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1,264Total Incidents
1,009Lives Lost
1,864Injured
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A gunman opened fire at an ROTC course at Old Dominion University, shooting three people, killing one. The shooter was also killed. He was a former National Guardsman who had previously been convicted of providing material support of ISIS.
Three people were shot during a marijuana deal at a South Carolina State University dorm. The two deceased and the suspected shooter were not affiliated with the university, while the injured man was a student.
During basketball games at Mott Community College, a group of people followed another man into the restroom and began assaulting him while one of them filmed. The man being assaulted shot at the group, striking the man filming. The district attorney ruled the shooting was self-defense, but the man was charged with bringing a firearm into a sports arena, a civil infraction. The man who was shot was charged with felony assault.
A 44-year-old man attempted to enter Romulus Middle School with a handgun before firing shots at the building. The man was taken into custody and no injuries were reported.
2025 Brown University shooting: A shooting occurred at an engineering building on the second day of finals at Brown University. A person of interest was arrested but was later released. The perpetrator later killed MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was later found at a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, having killed himself.
At Kentucky State University, a group of around 20 to 30 people assaulted a student and his family as they were moving him out of his dorm. The student's father shot two of the people, both students, killing one. The father was arrested, but a grand jury accepted his self-defense claim and declined to indict him.
A man was shot and killed at an intersection near the library at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. Authorities said the shooting may have been a case of mistaken identity.
Athletic director and former football coach John Beam was shot and killed in the field house of Laney College. A suspect was arrested. Beam and the Laney College football team had previously been profiled in the fifth season of the Netflix docuseries Last Chance U.
Three people were shot at Heidelberg High School campus during a football game, two of whom died. The shooting was one of three that occurred on the same day during high school homecoming events in Mississippi, including a mass shooting in Leland that killed six and a shooting in Rolling Fork.
A man was fatally shot in the parking lot of Frisco High School, where he had driven after a road rage incident involving another driver. The other driver was arrested at the scene.
A man who was kicked out of the United States Naval Academy sent threats over social media pretending he was at the academy. As the school was placed under lockdown, rumors spread that a gunman was disguised as a police officer, leading a sheltering-in-place midshipman to hit a real police officer with his training weapon. The officer shot and injured the midshipman.
A gunman opened fire on a group of 7 people just outside Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Minneapolis around 1:30 p.m., killing 1 and injuring 6. The gunman fired 30 rounds before fleeing in a vehicle. Police have state at least one of the victims was targeted. The gunman, as well as two accomplices, would come to be arrested in the following days.
Two people were shot in a University of New Mexico dorm. The two victims were not students, but they were visiting a student when the shooting occurred.
At a vigil for a teenager who was slain at a pool party in nearby Torrance, a physical fight escalated on the campus of Culver City High School on a non-school during non-school hours, between two parties and at least one person allegedly fired a gun towards at least one individual; no one was hit nor wounded by the gunfire. A 17-year-old girl and a male were arrested, and the male was arrested for attempted murder, and the female was arrested for other charges or her charges were pending.
Texas Tech University Police officers were checking on a suspicious vehicle outside the Jones AT&T Stadium when the driver produced a gun and fired at them, injuring two officers. Officers shot and killed the gunman.
University of Wisconsin-Platteville shooting: A student at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville shot and killed another student in a dorm building in a murder-suicide.
A security guard shot two women on the Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology campus in Inglewood. One of the victims, the dean of student affairs, later died of her injuries.
A student at Westside Global Awareness Magnet School in the Venice neighborhood brought a handgun from home and showed it to a friend. When a teacher noticed the gun, the boy attempted to hide it, accidentally firing it in the process. The boy fled the campus and was later taken into custody.
A shooting occurred during a Yard Fest celebration at Elizabeth City State University. One non-student was killed, and six people were injured, four by gunfire.
A person was killed and another was injured outside a Ridgewood, Queens high school in Queens, nearly three hours after school dismissal but also when some students were on campus for night time activities.
A student at the University of Central Arkansas was shot in the leg near the student center. Officials said the victim was a bystander. One person was arrested.
2025 Florida State University shooting: Phoenix Ikner, a 20-year-old student and stepson of a sheriff's deputy, opened fire outside the Student Union building with a handgun. Two people were killed and six others wounded by gunfire; additional individuals were injured while fleeing. A shotgun the shooter carried failed to discharge.