Deadliest Shootings

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  • Gunman Kills 27 at Connecticut Elementary School
  • mass shooting, gun violence, Oak Creek, Wisconsin, Wade Michael Page
  • Aurora, Colorado shooting kills 12.
  • Anders Behring Breivik, 33, killed at least 80 people at a summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utoya.
  • Thirteen died in a shooting at the Soldier Readiness Processing Center at Fort Hood, Texas, on Nov. 5, 2009.
  • Michael McLendon, 28, went on a rampage, killing 10 people before taking his own life on March 10, 2009.
  • April 16, 2007, 23-year-old Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed 32 people on the school’s campus in Blacksburg, Virginia.
  • ric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, opened fire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, on April 20, 1999.
  • On April 28, 1996, in Tasmania, Australia, Martin Bryant, 29, shot 20 people at a seaside resort before killing 15 others.
  • Thomas Hamilton, 43, opened fire on a kindergarten class in Dunblane, Scotland, killing 16 children and their teacher.
  • In Killeen, Texas, on Oct. 16, 1991, George Hennard opened fire at a Luby’s Cafeteria.
  • Oklahoma postal worker Pat Sherrill, 44, killed 14 people at a post office before killing himself.
  • ames Oliver Huberty killed 21 people in a McDonald's restaurant in San Ysidro, California, on July 18, 1984.
  • On Aug. 19, 1987, Michael Ryan killed 16 people in the town of Hungerford, England.

Sandy Hook Elementary School

As morning classes got underway on Dec. 14, a gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.  According to officials, at 27 people — including 18 children and the gunman — were killed. The shooter was identified as 20-year-old Adam Lanza.  —Naeesa Aziz and Britt Middleton

(Photo: AP Photo/Newtown Bee, Shannon Hicks)

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