The Uvalde, Texas massacre is the worst school shooting since the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012. A new tragedy that extends the bloodstream in the United States and reignites the debate on guns. These are some of the major US massacres:
May 14, 2002, Buffalo: 18-year-old supremacist Payton Gendron walks into a Buffalo supermarket and kills 10 people.
March 16, 2021, Atlanta: Robert Aaron Long, 21, breaks into three different massage parlors he attended and kills eight people, including six women of Asian descent. The young man denies the racial motive and claims he acted to remove the sexual temptations that haunted him.
February 26, 2020, Milwaukee: a fired employee breaks into the campus of Molson Coors, the beer giant, and kills six people before taking his own life.
Aug. 4, 2019, Dayton: 24-year-old Connor Betts kills a bar in Ohio killing 9 people and injuring 17 others, then is eliminated by the police. He acted under the influence of cocaine, alcohol and antidepressants.
August 3, 2019, El Paso: Patrick Crusius, 21, walks into a crowded Walmart supermarket and kills 23 people, injuring as many. A massacre investigated as a hate crime against Latinos.
14 February 2018, Parkland: Nikolas Cruz, 19, a past as a white supremacist, enters his former school armed and kills 17 students and teachers, injuring dozens more. It is one of the worst school massacres in the US, including that of Columbine.
2 October 2017, Las Vegas: 64-year-old man Stephen Paddock opens fire at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas. The toll is at least 50 dead and 400 injured.
June 12, 2016, Orlando: 29-year-old Omar Saddiqui Mateen shoots inside Pulse, a gay club in Orlando, and kills 49 people and injures 50 others.
2 December 2015, San Bernardino: 14 people are killed and 22 seriously injured in an attack on the Inland Regional Center. The two killers, a married man and woman and sympathizers of the Islamic State, are killed by the San Bernardino police.
December 14, 2012, Sandy Hook: A 20-year-old, Adam Lanza, enters Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and opens fire, killing 27 people, including 20 children.
20 July 2012, Aurora: The world premiere of the Batman film, ‘The Dark Knight Rises’, turns into a bloodbath: a 24-year-old man in a mask like that of the film’s ‘villain’ walks into a movie theater in Denver, Colorado, in the Aurora neighborhood, during the screening and kills 12 people and leaves 70 injured on the ground.
November 5, 2009, Fort Hood: A Palestinian-born American soldier, a 39-year-old psychiatrist, opens fire in Fort Hood, Texas, killing 13 and wounding 42.
April 3, 2009, New York: A 42-year-old man of Vietnamese origin shoots in a reception center for immigrants in Binghamton, 200 kilometers from New York: the final death toll is 13.
April 20, 1999, Columbine: Two students from Columbine High School in Denver, Colorado – Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17 – open fire and kill 12 of their classmates and a teacher before taking their own lives.
October 16, 1991, Texas: 35-year-old George Hennard crashes in his pickup truck into Luby’s coffee shop in Killeen, Texas. Exiting the car opens fire and kills 23 people
August 20, 1986, Oklahoma: part-time employee of the US post office, Patrick Henry Sherrill, kills 14 people in 10 minutes and then takes his own life.
July 18, 1984, California: in San Ysidro, 41-year-old James Hubert kills 21 people in a local McDonald’s and escapes. An hour later the insane gesture is killed by the police.
1 August 1966, Texas: Former Marine Charles Joseph Whitman climbs the University of Texas tower and, like a sniper, opens fire. The toll is 16 dead and 30 injured.