List of rampage killers (religious, political, or ethnic crimes)

This is a list of mass or spree killers that were considered by reliable sources to have been motivated by political or religious causes. A mass murderer is typically defined as someone who kills three or more people in one incident, with no "cooling off" period, not including themselves. ^{[1] [2]} A mass murder typically occurs in a single location where one or more persons kill several others. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

This list does not include serial killers, members of democidal governments, or major political figures who orchestrated such actions.

Rampage killers

	Perpetrator	Date	Year	Location	Country	Killed	Injured	W	Additional notes	Ref.
1.	Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-Owhali, 21, Azzam	Aug. 7	1998	Nairobi	Kenya	213	4,000+	F E	Azzam committed suicide bombing Al-Owhali sentenced to life without parole
2.	Dalerjon Mirzoyev, 32 Saidakrami Rachabalizoda, 30 Shamsidin Fariduni, 25 Muhammadsobir Faizov, 19	March 22	2024	Moscow	Russia	145	551	F M E	Crocus City Hall attack
3.	Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, Mohamed Salmene, 31 (محمد سلمان الحويج بوهلال)	July 14	2016	Nice	France	86	434	F V	Killed by police
4.	Breivik, Anders Behring, 32	July 22	2011	Oslo & Utøya	Norway	75	241	F E	Sentenced to 21 years in prison Two more died trying to escape
5.	Tarrant, Brenton Harrison, 28	March 15	2019	Christchurch	New Zealand	51	40	F	Sentenced to life without parole
6.	Mateen, Omar Mir Seddique, 29	June 12	2016	Orlando, Florida	United States	49	53	F	Killed by police
7.	Yacoubi, Seifeddine Rezgui, 22 (سيف الدين رزقي اليعقوبي)	June 26	2015	Sousse	Tunisia	38	39	F E	Killed by police
8.	Morral Roca, Mateu, 25	May 31 / June 2	1906	Madrid	Spain	30	100+	F E	Committed suicide
9.	Two unknown men	Aug. 24	2010	Mogadishu	Somalia	30	5+	F E	Both committed suicide
10.	Crusius, Patrick Wood, 21	Aug. 3	2019	El Paso, Texas	United States	23	22	F	Sentenced to life imprisonment
11.	Osman Omarov, 31, Abdusamad Amadziev, 32, Gadzhimurad Kagirov, 28, Dalgat Daudov, 42 or 43, Ali Zakarigaev, 35	June 23	2024	Dagestan	Russia	22	45	F A	Killed by police
11.	Labidi, Yassine, Khachnaoui, Saber	March 18	2015	Tunia	Tunisia	22	42	F	Both killed by police
12.	Abbas al-Baqir Abbas, 33 (عباس الباقر عباس)	Dec. 8	2000	Jarafa	Sudan	22	31	F	Killed by police
13.	Two unknown men	Nov. 20	2015	Bamako	Mali	20	7–9	F E	Both killed by soldiers
14.	Fieschi, Giuseppe Marco, 44	July 28	1835	Paris	France	18	22	F	Sentenced to death and executed Also killed a horse
15.	Unknown	Dec. 18	1936	Monte Aprazível	Brazil	16	?	F	Arrested
16.	Farook, Syed Rizwan, 28 Malik, Tashfeen, 29	Dec. 2	2015	San Bernardino, California	United States	14	24	F	Both killed by police
17.	Lardanchet, Jean-Pierre, 36 Friedli, André, 39	Dec. 15/16	1995	Vercors	France	14	0	FMO	Both committed suicide
18.	Amri, Anis Ben Othman, 24 (إبراهيم إسماعيل إسماعيل مصطفى)	Dec. 19	2016	Berlin Milan	Germany Italy	13	55	FMV	Killed by police One of the victims died in 2021; attributed to this event
19.	Khumalo, Banda, 38 [n 1]	Dec. 4	1977	Bulawayo	Rhodesia	13	13–16	F	Killed by police	[6]
20.	Kouachi, Saïd, 34 Kouachi, Chérif, 32	Jan. 7	2015	Paris	France	12	11	F	Both killed by police
21.	Bowers, Robert Gregory, 46	Oct. 27	2018	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	United States	11	6	F	Sentenced to death
22.	Ibrahim Ismail Ismail Mustafa	Dec. 29	2017	Cairo	Egypt	10	6	F	Sentenced to death and executed Suspected of other attacks
23.	Rathjen, Tobias, 43	Feb. 19	2020	Hanau	Germany	10	5	F	Committed suicide Terminated a pregnancy
24.	Gendron, Payton S., 18	May 14	2022	Buffalo, New York	United States	10	3	F	Sentenced to life imprisonment
25.	Essex, Mark James Robert, 23	Dec. 31 / Jan. 7	1972–3	New Orleans, Louisiana	United States	9	13	F A	Killed by police
