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The Guardian
02-08-2025
- The Guardian
Four killed in Montana bar shooting that is US's ninth mass murder of 2025
Four people were killed on Friday in a shooting at a Montana bar, prompting a lockdown in a neighborhood several miles away as authorities searched a wooded area for a suspect in the case. The shooting brought the number of mass murders so far this year in the US to nine, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a non-partisan resource which defines such cases as killings in which four or more victims are killed. All those mass murders were shootings, and four have occurred in a 30-day period beginning 2 July. It was the US's second mass murder since Monday, when a man attacked a New York City skyscraper housing the National Football League's headquarters and shot four people dead before dying by suicide. Friday's mass murder in Montana happened at about 10.30am at the Owl Bar in Anaconda, according to the state's division of criminal investigation. The agency, which is leading the investigation into the shooting, confirmed four people were pronounced dead at the scene. The suspect, who was identified as 45-year-old Michael Paul Brown, lived nextdoor to the bar, according to public records. Authorities said a tactical team cleared Brown's home and that he was last seen in the Stump Town area just west of Anaconda. More than a dozen officers from local and state police converged on that area, locking it down so no one was allowed in or out. A helicopter also hovered over a nearby mountainside as officers moved among the trees, Randy Clark – a retired police officer who lives there – told the Associated Press. Brown was believed to be armed, the Montana highway patrol said in a statement. As reports of the shooting spread through town, business owners locked their doors and sheltered inside with customers. At Caterpillars to Butterflies Childcare, a nursery a few blocks from the shooting scene, owner Sage Huot said she had kept the children inside all day after someone called to let her know about the violence. 'We're constantly doing practice drills, fire drills and active shooter drills, so we locked down the facility, locked the doors, and we have a quiet spot where we play activities away from all of our windows and doors,' Huot said. Anaconda is about 75 miles (120km) south-east of Missoula. A town of about 9,000 people in a valley hemmed in by mountains, it was founded by copper barons who profited off nearby mines in the late 1800s. A defunct smelter stack looms over the valley. The owner of the Firefly Cafe in Anaconda said she locked up her business at about 11am on Friday after being alerted to the shooting by a friend. 'We are Montana, so guns are not new to us,' cafe owner Barbie Nelson said. 'For our town to be locked down, everybody's pretty rattled.' Associated Press contributed reporting
The Guardian
01-08-2025
- The Guardian
Four killed in Montana bar shooting that is US's ninth mass murder of 2025
Four people were killed on Friday in a shooting at a Montana bar, prompting a lockdown in a neighborhood several miles away as authorities searched a wooded area for a suspect in the case. The shooting brought the number of mass murders so far this year in the US to nine, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a non-partisan resource which defines such cases as killings in which four or more victims are killed. All those mass murders were shootings, and four have occurred in a 30-day period beginning 2 July. It was the US's second mass murder since Monday, when a man attacked a New York City skyscraper housing the National Football League's headquarters and shot four people dead before dying by suicide. Friday's mass murder in Montana happened at about 10.30am at the Owl Bar in Anaconda, according to the state's division of criminal investigation. The agency, which is leading the investigation into the shooting, confirmed four people were pronounced dead at the scene. The suspect, who was identified as 45-year-old Michael Paul Brown, lived nextdoor to the bar, according to public records. Authorities said a tactical team cleared Brown's home and that he was last seen in the Stump Town area just west of Anaconda. More than a dozen officers from local and state police converged on that area, locking it down so no one was allowed in or out. A helicopter also hovered over a nearby mountainside as officers moved among the trees, Randy Clark – a retired police officer who lives there – told the Associated Press. Brown was believed to be armed, the Montana highway patrol said in a statement. As reports of the shooting spread through town, business owners locked their doors and sheltered inside with customers. At Caterpillars to Butterflies Childcare, a nursery a few blocks from the shooting scene, owner Sage Huot said she had kept the children inside all day after someone called to let her know about the violence. 'We're constantly doing practice drills, fire drills and active shooter drills, so we locked down the facility, locked the doors, and we have a quiet spot where we play activities away from all of our windows and doors,' Huot said. Anaconda is about 75 miles (120km) south-east of Missoula. A town of about 9,000 people in a valley hemmed in by mountains, it was founded by copper barons who profited off nearby mines in the late 1800s. A defunct smelter stack looms over the valley. The owner of the Firefly Cafe in Anaconda said she locked up her business at about 11am on Friday after being alerted to the shooting by a friend. 'We are Montana, so guns are not new to us,' cafe owner Barbie Nelson said. 'For our town to be locked down, everybody's pretty rattled.' Associated Press contributed reporting
