U.S. Mass Shooting Data: Two Dead at California High School

Vincent Del Giudice

15 Nov 2019, 04:41 AM IST

(Bloomberg) -- Two students died and three others were wounded in a shooting at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California, on Nov. 14, and the student gunman was in grave condition after shooting himself in the head, the Associated Press reported.

Following is a tally of deaths and injuries as result of gunfire and collateral damage in mass shootings since 1949 sorted by casualty count; assailant deaths not counted in most totals. List based on recent news reports and Internet searches.

Fatal Incidents

58 dead, 869 injured - Las Vegas - Oct. 1, 2017
- Stephen Paddock opened fire on country music festival from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel; assailant also died
- Final police report said 413 people suffered gunshot or shrapnel injuries; injuries to the others were not specified or listed as other than gunshot or shrapnel
49 dead; about 58 injured - Orlando, Florida - June 12, 2016
- Omar Sateen, inspired by extremist propaganda, attacked Pulse Nightclub, a popular venue with the gay community; assailant also died
42 dead, 23 injured - Blacksburg, Virginia - April 16, 2007
- Student Seung-Hui Cho committed slayings at dormitory and Norris Hall at Virginia Tech
26 dead, 2 injured - Newtown, Connecticut - Dec. 14, 2012
- Adam Lanza stormed building killing staff and children at Sandy Hook Elementary School; Lanza, who killed his mother at home, also died
26 dead - Sutherland Springs, Texas - Nov. 5, 2017
- Devin Patrick Kelley opened fire during Sunday services at First Baptist Church; children among casualties; assailant found dead after fleeing scene
23 dead; 27 injured - Killeen, Texas - Oct. 16, 1991
- George Hennard crashed truck through plate glass window and opened fire at Luby’s Cafeteria
22 dead; about two dozen injured - El Paso, Texas - Aug. 3, 2019
- Patrick Crusius opened fire at Walmart in the Cielo Vista Mall, then surrendered to police; authorities investigated whether Crusius posted racist, anti-immigrant screed on internet shortly before attack. (Walmart in Southhaven, Mississippi, was scene of July 30 shooting that left two store managers dead)
21 dead; 19 injured - San Ysidro, California - July 18, 1984
- James Huberty, armed with multiple weapons and rounds of ammunition, sprayed a McDonald’s restaurant with gunfire
20 injured (excluding dead and injured suspects) - Trenton, New Jersey - June 17, 2018
- Shooting at all-night art festival; Tahaij Wells, a suspect and the lone fatality, was recently released from prison and on parole; two other suspects were injured
17 dead - Parkland, Florida - Feb. 14, 2018
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School; former student Nikolas Cruz, 19, arrested in shooting that gave rise to student-led campaign for gun control
16 dead; 31 injured - Austin, Texas - Aug. 1, 1966
- Charles Whitman opened fire from the observation deck of the 27-story clock tower at the University of Texas; Whitman killed his wife and mother before storming the tower; police killed Whitman; dead included unborn child
14 dead; 6 injured - Edmond, Oklahoma - Aug. 20, 1986
- Patrick Sherrill killed co-workers at post office, committed suicide; “The Edmond incident was one of fifteen homicide incidents by postal employees from 1986 through 1999 in which thirty-four postal workers and six non-employees were killed,” according to the Oklahoma Historical Society
14 dead; 24 injured - San Bernadino, California - Dec. 2, 2015
- Husband and wife team, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashteen Malik, opened fire using rapid-fire rifles at Inland Regional Center
13 dead; 3 injured - Camden, New Jersey - Sept. 6, 1949
- Howard Unruh, a World War II veteran, calmly walked through the Cramer Hill neighborhood, killing men, women and children; Unruh committed to mental hospital
13 dead; 1 injured - Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania - Sept. 25, 1982
