Casualties

The total number of casualties (166) also rose significantly, marking a 57% increase from the 106 casualties recorded in the previous year.

KILLED AND WOUNDED: Among the 166 casualties, 51 were killed and 115 were wounded.

HIGHEST CASUALTY: The incident with the highest number of casualties (30) involved two killed and 28 wounded.

NO CASUALTIES: Three incidents did not have any casualties.

In 2025, there were 34 active shooter incidents across 21 states and D.C., resulting in 166 casualties.

WHERE INCIDENTS OCCURRED | TOTAL WOUNDED | 115 Commerce | 14 | Civilian | 109 Law Enforcement | 5 Open Space | 7 | Security | 1

Government | 6 | TOTAL KILLED | 51 Civilian | 47 Education | 4 | Law Enforcement | 3 Security House of Worship 3 | 1

The total incidents rose from 24 to 34, and casualties rose from 106 to 166.

One National Guard member was killed, and one was wounded.

In 2025, there were 166 casualties across 34 active shooter incidents.

Of those, 51 individuals lost their lives and 115 were injured.

Eight casualties involved law enforcement officers, and security personnel sustained two casualties.

Out of the 156 civilian casualties, at least three occurred while civilians were actively attempting to stop the shooter.

The highest casualty count (30) in a single incident in 2025 was more than twice that of 2024’s highest casualty incident (14).

Minnesota recorded the most casualties (30), followed by Texas (28), and Michigan (13). These states accounted for 43% of all casualties in 2025.

Texas experienced the most fatalities (12) representing 24% of all deaths.

Michigan, Montana, and New York each recorded four fatalities, while the District of Columbia, Nevada, and North Carolina had three deaths each. The remaining states each recorded two or less fatalities.

The Annunciation Roman Catholic Church shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota had the highest overall casualties, 30, which left two dead and 28 injured.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints incident in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan had 12 casualties which left four dead and eight wounded.

The American Fish Company shooting in Southport, North Carolina had 11 casualties which left three dead and eight wounded.

The Brown University shooting in Providence, Rhode Island accounted for 11 casualties which left two dead and nine injured.

The Florida State University shooting in Tallahassee, Florida had nine casualties which left two dead and seven injured.

The Owl Bar | Anaconda, MT Killed 4 | Wounded 0 | The Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints | Grand Blanc, MI Killed 4 | Wounded 8

Casualties by Location Category Killed (51) | Wounded (115)

Alternatively, government, education, and house of worship location categories accounted for only 38% of incidents in 2025 but resulted in more than half of all casualties.

Incidents: 14 | Casualties: 68 (30 killed, 38 wounded) | Mass Killings: 6

In 2025, shootings at commerce locations were responsible for nearly 60% of all fatalities and 41% of total casualties.

This category also had the highest fatality rate, with an average of 2.1 fatalities per incident, compared to 1.5 fatalities overall in 2025.

Incidents: 7 | Casualties: 14 (7 killed, 7 wounded) | Mass Killings: 0

These shootings occurred in public outdoor areas and resulted in below-average casualties compared to other location categories.

Seven individuals were killed (including one law enforcement officer) and seven others were wounded (including one law enforcement officer). Attacks in open spaces caused 14% of fatalities and 8% of total casualties.

The average fatality rate was 1.0 per incident, which was lower than the

The average casualty rate was 2.0, which was less than the average of 4.9 in all incidents in 2025.

The average fatality rate was 0.5 per incident, lower than the average of 1.5 in all incidents in 2025.

Government location incidents accounted for nearly 10% of the total casualties, with an average of 2.7 per incident, which is about half the overall average of 4.9 for all location categories combined.

Incidents: 4 | Casualties: 25 (5 killed, 20 wounded) | Mass Killings: 0

The education category had a fatality rate of 1.25, which was lower than the overall rate of 1.5 and accounted for 10% of all deaths.

This category also represented 15% of the total casualties, with an average of 6.3 casualties per incident which is higher than the overall average of 4.9 per incident across all location types.

20 5 Killed | Wounded

This victim was not included in the overall casualty count for 2025, because this crime was not part of the Brown University attack.

In 2025, the education location category had higher average casualties per incident than other locations. No citizen interventions were reported. | Apprehended

This category had an average fatality rate of 2.0, which was higher than the overall average of 1.5 per incident in 2025, representing 12% of all fatalities.

These attacks accounted for nearly 26% of total casualties, averaging 14.3 per incident, which was higher than the overall average of 4.9.

This attack had the highest fatalities (4) in the category.

This attack had the highest casualties (30) in 2025.

Although shootings at houses of worship made up a small portion of the total incidents in 2025, this category had a disproportionately high number of casualties.

Shootings involving a single handgun averaged 4.4 casualties per incident, a single rifle averaged 5.0, and a single shotgun averaged 1.3.

Attacks using multiple firearms averaged 7.0 casualties per incident.

The FBI does not include the shooter in casualty counts.

The average number of casualties per incident was 5.5, which was higher than the overall average of 4.9.

Wounded | 84

Killed | 33

The total number of casualties was 1,072.

KILLED AND WOUNDED: Among the 1,072 casualties, 382 were killed and 690 were wounded.

HIGHEST CASUALTY: The incident with the highest number of casualties (55) involved seven killed and 48 wounded occurred on July 4, 2022 in Highland Park, Illinois.

NO CASUALTIES: Twenty incidents did not have any casualties.

SHOOTER RESOLUTIONS | TOTAL WOUNDED | 690 Apprehended | 120 | Civilian | 634 Suicide | 43 | Law Enforcement Security | 48 8

Killed by Law Enforcement | 43 Killed by Citizen | 6 | TOTAL KILLED | 382 At Large | 4 | Civilian | 368 Killed by Security | 2 | Law Enforcement | 9 Other | 1 | Security | 5

166 | 106 | 244 | 313 | 243 Casualties (Excluding Shooters) | 51 killed 115 wounded | 23 killed 83 wounded | 105 killed 139 wounded | 100 killed 213 wounded | 103 killed 140 wounded

This chart displays the yearly casualty count from 2021 through 2025, separated into victims killed, victims wounded and total casualties.

It shows trends over time, highlighting changes in each category across the years.

Over the past five years, there were 1,072 casualties (382 killed, 690 wounded), with both fatalities and injuries showing similar trends.

This bar chart shows the total number of incidents within each location category from 2021 through 2025 on the left, and a breakdown of individuals killed and wounded by location category on the right.

4 | Health Health Care Care | 7 | 8

7 | House of House of Worship Worship | 10 | 44

8 | Residence Residence | 12 | 19

14 | Government Government | 18 | 41

17 | Education Education | 52 | 89

78 | Commerce Commerce | 200 | 254

89 | Open Space Open Space | 83 | 235

Over the five-year period, commerce had the highest number of casualties (454) and health care had the lowest (15).

Although the average casualty count per incident was 4.9, the education (8.3), house of worship (7.7), and commerce (5.8) location categories exceeded the average number of casualties per incident during the five-year period.

From 2000 to 2025, a total of 590 incidents accounted for 4,087 casualties (1,469 killed and 2,618 wounded), averaging 6.9 casualties per incident.

In 2017, the active shooter attack at Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada accounted for 547 casualties.