10 Worst Mass Shootings in U.S History
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In the light of the killing of 50 people at a gay night club in Orlando, Florida, United States of America, Saturday night, THE WHISTLER chronicles the ten worst hits.
June 12, 2016: A gunman killed 50 people and injured 53 in a crowded gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, before being shot dead by police, authorities said, in what appeared the deadliest mass shooting in American history.
April 16, 2007: Gunman Seung-Hui Cho slaughters 32 people and kills himself at Virginia Tech, a university in Blacksburg, Virginia.
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December 14, 2012: Gunman Adam Lanza kills 20 school children aged 6 and 7, and six adults and himself at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Prior to the school shooting, he also shot and killed his mother at their Newtown home.
December 2, 2015: Shooters Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik killed 14 people and wounded 22 when they opened fire at a social services agency in San Bernardino, California.
April 20, 1999: Two heavily armed teenagers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold go on a rampage at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, shooting 12 students and a teacher to death and wounding more than 20 others before taking their own lives.
April 3, 2009: Vietnamese immigrant Jiverly Voong opens fire at an immigrant services center in Binghamton, New York, killing 13 people and wounding four. He then kills himself.
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November 5, 2009: A gunman opens fire at Fort Hood, a U.S. Army base in Texas, killing 13 people and wounding 32. The gunman, Army major and psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan, was sentenced to death for the rampage.
September 16, 2013: Aaron Alexis, a former Navy reservist working as a government contractor, kills 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard. Eight people are injured. The gunman was killed by police.
July 20, 2012: A masked gunman kills 12 people and wounds 70 when he opens fire on moviegoers at a midnight premiere of the Batman film “The Dark Knight Rises” in Aurora, a Denver suburb. James Eagan Holmes, a former graduate student, is sentenced to life in prison for the rampage, after being found guilty on all 165 counts of murder, attempted murder and explosives offensives.
October 2002: John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo ambush 13 people, killing 10 of them, in a string of sniper-style shootings that terrorize the Washington area.
Additional info: Reuters
