There were 134 mass shootings in the first four months of 2024, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as an event in which at least four people, not including the shooter, are injured or killed.
That’s 29.4% fewer than the 190 reported in the same time period for 2023, and the least number of mass shootings in the first four months of the year since 2020, when there were 95.
Florida has led the year in the number of mass shootings so far—there were 13 mass shootings in the state from January to April—but Illinois leads in the number of deaths with 22 victims killed.
California, Illinois, Louisiana and Texas have each had 10 mass shootings, the second-highest number of any state, with 21, 22, 9 and 10 people killed, respectively.
The U.S. passed 15,000 fatal and non-fatal shootings on Tuesday, April 30—a milestone that was hit on April 17 in 2023.
That's how many gun deaths had occurred in the United States in 2024 as of April 30, including unintentional shootings and gun injuries.
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