,'" said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University. The current drop in numbers is more likely what statisticians call a regression to the mean, he said, representing a return to more average crime levels after an unusual spike in mass killings in 2018 and 2019. Will 2026 see a decline?" Fox said. "I wouldn't bet on it. What goes down must also go back up. The mass killings defined as incidents in which four or more people are killed in a 24-hour period, not including th

The gunman, armed with a rifle, pistol and shotgun opened fire at the Annunciation Catholic School church in Minneapolis, killing two students and injuring 17 others

A club shooting in the New York City borough of Brooklyn early Sunday morning has left three people dead and nine others wounded in a year of record-low gun violence in the city. Investigators believe up to four shooters opened fire with multiple weapons at Taste of the City Lounge in Crown Heights after a dispute just before 3:30 a.m. The violence appeared to be gang-related, New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch told reporters. It's a terrible shooting that occurred in the city of New York, Tisch said at a news briefing, later calling the killings a tragic, senseless act of violence. The crime is the second mass shooting within weeks in New York City during a year that has otherwise seen declining gun violence. On July 29, a man stalked through a Manhattan office tower with a rifle, wounding one person and killing four others. A New York City police officer was among those who died. Mayor Eric Adams said both recent shootings just reinforce why we do this work of

Investigators were getting reports of more people arriving at the hospital in private vehicles

The US Embassy in Honduras issued a warning on Tuesday about the threat of a mass shooting at three potential targets in the capital, including a school, a shopping mall and a government complex. The warning posted to the embassy's account on X said it had received information that the attacks could occur on Tuesday and on May 16. It warned US citizens to avoid the locations. The three target locations mentioned are the Elliot Dover Christian School in Tegucigalpa, the Centro Civico in Tegucigalpa, and an unnamed mall in Tegucigalpa, the warning said. The Embassy is required by US law to disseminate this message for all US citizens. There was no indication that US citizens would be specifically targeted, the embassy said. The US embassy said it did not have more information. Honduras' Police Director Juan Manuel Aguilar Godoy downplayed the warning and said it should not cause alarm. It is only an alert, he said on local radio, adding that the information had come from the FBI an

Three individuals have been arrested in connection with a deadly shooting at a Texas flea market, including one of the suspected shooters, police said Tuesday. Three children and two adults were shot Sunday at Cole's Flea Market in the Houston suburb of Pearland, with a 10-year-old boy later dying at a hospital. The others who were shot were also hospitalised with one of them later released. The shooting happened after an argument between two people who did not know each other, according to authorities. Pearland police said that 19-year-old David Negrete, who they had been looking for after charging him Monday with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, turned himself in to authorities on Tuesday morning. On Monday night, Pearland police announced that two individuals Cruz Meza and Julianna Espino, both 18 years old were each charged with tampering with evidence and making a false statement to an officer. Meza was one of the five people shot Sunday, police said. Both Meza and

President Joe Biden will travel to Maine later this week to mourn with the community of Lewiston after 18 people were killed in the deadliest mass shooting in state history, the White House said on Wednesday. Thirteen people were injured in the October 25 shootings at a bar and a bowling alley. Biden and first lady Jill Biden will go Friday to pay their respects to the victims, meet with first responders and others and will grieve with families and community members, the White House said in a statement. The alleged gunman, Robert Card, 40, was found dead of an apparent suicide after a dayslong manhunt that led officials to cancel school and order residents to stay indoors. Investigators have yet to establish a motive but have increasingly focused on the mental health of Card, who was a firearms instructor. Authorities said this week that Card's family had brought their concerns about his deteriorating mental health to the local sheriff five months before the deadly rampage. Card h

A fight between two groups turned deadly in Florida when a shooting in a city street resulted in two deaths and 18 people hospitalized early Sunday morning, police said. Officers responded to the shooting in Tampa just before 3 a.m. on the 1600 block of East 7th Avenue in the Ybor City area, Tampa Police Chief Lee Bercaw said during a press conference at the scene. The fight occurred in an area with several bars and clubs and there were large numbers of late night revelers in the area at the time, Bercaw said. Police were not immediately sure if the people involved in the fight were inside any of the bars before the shooting. It was a disturbance or a fight between two groups. And in this fight between two groups we had hundreds of innocent people involved that were in the way, Bercaw said. He did not provide details of the injuries suffered by the victims taken to area hospitals. One suspect turned himself in to police, and investigators believe there were at least two shooters .

