Defining mass murder and tracking NC cases

Name: Defining mass murder and tracking NC cases
Uploaded: 2023-10-26T23:36:39.000Z
Duration: 1 min 59 s
Description: The five victims in the shooting inside the home off Garland Highway south of Clinton are among three dozen North Carolinians who have died in mass murders across the state in the last 10 years, data shows. Only Texas, California, Ohio, Illinois, Florida, and Georgia have had more mass murders in that time period.

The five victims in the shooting inside the home off Garland Highway south of Clinton are among three dozen North Carolinians who have died in mass murders across the state in the last 10 years, data shows. Only Texas, California, Ohio, Illinois, Florida, and Georgia have had more mass murders in that time period.

Posted 10/26/2023, 11:36:39 PM Updated 10/27/2023, 12:58:11 PM

>> A COLD SHOWER IS NO WAY TO

>> AS WE'VE BEEN REPORTING ON

THE GRIM SITUATIONS IN BOTH

SAMPSON COUNTY AND IN MAINE,

YOU MAY HAVE SOME QUESTIONS

ABOUT WHY WE AS A NEWS

ORGANIZATION USE ONE PARTICULAR

TERM TO DESCRIBE THE KILLING

SOMEWHERE WHILE AVOIDING IT

IN ANOTHER WRAL, INVESTIGATIVE

DATA JOURNALIST ALI INGERSOLL

EXPLAINS THE DEFINITION OF MASS

MURDER AND LOOKS AT THE

STATISTICS OF THAT CRIME IN THE

U.S..

WE REPORT ON VIOLENCE ACROSS

OUR REGION, STATE AND COUNTRY

FAR TOO OFTEN AND THAT MIGHT

MAKE IT SEEM LIKE IT'S PRETTY

COMMON.

>> BUT IN REALITY, IT ISN'T

BOTH OF THE INCIDENTS WE'VE

BEEN TALKING ABOUT TODAY.

THE 5 PEOPLE KILLED IN SAMPSON

COUNTY AND AT LEAST 18 IN MAINE

ARE DEFINED AS MASS MURDERS.

NOW, THESE ARE DIFFERENT.

THE MASS SHOOTINGS. SO WE

WANTED TO TAKE SOME TIME AND

LOOK INTO THIS AND EXPLAIN IT

TO YOU. ACCORDING TO THE GUN

VIOLENCE ARCHIVE, A MASS

SHOOTING IS WHEN AT LEAST 4

VICTIMS, NOT INCLUDING THE

SHOOTER ARE SHOT AND THEY'RE

EITHER INJURED OR THEY'RE

KILLED. SO FAR THIS YEAR, THERE

HAVE BEEN 566 OF THOSE THAT'S

ABOUT TO EVERY SINGLE DAY

AROUND THE COUNTRY. ONLY ABOUT

5% OF MASS SHOOTINGS ARE MASS

MURDERS. SO THEY'RE FAR LESS

COMMON. THE FBI DEFINES THESE

AS 4 OR MORE VICTIMS KILLED IN

A SINGLE INCIDENT, NOT

INCLUDING THE SHOOTER. THERE

HAVE BEEN 32 MASS MURDERS SO

FAR THIS YEAR. AND THAT'S FEWER

THAN ONE A WEEK. SO THE FACT

THAT WE HAD 2 OF THESE WITHIN

24 HOURS IS REALLY RARE.

THE DATA SHOWING THAT WE'RE

SEEING THESE HAPPEN MORE OFTEN,

THOUGH, I ANALYZED THE GUN

VIOLENCE ARCHIVE DATABASE

LOOKING BETWEEN JANUARY FIRST

AND OCTOBER. 26 FOR EVERY YEAR

OVER THE LAST DECADE, THERE'S

BEEN A STEADY INCREASE OVER THE

LAST FEW YEARS WITH 2020 BEING

THE OUTLIER. GIVEN THE

PANDEMIC. AND SINCE 2013, THE

NUMBER OF MASS MURDERS IN THE

COUNTRY HAVE ALMOST DOUBLED

HERE IN OUR STATE. WE HAVE HAD

8 MASS MURDERS IN THE LAST 10

YEARS WHICH HAVE RESULTED IN