Interactive: Find out more about mass killings in the U.S.
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Find out details about killings in the U.S. since 2006 where four or more people, excluding the assailant, died in a 24-hour period.
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The trauma is especially acute when the shootings happen at schools, churches, clubs or other places that served as pillars of those communities — welcoming and accepting spaces that are difficult to replace.
The suspect worked at one of the businesses where the shootings took place at a mushroom farm and a trucking firm near San Francisco.
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Increasingly it feels like America is at war with itself. Simply keeping track of the shootings has become difficult, with locations and details and explanations running together into a blur of bloodshed and heartbreak.
The most expansive federal report in over two decades on guns and crime shows a shrinking turnaround between the time a gun was purchased and when it was recovered from a crime scene.
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As the number of people who die in mass killings in the U.S. continues to rise, thousands more are left to handle the trauma of losing someone they love.
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A design for a permanent memorial to the 2017 Las Vegas Strip mass shooting has been chosen after more than three years of planning.
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President Joe Biden has called gun violence “the ultimate superstorm.” The mass shootings in Maine were the first test of the White House’s new gun violence prevention office, whose director has been helping the community recover.
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