(CNN) — Here’s a look at what you need to know about rampage killings that have occurred in the U.S since the 1940′s.
U.S. Timeline (selected only)
includes incidents on college and university campuses as well as places of worship and offices.
2013
June 7, 2013 – As many as six people are killed in a random shooting rampage in Santa Monica, California, that ends in the library of Santa Monica College with the gunman dead.
March 22, 2013 - One person is killed and three others are injured during a shooting in an apartment at Gravesend Houses, a public housing project in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York. The next day, police charge Joseph Brown, 29, with one count of murder and three counts of attempted murder.
2012
December 11, 2012 – Three people are shot at Clackamas Town Center in Happy Valley, a suburb outside of Portland, Oregon. Cindy Ann Yuille, 54 and Steven Mathew Forsyth, 45, die of their injuries. Kristina Shevchenko, 15, is severely wounded but survives. Jacob Tyler Roberts, 22, the suspected shooter, dies at the scene of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
August 5, 2012 - Six people are killed and four wounded when Wade Michael Page, 40, opens fire at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. According to the FBI, Page died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head after he was shot in the stomach by a responding officer.
July 20, 2012 - Twelve people are killed and 58 are wounded in a shooting at an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater screening of the new Batman film. James E. Holmes, 24, is taken into custody outside of the movie theater. Holmes was dressed head-to-toe in protective tactical gear, set off two devices of some kind before spraying the theater with bullets from an AR-15 rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun and at least one of two .40-caliber handguns police recovered at the scene.
April 2, 2012 – Seven people are killed and three others injured during a shooting at Oikos University in East Oakland. The suspect One Goh, 43, walks into an Oikos University classroom, lines up students against a wall and using a .45 caliber handgun, shoots them one by one. After the shooting, Goh leaves the classroom, reloads his semi-automatic weapon, and then returns. He ends his rampage by driving off in a victim’s car, but surrenders to police a short time later. On April 30, 2012 Goh pleads not guilty to seven counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder.
2011
October 12, 2011 – Eight people are killed during a shooting at the Salon Meritage in Seal Beach, California. The suspect, Scott Evans Dekraai, 41, of Huntington Beach, is arrested without incident as he is trying to leave the scene. The eight dead include Dekraai’s ex-wife, Michelle Fournier, 48.
October 5, 2011 – Three people are killed at the Lehigh Southwest Cement Plant in Cupertino, California when employee Shareef Allman starts shooting in a meeting. He flees the scene, but dies later of a self-inflicted head wound during a confrontation with sheriff’s deputies.
January 8, 2011 – Jared Lee Loughner kills six people and wounds 13 others at a “Congress on Your Corner” event sponsored by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) at a local grocery store. Giffords is shot in the head, but survives. Loughner is charged with one count of attempting to kill a member of Congress, two counts of first degree murder and two counts of attempted murder. On August 7, 2012 Loughner pleads guilty to 19 charges in exchange for the government not seeking the death penalty.
2010
August 3, 2010 – Manchester, Connecticut – Omar Thornton kills eight co-workers at Hartford Distributors before turning the gun on himself. Thornton had been asked to resign for stealing and selling alcoholic beverages.
February 12, 2010 - University of Alabama – Huntsville professor Amy Bishop Anderson, 42, shoots six colleagues during a meeting, killing three. She is charged with capital murder and three counts of attempted murder. On September 11, 2012 Anderson accepts an agreement with the state and pleads guilty to three counts of attempted murder and agrees to later plead guilty to a capital murder charge.
January 19, 2010 – Christopher Speight, 39, kills eight people at a house in Appomattox, Virginia. He surrenders to police at the scene the next morning, and is charged with one count of murder with additional charges pending.
January 7, 2010 - Eight employees are shot, and three killed at the ABB plant in St. Louis. The gunman, who dies after turning the gun on himself, is identified as Timothy Hendron.
2009
November 6, 2009 – In Orlando, Florida, 40-year-old Jason Rodriguez is accused of killing one person and wounding five others in a shooting at an office where he once worked. He is later arrested and charged with first-degree murder. On January 11, 2012, a judge rules that Rodriguez is not competent to stand trial.
November 5, 2009 - Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly kills 13 people and injures 32 at Fort Hood, Texas, during a shooting rampage. He is charged with 13 counts of pre-meditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder.
August 4, 2009 - In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 48-year-old George Sodini, enters the L.A. Fitness club and kills three women and wounds ten others before killing himself.
June 10, 2009 – In Washington, D.C., James W. von Brunn, a white supremacist, enters the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and fatally shoots a security guard, Stephen Tyrone Johns. Von Brunn is wounded by return fire from other guards. He dies in prison in Jan. 2010.