26.	Sonboly, David, 18	July 22	2016	Munich	Germany	9	4	F	Committed suicide
27.	Roof, Dylann Storm, 21	June 17	2015	Charleston, South Carolina	United States	9	1	F	Sentenced to death
28.	Adnan, Mohamed Sozad, 21	July 11	1988	Cruise ship City of Poros	Greece	8	98	F E	Committed suicide
29.	Strydom, Barend Hendrik, 23	Nov. 15	1988	De Deur & Pretoria	South Africa	8	16	F	Sentenced to death plus 30 years
30.	Garcia, Mauricio Martinez, 33	May 6	2023	Allen, Texas	United States	8	7	F	Killed by police
31.	Suleiman Mohammed Abdul-Hamid Khater, 24 (سليمان خاطر)	Oct. 5	1985	Ras Burqa	Egypt	8	4	F	Sentenced to life imprisonment
32.	Unknown [n 1]		1924	Drew, Mississippi	United States	7–8	?	F	Unsolved	[7]
33.	Merah, Mohammed, 23 (محمد مراح)	March 11–22	2012	Toulouse & Montauban	France	7	6	F	Killed by police
34.	Smith, Roland James, 50–51	Dec. 8	1995	New York City, New York	United States	7	4	F A	Committed suicide
35.	Page, Wade Michael, 40	Aug. 5	2012	Oak Creek, Wisconsin	United States	7	3	F	Committed suicide One of the victims died in 2020; attributed to this event
36.	Charles, Robert, 35	July 23–27	1900	New Orleans	United States	6	20+	F	Killed by angry mob or killed by police
37.	Ferguson, Colin, 35	Dec. 7	1993	Garden City, New York	United States	6	19	F	Sentenced to 315 years and 8 months to life imprisonment
38.	Bissonnette, Alexandre, 27	Jan. 29	2017	Quebec City, Quebec	Canada	6	19	F	Sentenced to life imprisonment
39.	Two unknown men	Dec. 14	1998	Peć	FR Yugoslavia	6	15	F	Unsolved
40.	Two unknown men	June 18	1994	Loughinisland, Northern Ireland	United Kingdom	6	5	F	Unsolved
41.	Two unknown men	July 2	1976	Antrim, Northern Ireland	United Kingdom	6	3	F	Unsolved
42.	Hastings, Louis D., 39	March 3	1983	McCarthy	United States	6	2	F	Sentenced to 634 years in prison	[8]
43.	Shafik al-Arid, 22 Talal Khantourah, 21	Aug. 5	1973	Athens	Greece	5	55	F E	Pleaded guilty
44.	Masood, Khalid, 52	March 22	2017	London, England	United Kingdom	5	49	MV	Killed by police
45.	Aldrich, Anderson Lee, 22	Nov. 19–20	2022	Colorado Springs	United States	5	19	F	Sentenced to life imprisonment
46.	Coulibaly, Amedy, 32	Jan. 7–9	2015	Montrouge & Porte de Vincennes	France	5	11	F	Killed by police
47.	Johnson, Micah Xavier, 25	July 7	2016	Dallas, Texas	United States	5	11	F	Killed by police
48.	Chekatt, Chérif, 29	Dec. 11	2018	Strasbourg	France	5	11	FM	Killed by police
49.	Two unknown men	Feb. 5	1992	Belfast, Northern Ireland	United Kingdom	5	9	F	Unsolved
50.	Elosegi, José Javier Zabaleta Irujo, Juan María Tapia	Nov. 3	1980	Zarautz	Spain	5	5	F	Elosegi sentenced to 200 years in prison Irujo sentenced to 66 years in prison
51.	Fejzullai, Kujtim, 20	Nov. 2	2020	Vienna	Austria	4	23	FM	Killed by police
52.	Lakdim, Redouane, 25	March 23	2018	Carcassonne & Trèbes	France	4	15	FM	Killed by police
53.	Mohamed, Hamza Hassan, 29	Aug. 25	2021	Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	4	9	F	Killed by police
54.	Bešlić, Borislav, 41 [n 1]	June 18	1994	Osijek	Croatia	4	8	F	Arrested
55.	Nel, Jozef Johannes, 18	Jan. 14	2008	Skierlik	South Africa	4	8	F	Sentenced to life imprisonment Also killed one ostrich
56.	Mullah Abdullah, 60 Gool, Badsha Mahommed, 40	Jan. 1	1915	Broken Hill, New South Wales	Australia	4	7	F	Both killed by police	[9]
57.	French, Kenneth Junior, 22 [n 1]	Aug. 6	1993	Fayetteville	United States	4	7	F	Sentenced to life imprisonment
58.	Stone, Michael, 32	March 16	1988	Belfast, Northern Ireland	United Kingdom	3	60+	F E	Sentenced to 682 years in prison
59.	Legan, Santino William, 19	July 28	2019	Gilroy	United States	3	11	F	Committed suicide
60.	Lambright, Donald Martin, 30	April 5	1969	Harrisburg	United States	3	15	F	Committed suicide
61.	Lortie, Denis, 25	May 8	1984	Quebec City, Quebec	Canada	3	13	F	Sentenced to life imprisonment
62.	Dear, Robert Lewis, 57	Nov. 27	2015	Colorado Springs, Colorado	United States	3	9	F	Found mentally unfit to stand trial

