A list of notable shooting attacks against worship in the United States in the past 20 years

It was the last of numerous shooting attacks against worship in the United States in the past 20 years. Here is a list of some of the most notable attacks.

August 27, 2025: Two children were killed and several others were injured in a shooting that occurred during mass at the Annunciation church in Minneapolis. The shooter, who, according to the authorities, died of a self-inflicted shot, was a former student of the parish school.

June 16, 2022: A shooter opened fire during a sharing dinner at the episcopal church of Saint Stephen in Vestavia Hills, in Alabama, killing three people. He was prevented from doing other damage when another restaurant hit him with a folding chair and held him until the police arrived.

October 27, 2018: Eleven Jews participating in the Synagogue Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh were fatally slaughtered by a white supremacist with a story of anti -Semitism. The shooter, Robert Bowers, faces the execution after his conviction for several federal accusations.

November 5, 2017: A family quarrel would have caused the deadliest mass shooting in modern history in Texas. Twenty-five people, including a pregnant woman, were killed at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.

September 24, 2017: A shooter opened fire at the church of Burnette Chapel du Christ in Nashville, Tennessee, killing a person and injuring several others, including the Minister. The shooter, who previously attended the church, was sentenced to perpetuity without parole in 2019.

June 17, 2015: A young man entered a biblical study session at the Epicopal Church of African Methodist Emanuel from Charleston, SC and killed nine people. The victims understood the main pastor, Clementa Pinckney. The shooter, Dylann Roof, was a avowed white supremacist; He awaits execution after his conviction for several federal accusations.

August 5, 2012: Six people from the Sikh temple of Wisconsin in the city of Oak Creek were shot dead by a 41 -year -old white supremacist who had discussed a racial holy war. One of the injured victims died in 2020 from his head injury, becoming the seventh death.

July 27, 2008: A shooter pulled a sawn hunting rifle during a children’s performance at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tennessee Valley in Knoxville, Tennessee, killing two people and injuring several others. Police said the shooter had targeted the church because of his liberal tendencies.

December 9, 2007: A man killed two people and injured three at the Church of the life of Colorado Springs before committing suicide. Earlier the same day, he killed two people and injured two in a young person with a mission center in the suburbs of Denver d’Arvada.

March 12, 2005: Terry Michael Ratzmann killed seven colleagues loyal to the living church of God in Brookfield, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee. He committed suicide after the shooting. Prosecutors have never determined an exact reason, although they declared that he had blamed the Church for his depression and his financial problems.

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