Bloodshed since Sandy Hook: Texas shooting among deadliest school attacks in past 10 years
- A teenage gunman fatally shot at least 19 children and one teacher at a Texas junior school
- It was the latest mass murder as the United States is gripped by an epidemic gun violence
A rampage at a Uvalde, Texas, junior school on Tuesday is the deadliest shooting at a US junior school since the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre that horrified the nation.
Before the Uvalde rampage, there were 26 school shootings resulting in injury or death in the US in 2022, according to Education Week, which tracks shootings at schools in which there are any firearm-related injuries or deaths. Six people, five of them students, were killed in those shootings.
There have been 118 school shootings since the deadliest high school shooting in the country at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, according to Education Week.
Here is a breakdown of some of the most high-profile school shootings in the United States since Sandy Hook:
Sandy Hook Elementary School – December 14, 2012