- Assailant George Banks had worked as a prison guard
13 dead; 1 injured - Seattle - Feb. 18, 1983
- Three gunmen robbed the Wah Mee gambling club in Chinatown and hogtied victims
13 dead; 24 injured - Littleton, Colorado - April 20, 1999
- Students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold stormed Columbine High School carrying guns and bombs
13 dead; 4 injured - Binghamton, New York - April 3, 2009
- Jiverly Wong targeted immigrant center, where he had been learning English
13 dead; 33 injured - Fort Hood, Texas - Nov. 5, 2009
- Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, opened fire on soldiers at a military processing center
12 dead - Atlanta area - July 29, 1999
- Multiple crime scenes, including day trading firms; hammer also used as murder weapon; assailant Mark O. Barton also died
12 dead; about 70 injured - Aurora, Colorado - July 20, 2012
- James Holmes, armed with firearms and tear gas canisters, attacked the midnight showing of the new Batman movie “The Dark Knight Rises” at the Century 16 theater
12 dead; 8 injured - Washington, D.C. - Sept. 16, 2013
- Gunman Aaron Alexis entered a restricted facility at the Washington Navy Yard with a valid identification card
12 dead - Thousand Oaks, California - Nov. 7, 2018
- Hooded gunman opened fire at “college night” at the Borderline Bar & Grill. Sheriff’s Sergeant Ron Helus, who responded to 911 calls from the popular country and western dance hall, was among the fatalities; assailant Ian David Long also died
12 dead - Virginia Beach, Virginia - May 31, 2019
- Gunman, who resigned by email hours earlier, attacked his colleagues at a Virginia Beach government office building
11 dead - Pittsburgh - Oct. 27, 2018
- At Tree of Life Congregation synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood; suspect taken into custody after exchanging gunfire with police; at least six people injured, including four police officers; suspect Robert Bowers also wounded
10 dead - Samson, Alabama, and surrounding communities - March 10, 2009
- Multiple crime scenes; assailant Michael K. McLendon also died
10 dead - Santa Fe, Texas - May 18, 2018
- High school near Houston; suspect arrested, armed with shotgun, .38-revolver; explosive devices found
9 dead - Jacksonville, Florida - June 18, 1990
- Shooting at auto loan office; assailant James Edward Plough also died
9 dead - Waddell, Arizona - Aug. 9, 1991
- Robbery at Buddhist temple; assailants Johnathan (cq) Doody and Allessandero Garcia sentenced to prison
9 dead - Red Lake, Minnesota - March 21, 2005
- Two crime scenes, including high school; assailant Jeff Weiss, 16, also died
9 dead - Covina, California - Dec. 24, 2008
- Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, armed with handguns and homemade flamethrower and dressed as Santa Claus, attacked a Christmas Eve party, killed self
9 dead, 1 injured - Charleston, South Carolina - June 17, 2015
- Dylan Storm Roof, avowed white supremacist, opened fire at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church; sentenced to death
9 dead - Roseburg, Oregon - Oct. 1, 2015 - Roseburg, Oregon
- Shooting at Umpqua Community College; assailant Christopher Harper Mercer also died
9 dead - Dayton, Ohio - Aug. 4, 2019
- Connor Betts, masked and armed with a .223 caliber rifle, fired dozens of shots at late-night revelers in the city’s Oregon District. Among the victims was his sister. Police gunned him down.
8 dead - Miami - Aug. 20, 1982
- Shooting at welding shop
8 dead - San Francisco - July 1, 1993
- Incident at office building; gunman Gian Luigi Ferri also died
8 dead, 3 injured - Omaha, Nebraska - Dec. 5, 2007
- Shooting at Westroads Mall
8 dead, 2 injured - Carthage, North Carolina - March 29, 2009
- Shooting at nursing home; assailant Robert Stewart wounded
8 dead - Appomattox, Virginia - Jan. 19-20, 2010
- Assailant Christopher Bryan Speight also fired on police helicopter
8 dead, 1 injured - Seal Beach, California - Oct. 12, 2011
