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Seung-Hui Cho (Korean: 조승희, Korean name ordering Cho Seung-hui; [a] January 18, 1984 – April 16, 2007) was a South Korean mass murderer responsible for the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007.
On December 14, 2012, a mass shooting occurred at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, United States.The perpetrator, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, shot and killed 26 people. 20 of the victims were children between six and seven years old, and the other six were adult staff members.
An editorial calling for an emergency alert system for such high-profile incidents was published by Michigan Live six days after the shootings. [97] [98] In March, legislation for a statewide warning system was introduced. [98] This warning system would disseminate information on an active-shooter situation or other emergency and protect residents.
The shooter was killed by police three to four minutes later. [2] [3] According to Farmington police, the shooter fired about 150 rounds during the incident and hit at least seven houses and eleven vehicles. [4] During the confrontation with police, the shooter shouted for them to "come kill me."
On 12 August 2021, a mass shooting occurred in Keyham, Plymouth, England.The gunman, 22-year-old Jake Davison from Plymouth, shot and killed five people (including his mother) and injured two others before fatally shooting himself.
Nine men and three women died during the shooting. Seven were college students, and one other a recent graduate. The four others killed were 54-year-old Ventura County Sheriff's Sgt. Ron Helus; a 48-year-old bouncer; a 33-year-old Marine Corps veteran; and a 27-year-old Navy veteran who was at the 2017 Las Vegas shooting during the Route 91 Harvest music festival.
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It also resulted in changes in emergency services protocols to shootings, including immediate, active intervention by police. These changes were later credited with minimizing casualties during incidents in Montreal and elsewhere. The massacre remained the deadliest mass shooting in Canada until the 2020 Nova Scotia attacks over 30 years later. [4]