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Texas Massacre Is the Second-Deadliest School Shooting on Record

Deadliest active shooter attacks at schools since 1970

Includes only grades K-12.

2014

Marysville, Wash.

4 dead

2005

Red Lake, Minn.

7 dead

2021

Oxford, Mich.

4 dead

2012

Newtown, Conn.

26 dead

1992

Olivehurst, Calif.

4 dead

2006

Nickel Mines, Pa.

5 dead

1999

Littleton, Colo.

13 dead

1989

Stockton, Calif.

5 dead

1998

Jonesboro, Ark.

5 dead

2018

Santa Fe, Texas

10 dead

2022

Uvalde, Texas

21 dead

2018

Parkland, Fla.

17 dead

2014

Marysville, Wash.

4 dead

2005

Red Lake, Minn.

7 dead

2021

Oxford, Mich.

4 dead

2012

Newtown, Conn.

26 dead

1992

Olivehurst, Calif.

4 dead

2006

Nickel Mines, Pa.

5 dead

1999

Littleton, Colo.

13 dead

1989

Stockton, Calif.

5 dead

1998

Jonesboro, Ark.

5 dead

2018

Santa Fe, Texas

10 dead

2022

Uvalde, Texas

21 dead

2018

Parkland, Fla.

17 dead

2005

Red Lake, Minn.

7 dead

2012

Newtown, Conn.

26 dead

1999

Littleton, Colo.

13 dead

2022

Uvalde, Texas

21 dead

2018

Santa Fe, Texas

10 dead

2018

Parkland, Fla.

17 dead

Source: K-12 School Shooting Database, Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security. An active shooter attack is defined in the database as one in which a shooter kills and/or wounds victims, either in a targeted way or randomly, on a school campus during a continuous episode of violence. Totals do not include assailants who died in the attacks. By The New York Times

The death toll continues to mount in the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, but already it is the second-deadliest shooting at an elementary, middle or high school on record in the United States.

People killed by active shooters at schools each year since 1970

30 killed

Sandy Hook

26 killed

Parkland

17 killed

25

Uvalde

21 killed

20

Columbine

13 killed

15

Santa Fe

10 killed

10

5

’75

’80

’85

’90

’95

’00

’05

’10

’15

’20

Parkland

17 killed

30 killed

Sandy Hook

26 killed

25

Uvalde

21 killed

20

Columbine

13 killed

15

Santa Fe

10 killed

10

5

’80

’90

’00

’10

’20

Source: K-12 School Shooting Database Totals do not include assailants who died in the attacks. By The New York Times

At least 19 students and two adults have been confirmed dead in the attack, according to the police, who said they subsequently shot and killed the gunman, whom they identified as Salvador Ramos, 18, a student at a nearby high school.

The Uvalde shooting comes nearly a decade after a gunman killed 20 small children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., before taking his own life. As the deaths mounted on Tuesday, the Uvalde shooting outstripped the devastating 2018 massacre at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where 17 people were killed.

Number of active shooter attacks since 1970

12 school shootings

10

8

6

4

2

0

’75

’80

’85

’90

’95

’00

’05

’10

’15

’20

12 school shootings

10

8

6

4

2

’80

’90

’00

’10

’20

Source: K-12 School Shooting Database By The New York Times

The Uvalde attack, the second mass shooting at a school this year, is at least the 188th since 1970, according to a New York Times analysis of data from the K-12 School Shooting Database, which is compiled by the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security.

The database includes hundreds of attacks at elementary, middle and high schools in which assailants opened fire on campus. Not including the assailants, at least 200 people have been killed in these school shootings so far.