April 3, 2009 - In Binghamton, New York, Jiverly Wong kills 13 people and injures four during a shooting at an immigrant community center. He then kills himself.
March 29, 2009 – In Carthage, North Carolina, 45-year-old Robert Stewart kills a nurse and seven elderly patients at a nursing home. In May, the Moore County district attorney announces she will seek the death penalty. On September 3, 2011, a jury finds Stewart guilty of second-degree murder. Stewart is sentenced to 141 to 179 years in prison.
March 10, 2009 - In Alabama, Michael McLendon of Kinston, kills 10 and himself. The dead include his mother, grandparents, aunt and uncle.
March 8, 2009 – In Maryville, Indiana Fred Winters, the pastor of the First Baptist Church is shot and killed during the 8 a.m. service. The attacker suffers self-inflicted knife wounds, and also wounds two parishioners who subdue him.
2008
October 26, 2008 – At the University of Central Arkansas, four men open fire near Arkansas Hall, killing two people and wounding a third victim. Four suspects are charged in the shooting: Kawin Brockton, 19; Kelsey Perry, 19; Mario Toney, 20 and Brandon Wade, 20. Brockton, Toney and Wade plead no contest and later testify that Perry pulled the trigger. Wade is sentenced to 26 years in prison while Toney and Wade receive 18 years. Perry is sentenced to 40 years in prison.
September 2, 2008 - In Skagit County, Washington, 28-year-old Isaac Zamora, who has a long criminal history and is out on parole, allegedly kills five civilians and a police officer during a two hour rampage. Zamora is sentenced in November 2008 to a life term at the state mental hospital.
July 27, 2008 – In Knoxville, Tennessee, 58-year-old Jim Adkisson shoots and kills two people during a children’s play at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church. Church members subdue him until police arrive.
February 14, 2008 - Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois. 27-year-old Steven Kazmierczak shoots and kills five people in a lecture hall before taking his own life.
February 7, 2008 - In Kirkwood, Missouri, Charles Lee Thornton shoots and kills five people at a city council meeting before being shot dead by police.
2007
December 9, 2007 – In Colorado, 24-year-old Matthew Murray shoots and kills four people in two separate attacks. The first attack, in Arvada, happens late at night, after a Christmas banquet at the Youth with a Mission religious complex. Two people are killed. Hours later, at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Murray kills two teen girls in a parking lot. A security guard shoots Murray several times, but police rule his death a suicide.
December 5, 2007 - In Omaha, Nebraska, 19-year-old Robert Hawkins goes to an area mall and kills eight shoppers before killing himself.
April 16, 2007 – Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. A gunman, 23-year-old student Seung-Hui Cho, apparently acting alone goes on a shooting spree killing 32 people in two locations and wounds an undetermined number of others on campus. The shooter, Seung-Hui Cho then committed suicide.
February 12, 2007 – In Salt Lake City, Utah, 18 year old Sulejmen Talovic goes to a local mall and kills five people. He is then killed by police.
2006
November 16, 2006 – In Detroit, Michigan, Contrelle Harbin, 26, goes on a shooting spree, wounding three people and killing two. In July 2007, Harbin is sentenced to life in prison.
May 21, 2006 – In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 25-year-old Anthony Bell goes to a local church, shoots and kills four people, abducts his wife and later kills her. He is then apprehended by police.
March 25, 2006 – In Seattle, 28-year-old Kyle Huff, leaves a house party and returns with a shotgun and handgun. He kills six people and then kills himself.
March 15, 2006 - In Pismo Beach, California, 60-year-old Lawrence Woods, believed to be a transient, opens fire on patrons at a Denny’s Restaurant. He kills two men and then kills himself.
February 1- 5, 2006 - In New Bedford, Massachusetts, 18-year-old Jacob Robida attacks patrons of a gay bar with a hatchet and gun, injuring three men. On February 4, Robida shoots and kills a police officer during a traffic stop. During a standoff with police, Robida kills the passenger in his car and then shoots himself. Robida dies February 5th.
January 30-31, 2006 - In Goleta, California, Jennifer San Marco, a former employee at a 24-hour Postal Service sorting facility, opens fire, killing seven people before turning the gun on herself. San Marco’s neighbor was found shot to death the next day.
2005
March 12, 2005 - In Brookfield, Wisconsin, 44-year-old Terry Ratzmann kills seven people during a church meeting with the Living Church of God at a Sheraton Hotel in Brookfield. He then kills himself.
March 11, 2005 - In Atlanta, Georgia, 33-year-old Brian Nichols, on trial for rape, shoots three (a judge, court reporter, and deputy) and wounds one (a deputy) while escaping from the Fulton County Courthouse. He kills another (a federal customs agent) while stealing a car. In December 2008, Nichols is sentenced to life in prison without parole, a day after the jury deadlocks on a death penalty sentence.
