2 dead, 6 injured at FSU. There have been at least 81 mass shootings in 2025
More than 80 people have been killed in 81 mass shootings across the U.S. in 2025, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive.
An April 17 mass shooting at Florida State University, where a gunman killed two people and injured at least five others, was the 81st mass shooting in the United States in 2025, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
Police in Tallahassee said a 20-year-old believed to be a student opened fire around lunchtime on the campus using a handgun that belonged to his stepmother, a local sheriff's deputy. Two men were killed and at least five other people were injured by gunfire.
A mass shooting is defined by the Gun Violence Archive as one in which at least four people are shot, not including the shooter, regardless of how many people die. At least 81 people have been killed and another 352 injured in mass shootings throughout the country so far this year, the data shows.
The attacks include a Dallas high school shooting in which four students were wounded, a shooting at a New Mexico park that killed three people and injured 15 more, and a house party in Washington that ended with two young people dead and several others injured after gunfire broke out.
The FSU shooting was also the sixth mass shooting in Florida so far in 2025, the Paste BN Network in Florida reported.
"This is at least the 27th school shooting this year, and my heart breaks for our country," Kris Brown, the president of Brady, a gun violence prevention organization, said in a statement. "(On April 16) we marked 18 years since the shooting at Virginia Tech, my alma mater, and in just three days we will recognize 26 years since the shooting at Columbine. Since Columbine, there have been over 420 school shootings across the United States."
FSU shooting days after another school shooting
The shooting in Tallahassee came days after a teenage suspect injured four people in a shooting at a Dallas high school.
The rampage on April 15 at Wilmer-Hutchins High School injured four students, who were taken to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries, authorities in Dallas said.
A 17-year-old turned himself in hours after the shooting and was held on an aggravated assault mass shooting charge.
Mass shootings rock Florida, Indiana, Wyoming and more
The deadliest mass shootings so far in 2025 have claimed four lives each in murder-suicides in Pembroke Park, Florida; Byron, Wyoming; and Lake Station, Indiana. Shootings in Virginia, New Mexico and Texas left three dead each.
On March 26, a mother, 32-year-old Julie Cruz, and her three sons between the ages of 2 and 11 were shot and killed at a home in Pembroke Park, Florida, the Broward County Sheriff's Office said. Cruz's 8-year-old daughter was also injured. The suspect, who shared two of the sons with Cruz, was also injured with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Another family shooting unfolded on Feb. 10 in Byron, Wyoming, when a mother shot her four daughters before turning the gun on herself. Three of the daughters, between the ages of 2 and 9, died at the scene. A fourth daughter, age 7, died days later, local news outlets reported.
A Feb. 21 shooting in Lake Station, Indiana, was also considered a murder-suicide at a mobile home park, CBS News reported. Authorities said a father murdered 27-year-old Briana Payne and her their three daughters, ages 4, 6 and 7, then killed himself.
Contributing: N'dea Yancey-Bragg, Paste BN