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Recent mass shootings

November 6, 2009

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April 3, 2009: Jiverly Wong, a 41-year-old man, opened fire at an immigrant community center in Binghamton, N.Y., killing 11 immigrants and two workers.

March 10, 2009: Michael McLendon, 28, killed 10 people, including his mother, four other relatives, and the wife and child of a local sheriff’s deputy across two rural Alabama counties.

Feb. 14, 2008: Former student Steven Kazmierczak, 27, opened fire in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, fatally shooting five students and wounding 18 others before committing suicide.

April 16, 2007: Cho Seung-Hui, 23, fatally shot 32 people in a dorm and a classroom at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, then killed himself in the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.

March 21, 2005: 16-year-old student Jeffrey Weise killed nine people, including his grandfather and his grandfather’s companion at home, and then five fellow students, a teacher, and a security guard at Red Lake High School in Red Lake, Minn., before killing himself.

March 12, 2005: Terry Ratzmann, 44, gunned down members of his congregation at the Brookfield Sheraton in Brookfield, Wis., slaying seven and wounding four before killing himself.

April 20, 1999: Students Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, opened fire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., killing 12 classmates and a teacher and wounding 26 others before committing suicide in the school’s library.

October 16, 1991: George Hennard, 35, smashed his pickup truck through a Luby’s Cafeteria window in Killeen, Texas, and fired on the lunchtime crowd with a high-powered pistol, killing 22 people. At least 20 others were wounded.

SOURCE: Associated Press