Police in Maine are pursuing a suspect in a mass shooting that has left at least 22 people dead in a pair of incidents in the city of Lewiston. Watch the video to know more.

A massive manhunt is underway to look for Robert Card, who is the suspect in a shooting in Lewiston, Maine

This city did not deserve this terrible assault on its citizens, on its peace of mind, on its sense of security, she said

Multiple people were shot at Morgan State University in Baltimore on Tuesday, police said. The Baltimore Police Department said officers were on the scene Tuesday amid an active shooter situation on the campus. We're asking everyone to shelter in place and avoid the area, police said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Police spokesman Vernon Davis told the Baltimore Banner that at least four people were shot. Their conditions weren't immediately known.

Tennessee's Republican-led Legislature is meeting in special session this week to consider a package of public safety proposals, including some stemming from a deadly shooting at a Nashville elementary school earlier this year. Though the session is not expected to result in any new firearms restrictions, it nonetheless highlights the widely divergent response among states to a spate of mass shootings across the US. More than half the states have enacted substantive new laws this year regarding gun policies or school safety measures most often tightening firearm restrictions in Democratic-led states and loosening them in Republican-led ones. Some states also have pumped money into efforts to secure schools or to train teachers and staff how to respond in shootings. WHAT IS TENNESSEE DOING? Republican Gov. Bill Lee has outlined an 18-prong agenda for Tennessee lawmakers to consider during their special session. The proposal that has gotten the most public attention also appears am

he police chief also said a "person of interest" was in custody and a weapon was seized from the shooting

The victims ranged in age from late 20s to early 30s

Tens of thousands of people marched through the Serbian capital, Belgrade, and blocked a key bridge Friday in the second large protest since two mass shootings that rattled the Balkan country and killed 17 people, including many children. Protesters gathered in front of the Parliament building before filing by the government's headquarters and onto a highway bridge spanning the Sava River, where evening commuters had to turn their vehicles around to avoid getting stuck. At the head of the column was a black banner reading Serbia Against Violence. As the demonstrators passed the government buildings, many chanted slogans decrying Serbia's populist president, Aleksandar Vucic, whom they blame for creating an atmosphere of hopelessness and division in the country that they say indirectly led to the mass shootings. We're here to express a certain kind of rebellion against everything that currently surrounds us, but primarily the violence that occurred in the last ... days, and that is a

This means that there have been more shootings in the US in 2023 than in any previous year since at least 2013, according to CNN

The Indian Consulate here has said it is helping the family of 26-year-old Aishwarya Thatikonda, who was killed in Saturday's shooting at the Texas Mall, in facilitating the completion of requisite formalities to bring back her mortal remains and also confirmed that two Indians were also injured in the tragic incident. Aishwarya, 26, of McKinney, was shopping with a friend when they were shot by gunman Mauricio Garcia at the Allen Premium Outlets in Dallas. The shooting erupted around 3:30 pm on Saturday as throngs of shoppers filled the outdoor mall. The shooting killed at least eight people before Mauricio Garcia, a 33-year-old gunman, was shot dead by a police officer. Aishwarya, the daughter of a district judge in Ranga Reddy district court in India, worked as a project engineer at Perfect General Contractors LLC. Indian Consulate in Houston is in touch with the families of Aishwarya and other two Indian nationals, who were injured in the shooting. Aseem Mahajan, Consul Genera

Texas witnessed a mass shooting in Allen Premium Outlets mall, 9 died, and 7 were injured in the shooting. The US has witnessed 198 such incidents so far.

U.S. deaths fell last year, and COVID-19 dropped to the nation's No. 4 cause, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday. COVID-19 deaths trailed those caused by heart disease, cancer and injuries such as drug overdoses, motor vehicle fatalities and shootings. In 2020 and 2021, only heart disease and cancer were ahead of the coronavirus. U.S. deaths usually rise year-to-year, in part because the nation's population has been growing. The pandemic accelerated that trend, making 2021 the deadliest in U.S. history, with more than 3.4 million deaths. But 2022 saw the first drop in deaths since 2009. The 2022 tally was about 3.3 million a 5 per cent decline from 2021 but still much higher than in the years before the pandemic. The CDC cautioned that last year's numbers are preliminary and may change a little after further analysis. Coronavirus-associated death rates fell for nearly all Americans. The virus was deemed the underlying cause of about 187,000 U.S. death