Asia

	Perpetrator	Date	Year	Location	Country	Killed	Injured	W	Additional notes	Ref.
1.	Two unknown men	Aug. 3	2018	Gardez	Afghanistan	48	70+	F E	One killed by security One committed suicide	[10]
2.	Masharipov, Abdulkadir, 28 (Абдулкадир Машарипов)	Jan. 1	2017	Istanbul	Turkey	39	79	F	Sentenced to life imprisonment
3.	Ibragimov, Ahmed, 43 (Ибрагимов, Ахмед)	Oct. 8	1999	Mekenskaya, Chechnya	Russia	34+	20+	F	Killed by angry mob Killed several other people
4.	Two unknown men	Aug. 1	2017	Herat	Afghanistan	33	66	F E	Both committed suicide
5.	Two unknown men	March 6	2020	Kabul	Afghanistan	32	82	F E	Both killed by police
6.	Farooq, Ashraf Ali Mohammed Yasin, Murtuza Hafiz	Sept. 24/25	2002	Gandhinagar	India	30	80+	F E	Both killed by police
7.	Goldstein, Baruch Kappel, 37 (ברוך קופל גולדשטיין)	Feb. 25	1994	Hebron, West Bank	State of Palestine	29	125	F	Killed by angry mob
8.	Two unknown men	Nov. 12	2003	Nasiriyah	Iraq	28	103	F E	Both killed by a soldier
9.	Bilal	Dec. 27	2007	Rawalpindi	Pakistan	24	91	F E	committed suicide
10.	Two unknown men	Sept. 6	1986	Istanbul	Turkey	22	6	F E	Both died	[11]
11.	Asadbek Madiyarov, 24	March 21	2024	Kandahar	Afghanistan	21+	50+	E	Died in the explosion	[12]
12.	Ali Jan	Oct. 11	2016	Kabul	Afghanistan	18	36	F E	Killed by police	[13] [14]
13.	Kurbanjan Hemit, 28 (库尔班江·依明提) Abdurahman Azat, 33 (阿不都热合曼·阿扎提)	Aug. 4	2008	Kashgar	China	16	16	MVE	Both sentenced to death and executed
14.	Bales, Robert, 38 [n 1]	March 11	2012	Najeeban & Alkozai	Afghanistan	16	6	FMA	Sentenced to life imprisonment Also killed a dog and cow
15.	Two unknown men	Nov. 24	2002	Jammu	India	14	45	F E	Both committed suicide
16.	Unknown	July 20	2001	Sheshnag	India	13–14	14–15	F E	Killed by police	[15]
17.	Hamed Badakhshan, 23	Oct. 26	2022	Shiraz	Iran	13	40+	F	Killed by police
18.	Yaşa, Eylem, 32	June 7	2016	Fatih, Istanbul	Turkey	12	51	E	Died in the bombing
19.	Two unknown men	March 30	2002	Jammu	India	11	20	F E	Both committed suicide
20.	Harphul Singh	July 23	1930	Tohana	British Raj	11–15	4	F A	Sentenced to death and executed Killed five people two years earlier	[16]
21.	Unknown	May	1928	Kobe	Japan	11	?		Committed suicide	[17]
22.	Kulekbaev, Ruslan Alpysbayuly, 26 (Кулекбаев, Руслан Алпысбаевич)	July 17/18	2016	Almaty	Kazakhstan	10	10	F	Sentenced to death
23.	Tha'ir Kayid Hamad, 22 (ثائر كايد حماد)	March 3	2002	Ofra, West Bank	State of Palestine	10	6	F	Sentenced to life imprisonment
24.	Two unknown men	May 13	2017	Gwadar	Pakistan	10	1	F	Unsolved
25.	Ekmekjian, Levon, 25 (Լեւոն Էքմէքճեան) Sarkissian, Zohrab, 24 (Զօհրապ Սարգիսեան)	Aug. 7	1982	Ankara	Turkey	9	72	F E	Sarkissian killed by police Ekmekjian sentenced to death and executed
