Data show there were 41 mass killings, defined as when four or more people are killed excluding the perpetrator, 33 of which were mass shootings; more than 210 people were killed
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Daniel Munoz reaches for his injured back during an interview, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019, in Odessa, Texas. Munoz was injured in Saturday's shooting. The tattoo on his right hand is a biblical reference, that the wages of sin are death and God's gift is everlasting life.The first one occurred 19 days into the new year when a man used an axe to kill four family members including his infant daughter.
The perpetrator had had occasional run-ins with police over the years, but what drove him to attack his family remains unknown. He had just gotten a job training mechanics at an auto dealership, and despite occasional arguments with his relatives, most said there was nothing out of the ordinary that raised significant red flags.
California, with some of the most strict gun laws in the country, had the most, with eight such mass slayings. But nearly half of U.S. states experienced a mass slaying, from big cities like New York, to tiny towns like Elkmont, Alabama, with a population of just under 475 people. He believes it’s partially a byproduct of an “angry and frustrated time” that we are living in. Densley also said crime tends to go in waves with the 1970s and 1980s seeing a number of serial killers, the 1990s marked by school shootings and child abductions and the early 2000s dominated by concerns over terrorism.
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