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mass shooting
[ mas shoot-ing ]
noun
- a single incident involving the shooting with one or more firearms of a number of people, but more than two and typically a large number, especially when the victims are random:
There's news of a mass shooting at the stadium, with two fatalities and 25 injured.
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of mass shooting1
Example Sentences
He was also part of the team of prosecutors that handled the San Bernardino terrorist attack and mass shooting in 2015, McNally noted in his email.
A 38-year-old man sent hundreds of emails threatening a mass shooting at the school, but a judge dismissed the case against him because the threats didn’t target a specific person, even though a gun and a map of the school were found at his home.
Three people were killed and 14 others injured in a mass shooting on Friday in the US state of New Mexico, according to local authorities.
He was apprehended by police before he could carry out a mass shooting at his old school, St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, where he wanted to kill children and teachers, before killing himself.
Sweden itself was dealing with the aftermath of "the terrible incident in Orebro", she noted, referring to Sweden's worst mass shooting last month in which a gunman attacked an education centre in central Sweden, killing nine people.
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