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Mass Killings in America

Including El Paso and Dayton, there have been 112 people killed in mass shootings this year.

Aug. 6, 2019Updated Aug. 7, 2019, 11:30 a.m. ET

The USA has seen 112 people killed in mass shootings 216 days into the year. That is about one death every other day – more than most similar periods over the past decade, according to an analysis from USA TODAY, The Associated Press and Northeastern University.

Only 2016 had more mass shootings at this point in the year.

Only 2016 had more mass killings this many days into the year. In 2017, 181 lives were lost in these type of incidents. This analysis uses the FBI definition for mass killings: those in which four or more people were killed, not including the shooter.

2017 saw more people killed mass shootings than any other year in the database.

Thirty-one people died and dozens were wounded Saturday in Texas and Ohio, the most recent victims of mass shootings. Nearly every state has been touched by similar violence.

Almost every state has been impacted by a mass shooting.

Since 2006, 1,714 people have been killed in 311 mass shootings – this is about one incident for every two weeks.

There have been 311 mass shootings since 2006.

The Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas remains the nation’s worst mass shooting. How others compare:

El Paso is the sixth-most-deadly shooting in the databse.

Seth Rasmussen, of the Associated Press, contributed to the database cited in this analysis.

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