The largest mass shootings in Michigan’s history and the tragedy in Detroit on Sunday
The 21 victims of Sunday’s shooting on Detroit’s east side are the highest death toll in a mass shooting in Michigan, according to a review of Detroit News archives, a database maintained by the Mother Jones publication and the Gun Violence Archive.
Mother Jones magazine’s records go back four decades to 1982, while the Gun Violence Archive’s data goes back a decade to 2014. The Detroit News’ archives go back to 1873.
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Below are 11 mass shootings listed by the number of victims (dead and injured).
21: July 7, 2024. East side of Detroit. 2 dead, 19 injured.
11: 30 November 2021. Oxford High School in Oxford. 4 dead, 7 injured.
9: June 23, 2004. During the fireworks display at the Freedom Festival in Detroit, nine people were shot, one of them fatally.
9: 14 November 1991. Royal Oak Post Office. 5 dead, 4 injured.
9: June 15, 2024. Shooting at the water playground in Rochester. 9 injured.
9: July 7, 2011. In a shooting in Grand Rapids, a gunman killed seven people and injured two.
8th: June 14, 1971. Eight people were killed in a house in Hazelwood, Detroit, in what was the worst shooting in Michigan history.
8th: July 31, 2022During a dispute over a parking space for a driveway, eight people were shot, two of them fatally, on Coyle Street in Detroit.
8th: 20 February 2016. Shooting spree in Kalamazoo left 6 dead and 2 injured.
8th: 13 February 2023. Michigan State University at East Lansing. 3 dead, 5 injured.
7: October 18, 1985. Seven people were injured during halftime of a football game between Murray-Wright and Northwestern high schools.
Sources: Detroit News Archive, Mother Jones and the Gun Violence Archive
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