There are varying definitions of a mass shooting. Listed roughly from broadest to most restrictive: Stanford MSA Data Project: three or more persons shot in one incident, excluding the perpetrator(s), at one location, at roughly the same time. Excluded are shootings associated with organized crime, gangs or drug wars.

2 days ago · CNN is tracking mass shootings in the United States using data from the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit group formed in 2013 to track gun-related violence. Both CNN and GVA define a “mass ...

Mass shootings are incidents involving multiple victims of firearm related violence.

3 days ago · CNN reports mass shootings based on data from the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit organization that tracks gun violence in the United States. CNN and the GVA define a mass shooting as a...

Several different inclusion criteria are used; there is no generally accepted definition. [2] [3] Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit research group that tracks shootings and their characteristics in the United States, defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people, excluding the perpetrator(s), are shot in one location at roughly the same time. [4]

Jan 23, 2025 · mass shooting, as defined by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), an event in which one or more individuals are “actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area. Implicit in this definition is the shooter’s use of a firearm.”

Nov 11, 2024 · The latest mass killing in the U.S. happened Sunday in Wichita, Kansas, after police found the bodies of four people and the suspected shooter inside three separate homes.

Dec 17, 2024 · There have been more than 488 mass shootings across the US so far in 2024, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people...

Sep 5, 2024 · There have been three mass shootings in the U.S. this year. Here is how The New York Times tallies this type of shooting.

Jan 2, 2025 · The Washington Post’s mass shooting database tracks gun violence events that left four or more people dead. See how many mass shootings occur each year.