On Jan. 21, a shooter opened fire on the eve of Lunar New Year at a dance studio in Monterey Park, a majority-Asian Los Angeles suburb, killing 11 people. Two days later, related shootings at two locations around Half Moon Bay, near San Francisco, killed seven people.
There have been nearly 40 mass shootings so far this year
By Júlia Ledur
January 24, 2023 at 12:42 p.m. EST
There have already been 39 mass shootings in 2023 in the United States, according to the Gun Violence Archive. There have been more shootings than any other January on the database’s records, which go back to 2014.
Mass shootings — where four or more people, not including the shooter, are injured or killed — have averaged more than one per day in 2023. Every week has had at least six mass shootings.
January 2023
39 mass shootings*
7 dayS with NONE
Monterey
Park
Half Moon
Bay
*As of January 23
January 2023
39 mass shootings*
7 dayS with NONE
Monterey
Park
Half Moon
Bay
*As of January 23
January 2023
39 mass shootings*
7 days with NONE
Monterey
Park
Half Moon
Bay
*As of January 23
The attacks come after several major shootings shook the country in 2022, including the killing of 21 of students and staff at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas and a shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York that killed ten.
Mass shootings have been on the rise in recent years. In 2022, 647 such incidents occurred, down from a year before but higher than any other year since the Gun Violence Archive started tracking in 2014.
Mass shootings
per year since 2014
690
647
610
417
383
348
336
336
273
39
’23*
’18
’19
’20
’22
’15
’16
’17
’14
’21
*As of January 23
Mass shootings
per year since 2014
690
647
610
417
383
348
336
336
273
39
’23*
’18
’19
’20
’22
’14
’15
’16
’17
’21
*As of January 23
Mass shootings
per year since 2014
273
2014
336
2015
2016
383
348
2017
336
2018
417
2019
610
2020
690
2021
647
2022
2023*
39
*As of January 23
The toll is immense. Less than a month into 2023, mass shootings have already killed 70 people and injured 167 this year in America.
Data is from the Gun Violence Archive.