List of house of worship shootings in the United States

This is a list of notable shootings that have occurred in places of worship in the United States.

Date	Location	Dead	Injured	Total	Motive	Description
August 27, 2025	Minneapolis, Minnesota	3 [a]	≈20	23	Under investigation	Annunciation Catholic Church shooting: A man with a rifle shot and killed two children and injured 20 other people during an all-school Mass for the church's PreK-8 school. The perpetrator killed himself at the scene. [1]
July 13, 2025	Lexington, Kentucky	3 [a]	2	5	Under investigation	2025 Lexington shootings: Two women at Richmond Road Baptist Church were killed by suspect. [2] [3]
December 16, 2024	Madison, Wisconsin	3 [a]	6	9	Under investigation	Abundant Life Christian School shooting: A 15-year-old student opened fire inside a second-floor classroom inside the Abundant Life Christian School, killing two people and injuring six others, before killing herself. [4] The school was part on the campus of the Abundant Life Church.
February 11, 2024	Houston, Texas	1 [a]	2	3	Under investigation	Lakewood Church shooting: 36-year-old Genesse Moreno fired 30 shots inside Lakewood Church during Spanish-language services, injuring two people. She was killed by church security guards. [5]
January 3, 2024	Newark, New Jersey	1	0	1	Unknown	An imam, Hassan Sharif, was shot and killed in his vehicle outside the Masjid Muhammad Mosque. Authorities stated that they did not think the shooting was a hate crime. [6]
March 27, 2023	Nashville, Tennessee	7 [a]	1	8	Under investigation	2023 Nashville school shooting: A former student, identified as 28-year-old Aiden Hale, opened fire inside the Covenant School killing six people, including three children. Two others were injured (one by gunfire). During the shooting, Hale fired seven shots into one of the cathedral's stained glass windows depicting Adam and Eve. Hale was killed by responding police officers. [7] [8] [9]
June 16, 2022	Vestavia Hills, Alabama	3	1 [a]	4	Unknown	Vestavia Hills church shooting: During a potluck meeting at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 71-year-old Robert Frindlay Smith opened fire, killing three people before being subdued.
May 15, 2022	Laguna Woods, California	1	5	6	Anti-Taiwanese sentiment	2022 Laguna Woods church shooting:
February 28, 2022	Sacramento, California	5 [a]	1	6	Domestic dispute	Suspect and victims were members of the nondenominational church. [10] [11]
January 3, 2021	Winona, Texas	1	1	2	Unknown
December 29, 2019	White Settlement, Texas	3 [a]	0	3	Unknown	West Freeway Church of Christ shooting
April 27, 2019	Poway, California	1	3	4	Antisemitism	Poway synagogue shooting
October 27, 2018	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	11	6	17	Antisemtism	Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
November 5, 2017	Sutherland Springs, Texas	27 [a] [b]	22	49	Disputed	Sutherland Springs church shooting
September 24, 2017	Antioch, Tennessee	1	8 [a]	9	Black supremacy	Burnette Chapel shooting
June 17, 2015	Charleston, South Carolina	9	1	10	White supremacy	Charleston church shooting
August 5, 2012	Oak Creek, Wisconsin	8 [a]	3	11	White supremacy	Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting
November 23, 2008	Clifton, New Jersey	2	1	3	Domestic dispute
July 27, 2008	Knoxville, Tennessee	2	6	8	Anti-liberal sentiment	Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church shooting
May 31, 2009	Wichita, Kansas	1	0	1	Anti-abortion extremism	Murder of George Tiller
December 9, 2007	Arvada and Colorado Springs, Colorado	5 [a]	5	10	Anti-Christian sentiment	2007 Colorado YWAM and New Life shootings
August 12, 2007	Neosho, Missouri	3	5	8	Unclear, targeted church leaders	Neosho, Missouri church shooting
May 21, 2006	Baton Rouge, Louisiana	5	1	6
August 28, 2005	Sash, Texas	5 [a]	0	5	Perceived persecution
March 12, 2005	Brookfield, Wisconsin	8 [a]	4	12	Anti-Christian sentiment	2005 Living Church of God shooting
June 10, 2002	Conception, Missouri	3 [a]	2	5	Resentment of Roman Catholics	Conception Abbey shooting
March 12, 2002	Lynbrook, New York	2	0	2
September 15, 1999	Fort Worth, Texas	8 [a]	7	15	Anti-Christian sentiment	Wedgwood Baptist Church shooting
April 15, 1999	Salt Lake City, Utah	3 [a]	4	7
March 10, 1999	Gonzales, Louisiana	4	4	8
August 9–10, 1991	Waddell, Arizona	9	0	9	Robbery	Waddell Buddhist temple shooting
March 6, 1988	Emporia, Kansas	1	4	6
June 22, 1980	Daingerfield, Texas	5	11 [a]	16		Daingerfield church shooting
August 10, 1884	Lewis County, Tennessee	5 [c]	0	5	Anti-Mormon	Cane Creek Massacre

Notes

1. Including the perpetrator
2. Including an unborn baby
3. Including one of the perpetrators

References

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