26.	Two unknown men	Dec. 17	2017	Quetta	Pakistan	9	57	F E	One killed by security One committed suicide
27.	Unknown	Aug. 6	2002	Nunwan	India	9	31	F E	Killed by police	[18]
28.	Zhou Lanpu, (周兰普)	May 29	1981	Handan	China	9	15	FMV	Sentenced to death and executed	[19]
29.	Mohsin Yahya Munassar Al-Hilali, 38 (محسن يحيى منصر الهلالي)	July 30	2003	Mish'al	Yemen	9	1	F	Sentenced to death	[20]
30.	Unknown Soldier [n 1]	Nov. 8	1988	Jessore	Bangladesh	8	50	F	Committed suicide	[21]
31.	Two unknown men	Oct. 7	2005	Mong	Pakistan	8	20	F	Unsolved
32.	Punchi Banda Kandegedera	Feb. 25	1936	Colombo	Ceylon	8	10	F	Sentenced to death	[22]
33.	Muhammad Chalaf Sahar Rajab and Hassan Muhammad	Oct. 1	2024	Jaffa	Israel	7	17	FM	Killed
33.	Abu Lu'lu'a Firuz	Oct. 31 or Nov. 3	644	Medina	Rashidun Caliphate	7–10	3–6	M	Either was executed or committed suicide	[23]
34.	Wang Xiwen, 32 (王锡文)	Nov. 17	1980	Handan	China	7	12	F E	Sentenced to death and executed Also killed two pigs
35.	Popper, Ami, 21 (עמי פופר)	May 20	1990	Rishon LeZion	Israel	7	11	F	Sentenced to seven consecutive life terms; Later reduced to 40 years in prison
36.	Ahmed Daqamseh, 26 (أحمد الدقامسة)	March 13	1997	Island of Peace	Jordan	7	6	F	Sentenced to 20 years in prison	[24]
37.	Kariyev, Maksat Kokshkinbaevich, 34 (Кариев, Максат Кокшкинбаевич)	Nov. 12	2011	Taraz	Kazakhstan	7	3	F E	Committed suicide	[25]
38.	Unknown	Sept. 23	2018	Shar-e-Safa	Afghanistan	6–8	?	F	Killed by soldiers	[26]
39.	Khairi Musa Alqam, 21 (خيري موسى علقم)	Jan. 27	2023	East Jerusalem	State of Palestine	7	3	F	Killed by police
40.	Omar Rub Yousef Rub	Nov. 28	2002	Beit She'an	Israel	6	34	F E	Both killed by police
41.	Abdul Salaam Sadek Hassouneh, 24 (عبد السلام صادق حسونة)	Jan. 17	2002	Hadera	Israel	6	33	F E	Committed suicide	[27]
42.	Melod Najah (ميلود نجاح)	Nov. 25	1987	Kiryat Shmona	Israel	6	7	F E	Killed by soldiers	[28]
43.	Uday Abu Jamal, 22 (عدي أبو جمل) Ghassan Muhammad Abu Jamal, 32 (غسان محمد أبو جمل)	Nov. 18	2014	Jerusalem		6	7	FM	Both killed by police
44.	Shadi Sa'id as-Su’ayida (شادي سعيد السعايدة) Da'oud al-Haj (داود الحاج)	Feb. 19	2002	Ein 'Arik, West Bank	State of Palestine	6	1	F	Su’ayida sentenced to life imprisonment Haj escaped
45.	Two unknown men	March 12	2002	Matzuva	Israel	6	1	F E	Both killed by soldiers
46.	Abdallah Ahmed Yahia Zeid Ghassan (عبد الله يحيى غسان)	March 5	2004	Dhamar	Yemen	5	30	F E	Committed suicide	[29]
47.	Ayman Mohamed Hassan Mohamed, 23 (أيمن محمد حسن محمد)	Nov. 25	1990	Eilat	Israel	4	27	F	Sentenced to 12 years	[30]