- Incident at hair salon; gunman Scott Evans Dekraai arrested; ex-wife among victims
8 dead, 2 injured - Manchester, Connecticut - Aug. 3, 2010
- Shooting at beer distributor; gunman Omar Thornton, armed with two pistols, committed suicide
8 dead - Pike County, Ohio - April 21-22, 2016
- Multiple crime scenes; victims all members of same family; six suspects arrested in November 2018
8 dead - Lincoln County, Mississippi - May 27, 2017
- Multiple crime scenes; suspect Cory Godbolt wounded by police; deputy sheriff among victims; “Suicide by cop was my intention,” Godbolt quoted as saying
8 dead - Plano, Texas - Sept. 10, 2017
- Shooting at football cookout; assailant killed by police
7 dead - Fullerton, California - July 12, 1976
- Shooting at California State University, Fullerton; janitor Charles Allaway was armed with semi-automatic rifle
7 dead - Sunnyvale, California - Feb. 16, 1988
- Shooting at computer firm ESL Inc.; gunman Richard Wade Farley arrested
7 dead, 2 injured - Sonoma and Cotati, California - April 14, 1989
- Multiple crime scenes; assailant Ramon Bojorquez Salcido sentenced to death, used handgun and knife
7 dead, 7 injured - Fort Worth, Texas - Sept. 15, 1999
- Shooting at Wedgwood Baptist Church
7 dead - Honolulu - Nov. 2, 1999
- Service technician Byran Koji Uyesugi opened fire in Xerox Corp. building, arrested
7 dead - Wakefield, Massachusetts - Dec. 26, 2000
- Shooting at Edgewater Technology; employee Michael McDermott convicted of killing co-workers; was armed with rifle, shotgun and handgun
7 dead - Goleta, California - Jan. 30, 2006
- Shooting at postal facility; assailant Jennifer San Marco committed suicide
7 dead, 2 injured - Grand Rapids, Michigan - July 7, 2011
- Multiple crime scenes; assailant Rodrick Shonte Dantzler, armed with stolen handgun, committed suicide
7 dead - Copley Township, Ohio - Aug. 7, 2011
- Gunman Michael Hance was armed with handguns; killed by police
7 dead, 3 injured - Oakland, California - April 2, 2012
- Shooting at Oikos University; former student One L. Goe arrested, used handgun
7 dead, 22 injured - Odessa and Midland, Texas - Aug. 31, 2019
- Random shootings across both cities, mail truck hijacking. Assailant died.
6 dead, 7 injured - Isla Vista, California - May 23, 2014
- Shootings, stabbings near campus of University of California, Santa Barbara; car also used as weapon by assailant Elliot Rodger, who committed suicide
6 dead, 19 injured - Garden City, New York - Dec. 7, 1993
- Long Island Rail Road shooting; gunman Colin Ferguson arrested and convicted of murder, attempted murder
6 dead, 8 injured - Meridian, Mississippi - July 8, 2003
- Shooting at Lockheed Martin factory; assembly line worker Douglas Williams, armed with shotgun and rifle, committed suicide; Williams described as menacing racist in CBS News report
6 dead, 2 injured - Sawyer County, Wisconsin - Nov. 21, 2004
- Shooting on hunting trip
6 dead - Seattle - March 25, 2006
- Shooting at dance party
6 dead, 1 injured - Crandon, Wisconsin - Oct. 7, 2007
- Off-duty sheriff’s deputy opened fire at party
6 dead, 2 injured - Skagit County, Washington - Sept. 2, 2008
- Multiple crimes scenes; assailant Isaac Zamora, classified mentally ill, convicted
6 dead, 14 injured - Tucson, Arizona - Jan. 8, 2011
- U.S. District Court Judge John Roll among the dead at community event; U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords among injured; assailant Jared Lee Loughner also hurt; Giffords was holding the event in a supermarket parking lot
6 dead, 4 injured - Oak Creek, Wisconsin - Aug. 5, 2012
- Shooting at Sikh temple; assailant Wade Michael Page committed suicide
6 dead, 2 injured - Minneapolis, Minnesota - Sept. 27, 2012
- Shooting at Accent Signage Systems; former employee Andrew John Engeldinger, armed with pistol, committed suicide
6 dead - Hialeah, Florida - July 26, 2013
- Shooting at apartment complex; assailant Pedro Alberto Vargas, armed with pistol, committed suicide
6 dead, 2 injured - Kalamazoo, Michigan - Feb. 20, 2016
