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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Community members embrace while visiting a memorial at the school entrance after a deadly shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. March 29, 2023. REUTERS/Cheney Orr
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(Reuters) -U.S. health and advocacy groups have declared June 2 as National Gun Violence Awareness Day. People are asked to wear orange – traditionally a color worn by hunters – to remember shooting victims.
The annual event began in 2015 on what would have been the 18th birthday of Hadiya Pendleton, shot dead in Chicago in 2013 at the age of 15.
According to the Gun Violence Archive, as of May 31 over 17,000 people in the U.S. had died in 2023 as a result of guns, including by suicide. The number includes 109 children under the age of 12.
The following is a timeline of some of the recent incidents of gun violence in the U.S. that have been in the news:
Jan. 4 – A Utah man who had just filed for divorce shot dead seven family members, including his own five children, before turning the gun on himself.
Jan. 16 – Six people, including a baby, were killed at a shooting in Goshen, California. Two suspected gang members have been charged and pleaded not guilty.
Jan. 21 – Eleven people were killed by a man with a high-capacity semi-automatic pistol at a Lunar New Year party in Monterey Park, California. The shooter later killed himself.
Jan. 23 – Just two days later, seven farm workers were shot dead, again in California, in Half Moon Bay. A 66-year-old man was arrested and has pleaded not guilty.
Feb. 14 – A 43-year-old man with a history of mental illness opened fire on the campus of Michigan State University, killing three and injuring five, before turning the gun on himself.
Feb. 17 – A gunman killed his ex-wife and five other people in a rural hamlet in northern Mississippi. He was charged with first-degree murder.
Feb. 22 – A 19-year-old was charged with killing three people and wounding two others following a shooting spree in Orlando, Florida. One of those killed was a TV reporter covering the initial shooting. The suspect has pleaded not guilty.
March 27 – A heavily armed 28-year-old shot dead three children and three teachers at a Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, before being killed by police.
April 10 – Five bank employees were shot dead in Louisville, Kentucky. All of them were colleagues of the shooter, who was killed by police.
April 16 – Four young people were killed and numerous others wounded, some critically,…
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