Active shooter incidents in 2021 surged by more than 50% from 2020 and nearly 97% from 2017, FBI data shows.
Officials load a body into a vehicle at the site of a mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis on April 16, 2021.Active shooter incidents in 2021 surged by more than 50 percent from 2020 and nearly 97 percent from 2017, according to new FBI statistics released Monday.
Active shooter incidents spanned 30 states last year, killing 103 people and wounding 140 others. The casualties listed in the report do not include the shooters, the report said. The year before, active shooter incidents across 19 states killed 38 people and wounded 126.There were 61 shooters in the 2021 incidents— 60 of them male and one female, ages 12 to 67, the FBI data shows.
The FBI did not break down the shooters’ motives in its annual report. It did not immediately respond to a request for comment about why it does not disclose that information.
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