- This year, the United States continues to experience a high frequency of mass killings. The recent incident in which four individuals were fatally shot inside an RV in California marks the 19th mass killing of the year.
- Violent incidents have erupted across the United States, and have been motivated by a variety of factors. These include murder-suicides and domestic violence, gang reprisals, school shootings, and workplace grievances leading to acts of vengeance.
- Mass killings are happening with staggering frequency this year: an average of nearly one a week, according to an analysis of The AP/USA Today data.
Four people found shot to death in an RV in a small Mojave Desert community in California. Four partygoers slain and 32 injured in small-town Alabama during a Sweet 16 birthday that ended with a girl kneeling beside her fatally wounded brother. Six people, included three 9-year-old children, gunned down at an elementary school in Nashville.
Now the discovery of seven people found shot to death in rural Oklahoma is keeping the U.S. on a torrid pace for mass killings in 2023 and could push the number of people slain past 100 for the year.
The Mojave slayings over the weekend represented the 19th mass killing of the year, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in a partnership with Northeastern University. That is the most during the first four months of the year since data was first recorded in 2006. The Oklahoma deaths have not been added to the database as of Tuesday afternoon.
As of the Mojave shooting, 97 people had been killed in the 19 mass killings this year, exceeding the record set in 2009 when 93 people were killed in 17 incidents by the end of April.
The number killed is a fraction of the total number of people who died by homicide for the year. The database counts killings involving four or more fatalities, not including the perpetrator, the same standard as the FBI, and tracks a number of variables for each.
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