List of shootings in Texas
This is a list of shootings in Texas. This list details homicides committed with firearms in the state of Texas that have a Wikipedia article for the killing, the killer, or a related subject.
| Incident | Location | Date | Deaths | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assassination of John F. Kennedy | Dallas | November 22, 1963 | 2 | While travelling in an open car, President Kennedy was killed by a lone sniper, Lee Harvey Oswald, who then murdered J. D. Tippit, a Dallas police officer who had spotted him in a local neighborhood. |
| Daingerfield church shooting | Daingerfield | June 22, 1980 | 5 | Religious hate crime |
| University of Texas tower shooting | Austin | August 1, 1966 | 18 | A student, sniper, Charles Whitman, barricaded himself atop a campus tower. |
| University of Texas Library Shooting | Austin | September 28, 2010 | 1 | A student, Colton Tooley, fired shots from an AK-47 before killing self in the Perry–Castañeda Library.[1] |
| Grand Prairie shooting | Grand Prairie | August 9, 1982 | 6 | Workplace violence |
| Luby's shooting | Killeen | October 16, 1991 | 24 | Misogynistic attack |
| Waco siege | Axtell | February 28, 1993 | 10 | Botched police warrant search |
| Wedgwood Baptist Church Shooting | Fort Worth | September 15, 1999 | 8 | Religious hate crime |
| 2009 Fort Hood shooting | Fort Hood | November 5, 2009 | 14 | Terrorist attack |
| 2012 College Station shooting | College Station | August 13, 2012 | 3 | Shoot-out with the police |
| 2014 Fort Hood shooting | Fort Hood | April 2, 2014 | 4 | Workplace violence |
| 2014 Harris County shooting | Spring | July 9, 2014 | 6 | Domestic violence |
| Curtis Culwell Center attack | Garland | May 3, 2015 | 2 | Two attackers were the only fatalities. |
| 2015 Waco shootout | Waco | May 17, 2015 | 9 | Large, confused shoot-out |
| 2015 attack on Dallas police | Dallas/Hutchins | June 13, 2015 | 1 | Attack on police headquarters, followed by a chase that resulted in the attacker being killed |
| 2015 Harris County shooting | near Houston | August 8, 2015 | 8 | Domestic violence |
| 2016 shooting of Dallas police officers | Dallas | July 7, 2016 | 6 | A single attacker ambushed a group of policemen. |
| Seminole Texas shooting | March 4, 2017 | Shooter opened fire in a restaurant, killing 1, injuring 1, and then shot 2 more victims on the side of the highway. A total of 4 shot, 2 died and 2 were injured. | ||
| 2017 Plano shooting | Plano | September 10, 2017 | 9 | Domestic violence |
| Sutherland Springs church shooting | Sutherland Springs | November 5, 2017 | 27 | Religious hate crime |
| Santa Fe High School shooting | Santa Fe | May 18, 2018 | 10 | School shooting |
| 2019 El Paso shooting | El Paso | August 3, 2019 | 23 | Shooting inside a Walmart and its surrounding area. The shooter, 21-year-old Patrick Crusius, was arrested by the police. 23 others were injured. |
| Midland–Odessa shooting | Odessa and Midland | August 31, 2019 | 7 | Mass shooting at shopping centers and Cinergy movie theater |
| West Freeway Church of Christ shooting | White Settlement, Texas | December 29, 2019 | 3 | Gunman opened fire during Sunday morning church service, killing two, before being killed by armed members of the congregation. |
This list needs more names. There's no way these are the only murder by firearm cases. At best this is just the most famous/largest cases.
See also
References
- "Shooter at University of Texas was a student - CNN.com". www.cnn.com. Retrieved 2020-07-01.
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