For other years, see List of mass shootings in the United States.
class=notpageimage| Mass shootings in the contiguous United States in 2025
This is a list of mass shootings that took place in the United States in 2025. Mass shootings are incidents in which several people are injured or killed due to firearm-related violence, specifically for the purposes of this article, a total of four or more victims.
Definitions
Several different inclusion criteria are used; there is no generally accepted definition. Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit research group that tracks shootings and their characteristics in the United States, defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people, excluding the perpetrator(s), are shot in one location at roughly the same time. The Congressional Research Service provides a definition of four or more killed. The Washington Post and Mother Jones use similar definitions, with the latter acknowledging that their definition "is a conservative measure of the problem", as many shootings with fewer fatalities occur. The crowdsourced Mass Shooting Tracker project applies the most expansive definition: four or more shot in any incident, including the perpetrator.
A 2019 study of mass shootings published in the journal Injury Epidemiology recommended developing "a standard definition that considers both fatalities and nonfatalities to most appropriately convey the burden of mass shootings on gun violence." The authors of the study further suggested that "the definition of mass shooting should be four or more people, excluding the shooter, who are shot in a single event regardless of the motive, setting or number of deaths."
Definitions generally exclude consideration of the number of persons targeted with lethal intent, perhaps with degraded accuracy from a greater distance, who escape injury from bullets or bullet spall, regardless of injury sustained while evading live gunfire, or medical complications resulting from those injuries (such as infection, concussion, stroke, or PTSD) further down the road.
| Organization(s) | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mass Shooting Tracker | Four or more persons shot in one incident, at one location, at roughly the same time. |
| Gun Violence Archive | Four or more shot in one incident, excluding the perpetrators, at one location, at roughly the same time. |
| Stanford University MSA Data Project | Three or more persons shot in one incident, excluding the perpetrator(s), at one location, at roughly the same time. Excluded are shootings associated with organized crime, gangs or drug wars. |
| ABC News | Four or more shot and killed in one incident, excluding the perpetrators, at one location, at roughly the same time. |
| Mother Jones | Three or more shot and killed in one incident at a public place, excluding the perpetrators. This list excludes all shootings the organization considers to be "conventionally motivated" such as all gang violence and armed robberies. |
| The Washington Post | Four or more shot and killed in one incident at a public place, excluding the perpetrators. |
| Congressional Research Service | Four or more shot and killed in one incident, excluding the perpetrators, at a public place, excluding gang-related killings and those done with a profit-motive. |
Only incidents considered mass shootings by at least two of the above sources are listed below. Many incidents involving organized crime and gang violence are included. All definitions can be exceeded with a single shotgun blast into a target cluster at short range. Mass shootings do not require multiple gunshots.
For statistical purposes, armed accomplices are likely to be classified as perpetrators, even if later analysis determines that the accomplice never discharged a firearm. Bystanders struck by bullets fired in self-defense by another bystander would potentially be classified as victims of a mass shooting, while a bystander firing in self-defense who injures or kills another bystander would almost certainly not be classified as a perpetrator. The classification of a bystander struck by police while attempting to take out a believed perpetrator falls into a gray zone.
List
| 2025 date | Location | State or territory |
Dead | Injured | Total | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2 | Mecklenburg County | North Carolina | 0 | 4 | 4 | A domestic dispute led to a shooting that wounded four, including the suspect, east of Charlotte. |
| January 1 | Dallas | Texas | 1 | 3 | 4 | An argument in the Wolf Creek neighborhood escalated when a suspect opened fire, killing a man and injuring three others. |
| January 1 | New Orleans | Louisiana | 2 | 7 | 9 | 2025 New Orleans truck attack: A man who was inspired by the Islamic State and is also believed to have planted bombs around the area, drove a rented truck through Bourbon Street in the French Quarter, attempting to strike revelers during New Year's celebrations. The man killed thirteen people and injured several dozen others with the truck before he crashed into a crane, after which he exited the vehicle and opened fire, striking two police officers and at least six other people, including one person who was killed, before he was fatally shot by police. |
| January 1 | New York City | New York | 0 | 10 | 10 | Four men opened fire on a queue of people outside a music venue in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, wounding ten. |
| January 1 | Kankakee | Illinois | 2 | 5 | 7 | Two people were killed and five others were injured when a shooting broke out at a New Year's Eve party. |
Monthly statistics
Note that statistics are only updated at the very end of each month. The current month's statistics will therefore be blank.
| Month | Mass shootings | Total number dead
(including the shooter/s) |
Total number wounded
(including the shooter/s) |
Occurred at a school or university | Occurred at a place of worship | Total days without mass shootings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Notes
References
- "Mass Shootings in 2025". Gun Violence Archive.
