At 10:10 a.m. on Monday, March 27, 2023, a 28-year-old suspect shot through the glass doors of The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, entered the once-secure building and opened fire while walking through. Five officers arrived on the scene three minutes later, killing the attacker within 17 minutes of the initial entry. Unfortunately, the lives …
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On Wednesday, February 22, 2023, Dylan Lyons, a news reporter in Orlando, Florida, was covering a story of a shooting that had left one dead. He and his photographer, Jesse Walden, were on the scene when the man suspected of committing the earlier shooting reappeared, this time taking aim at the two news crew members. …
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On Friday, February 17, 2023, a 52-year-old male went on a shooting spree in Arkabutla, Mississippi, a small town roughly 40 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee. In total, the mass shooter left carnage at three separate locations—the home of his former wife, the parking lot of a convenience store, and the grounds of the suspect’s …
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It’s bad enough to witness one mass shooting in your life. But for at least one student at Michigan State University (MSU), seeing the situation unfold on campus after an active shooter killed three and injured five was a grim reminder of what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary just a little over 10 years ago. …
At 8:31 p.m. on Monday, February 13, 2023, students at Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing, Michigan, received an alert to “run, hide, fight.” Approximately 13 minutes earlier, the first call had been made of shots being fired at two campus locations: Berkey Hall, which houses several social sciences departments, and the MSU Union, …
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In January 2023, the United States Secret Services released a report titled “Mass Attacks in Public Spaces: 2016 – 2020.” Events included in this report were those in which at least three individuals were hurt or killed. One hundred and seventy-three incidents qualified for inclusion, and when the Secret Service analyzed them, they noticed several …
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If you’ve never been in an active shooter incident or had active shooter survival training, you may wonder how to respond if ever faced with an assailant who is intent on hurting and/or killing as many people as they can. To help answer this question, the FBI offers a free training video titled ‘Run. Hide. …
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Just before noon on Tuesday, January 31, 2023, police responded to a Target in west Omaha, Nebraska, after receiving at least 29 reports of an active shooter. Within six minutes, officers located the 32-year-old gunman inside the store, shooting and killing him. There were 250 individuals inside at the time, but fortunately, no one was …
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On Monday, January 23, 2023, a 67-year-old male went to a mushroom farm in Half Moon Bay, California, and shot five farmworkers. Four of the victims died on the scene and one survivor was transported to Stanford Medical Center after sustaining life-threatening injuries. A short while later, it was discovered that the mass shooter had …
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On Thursday, January 19, 2023, just before 10 p.m., a 25-year-old male appeared at an Evansville, Indiana, Walmart as employees were gathering for a meeting. He was a former employee who was armed with a gun and targeted current employees in the store’s breakroom, with one of his rounds striking a 28-year-old woman by the …
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