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The 18-year-old gunman, armed with assault rifles and wearing body armour, opened fire at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde
In some cases, misinformation about mass shootings or other events are spread by well-intentioned social media users trying to be helpful
18-year-old opens fire in elementary school, is shot dead
UN chief Antonio Guterres was deeply shocked and saddened by the heinous mass shooting in an elementary school in Texas, the US, said his spokesman
In an emotional address following the school shooting incident in Texas, the US Vice President Kamala Harris condemned the attack while calling for "action and taking a stand"
Until the massacre at Colorado's Columbine High School in 1999, the number of dead tended to be in the single digits but since then, the number of school shootings have killed 10 or more
The deceased children are in the second, third and fourth grades - aged between 7 years and 10 years
President Joe Biden delivered an emotional call for new restrictions on firearms after a gunman opened fire at a Texas elementary school on Tuesday.
A white gunman in military gear attacked shoppers and workers at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday, killing 10 people
Police officials said the 18-year-old gunman, who is white, was wearing body armour and military-style clothing when he pulled up and opened fire at people
The rabbi of a Texas synagogue where a gunman took hostages during livestreamed services said he threw a chair at his captor before escaping with two others after an hourslong standoff
US counties with high poverty rates are likely to face a higher risk of firearm-related deaths among children and young adults, according to a new study
A court in New Orleans is the latest to uphold a federal ban on bump stocks devices attached to semiautomatic firearms so that a shooter can fire multiple rounds with a single trigger pull.
The parents of a teen accused of killing four students at a Michigan high school were charged with involuntary manslaughter
President Joe Biden announced new efforts to stem a rising national tide of violent crime, declaring the federal government is taking on the bad actors doing bad things to our communities
People gathered around Chicago on Sunday to remember a 13-year-old boy fatally shot by a police officer and to call for changes in policing and an end to gun violence
The assailant who attacked the Molson Coors complex on Wednesday was identified as a 51-year-old Milwaukee man who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound
Mass shootings also took place in 25 other wealthy nations between 1983 and 2013, but the number of mass shootings in the United States far surpasses that of any other country