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In the 2026 Islamic Center of San Diego shooting, three people (an imam and two faculty members) were killed on the mosque's campus, which contained the Bright Horizon Academy, a K-12 grade school; no students were injured, although they were escorted out from the campus by authorities. The two gunmen, ages 17 and 18, who had no known affiliation with the school or mosque, committed joint suicide in a car adjacent to the mosque campus. Police found items alluding to Neo-Nazi symbolism in the vehicle owned by the shooters.
At 6:30 p.m., 4 hours post-dismissal, a man allegedly asked a 14-year-old boy if he had any gang affiliation while they were both at a soccer game that was held at a park next to Southwest Elementary School. This led to a verbal dispute and the suspect shot to death both the boy and a 39-year-old unrelated woman who reportedly came to his defense. A second child was also shot at, but missed. Police found nine bullet casings on scene. An 18-year-old man was arrested the following day, and is facing two murder charges.
A teenager was shot and killed at Natomas High School. The district attorney declined to charge the shooter, saying the deceased had attempted to rob him and was shot in self-defense.
A 20-year-old man entered Pauls Valley High School and attempted to shoot two students before the principal of the school tackled him. In the ensuing struggle, the principal was shot once in his leg, and the shooter was disarmed.
Following an argument, a man shot and injured another man outside the Tulane University School of Medicine, also striking a Tulane employee walking nearby. A Tulane University Police officer fatally shot the suspect.
2026 Old Dominion University shooting: A gunman opened fire at an ROTC course at Old Dominion University, shooting three people, killing one. The shooter was also killed. He was a former National Guardsman who had previously been convicted of providing material support of ISIS.
Three people were shot during a marijuana deal at a South Carolina State University dorm. The two deceased and the suspected shooter were not affiliated with the university, while the injured man was a student.
Two teenage males, 17 and 18, were shot dead while waiting at a bus stop at an intersection near by Rainier Beach High School, mere minutes after school was let out. In March 2026, a Renton, Washington 15-year-old male was arrested in connection with the shooting.
During basketball games at Mott Community College, a group of people followed another man into the restroom and began assaulting him while one of them filmed. The man being assaulted shot at the group, striking the man filming. The district attorney ruled the shooting was self-defense, but the man was charged with bringing a firearm into a sports arena, a civil infraction. The man who was shot was charged with felony assault.
A 44-year-old man attempted to enter Romulus Middle School with a handgun before firing shots at the building. The man was taken into custody, and no injuries were reported.
2025 Brown University shooting: A shooting occurred at an engineering building on the second day of finals at Brown University. A person of interest was arrested but was later released. The perpetrator later killed MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was later found at a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, having killed himself.
At Kentucky State University, a group of around 20 to 30 people assaulted a student and his family as they were moving him out of his dorm. The student's father shot two of the people, both students, killing one. The father was arrested, but a grand jury accepted his self-defense claim and declined to indict him.
A man was shot and killed at an intersection near the library at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. Authorities said the shooting may have been a case of mistaken identity.
Athletic director and former football coach John Beam was shot and killed in the field house of Laney College. A suspect was arrested. Beam and the Laney College football team had previously been profiled in the fifth season of the Netflix docuseries Last Chance U.
Three people were shot at Heidelberg High School campus during a football game, two of whom died. The shooting was one of three that occurred on the same day during high school homecoming events in Mississippi, including a mass shooting in Leland that killed six and a shooting in Rolling Fork.
A man was fatally shot in the parking lot of Frisco High School, where he had driven after a road rage incident involving another driver. The other driver was arrested at the scene.
A man who was kicked out of the United States Naval Academy sent threats over social media pretending he was at the academy. As the school was placed under lockdown, rumors spread that a gunman was disguised as a police officer, leading a sheltering-in-place midshipman to hit a real police officer with his training weapon. The officer shot and injured the midshipman.
A gunman opened fire on a group of 7 people just outside Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Minneapolis around 1:30 p.m., killing 1 and injuring 6. The gunman fired 30 rounds before fleeing in a vehicle. Police have stated that at least one of the victims was targeted. The gunman, as well as two accomplices, would come to be arrested in the following days.
Two people were shot in a University of New Mexico dorm. The two victims were not students, but they were visiting a student when the shooting occurred.
At a vigil for a teenager who was slain at a pool party in nearby Torrance, a physical fight escalated on the campus of Culver City High School during non-school hours, between two parties, and at least one person allegedly fired a gun at at least one individual; no one was hit or wounded by the gunfire. A 17-year-old girl and a male were arrested, and the male was arrested for attempted murder, and the female was arrested for other charges, or her charges were pending.
Texas Tech University Police officers were checking on a suspicious vehicle outside the Jones AT&T Stadium when the driver produced a gun and fired at them, injuring two officers. Officers shot and killed the gunman.
University of Wisconsin-Platteville shooting: A student at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville shot and killed another student in a dorm building in a murder-suicide.