Active shooter

"Active killer" or "active shooter" names a type of mass murder marked by rapidity, scale, randomness and suicide. The phenomenon is exemplified by massacres at Columbine High School massacre, the Virginia Tech shooting, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the 2014 shootings at Parliament Hill, Ottawa, the Umpqua Community College shooting, the 2015 San Bernardino shooting, and many others.

The United States Department of Homeland Security defines the active shooter as "an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area; in most cases, active shooters use firearms(s) [sic] and there is no pattern or method to their selection of victims." Most incidents occur at locations in which the killers find little impediment in pressing their attack. Locations are generally described as soft targets, that is, they carry limited security measures to protect members of the public. In most instances, shooters commit suicide, are shot by police, or surrender when confrontation with responding law enforcement becomes unavoidable. According to New York City Police Department (NYPD) statistics, 46 percent of active shooter incidents are ended by the application of force by police or security, 40 percent end in the shooter's suicide, 14 percent of the time the shooter surrenders and, in less than 1 percent of cases, the violence ends with the attacker fleeing, although it must be noted that the report provides no formal definition of the relevant terms and, as a result, the scope of its statistical findings is somewhat ungrounded.

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The Daily Mail 30 Mar 2025
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Plano Police Department to offer civilian response training for active shooter events

Lake Cities Sun 29 Mar 2025
The Plano Police Department will offer a Civilian Response to Active Shooter Events training class on April 22 ... Prevention units, aims to provide strategies for surviving an active shooter situation.

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The Marshall News Messenger 29 Mar 2025
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UPDATED: Possible active shooter at Sheppard AFB brings out law enforcement

Times Record News 28 Mar 2025
Local law enforcement agencies were alerted Monday morning to a possible active shooter in or near Sheppard Air Force Base ... No injuries were immediately reported, and the presence of an active shooter had not been confirmed as of 10.20 a.m.
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