Mass killing cases

Seventeen people were killed, and 17 others were wounded.

Place

Parkland, Florida, United States

Date

14 Feb 2018

Sources

2 cited

A rented van was driven onto sidewalks in North York, killing pedestrians and injuring others.

Place

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Date

23 Apr 2018

Sources

5 cited

About an hour later, he was found dead in his room from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Place

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Date

1 Oct 2017

Sources

2 cited

Nineteen people were killed and twenty-six others were injured, thirteen severely, at a care home for disabled people.

Place

Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Date

26 Jul 2016

Sources

2 cited

The perpetrator, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, shot and killed 26 people.

Place

Newtown, Connecticut, United States

Date

14 Dec 2012

Sources

2 cited

On 8 June 2008, a man drove a truck into pedestrians in Tokyo's Akihabara district and then attacked people with a knife, killing seven and injuring ten.

Place

Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan

Date

8 Jun 2008

Sources

2 cited

A mass killing case documented in Columbine, Colorado, United States, during 20 Apr 1999.

Place

Columbine, Colorado, United States

Date

20 Apr 1999

Sources

2 cited

The Dunblane massacre was a school shooting that took place at Dunblane Primary School in Dunblane, near Stirling, Scotland, on 13 March 1996, when 43-year-old Thomas Hamilton killed 16 pupils and one teacher and injured 15 others before killing himself.

Place

Dunblane, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date

13 Mar 1996

Sources

2 cited

Thirty-five people were killed at and near a Tasmanian historic site.

Place

Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia

Date

28–29 Apr 1996

Sources

2 cited

Fourteen women were killed in an antifeminist attack at a Montréal engineering school.

Place

Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Date

6 Dec 1989

Sources

2 cited