This is a list of mass shootings that took place in the United States in 2025. Mass shootings are incidents in which several people are injured or killed due to firearm-related violence, specifically for the purposes of this article, a total of four or more victims.
Several different inclusion criteria are used; there is no generally accepted definition. [2] [3] Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit research group that tracks shootings and their characteristics in the United States, defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people, excluding the perpetrator(s), are shot in one location at roughly the same time. [4] The Congressional Research Service provides a definition of four or more killed. [2] [5] The Washington Post and Mother Jones use similar definitions, with the latter acknowledging that their definition "is a conservative measure of the problem", as many shootings with fewer fatalities occur. [6] [7] The crowdsourced Mass Shooting Tracker project applies the most expansive definition: four or more shot in any incident, including the perpetrator. [8] [9]
A 2019 study of mass shootings published in the journal Injury Epidemiology recommended developing "a standard definition that considers both fatalities and nonfatalities to most appropriately convey the burden of mass shootings on gun violence." [10] The authors of the study further suggested that "the definition of mass shooting should be four or more people, excluding the shooter, who are shot in a single event regardless of the motive, setting or number of deaths." [11]
Definitions generally exclude consideration of the number of persons targeted with lethal intent, perhaps with degraded accuracy from a greater distance, who escape injury from bullets or bullet spall, regardless of injury sustained while evading live gunfire, or medical complications resulting from those injuries (such as infection, concussion, stroke, or PTSD) further down the road.
| Organization(s) | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mass Shooting Tracker | Four or more persons shot in one incident, at one location, at roughly the same time. [9] |
| Gun Violence Archive | Four or more shot in one incident, excluding the perpetrators, at one location, at roughly the same time. [4] [12] |
| Stanford University MSA Data Project | Three or more persons shot in one incident, excluding the perpetrator(s), at one location, at roughly the same time. Excluded are shootings associated with organized crime, gangs or drug wars. [13] |
| ABC News | Four or more shot and killed in one incident, excluding the perpetrators, at one location, at roughly the same time. |
| Mother Jones | Three or more shot and killed in one incident at a public place, excluding the perpetrators. This list excludes all shootings the organization considers to be "conventionally motivated" such as all gang violence and armed robberies. [7] |
| The Washington Post | Four or more shot and killed in one incident at a public place, excluding the perpetrators. [6] |
| Congressional Research Service | Four or more shot and killed in one incident, excluding the perpetrators, at a public place, excluding gang-related killings and those done with a profit-motive. [5] |
Only incidents considered mass shootings by at least two of the above sources are listed below. Many incidents involving organized crime and gang violence are included. All definitions can be exceeded with a single shotgun blast into a target cluster at short range. Mass shootings do not require multiple gunshots.
For statistical purposes, armed accomplices are likely to be classified as perpetrators, even if later analysis determines that the accomplice never discharged a firearm. Bystanders struck by bullets fired in self-defense by another bystander would potentially be classified as victims of a mass shooting, while a bystander firing in self-defense who injures or kills another bystander would almost certainly not be classified as a perpetrator. The classification of a bystander struck by police while attempting to take out a believed perpetrator falls into a gray zone.
| 2025 date | Location | State or territory | Dead | Injured | Total | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 13 | Washington (2) | District of Columbia | 1 [n 1] | 3 | 4 | Officers responded to an apartment building in the Truxton Circle neighborhood of Northwest DC due to reports of a man opening fire in the lobby. At the building, the officers encountered the suspect as he left an elevator, who then opened fire, striking three officers, before he was fatally shot by police. [14] |
| January 12 | Omaha | Nebraska | 1 | 4 | 5 | Five people, one fatally, were injured when a shooting broke out at an after-hours club in the Kountze Place neighborhood of the north side. [15] |
| January 12 | Beaver County | Pennsylvania | 2 | 2 | 4 | Two people were killed and two others were injured in a shooting east of Beaver Falls in North Sewickley Township. [16] |
| January 11 | Webster Parish | Louisiana | 0 | 6 | 6 | A shooting at a large party south of Dubberly wounded six. The party was being hosted on private property without a permit and was charging entrance fees and featured a DJ and performers. [17] |
| January 8 | Santa Rosa | California | 4 | 0 | 4 | Police responding to a welfare check at a home in a senior community found four people dead with gunshot wounds inside. [18] |
| January 6 | Atlanta | Georgia | 1 [n 1] | 3 | 4 | A man conducted an armed robbery at a Krispy Kreme in the West End neighborhood before he was located by a police officer, with the help of a Krispy Kreme employee, at a nearby business. Upon being confronted, the man opened fire, wounding the officer before he was mortally wounded, The robber had shot two employees at the second store while attempting another robbery there. [19] |
| January 5 | Tucson | Arizona | 0 | 4 | 4 | An argument that escalated into a shooting injured four. [20] |
| January 3 | West Greenwich | Rhode Island | 4 [n 1] | 0 | 4 | A couple and their two children were found shot to death in their home when police responded to a welfare check. [21] It was later determined that a man fatally shot his pregnant wife and their two children before committing suicide. [22] |
| January 3 | Washington (1) | District of Columbia | 0 | 5 [n 1] | 5 | A dispute that escalated into a shooting wounded five, including the shooter, in the Eckington neighborhood of Northeast DC. [23] |
| January 2 | Mecklenburg County | North Carolina | 0 | 4 [n 1] | 4 | A domestic dispute led to a shooting that wounded four, including the suspect, east of Charlotte. [24] |
| January 1 | Dallas | Texas | 1 | 3 | 4 | An argument in the Wolf Creek neighborhood escalated when a suspect opened fire, killing a man and injuring three others. [25] |
| January 1 | New Orleans | Louisiana | 1 [n 2] [n 1] | 5 | 6 | 2025 New Orleans truck attack: A man who was inspired by the Islamic State and is also believed to have planted bombs around the area, drove a rented truck through Bourbon Street in the French Quarter, attempting to strike revelers during New Year's celebrations. The man killed fourteen people and injured several dozen others with the truck before he crashed into a crane, after which he exited the vehicle and opened fire, striking five people, including two officers, before he was fatally shot by police. [26] [27] [28] [29] |
| January 1 | New York City | New York | 0 | 10 | 10 | Four men opened fire on a queue of people outside a music venue in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, wounding ten. [30] |
| January 1 | Kankakee | Illinois | 2 | 5 | 7 | Two people were killed and five others were injured when a shooting broke out at a New Year's Eve party. [31] [32] |
Note that statistics are only updated at the very end of each month. The current month's statistics will therefore be blank.
| Month | Mass shootings | Total number dead (including the shooter/s) | Total number wounded (including the shooter/s) | Occurred at a school or university | Occurred at a place of worship | Total days without mass shootings |
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| January | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| February | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| March | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| April | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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| July | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| August | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| September | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| October | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| November | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| December | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Total | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Source: [33] | ||||||
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There is no broadly agreed-to, specific conceptualization of this issue, so this report uses its own definition for public mass shootings.