48.	Ansari, Aftab Nasir, Jamiluddin	Jan. 22	2002	Kolkata	India	5	20	F	Both sentenced to death	[31]
49.	Ahmed Jassim Ibrahim, 24–25 (احمد جاسم ابراهيم)	June 12	2009	Baghdad	Iraq	5	12	F E	Killed by security	[32]
50.	Two unknown men	June 20	2002	Itamar, West Bank	Israel (de facto)   State of Palestine (de jure)	5	10	F	Both killed by soldiers
51.	Two unknown men	March 13	2013	Srinagar	India	5	10	F E	Both killed by police
52.	Shuja al-Dosari, 20 (شجاع الدوسري)	10.16 Oct. 16	2015	Saihat	Saudi Arabia	5	09 9	F	Killed by police	[33]
53.	Two unknown men	Dec. 12	2004	Philadelphi Route, Gaza Strip	State of Palestine	5	6	F E	Both killed by soldiers
54.	Unknown Soldier	Sept. 24	1956	Ramat Rachel	Israel	4	17	F	Arrested	[34]
55.	Natan-Zada, Eden, 19 (עדן נתן-זדה)	Aug. 4	2005	Shfar'am	Israel	4	12	F	Killed by angry mob	[35]
56.	Two unknown men	April 27	2002	Adora, West Bank	Israel (de facto) State of Palestine (de jure)	4	7	F	One killed One escaped
57.	Khaled Muhammad Musa Makhamra, 21 (خالد محمد موسى مخمر) Muhammad Ahmad Musa Makhamreh, 21 (محمد أحمد موسى مخامرة)	June 8	2016	Tel Aviv	Israel	4	7	F	Both sentenced to life imprisonment
58.	Ibrahim Mohammed Hasuna, 20 (إبراهيم محمد محمود حسونة)	March 5	2002	Tel Aviv	Israel	3	35	FME	Killed by police	[36]
59.	Ebrahim Nemer, 30 (ابراهيم نمر) Murad Nemer, 38 (مراد نمر)	Nov. 30	2023	Jerusalem	Israel	3	16	F	Killed by soldiers Terminated a pregnancy	[37]
60.	Ibrahim al-Akri, 38 (إبراهيم العكاري)	Nov. 5	2014	Jerusalem		3	13	MV	Killed by police
61.	Hussein Qaqawa, 31	Feb. 10	2023	East Jerusalem	Israel	3	4	V	Killed by police
62.	Hazem, Raad, 28 (رعد غانم)	April 7	2022	Tel Aviv	Israel	3	11	F	Killed by police

Abbreviations and footnotes

1. Assailant was a member of the military, police, or a comparable force at the time of the rampage.

The W-column gives a basic description of the weapons used in the murders

F – Firearms and other ranged weapons, especially rifles and handguns, but also bows and crossbows, grenade launchers, flamethrowers, or slingshots

M – Melee weapons, like knives, swords, spears, machetes, axes, clubs, rods, rocks, or bare hands

O – Any other weapons, such as bombs, hand grenades, Molotov cocktails, poison and poisonous gas, as well as vehicle and arson attacks

A – indicates that an arson attack was the only other weapon used

V – indicates that a vehicle was the only other weapon used (vehicle as a weapon)

E – indicates that explosives of any sort were the only other weapon used

P – indicates that an anaesthetising or deadly substance of any kind was the only other weapon used (includes poisonous gas)

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