Elliot Rodger Massacre Summary

On April 16, 2007 at Virginia Tech University, a student shot 32 people and committed suicide after the massacre. Seung-Hui Cho was mentally ill and was suffering from depressed. Even though his mental health was an issue he bought two guns at an unlicensed gun show that did not administered a background check on him (Gun Control Reform 1).

He first shot three Delta Delta Delta sorority sisters killing two of them and wounding the third after returning to his car rodger drove about 2 blocks and onto Pardall Road and fired once at a coffee shop as he went eastbound the shop was closed at the time at the time so no one was hurt. then he arrived at the isla vista deli mart and fired multiple times and killing one student inside his car was seen leaving the scene but they did not identify him as the shooter and Rodger escaped without incident He drove south on Embarcadero del Norte on the wrong side of the street, striking a pedestrian crossing the street and firing at two others on the sidewalk but missing both. Embarcadero del Norte curves near a 7-Eleven convenience store, forming "The Loop", where he continued firing, hitting a couple exiting a pizzeria and then a female bicyclist.Rodger drove south on El Embarcadero and shot at and missed a woman,turned east on Del Playa Drive, then made a U-turn and drove west, where he exchanged fire with a sheriff's deputy, who was responding to a 9:27 p.m. 9-1-1 call, and struck two pedestrians. Students at the Isla Vista Church, on Del Playa near Camino del Sur, were finishing a worship service at the time and heard

Nov. 5, 2009 in Ft. Hood, Texas, Major Nidal M. Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, killed 13 people and injured 32 others at his base.

The most recent mass shooting occurred on October 1, 2015 in Roseburg, Oregon at Umpqua Community College. The shooter, Christopher Sean-Harper Mercer, shot and killed eight students and one teacher. He later killed himself with a bullet to his head. In June of 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina, Dylann Storm Roof murdered nine African American people at a historic church. Roof is facing nine murder charges. One of the more famous shootings, The Sandy Hook Elementary killing, began when Adam Lanza fatally shot twenty students and nine staff members. Before the shooting, Lanza killed his own mother, and after the shooting he killed himself. Most of the shooters killed themselves in order to detour jail time. These shootings are happening more often than they should, and they are getting deadlier and

San Bernardino shooting Wednesday morning leaves 14 people killed and 21 injured. San Bernardino, California. On December 2, 2015.

Isla Vista, CA- When the news came on of a shooting rampage near the campus of UC Santa Barbara, Elliot Rodger's parents actually suspected it would be him. That day he had emailed out a 107,000 word document called “My Twisted World: The Story of Elliot Rodger” to his family and therapists, laying out the his life story of romantic failures. He uploaded a video to YouTube titled "Elliot Rodger's VidRetribution" which outlined the murders to come and the causes.

On October 1st at about 10:08 p.m., 64-year-old Stephen Paddock started rapidly shooting at an outdoor country music concert. The Route 91 Harvest festival was brought to a horrifying stop as the gunman opened fire at the ground of around 22,000 people. Police later found the gunman dead in his hotel room on the 32nd floor the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. This is now the deadliest shooting in modern US history, previously the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida was the deadliest with 49 people killed. We have learned that 58 people are dead and more than 500 people were injured and rushed to hospitals. Police believe that the gunman acted alone. When police searched Paddock’s hotel room, they found around 19 firearms, explosives,

July 15, 1999, was an ordinary night for Kristopher Lohrmeyer as he left work at the Colorado City Creamer, a popular ice cream parlor. Kristopher had no idea that his life was about to end. When Michael Brown, 17, Derrick Miller and Andrew (Andy) Medina, 15, approached Kristopher and demanded his money and his car keys. Before the boys knew it shots had been fired and Kristopher was dead. About an hour after the fatal shooting of Kristopher Lohrmeyer, all three men were in custody and telling their version of the night’s events. Michael and Derrick who had run away after the shooting confessed to police and named Andy as the shooter. According to the three boy’s testimony, they had only recently met and needed away to get some quick

A recent article published on CNN News, titled “58 killed, 515 hurt in Las Vegas Strip massacre” (October 2, 2017)written by Holly Yan, acknowledges and examines “what is now the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.” She supports her claim by first giving a brief summary of what occurred in the music festival, adding background information on what occurred that eventful night on October 1st and emotional quotes by the witnesses/bystanders, to get the readers interested in the article and keep on reading. Once the reader is hooked she begins adding current information on the amount of people severely injured and the deceased, including some knowledge on the shooter, Stephen Paddock who caused this event to take place, ending that paragraph with some brief police info. She then focuses on the investigation police are taking onto the next paragraph adding key informations as in,

On February 15, 2018, a student opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle, killing at least 17 people and injuring many more at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. According to the article, the shooter was 19 years old at the time of the event and was a former student of the school. It was the deadliest school shooting in the nation since a gunman attacked an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. Frantic parents rushed to the scene and ambulances converged in front of the school. This was certainly a very devastating event for the school, the community, and the great nation of the United States

As stated by the states attorney’s office report, Dylan got in the school at 9:30 a.m and shot the principal and the school’s psychologist that were in the hallway. He then moved to classrooms where children were learning and started shooting and by 9:40 AM, just ten minutes later, he took the lives of twenty six people, including twenty children age twelve and below and six adults, before taking his own life (State Report on Sandy Hook Elementary shooting). Since the sandy Hook elementary shooting according to Ryan Mark writer for Vox, there have been 1,552 more mass killings to date. Including two of the biggest mass shooting in American history. Which are the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando and the Harvest Music Festival shooting in Las Vegas.On June 12, 2016 Omar Saddiqui Mateen, 29, opened fire inside the nightclub, a gay nightclub. At least 49 people were killed and more than 50 were injured. Police ended up shooting and killing Mateen as they were freeing hostages he was holding at the club. On October 1, 2017, a gunman, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock,who allegedly had mental illness issues, fired from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on a crowd of more than 20,000 gathered on the Las Vegas Strip for the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival. He killed 58 people and injured more than 500. It is the deadliest

In Las Vegas at a route 91 Harvest Festival on October 1, 2017. A shooter had a hotel room across the street from the concert he had multiple guns and a lot of ammo. With him he injured 489 and killed 58. They find out that the shooter was 64 years old he opened fire on the 32nd floor of the Mandala Bay Resort and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip.

On July 12, 1976 tragedy structed Cal State Fullerton. Edward Charles Allaway, custodian, came on campus with a .22 caliber semi-automatic rifle and shot nine people at 8:40 a.m. Five were reported dead at the scene and two others died later in the hospital. Two more victims survived Monday evening, one in serious conditions and the other fair. After leaving campus, he drove himself to a hotel at Anaheim and called turn himself in. “I went berserk at Cal State Fullerton, and I committed some terrible

The article talks about how a parent deals with her child asking about a school shooting. When a mother’s son hears about a shooting over the radio, she decides she’d rather he hear about it from her rather than try to brush it off. She knows he’ll probably find out about it from classmates regardless. She decides that she will tell him that what happened to the best of her ability and tries to explain to her son that a lot of things must have happened in the man’s life to make him think it was okay to do something so bad. He told her he didn’t want to go to college since it seemed that a lot of bad stuff happened, and she responded truthfully. She didn’t tell him that would never happen,

An example of a recently massacre that has happened in the United States is the San Bernardino Shooting. This happened on December 2, 2015, when two individuals, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, 27, shot 35 people in total, killing 14 of them, and injuring 21. Elizabeth Chuck mentions that the