2004
December 8, 2004 - In Columbus, Ohio, 25-year-old Nathan Gale storms the stage at a rock concert and kills the band’s guitarist and three bystanders. He was then killed by a police officer.
2003
June 10, 2002 – In Conception, Missouri, Lloyd Robert Jeffress, a 71-year-old retiree from Kearney, opens fire with an AK-47 assault rifle at Conception Abbey, killing two monks, and leaving two others seriously injured. Jeffress later kills himself.
March 12, 2002 - In Lynbrook, New York, Peter John Troy, 34, a former mental patient, opens fire with .22-caliber rifle during morning Mass at Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, killing a priest on the altar and an elderly woman praying nearby. Troy is later sentenced to consecutive life terms despite a history of schizophrenia.
2002
October 28, 2002 – In Tucson, Arizona, 41-year-old nursing student Robert Flores Jr. kills three instructors at his college and then himself.
2001
October 3, 2001 – In Manchester, Tennessee, 29-year-old Damir Igric attacks the driver of a Greyhound bus, cutting his throat. Igric and five passengers are killed in the bus crash.
May 18, 2001 - In Hopkinsville, Kentucky, Fredrick Radford, 35, opens fire at a Friday night church revival at Greater Oak Missionary Baptist Church, killing his estranged wife, Adrianne Radford, and a woman helping her, Mary Ann Turner, 47, before fleeing with his young son. Court records show Radford had allegedly threatened his wife as she sought a divorce.
April 11, 2001 - In Chula Vista, California, 68-year-old Eugene Molter kills three people at Congregational Tower, an apartment complex for senior citizens. He then takes his own life.
January 10, 2001 - In Nevada City, California, 40-year-old Scott Harlan Thorpe kills three people at a mental health clinic and then a fourth at a restaurant nearby. He is found not guilty by reason of insanity and sent to a mental institution.
2000
April 28, 2000 - In suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 34-year-old lawyer Richard Baumhammers kills five people in racially motivated attacks. In 2001, Baumhammers is convicted and sentenced to death.
March 1, 2000 – In Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, 39-year-old Ronald Taylor kills three men in a racially motivated attack. He is sentenced to death in 2002.
1990s
September 15, 1999 – In Fort Worth, Texas, 47-year-old Larry Gene Ashbrook bursts into Wedgwood Baptist Church during a youth rally and shoots six teens and adults. He then takes his own life.
September 14, 1999 - In Anaheim, California, 42-year-old Dung Trinh kills three healthcare workers at West Anaheim Medical Center. He is convicted and sentenced to death in 2003.
September 3, 1999 – In Grand Junction, Colorado, 27-year-old Chad Anderson kills his wife and two bystanders at a grocery store. He then takes his own life.
August 10, 1999 - In Los Angeles, 37-year-old Buford Furrow wounds three children and two adults at a Jewish community center and then kills a Filipino postal worker. Furrow is sentenced to life in prison.
July 29, 1999 - In Atlanta, Georgia, 44-year-old Mark Barton kills his wife and two children at his home. He then opens fire in two different brokerage houses killing nine people and wounding 12. He later kills himself.
June 3, 1999 - In Las Vegas, Nevada, 23-year-old Zane Michael Floyd kills four people at an Albertson’s grocery store. He was convicted of the crime and sentenced to death.
July 24, 1998 – In Washington, D.C., 40-year-old Russell Weston kills two police officers during a shootout at the U.S. Capitol building. He has been declared incompetent to stand trial and remains in custody at a federal medical center in North Carolina (as of 2/10).
December 7, 1993 – In Garden City, New York, 35-year-old Colin Ferguson shoots and kills six people on a commuter train. In March 1995, Ferguson is sentenced to life in prison.
December 2, 1993 - In Oxnard, California, 33-year-old Alan Winterbourne, an unemployed computer engineer, shoots and kills three people at an unemployment office. After a car chase, police kill Winterbourne. A police officer is killed during the chase
July 1, 1993 - In San Francisco, California, 55-year-old Gian Luigi Ferri kills eight people in a law office and then kills himself.
November 8, 1992 - In Morro Bay, California, 43-year-old Lynwood Drake kills six people before taking his own life.
October 16, 1991 - In Killeen, Texas, 35-year-old George Hennard crashes his pickup truck through the wall of a Lubys Cafeteria. After exiting the truck, Hennard shoots and kills 23 people. He then commits suicide.
June 18, 1990 - In Jacksonville, Florida, 42-year-old James Pough, angry about his car being repossessed, shoots and kills two people in his neighborhood. He then kills nine people at a General Motors Acceptance Corp. office before taking his own life.
