Thu, April 09, 2009
BEIJING, April 4 (Xinhua) -- Fourteen people, including a suspected gunman, were killed and at least four others were wounded in a shooting rampage Friday morning that broke out in Binghamton, in the U.S. state of New York, local authorities said.
This is the fourth shooting incident in the United States over the past month. The United States tops the world with some 250 million firearms owned privately.
The following are major shooting incidents in the United States in the past eight months.
2008:
Aug. 1 -- A gunman took the lives of three teenagers and injured another near Menominee River in northern Wisconsin.
Aug. 13 -- A man forced his way into the Arkansas Democratic headquarters and fatally shot state party chairman Bill Gwatney.
Sept. 2 -- Six people were shot dead and two were wounded in a series of shooting incidents in Washington State.
Oct. 16 -- One high-school student was killed and three were seriously injured when a gunman shot at them near their school in Detroit, Michigan.
Oct. 26 -- Two people were killed and one was injured in a shooting incident at the University of Central Arkansas.
Nov. 23 -- A teenager shot dead a young man in a shopping mall in suburban Seattle. One person was also seriously injured.
Dec. 24 -- A man dressed in a Santa Claus costume barged into a Christmas Eve party in Covina, a Los Angeles suburb, and opened fire, killing nine people.
2009:
Jan. 24 -- Two people were killed and seven others wounded in a gun-shooting spree by unidentified assailants in a house in Wichita, Kansas.
On the same day, two teenagers died and seven others were injured when a gunman opened fire at a group of students outside a nightspot in Portland, Oregon.
Feb. 24 -- At least seven people were injured in a gun-shooting incident at the New Orleans' Mardi Gras festival.
March 10 -- A gunman killed 10 people and himself in an hour-long rampage in Alabama that left his mother, grandmother and other relatives dead.
March 15 -- In a vicious shooting case that happened in Miami, Florida, the gunman shot four people to death and committed suicide.
March 29 -- A gunman stormed a nursing home in Carthage, North Carolina, fatally shooting eight people and injuring three others, including a police officer.