- Series of random shootings; Uber driver Jason Brian Dalton, armed with two pistols, arrested
6 injured - Alexandria, Virginia - June 14, 2017
- Shooting at Congressional Baseball Game; victims included House Majority Whip Steve Scalise; police killed gunman.
6 dead - Rios Piedras, Puerto Rico - Oct. 14, 2019
- Gunbattle at housing complex in San Juan suburb
5 dead, 10 wounded - Daingerfield, Texas - June 22, 1980
- Shootings at First Baptist Church
5 dead, 11 injured - San Francisco - Sept. 4, 1977
- Gang-related shooting at Golden Dragon Restaurant in Chinatown
5 dead, 32 injured - Stockton, California - Jan. 17, 1989
- Shooting at Cleveland Elementary School; gunman Patrick Purdy opened fire on schoolyard with AK-47 rifle, committed suicide
5 dead, 1 injured - Iowa City, Iowa - Nov. 1, 1991
- Former graduate student Gang Lu killed five faculty members and a student with a revolver at the University of Iowa, committed suicide
5 dead, 10 injured - Jonesboro, Arkansas - March 24, 1998
- Two students, ages 11 and 13, opened fire at Westside Middle School; both arrested
5 dead - Pittsburgh area - April 28, 2000
- Shooting spree; racial motives
5 dead, 21 injured - DeKalb, Illinois - Feb. 14, 2008
- Shooting at Northern Illinois University
5 dead, 1 injured - Seattle, Washington - May 30, 2012
- Shooting at Cafe Racer; assailant Ian Lee Stawicki committed suicide
5 dead, 4 injured - Santa Monica, California - June 7, 2013
- Shooting at Santa Monica College Library and nearby home; assailant John Samir Zawahri, armed with rifle and 1,300 rounds of ammunition, committed suicide
5 dead, 11 injured - Dallas - July 7, 2016
- At protest over police shootings; all five dead were police officers; assailant killed by a bomb
5 dead - Burlington, Washington - Sept 23, 2016
- Victims randomly targeted at Cascade Mall; assailant Arcan Cetin committed suicide in jail on April 16, 2017
5 dead, 42 injured - Broward County, Florida - Jan. 6, 2017
- Shooting at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport; gunman Esteban Santiago-Ruiz, armed with pistol, diagnosed with schizophrenia
5 dead - Orlando, Florida - June 5, 2017
- Workplace shooting; disgruntled former employee John Robert Neumann Jr., armed with handgun and knives, committed suicide
5 dead, 18 injured - Rancho Tehama Reserve, California - Nov. 13-14, 2017
- Multiple crime scenes; assailant Kevin Janson Neal, armed with two pistols and two rifles, committed suicide
5 dead, 2 injured - Annapolis, Maryland - June 28, 2018
- Assailant armed with a shotgun opened fire at The Capital Gazette; a reporter at the newspaper tweeted shortly after the killings: “A single shooter shot multiple people at my office, some of whom are dead.”
5 dead - Bakersfield, California - Sept. 12, 2018
- Gunman opened fire at a trucking business and a home; his wife was among the victims; assailant fatally shot himself as a sheriff’s deputy closed in
5 dead - Sebring, Florida - Jan. 23, 2019
- Shooting at bank; suspect barricaded inside SunTrust Bank branch surrendered to police negotiators after calling 911; suspect Zephen Xaver, 21, was a former trainee prison guard
5 dead - Louisiana - Jan. 26, 2019
- Suspect accused of killing three people in Livingston Parish and then his parents in neighboring Ascension Parish; Dakota Theriot, 21, fled state; arrested outside grandmother’s home in Warsaw, Virginia
5 dead - Polk County, Texas, - Feb. 11, 2019
- Five family members, including infant, died at rural home in East Texas; no suspects sought
5 dead, 5 wounded - Aurora, Illinois - Feb. 15, 2019
- Five workers killed at Henry Pratt Co. warehouse; five police officers wounded by gunfire; assailant died in shootout; assailant was being dismissed from his job, Aurora Police Chief Kristen Ziman said
5 dead - Orinda, California - Oct. 31, 2019
- Shooting at Halloween Party Airbnb rental home. At least three injuries reported.
4 dead, 25 injured - Springfield, Oregon - May 21, 1998
- Shooting by student expelled from Thurston High School
