14 minutes agoU.S.A., record number of mass murders in 2019
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)The US has placed a record number of murders for this year. 2019 marks the largest number of murders than any other year according to a database compiled by the Associated Press (AP), USA Today and Northeastern University. A total of 41 incidents and 211 deaths have occurred during this year. Massive killings are defined as four or [...]
2019 marks the largest number of murders than any other year according to a database compiled by the Associated Press (AP), USA Today and Northeastern University.
A total of 41 incidents and 211 deaths have occurred during this year.
Massive killings are identified as four or more people dead in the same incident, excluding the perpetrators.
The most serious was the murder of 12 people in Virginia Beach in May and 22 others in El Paso in August.
Of the 41 cases in 2019, 33 were used by the firearm, researchers said. California had the largest number of mass killings per state, with eight.
The database has been tracking the mass killings in the United States since 2006, but the research that ran through the 1970s did not reveal a year with more mass killings.
The year with the second highest number of mass killings was 2006, with 38.
