A gunman opened fire on an outlet mall in the Dallas suburb of Allen, Tex., leaving eight dead. The mass shooting was the second-deadliest in the United States in 2023.
There have been more than 200 mass shootings so far this year
By Júlia Ledur
Updated May 8, 2023 at 3:43 p.m. EDT|Published January 24, 2023 at 12:42 p.m. EST
January 2023
52 mass shootings
8 days with NONE
Monterey
Park
Half Moon
Bay
February
40 mass shootings
8 days with NONE
Michigan
March
39 Mass shootings
11 days with NONE
Nashville
April
56 mass shootings
5 days with NONE
Louisville
May
15 mass shootings
2 dayS with NONE
Allen, Tx.
*As of May 7
January 2023
52 mass shootings
8 days with NONE
Monterey
Park
Half Moon
Bay
February
40 mass shootings
8 days with NONE
Michigan
March
39 Mass shootings
11 days with NONE
Nashville
April
56 mass shootings
5 days with NONE
Louisville
May
15 mass shootings
2 days with NONE
Allen, Tx.
*As of May 7
January 2023
February
52 mass shootings
8 days with NONE
40 mass shootings
8 days with NONE
Monterey
Park
Michigan
Half Moon
Bay
March
April
39 Mass shootings
11 days with NONE
56 mass shootings
5 days with NONE
Louisville
Nashville
May
15 Mass shootings
2 days with NONE*
Allen, Tx.
*As of May 7
January 2023
February
52 mass shootings
8 days with NONE
40 mass shootings
8 days with NONE
Monterey
Park
Michigan
Half Moon
Bay
March
April
39 Mass shootings
11 days with NONE
56 mass shootings
5 days with NONE
Louisville
Nashville
May
15 mass shootings*
2 DAYs with NONE
Allen, Tx.
*As of May 7
This year’s attacks come after several major shootings shook the country in 2022, including the killing of 21 of students and staff at an elementary school in Uvalde, Tex., and a shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo that killed ten. On the eve of Lunar New Year, a shooter open fired at a dance studio in Monterey Park, Calif., a majority-Asian Los Angeles suburb, killing 11 people.
Mass shootings have been on the rise in recent years. In 2022, 647 such incidents occurred, down from a year before but higher than any other year since the Gun Violence Archive started tracking in 2014.
There have already been 202 mass shootings in 2023 in the United States, more than any other year when compared with the same period.
Mass shootings
per year since 2014
690
647
Shootings up to May 7
610
417
383
348
336
336
273
202
’23*
’14
’15
’16
’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
Mass shootings
per year since 2014
690
Shootings up to May 7
647
610
417
383
348
336
336
273
202
’23*
’14
’15
’16
’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
Mass shootings per year since 2014
Shootings up to May 7
273
2014
336
2015
2016
383
348
2017
336
2018
417
2019
610
2020
690
2021
647
2022
2023*
202
The toll is immense. Less than four months into 2023, mass shootings have already killed 276 people and injured 792 this year in America.
Daniel Wolfe contributed to this report. Data is from the Gun Violence Archive.