4 dead, 7 injured - Carson City, Nevada - Sept. 6, 2011
- Shooting at pancake restaurant
4 dead, 3 injured - Marysville, Washington - Oct. 24, 2014
- Shooting at Marysville Pilchuck High School
4 dead, 14 injured - Newton and Hesston, Kansas - Feb. 25, 2016
- Several locations, including lawn equipment factory; assailant also died; one of the wounded people died months later
4 dead, 2 injured - Nashville, Tennessee - April 22, 2018
- Shooting at waffle restaurant; assailant previously arrested by Secret Service for trespassing near White House
4 dead, 2 injured - Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin - July 28, 2019
- Assailant killed three family members, went to nearby Lake Hallie and opened fire on more people; suspect also dead.
4 dead, 5 injured - Kansas City, Kansas - Oct. 6, 2019
- Shooting at Tequila KC Bar; two gunmen.
4 dead, 3 injured - Brooklyn, New York - Oct. 12, 2019
- Gunfight at Triple A Aces Private & Social Rental Place in Crown Heights.
3 dead, 15 injured - Gilroy, California - July 28, 2019
- Gunman opened fire with rifle at Northern California’s popular Gilroy Garlic Festival; 6-year-old boy among dead; gunman killed by police.
2 dead, 10 injured - Bethesda, Maryland - May 28, 1982
- Disgruntled employee crashed car into International Business Machines Corp. office building and opened fire.
2 dead, 4 injured - Charlotte, North Carolina - April 30, 2019
- Gunman opened fire with pistol at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. Police disarmed the assailant.
2 dead, 8 injured - Lancaster, South Carolina - Sept. 21, 2019
- Shooting at Old Skool Sports Bar & Grill. ”I believe it was one person targeting another,” Sheriff Barry Faile said at a news conference. “Unfortunately, we had 10 victims that got shot.”
2 dead, 12 injured - Greenville, Texas - Oct. 26, 2019
- Shooting at off-campus college party
2 dead, 3 injured - Santa Clarita, California - Nov. 14, 2019
- Students shot at Saugus High School; student gunman in grave condition after shooting himself in head.
1 dead, 1 injured - Littleton, Colorado - Dec. 13, 2013
- Student stormed school with shotgun, machete and incendiaries.
1 dead, 3 injured - Poway, California - April 27, 2019
- Shooting during worship service at Chabad of Poway synagogue; woman dead; rabbi, 8-year-old girl and her uncle wounded.
1 dead, 7 injured - Baltimore - April 28, 2019
- Gunman fired into crowd attending neighborhood cookouts
1 dead, 8 injured - Highlands Ranch, Colorado - May 7, 2019
- Two students -- an 18-year-old man and a girl -- arrested in shooting at STEM School; all victims students
1 dead, 11 injured - Brooklyn, New York - July 27, 2019
- At community festival in the borough’s Brownsville section
1 dead, 5 injured - Philadelphia - July 28, 2019
- Rapper Ezra Weah, 21, known as “Bankroll Gambino,” killed filming music video; at least two people opened fire

Incidents Without Fatalities

25 injured - Little Rock, Arkansas - July 1, 2017
- Rap concert at Power Ultra Lounge, three arrests made
10 injured - Trenton, New Jersey - May 25, 2019
- Nine shot at bar on Brunswick Avenue; another suffered minor injuries; second mass shooting in Trenton in less than year
10 injured - Allentown, Pennsylvania - June 20, 2019
- Outside Deja Vu nightclub
At least 10 injured - Mobile, Alabama - Aug. 30, 2019
- At high school football game; teenager arrested.
7 injured - Baton Rouge, Louisiana - June 29, 2019
- Incident at bar was one of four weekend shootings across the state’s capital city that left a total of more than dozen people injured.
7 injured - Chicago, Illinois - Aug. 4, 2019
- Shots fired from car at people standing in Douglas Park; seven hospitalized for gunshot wounds
5 injured - Near Kansas City, Missouri - Sept. 22, 2019
- At SPOTT Lifestyle and Swingers Club; more than 40 shell casings fired from multiple weapons.

To contact the reporter on this story: Vincent Del Giudice in Denver at vdelgiudice@bloomberg.net

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