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Some Recent US Mass Shootings

Associated Press

   A list of some of the deadliest mass shootings in the United States in
   the last two years:
   -- Aug. 31, 2019: Five people were killed in West Texas in shootings in
   the area of Midland and Odessa.
   -- Aug. 4, 2019: A gunman wearing body armor shot and killed nine
   people at a popular nightlife area in Dayton, Ohio. Police were
   patrolling the area and killed the suspect.
   -- Aug. 3, 2019: A gunman opened fire at a shopping center in El Paso,
   Texas, killing 22 people and injuring more than two dozen. A suspect
   was taken into custody.
   -- May 31, 2019: Longtime city worker DeWayne Craddock opened fire in a
   building that houses Virginia Beach government offices. He killed 12
   people and wounded several others beforepolice shot him.
   -- Feb. 15, 2019: Gary Martin killed five co-workers at a manufacturing
   plant in Aurora, Illinois, during a disciplinary meeting where he was
   fired. He wounded one other employee and five of the first police
   officers to arrive at the suburban Chicago plant before he was killed
   during a shootout with police.
   -- Nov. 7, 2018: Ian David Long killed 12 people at a country music bar
   in Thousand Oaks, California, before taking his own life. Long was a
   Marine combat veteran of the war in Afghanistan.

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