- ^ Borchers, Callum (October 4, 2017). "The vague definition of 'mass shooting' complicates media coverage". Washington Post. Archived from the original on October 21, 2020. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
...'mass shooting' is a term without a universally-accepted definition.
- Bjelopera, Jerome (March 18, 2013). "Public Mass Shootings in the United States" (PDF). Congressional Research Service. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 9, 2013. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
There is no broadly agreed-to, specific conceptualization of this issue, so this report uses its own definition for public mass shootings.
- ^ "General Methodology". Gun Violence Archive. Archived from the original on August 26, 2018. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
- ^ Bjelopera, Jerome (March 18, 2013). "Public Mass Shootings in the United States". Congressional Research Service. Archived from the original on December 6, 2019. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
There is no broadly agreed-to, specific conceptualization of this issue, so this report uses its own definition for public mass shootings.
- ^ Berkowitz, Bonnie; Lu, Denise; Alcantara, Chris (September 14, 2018). "More than 50 years of U.S. mass shootings: The victims, sites, killers and weapons". Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 1, 2021. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
- ^ Follman, Mark; Aronsen, Gavin; Pan, Deanna (September 20, 2018). "A Guide to Mass Shootings in America". Mother Jones. Archived from the original on May 28, 2019. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
- "About the Mass Shooting Tracker". Mass Shooting Tracker. Archived from the original on April 6, 2020. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
- ^ Michelle Ye Hee Lee (December 3, 2015). "Obama's inconsistent claim on the 'frequency' of mass shootings in the U.S. compared to other countries". Washington Post. Archived from the original on March 5, 2021. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
- Marisa Booty; Jayne O'Dwyer; Daniel Webster; Alex McCourt; Cassandra Crifasi (2019). "Describing a "mass shooting": the role of databases in understanding burden". Injury Epidemiology. 6: 47. doi:10.1186/s40621-019-0226-7. PMC 6889601. PMID 31828004.
- Clayton, Abené (December 13, 2019). "What counts as a mass shooting? The dangerous effects of varying definitions". The Guardian. Archived from the original on March 23, 2021. Retrieved April 8, 2021.
- Lopez, German (December 4, 2015). "The debate over how to define mass shootings is ridiculous". Vox. Archived from the original on January 4, 2022. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
- "Mass Shootings in America". Stanford Libraries. Archived from the original on January 7, 2022. Retrieved July 2, 2019.
- Tucker, Luke (January 3, 2025). "4 hurt in shooting in east Charlotte neighborhood". WBTV. Retrieved January 3, 2025.
- "Homicide at 2900 St. George Drive". DPD Beat. Retrieved January 2, 2025.
- Moses, Nigell; Kuhn, Kenny (January 2, 2025). "Victims identified in deadly Bourbon Street attack". WWL-TV. Retrieved January 2, 2025.
- Tucker, Eric; Mustian, Jim; McGill, Kevin; Brook, Jack (January 1, 2025). "Islamic State-inspired driver expressed desire to kill before deadly New Orleans rampage, Biden says". Associated Press. Retrieved January 2, 2025.
- Walck, Lauren; Hunter, Michelle (January 2, 2025). "New Orleans coroner shares when to expect a full list of names of people killed in attack". nola.com. Retrieved January 3, 2025.
- Arancio, Victoria (January 2, 2025). "10 injured in shooting outside Queens music venue, suspects at large, NYPD says". ABC News. Retrieved January 2, 2025.
- Roberts, Anna (January 1, 2025). "2 dead, 5 wounded during shooting at New Year's Eve party in Kankakee". WGN-TV. Retrieved January 1, 2025.
- "Shooting at suburban New Year's party leaves 2 dead, 5 others wounded". January 1, 2025.
- "Mass Shootings in 2024". Gun Violence Archive. Retrieved January 4, 2024.
External links
- Gun Violence Archive Mass Shootings
- Mass Shooting Tracker Mass Shootings
- Mother Jones Mass Shootings
- USA Today Mass Shootings
- Vox Mass Shootings
- Washington Post Mass Shootings
- Jetter, Michael; Jay K. Walker (October 2018). "The Effect of Media Coverage on Mass Shootings" (PDF). IZA Institute of Labor Economics.
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