In the latest mass shooting in the US, a whopping 19 children and two teachers were massacred inside a single classroom at a South Texas elementary school on Tuesday. Multiple children were also injured.
The carnage took place at Robb Elementary School in the town of Uvalde, where the attacker -- 18-year-old Salvador Ramos -- was shot dead by law enforcers.
Ramos began his rampage by shooting his grandmother, crashing his car then entering the school wearing tactical gear and carrying a rifle. His grandmother survived but is in critical condition.
His motive for the attack was not clear immediately.
The harrowing gun violence is considered the deadliest school shooting in the country in nearly a decade, with the US witnessing more than 210 mass shootings so far this year, according to the non-profit Gun Violence Archive which recorded 213 such incidents.
Let’s take a look at the previous worst gun attacks of 2022.
January 1: The first day of the year alone saw seven mass shootings. Six people were killed in four incidents in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Illinois and Colorado then.
January 9: Five people were killed in California, Alabama and Colorado
January 23: Six people died in a Wisconsin gun attack and four in California
January 29: In separate shootings, Missouri saw three deaths while one was killed in Georgia. One of them was a child.
February 5: Six people including a four-year-old boy were killed in Texas. On the same day, one died in New Mexico
February 19: Five people were killed in different shooting incidents in North Carolina, Oregon and Missouri. Four-teen were injured in Missouri alone.
February 26: Nevada and Louisiana saw 24 injuries.
February 28: A gunman shot and killed his three children and a chaperone before turning the gun on himself in a California church.
March 6: Six mass shootings were reported in Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Texas, Louisiana and South Carolina. Four lives were snuffed out then.
March 12: Four people were killed in Maryland and Alabama gun violence.
March 19: It was one of the worst days by far as six mass shootings took place in Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, Virginia and Texas, killing nine people. This year’s highest single-day count of injuries was 26 from a single attack, which came that day from Arkansas.
April 2: There were four such attacks in North Carolina, Louisiana and Colorado. Three people died at that time.
April 3: Four attacks in New York, Carolina and Texas claimed nine lives. The Texas shooting alone left 16 people injured, while a separate attack in California saw 12 others injured.
April 10: Five mass shootings were reported in Louisiana, Iowa, Illinois, California and Indiana, leading to the deaths of seven people. Twelve people were injured in a New York attack.
April 12: Ten people were injured in Iowa. There were four more shootings in separate states.
April 16: New York, Texas, Nevada, Maryland and South Carolina witnessed three killings in separate rampages.
April 17: A staggering seven attacks in Pennsylvania, Oregon, South Carolina, California, Florida, Pennsylvania and Louisiana killed five people.
April 20: Five of a family, including two children, were killed in a suspected murder-suicide committed in Minnesota.
April 21: Four people – three of them in their 70s—were killed in Arkansas.
April 27: Five shootings in Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and Arizona killed six people.
May 1: In a single shooting in Louisiana, 12 people were injured. Three more attacks were reported in separate states then.
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May 10: Six shootings occurred in Maryland, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Texas left three people dead.
May 13: Seven-teen people were injured in Wisconsin.
May 14: The second-worst mass shooting in US this year was in a Tops supermarket at Buffalo, New York, which killed 10 people. A white 18-year-old attacker shot 13 people, causing the fatalities.
May 15: Five attacks were launched in California, North Carolina and Texas, killing four people
