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USMassKillingsHitNewHigh in 2019; Most Were Shootings

Associated Press

   The first one occurred 19 days into the new year when a man used an ax
   to kill four family members,including his infant daughter. Five months
   later, 12 people were killed in a workplace shooting in Virginia.
   Twenty-two more died at a Walmart in El Paso in August.
   A database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern
   University shows that there were more mass killings in 2019
   thaninanyotheryear dating to at least the 1970s, punctuated by a
   chilling succession of deadly rampages during the summer.
   In all, there were 41 mass killings,defined as when four or more people
   are killed,excluding the perpetrator. Of those, 33 were mass shootings.
   More than 210 people were killed.
   Most of the mass killings barely became national news, failing to
   resonate among the general public because they didn't spill into public
   places like massacres in El Paso and Odessa, Texas; Dayton, Ohio;
   Virginia Beach, Virginia; and Jersey City, New Jersey.
   Mostof the killings involved people who knew each other -- family
   disputes, drug or gang violence,or people with beefswhodirected their
   anger at co-workers or relatives.

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