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mass shooting

[ mas shoot-ing ]

noun

  1. a single incident involving the shooting with one or more firearms of a number of people, but more than two and typically a large number, especially when the victims are random:

    There's news of a mass shooting at the stadium, with two fatalities and 25 injured.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of mass shooting1

First recorded in 1920–25
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None of the victory-lap blondes die, but they do witness a mass shooting on the way out of the resort.

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He was also part of the team of prosecutors that handled the San Bernardino terrorist attack and mass shooting in 2015, McNally noted in his email.

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A 38-year-old man sent hundreds of emails threatening a mass shooting at the school, but a judge dismissed the case against him because the threats didn’t target a specific person, even though a gun and a map of the school were found at his home.

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Three people were killed and 14 others injured in a mass shooting on Friday in the US state of New Mexico, according to local authorities.

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He was apprehended by police before he could carry out a mass shooting at his old school, St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, where he wanted to kill children and teachers, before killing himself.

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