April 24, 1990 - In Atlanta, Georgia, 31-year-old James Brady fires into the crowd at a mall food court, killing one person. Brady is sentenced to life in prison.
1980s
September 14, 1989 – In Louisville, Kentucky, 47-year-old Joseph Wesbecker armed with a AK-47 semiautomatic assault rifle, two MAC-11 semiautomatic pistols, a .38 caliber handgun, a 9-millimeter semiautomatic pistol and a bayonet kills eight co-workers at Standard Gravure Corporation and then kills himself. He was placed on disability leave from his job due to mental problems.
April 23, 1987 - In Palm Bay, Florida, 60-year-old William Cruse with a high-powered .223-caliber rifle kills six people in a shopping center. He is the oldest man on death row in Florida until his death of natural causes in November 2009.
October 30, 1985 - In Springfield, Pennsylvania, 25-year-old Sylvia Seegrist, dressed in a military outfit and armed with a rifle, opens fire at the Springfield Mall, killing three. She is found guilty but insane and sentenced to three consecutive life terms.
July 18, 1984 – In San Ysidro, California, 41-year-old James Huberty, armed with a long-barreled Uzi, a pump-action shotgun and a handgun shoots and kills 21 adults and children at a local McDonalds. A police sharpshooter kills Huberty one hour after the rampage begins.
June 30, 1984 – In Dallas, Texas, 39-year-old Abdelkrim Belachheb kills six people in a nightclub. He is sentenced to life in prison.
May 17, 1984 – In Manley Hot Springs, Alaska, 25-year-old drifter Army veteran Michael Silka kills eight people in a three-hour rampage. Two days later, Silka is killed in a shootout with police.
March 1, 1983 - In McCarthy, Alaska, 39-year-old Louis Hastings kills six people waiting for the mail plane in a remote village. He is sentenced to 634 years in prison.
September 25, 1982 – In Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 40-year-old George Banks, a prison guard, kills 13 people including five of his own children. In September 2011, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturns his death sentence stating that Banks is mentally incompetent.
August 20, 1982 - In Miami, Florida, 51-year-old history teacher Carl Robert Brown, angry about a repair bill and armed with a shotgun, kills eight people at a machine shop. He flees by bicycle, but is shot on the back by a witness who pursued him. He was on leave from school for psychological treatment.
January 28, 1982 - In San Francisco, California, 36-year-old Ricardo Contawe walks into an insurance office with a shotgun and kills two people. He is killed by police. He then takes his own life.
May 7, 1981 - In Salem, Oregon, 25-year-old mill worker Lawrence Moore opens fire with an automatic pistol in a tavern, killing four people. He is convicted and sentenced to four life terms.
June 22, 1980 – In Daingerfield, Texas, 45-year-old Alvin Lee King, carrying four weapons, bursts into the First Baptist Church and shoots to death five people. In 1982, while awaiting trial, King hangs himself in his cell.
1970s
April 27, 1979 - In San Antonio, Texas, 65-year-old Ira Attebury, a veteran of World War II, sits in a parked motor home and kills two people attending a parade. He then kills himself. His motor home is loaded with an assortment of weapons.
August 26, 1977 – In Hackettstown, New Jersey, 20-year-old ex-marine Emil Benoist lies in wait along a trail and murders six joggers and motorcyclists. His weapon of choice is a .44-caliber rifle. After being approached by police, Benoist kills himself.
July 12, 1976 - In Fullerton, California, 36-year-old janitor, Edward Charles Allaway, using a rifle, kills seven people in the library of California State University, Fullerton. He is found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to a state mental hospital.
January 7, 1973 - In New Orleans, Louisiana, 23-year-old Mark Robert James Essex, using a .44 magnum carbine, kills nine people in a rampage at a Howard Johnson motel. Police snipers later kill him. He is discharged from the Navy for “unsuitability”.
June 21, 1972 - In Cherry Hill, New Jersey, 33-year-old Edwin Grace kills six people at an employment agency. He carried a sawed-off .22 caliber rifle in each hand. He dies in custody several weeks later from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
1960s
August 1, 1966 - University of Texas. Charles Joseph Whitman, a former U.S. Marine, kills 16 and wounds at least 30 from a university tower. Police officers Ramiro Martinez and Houston McCoy shot and killed Whitman in the tower. Whitman had also killed his mother and wife earlier in the day.
1940s
September 5, 1949 - In Camden, New Jersey, 28-year-old Howard Unruh, a veteran of World War II, shoots and kills more than a dozen people as he walked down Camden’s 32nd Street. His weapon of choice was a German-crafted Luger pistol. He is found insane and is committed to a state mental institution. He dies at the age of 88.
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