This is a list of mass shootings that took place in the United States in 2025. Mass shootings are incidents in which several people are injured or killed due to firearm-related violence, specifically for the purposes of this article, a total of four or more victims. A total of 262 people have been killed and 917 people have been wounded in 230 shootings, as of June 30, 2025. 2 of 15 | Law enforcement search after a mass shooting at the Highland Park Fourth of July parade in downtown Highland Park, Ill., a Chicago suburb on Monday, July 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) Officers at the scene of the shooting in downtown Chicago late on July 2, 2025. Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune, via Associated Press Explore detailed reports on mass shootings in 2025, offering factual insights and statistics. Non-profit and non-advocacy focused. This is a list of mass shootings that took place in the United States in 2024. Mass shootings are incidents in which several people are injured or killed due to firearm-related violence, specifically for the purposes of this article, a total of four or more victims. A total of 711 people have been killed and 2,375 people have been wounded in 586 shootings. A Chicago police vehicle in May 2025. Photo: Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images Why it matters: 109 people were shot and 19 killed Wake up to what matters in your city with Axios Chicago. Sign up today. Sign up for Axios Chicago to continue reading for free. Police investigate the scene where two women were fatally shot and another critically wounded in an alley near the 7700 block of South Oglesby Avenue in Chicago on Jan. 28, 2025. (Antonio Perez More than 100 people in Chicago were shot, including 19 fatally, during a violent Fourth of July weekend that has left dozens of people dead and hundreds more injured across the U.S., Chicago sees deadly Fourth of July weekend with eight killed and over 40 hurt in separate shootings. Eight injured in Little Italy shooting. Chicago police investigate the scene of a mass shooting that took place at Artis Restaurant and Lounge located at 311 W. Chicago Ave. in the River North neighborhood, Thursday, July 3, 2025. Gun violence is down across America this year but it peaks every summer and Chicago’s Fourth of July weekend bore the data out, with 109 people shot, including 19 fatally, police said in a And 2025 would be the fourth year in a row that Chicago violence totals have decreased, despite President Donald Trump and others holding the city out as a national punching bag on violent crime. Then 2024 was the third consecutive year of decreasing homicides in Chicago. Data, which is updated on this page weekly, is through June 13, 2025. The number of people slain so far in 2025: 166. At least 20 people have been shot, two fatally, in shootings across Chicago so far this Memorial Day weekend, police said. Shootings and other violence during the extended Fourth of July weekend have left at least 33 people dead, including 11 in Chicago, and injured dozens more nationwide, authorities said. The Fourth of July historically is one of the nation’s deadliest days of the year. Chicago experienced a spate of gun violence over the long Fourth of July holiday weekend during which 102 people were shot, including at least a dozen fatally, according to police reports. Chicago shootings over the 4th of July weekend left 109 people shot, 19 fatally, police said. At least 73 people were shot in the city during the four-day weekend and 11 of them died, a slightly higher toll than last year when the holiday only lasted three days, according to data kept On July 4, 2022, a mass shooting occurred during an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois, United States. The shooting occurred at 10:14 a.m. CDT (UTC−05:00), roughly 15 minutes after the parade had started. Seven people were killed, and 48 others were wounded by bullets or shrapnel. Authorities apprehended 21-year-old Robert Eugene Crimo III more than eight hours after the One hundred and nine people were shot, 19 fatally, in gun violence across Chicago from midnight Wednesday to midnight Monday during the extended Fourth of July holiday weekend, police said.
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