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A list of mass killings in the United States this year

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The latest mass killing in the U.S. happened Sunday in Wichita , Kansas , after police found the bodies of four people and the suspected shooter inside three separate homes.

It is the country’s 34th mass killing this year , according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University .

Last year ended with 217 deaths from 42 mass killings, making 2023 one of the deadliest on record.

A 10-year-old boy awoke to find his parents and three brothers dead in their home near Oklahoma City , all fatally shot by his father.

Four people were shot dead at a nightclub in Birmingham , Alabama , in July .

Four officers were shot in the deadliest attack on U.S. law enforcement since 2016 in Charlotte , North Carolina .

Four people were killed in a drive-by shooting in Birmingham , Alabama .

Six sets of human remains were recovered from the ashes of a fire that destroyed a home near Philadelphia .

Six men were likely shot to death in a dispute over marijuana in the Mojave Desert of California .

A 63-year-old man in suburban Chicago killed his wife and three adult daughters.

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