Tag: gun-reform

On November 5, 2017, 26 were killed (including a pregnant woman, and not including the perpetrator, who took his own life) and 22 were injured when a gunman opened fire at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.

The dead were:

Keith Allen Braden, 62
Robert Michael Corrigan, 51
Shani Louise Corrigan, 51
Emily Garcia, 7
Emily Rose Hill, 11
Gregory Lynn Hill, 13
Megan Gail Hill, 9
Carlin Brite Holcombe (unborn child)
Crystal Marie Holcombe, 36
John Bryan Holcombe, 60
Karla Plain Holcombe, 58
Marc Daniel Holcombe, 36
Noah Holcombe, 1
Dennis Neil Johnson Sr., 77
Sara Johns Johnson, 68
Haley Krueger, 16
Karen Sue Marshall, 56
Robert Scott Marshall, 56
Tara E. McNulty, 33
Annabelle Renae Pomeroy, 14
Ricardo Cardona Rodriguez, 64
Therese Sagan Rodriguez, 66
Brooke Bryanne Ward, 5
Joann Lookingbill Ward, 30
Peggy Lynn Warde, 56
Lula Woicinski White, 71

On June 5, 2017, a former employee of Fiamma, a factory in Orlando, Florida, that made awnings for recreational vehicles and camper vans, killed five former colleagues and himself after having been fired from the company. His weapons were a handgun and a large hunting knife. After shooting the five victims he’d singled out, he took his own life with the handgun. Eight other employees of the company were able to escape without harm.

The victims were:

• Kevin Clark (53 years old)
• Kevin Lawson (46)
• Brenda Montanez-Crespo (44)
• Jeffrey Roberts (57)
• Robert Snyder (69)

On December 2, 2015, a terrorist attack, consisting of a mass shooting and an attempted bombing, occurred at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California. The perpetrators, a married couple living in the city of Redlands, targeted a San Bernardino County Department of Public Health training event and Christmas party of about 80 employees in a rented banquet room. Their weapons included AR-15 style rifles (DPMS Panther Arms A-15 & Smith & Wesson M&P15), 9mm Semi-automatic pistols (Llama Model XI-B & Springfield Armory XD Bi-Tone), and pipe bombs. In all, 14 people were killed.

Those dead were:

• Robert Adams (40)
• Isaac Amanios (60)
• Bennetta Betbadal (46)
• Harry Bowman (46)
• Sierra Clayborn (27)
• Juan Espinoza (50)
• Aurora Luz Godoy (26)
• Shannon Johnson (45)
• Larry Daniel Kaufman (42)
• Damian Meins (58)
• Tin Nguyen (31)
• Nicholas Thalasinos (52)
• Yvette Velasco (27)
• Michael Raymond Wetzel (37)

Those injured included 22 civilians, some seriously and some by gunshot. Several were hospitalized after leaving the building. The perpetrators escaped the scene, but were tracked by law enforcement and engaged in an exchange of gunfire, leaving the two perpetrators dead and two officers injured. One police officer was shot during the gunfight, and one was injured by flying glass or shrapnel.

On June 17, 2015, nine people were killed during Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, when a person who’d joined the group opened fire with a Glock 41 .45-caliber handgun. Killed were:

• Sharonda Coleman-Singleton (45 years old)
• Depayne Middleton-Doctor (49)
• Cynthia Hurd (54)
• Susie Jackson (87)
• Ethel Lance (70)
• senior pastor and state senator Clementa Carlos Pinckney (41)
• Tywanza Sanders (26)
• Daniel Lee Simmons Sr. (74)
• Myra Thompson (59)

Five others survived the shooting and were left unharmed. According to reports, the perpetrator, a white man, spared the life of one person so she could tell everyone what had happened. He then turned his gun on himself but found he was out of bullets. He fled the scene and was arrested in a traffic stop in Shelby, North Carolina, the following day. It was determined that he identified with white supremacist groups and ideologies. All of his victims were African Americans.

The Washington Naval Yard mass shooting occurred on September 16, 2013, when a gunman using a Remington Model 870 Express Synthetic Tactical 7-Round 12-gauge shotgun and a stolen Beretta M9 9mm semi-automatic pistol fatally shot twelve people, including:

• Michael Arnold (59)
• Martin Bodrog (54)
• Arthur Daniels (51)
• Sylvia Frasier (53)
• Kathy Gaarde (62)
• John Roger Johnson (73)
• Mary Francis Knight (51)
• Frank Kohler (50)
• Vishnu Shalchendia Pandit (61), shot at the scene and died later in a hospital
• Kenneth Bernard Proctor (46)
• Gerald L. Read (58)
• Richard Michael Ridgell (52)

Eight others were injured, three of them from gunfire. The perpetrator was killed in an exchange of gunfire with officers representing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and several other law enforcement agencies.

All the fatalities were civilian employees or contractors; none were in the military.