Some 103 people were killed and 140 were wounded in active shooter incidents last year, a significant jump from the previous year, the FBI announced Monday.
on active shooter incidents—which the agency defines as shootings in which a perpetrator uses a firearm to attempt to kill people in a populated area—recorded incidents in 30 states last year that resulted in 103 people killed and 140 wounded, up from 40 incidents in 19 states with 38 deaths and 126 injuries during 2020.with three or more deaths increased from five in 2020 to 12 last year.
Some 32 of last year’s active shooter incidents—which don’t include self-defense, domestic, gang or drug-related shootings—occurred at commercial locations like stores and hotels, while 19 occurred in open spaces and three occurred in government facilities, roughly consistent with trends from recent years.
As in past years, the overwhelming majority of alleged active shooters were male and about half of shooting suspects were apprehended by law enforcement rather than being killed by law enforcement or by armed civilians or dying by suicide. During 2021, the FBI noted a growing trend of “roving active shooters” who attack in multiple locations, either during a single day or over multiple days, the agency said in aThe deadliest active shooter incident of last year took place in March, when 10 people were killed at a
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