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The US averaged at least 1 deadly mass shooting a month in 2018
Some of the deadliest mass shootings in the U.S. this year prompted widespread national horror, including the Parkland high school shooting and the massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.
News of other mass shootings, however, seemed to have only reached local audiences. There were a number of incidents where spouses or former spouses killed their partners (and sometimes their children) in Texas, Delaware, Tennessee, Maryland and California.
The FBI defines a mass shooting as an incident where four or more people -- not including the suspect -- are killed. While there is no publicly accessible federal tracker of such incidents, various groups and watchdog organizations keep their own lists, often using different definitions of what qualifies as a mass shooting.
For the list compiled by ABC News below, the incidents took place over the course of one day and involved four or more victims, not including the suspect. For instance, shooting sprees that spanned longer amounts of time were not included on this list. As of Nov. 28, there were at least 18 shootings that fit these parameters.
MassShootings In 2018
There are hundreds of other deadly shootings that took place across the U.S. this year that don't fit these conditions, including some that received national attention, like the shooting at a Maryland Rite Aid, or the shooting at a Chicago hospital. In both of those incidents, three victims were killed and the respective suspects also killed themselves.
But whether they made national headlines or not, the common, heartbreaking thread among the 18 incidents below was that they happened in the first 11 months of 2018.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/2018-mass-shooting-month-us/story?id=59418185
- By MEGHAN KENEALLY
Some of the deadliest mass shootings in the U.S. this year prompted widespread national horror, including the Parkland high school shooting and the massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.
News of other mass shootings, however, seemed to have only reached local audiences. There were a number of incidents where spouses or former spouses killed their partners (and sometimes their children) in Texas, Delaware, Tennessee, Maryland and California.
The FBI defines a mass shooting as an incident where four or more people -- not including the suspect -- are killed. While there is no publicly accessible federal tracker of such incidents, various groups and watchdog organizations keep their own lists, often using different definitions of what qualifies as a mass shooting.
For the list compiled by ABC News below, the incidents took place over the course of one day and involved four or more victims, not including the suspect. For instance, shooting sprees that spanned longer amounts of time were not included on this list. As of Nov. 28, there were at least 18 shootings that fit these parameters.
MassShootings In 2018
There are hundreds of other deadly shootings that took place across the U.S. this year that don't fit these conditions, including some that received national attention, like the shooting at a Maryland Rite Aid, or the shooting at a Chicago hospital. In both of those incidents, three victims were killed and the respective suspects also killed themselves.
But whether they made national headlines or not, the common, heartbreaking thread among the 18 incidents below was that they happened in the first 11 months of 2018.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/2018-mass-shooting-month-us/story?id=59418185
