Mass shootings keep happening. There are even more than you realize. This summer alone, 26 mass shootings left 126 people dead
Mass shootings this summer came one after the next, sometimes only hours apart, and hurled the nation into an agonizing routine: a sudden burst of violence followed by solemn mourning and pleas for change, and then another burst, somewhere else.
The massacres set off calls for new gun laws and stricter background checks in statehouses and in Congress. But as weeks passed with no bipartisan consensus, little changed and the issue started to fade once more. The gunman, a longtime city engineer, had shown glimpses of volatility before: a violent encounter at work, a hasty resignation email. He was able to walk right into the building.
That included the massacre in Dayton, Ohio, where officers shot and fatally wounded a gunman within 32 seconds of his opening fire on a packed street lined with bars, nightclubs and shops. “It could have been any neighborhood in this town,” said Lt. Paul Joseph of the San Jose, California, police, who examined that crime scene in June. “It could have been any neighborhood in any town.”
A vast majority of those crimes did not result in deaths. But this summer saw one of the worst hate-driven massacres in modern U.S. history at a Walmart in El Paso, which police believe was motivated by hatred of Hispanic people. “We believe this HERO helped save several lives including an infant,” the police said in a mid-August Facebook post that has been shared 4,700 times.The list of shootings examined by the Times includes killings tracked by the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit group that focuses on shootings, and verified by law enforcement records, interviews with authorities and local media accounts.
In many cases, including a triple homicide in August at a house in San Antonio, the gunman killed himself. In others, including in Virginia Beach, police killed the gunman.It was a chaotic scene in Burlington, North Carolina: a barrage of bullets at an apartment complex, three young men dead, witnesses pointing toward where the gunman had run. Soon, officers found Hyquan Parker, 26, who was charged with three counts of first-degree murder.
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