Between 2021 and 2024, there were 271 mass shootings with three or more fatalities.
A mass shooting is defined as four or more total victims. We use Gun Violence Archive to identify all the mass shootings.
There were 63 mass shootings with three or more fatalities in 2021, 60 in 2022, 90 in 2023, and 58 in 2024. There was a big uptick in 2023, even as overall murders appear to have decreased nationwide that year.
Each year we find that White people are greatly underrepresented among the suspects, despite continuously hearing the claim that “most mass shooters are White.”
2021 Mass Shooters Full List
2022 Mass Shooters Full List
2023 Mass Shooters (spreadsheet file updated 12/23/24)
2024 Mass Shooters (spreadsheet file)
| White | Black | Latino | EA | ME | Unk | Mixed | PI | CA | Totals | |||
| 2024 (58) | 12 | 29 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 58 | |||||
| 2023 | 27 | 40 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 90 | ||||
| 2022 (60) | 17 | 28 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 60 | ||||
| 2021 (63) | 10 | 36 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 63 | |||
| Total 21-24 | 66 | 133 | 52 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 271 | ||
| % 21-24 | 24.4% | 49.1% | 19.2% | 2.2% | 1.1% | 1.1% | 1.5% | 0.4% | 1.1% |
