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.
Who is Salvador Ramos, the killer of Uvalde: first he shot his grandmother, then the massacre of children
24 Maggio 2022
Massacre in Texas, governor accused for the gun law that created a Far West
by Marco Contini
24 Maggio 2022
These are some of the major massacres in the United States.
MAY 14, 2022, 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 sacked employee breaks into the campus of Molson Coors, the beer giant, and kills six people before taking his own life.
AUGUST 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.
FEBRUARY 14, 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.
OCTOBER 2, 2017, LAS VEGAS: A 64-year-old man, Stephen Paddock, opens fire during the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas. The toll is at least 50 dead and 400 injured.
12 JUNE 2016, ORLANDO: 29-year-old Omar Saddiqui Mateen shoots inside Pulse, a gay club in Orlando, and kills 49 people and injures 50 others.
DECEMBER 2, 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 JUL 2012, AURORA – The world premiere of the Batman film, ‘The Dark Knight Rises’, turns into a bloodbath: a 24-year-old man with a mask like that of the film’s ‘villain’ enters a cinema of 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: An American soldier of Palestinian origin, 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 toll is 13 dead.
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: 41-year-old James Hubert in San Ysidro kills 21 people at a local McDonald’s and escapes. An hour later the insane gesture is killed by the police.
AUGUST 1, 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.