Timeline: 21 mass shootings in the United States in 2019

Dayton police look for evidence after a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio on Sunday, Aug, 4, 2019.

Credit: Marshall Gorby/Dayton Daily News via AP

Credit: Marshall Gorby/Dayton Daily News via AP

Dayton police look for evidence after a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio on Sunday, Aug, 4, 2019.

There have been 21 mass shootings in the United States so far this year, including the shooting in Dayton, Ohio and a shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.

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Definitions of mass shooting are generally vague, but WHIO used the criteria of at least four people shot and killed to create the following timeline.

  • Sebring, Florida SunTrust Bank Shooting (1/23/19); five dead
  • State College, Pennsylvania, shooting spree (1/24/19); four dead
  • Rockmart, Georgia, shootings (1/24/19); four dead, one injured
  • Ascension Parish, Louisiana domestic shooting (1/26/19); five dead
  • Palm Springs, California, teens shooting (2/3/19); four dead
  • Polk County, Texas shooting (2/11/19); four dead
  • Aurora, Illinois, manufacturing plant shooting (2/11/19); five dead, five injured
  • Clinton, Mississippi, hostage shooting (2/16/19); five dead
  • West Chester Township, Ohio, apartment shooting (4/28/19); four dead
  • St. Louis domestic gunfight (5/13/19); five dead
  • Des Moines, Iowa, family shooting (6/15/19); four dead
  • San Jose standoff shooting (5/25/19); five dead
  • Virginia Beach, Virginia, municipal building shooting (5/31/19); 12 dead, several more injured
  • Washington Indian Reservation shooting (6/8/19); five dead
  • San Jose, California, relatives shooting (6/23/19); five dead
  • St. Louis apartment building shooting (7/6/19); five dead
  • San Fernando Valley shootings (7/24/19); four dead, two injured
  • Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting (7/28/19); four dead, 12 injured
  • Chippewa Falls Residential shooting (7/28/19); five dead, two injured
  • El Paso, Texas Walmart shooting (8/3/19); 20 dead, 26 injured
  • Dayton, Ohio, Oregon District shooting (8/4/19); 10 dead, at least 16 injured

In total, that is 129 people dead, and more than 64 wounded at the shootings in this list.

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