A list of the worst mass shootings in the United States in the last four years.
The term is not a legal one — which means that definitions fluctuate. The Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit that tallies gun violence in the United States, defines a mass shooting as four or more victims shot or killed. Some media outlets use three fatalities as a baseline for a mass shooting; others four. The topic isFor this timeline, The Times is defining a mass shooting as four or more deaths .
The gunman, who was killed by police, has been identified by a law enforcement official as Connor Betts, a man in his 20s. The shooter was wearing body armor and had additional high-capacity magazines. If the police hadn’t responded as quickly as they did, said Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley,"Witnesses comfort one another at the scene of a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio. It was the second mass shooting in the U.S. in less than 24 hours.
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