Texas Walmart shooting becomes eighth deadliest in modern US history
They have become a depressingly regular feature of American life.
City worker DeWayne Craddock resigned from his job just a few hours before he opened fire in the building, killing 12 people and injuring four others.In the three years prior to the shooting, Craddock had legally acquired multiple firearms, reports said.Police secure the area following a shooting at the manufacturing plant
He was treated in hospital for gunshot wounds and charged with 29 counts, including 11 of murdering people exercising their religious beliefs.Image:Ten people were killed and the same number wounded when a gunman opened fire at the high school. A gunman entered the school armed with at least one AR-15 assault rifle, a gas mask, smoke grenades and several magazines of ammunition.
Former student Nikolas Cruz, 19, has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder and 17 of attempted murder. As he opened fire on the more than 300 people in the popular gay venue, Mateen killed 49 before he was shot dead by police following a three-hour standoff when he holed himself up in a toilet.:: Inland Regional Center, San Bernardino, California - December 2015Syed Rizwan Farook, a US citizen, and his Pakistan-born wife Tashfeen Malik, shot dead 14 employees of the county's health department who were at a holiday party.
About 45 minutes into the study session, as the group closed their eyes to pray, he began firing the Glock .45 he had been carrying.In January 2017, the 22-year-old was sentenced to death for the racially motivated attack, becoming the first person in the US to be given the federal death penalty for hate crimes.
The 22-year-old repeatedly stabbed three men to death in his apartment before taking to the streets in his BMW to target female students.He had three semi-automatic handguns and 400 rounds of ammunition with him when he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The shooting shocked America and led to a White House bid to control gun violence, but the effort failed.The shooting at Virginia Tech remains the deadliest school shooting in US historyThe 23-year-old began his rampage in a halls of residence on campus, shooting two students dead.
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