New York Post
29-07-2025
- New York Post
Midtown massacre is Gotham's deadliest mass shooting in 25 years
The horrific mass shooting at a Midtown office building on Monday was the deadliest gun attack in the Big Apple in 25 years. Shane Tamura gunned down four innocent people — including an NYPD cop and a business executive — before turning the gun on himself late Monday. The last time five people were killed in a Big Apple shooting was in 2000, when robbers shot seven employees at a Wendy's in Queens, leaving five to die, according to Mark Bryant of the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit that tracks gun-related violence. 5 The midtown shooting that occurred at 345 Park Ave on Monday was the deadliest in the Big Apple in 25 years. In that case, all five dead were innocent victims, unlike Monday when the killer was among the fatalities. Since then, New York City has seen several mass shootings — defined as four or more people getting shot — but none this century have taken as many lives as Monday's rampage on Park Avenue, even though others have seen more shot but surviving. 5 Shane Tamura killed four people — including an NYPD cop and a business executive– before fatally shooting himself on the 33rd floor of the office building. Blackstone; Facebook; Obtained; Linkedin 5 The 2000 Wendy's shooting in Queens was the most recent event in which five people were killed in a shooting, as multiple robbers fired shots at seven Wendy's workers. Obtained by the NY Post In 2022, Frank James threw smoke grenades and shot 10 people on a crowded Manhattan-bound N train during the morning rush — but all the victims survived. In 2017, disgruntled doctor Henry Bello, who resigned from Bronx-Lebanon Hospital amid a sexual-harassment scandal, returned there with an assault rifle and fatally shot a female physician and wounded six others before killing himself, officials said. Here is the latest on the NYC mass shooting: Ten years earlier, in 2007, a Marine veteran opened fire at a Greenwich Village pizza shop killing a bartender and two NYPD auxiliary officers who chased him. The gunman, David Garvin, was shot dead by police, bringing the death toll to four. How the shooting unfolded Reports of the shooting at 345 Park Ave. start coming in around 6:28 p.m. Shane Tamura, 27, is seen getting out of a black BMW between 51st and 52nd streets with an M4 rifle. He enters the lobby and turns right, where he shoots police officer Didarul Islam, 36, dead. Tamura guns down a woman cowering behind a pillar in the lobby, sprays more bullets and walks toward the elevator bank — where he shoots dead a security guard crouching at his desk. One more man reports being shot and injured in the lobby. He was in critical but stable condition. The gunman allows a woman to walk out of the elevators unharmed before heading up to the 33rd floor, where building owner Rudin Properties' offices are located, 'and begins to walk the floor, firing as he traveled.' One man is shot and killed on that floor before Tamura shoots himself in the chest. It's unclear how long the mayhem lasted. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch posted on X at 7:52 p.m.: 'The scene has been contained and the lone shooter has been neutralized.' 'You never know where [mass shootings] are going to occur,' Bryant said. 'So, the fact that there's that many in New York City is actually a surprise, because they tend to be in … eastern Kentucky or somewhere.' Follow The Post's live blog for the latest coverage of the 345 Park Ave. shooting Mayor Eric Adams and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch had only Sunday touted how New York City saw the lowest number of shootings and homicides ever recorded — led by the administration's efforts to get guns off the streets. 'During the first half of 2025, New York City had the lowest number of shooting victims in recorded history and tied the all-time low for shooting incidents,' Tisch said. Monday's attack is the US's 254th mass shooting this year, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive. 5 Tamura left a suicide note claiming he had CTE, as Mayor Eric Adams told reporters the shooter was allegedly targeting the NFL's corporate headquarters, but he took the wrong elevator bank that led him to the offices of Rudin. DailyNews PrepSports 5 Data retrieved from the Gun Violence Archive shows that the tragic shooting that occurred in New York City on Monday is the 254th mass shooting this year. William Miller That figure represents a drop from this same time last year, Bryant said, and the US could possibly see fewer than 500 mass shootings nationwide for the first time since 2019 if the trend keeps up. Bryant credited New York City for keeping gun violence down after rampant violence in the 1980s and 1990s through stricter gun laws and better policing.
Boston Globe
24-07-2025
- Boston Globe
After surge during pandemic, homicides fall significantly
Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up The findings of the council's study through the first six months of this year largely align with other private sources of data that offer clues to national trends about crime. The FBI has typically provided official nationwide crime data once a year. It last released nationwide statistics in September. Advertisement Overall, the council found that homicide rates fell 17 percent in the first half of the year in 30 cities it tracked in that category. But some of the largest cities, ones with historically high murder rates, posted much larger drops, according to the study. Chicago's rate is down 33 percent compared with the first six months of last year, St. Louis has fallen 22 percent in the same period, and Baltimore is down 24 percent. Advertisement Denver, which in 2021 recorded its highest number of homicides since 1981, had the sharpest decline in its homicide rate among the cities in the sample, down 45 percent compared with the same period last year, according to the study. Boston, which did not submit figures on homicides for this report, has also experienced a decline in murders. The Real-Time Crime Index, published by Jeff Asher, a New Orleans-based crime analyst, tracks a much larger number of cities than the council does. That index, which follows more than 400 police agencies, shows that murders are down 20 percent through May, compared with the same period in 2024. Other violent crimes, such as robbery and aggravated assault, are also down significantly. In contrast to the council's findings, Asher's figures, based on his larger sample of cities, show that aggravated assaults are still higher than just before the pandemic. Gun violence overall has also declined. According to an analysis by Asher based on data compiled by the Gun Violence Archive, there are 16.4 percent fewer shooting victims nationally this year through June as compared with the same period last year. In addition, the Major Cities Chiefs Association, an organization of police executives from 69 of the largest cities in the nation, reported double-digit declines in four violent crime categories in most of the cities they represent in the first three months of this year as compared with last year. Homicides and robbery were each down 20 percent, while rape fell 14 percent, and aggravated assault was down 11 percent. Advertisement After surging in 2020 and 2021, homicides started to decline in 2022. But in 2023 they fell at what was then the fastest rate in recorded history, and they have been falling even faster ever since. Even shoplifting, which increased last year as cities struggled to deal with retail theft, has fallen by double digits so far this year, according to the council's analysis, which relied on data from 25 cities on that topic. Shoplifting had become a topic of political debates, especially in California, where voters who were frustrated with seeing so many items in stores locked away approved a ballot measure to roll back a major criminal justice reform law and impose tougher penalties for stealing. Criminologists say it's too early to provide definitive explanations for the whipsaw-like shifts in crime of recent years. Adding to the puzzle, say analysts, is that crime has fallen so sharply despite a surge in gun buying during the pandemic, and despite decreases in staffing levels at police agencies. 'Probably in the most simple form, it's simply that the shock waves of the pandemic that contributed to the spike have largely dissipated,' said Adam Gelb, the CEO of the Council on Criminal Justice. This article originally appeared in
The Hindu
11-07-2025
- The Hindu
Mass shootings in Philadelphia over the Independence Day weekend add to a worrying trend
The Independence Day weekend starting from July 4 to 6 and including July 7, was a particularly disturbing time in Pennsylvania's most populated city, Philadelphia. Videos of several shootings across the city went viral, and news reports confirmed that there had been at least 15 shootings recorded, as shown in the map below. Data from OpenDataPhilly, the official open data repository for the City of Philadelphia, shows that there were at least 48 victims to the shootings that happened between July 4-7 this year, which includes 8 people who were killed. One of those killed was aged 40 while seven were within the 19-26 age bracket. Another 40-year-old was killed by the police as he was armed and fired shots at the police, according to multiple news reports. Also read: No control: On the wave of mass shootings in the U.S. This is not the first time that Philadelphia has witnessed a barrage of shootings in the first week of July, around the Independence Day holidays. Mass shootings and the worrying trend Data shows that each of the 48 victims were shot outside in the open. Out of the 48 victims, 20 were targeted in the shooting on July 7 on 1500 South Etting Street. From the 15 reported shootings, groups and organisations that track mass shooting, like Gun Violence Archive and Mass Shooting Tracker whose work is heavily utilised by media and advocacy outlets, have recorded two of these as mass shootings, based on the definition that a 'mass shooting' comprises at least four people who are shot, whether injured or killed, during a single shooting spree. The shooting on 1500 South Etting Street on July 7 is classified as a mass shooting in the catalogues of both Gun Violence Archive and Mass Shooting Tracker. While both these trackers have recorded 3 deaths from the shooting on July 7, OpenDataPhilly's records show that 5 people were killed on 1500 South Etting Street. Apart from the two mass shootings in Philadelphia, there were at least 22 other mass shootings in other parts of the country in the same period. In fact, July 5 recorded the highest number of mass shootings in a single day in the country, with at least 13 reported incidents recorded in Gun Violence Archive. Out of the 188 days of 2025 shown in the graphic above, mass shooting incidents were recorded on 112 days which amounts to around 60% of the days. More than one mass shooting incident were recorded on 46 of the 112 days. Mass shootings in 2025 in USA have injured over 1000 people and killed at least 184 according to the data collated by Gun Violence Archive. Incidents of mass shootings reduced by almost 24% in 2024, reducing to 503 recorded incidents as compared to 659 incidents recorded in 2023. Between 2015 and 2024, the highest number of incidents were recorded in 2021 (689) as shown below. Since 2017, almost 25% of the incidents have occurred in just three states: California (8%), Illinois (9.5%), and Texas (7.2%). In 2021, there were 86 incidents of mass shootings in Illinois, which is the highest number of recorded incidents throughout all States since 2017. In 2023, Texas had 65 such incidents. Mass shootings just account for less than 2% of gun deaths Even though mass shootings have accounted for over 4,200 deaths between 2017-24, it still accounts for less than 2% of the deaths due to guns or firearms in the USA. Comparing the data from 2017-2023 compiled by Gun Violence Archive to that of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it shows that around 57% of the gun deaths occur through suicides.
