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2026 Islamic Center of San Diego shooting
May 18, 2026 hate crime attack at the Islamic Center of San Diego (ICSD) in Clairemont, in which teens Cain Lee Clark and Caleb Liam Vazquez killed security guard Amin Abdullah, Nadir Awad, and Mansour Kaziha before dying by suicide; a white-supremacist, Christchurch-inspired attack.
2026 Lake Cargelligo shootings
2026 Lake Cargelligo shootings: 22 January 2026 domestic violence-related triple murder in Lake Cargelligo, NSW, by Julian Ingram (Julian Pierpoint), a council worker on bail; he fled and was found dead in May 2026.
2026 Seattle Center shooting
July 26, 2026 mass shooting at the Bite of Seattle festival outside the Seattle Center Armory; two groups exchanged gunfire, killing three and wounding four; a 15-year-old was charged and the city's response drew review.
2026 Siverek school shooting
2026 Siverek school shooting: Ömer Ket, a former student of Ahmet Koyuncu Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School in Şanlıurfa, Turkey, wounded 16 people with a shotgun on 14 April 2026, then killed himself.
2026 Stade shooting
The 2026 Stade shooting: on 29 June 2026 a 45-year-old man killed six employees at a mother-and-child youth facility in Stade, Germany, in a custody dispute over his infant daughter, then died by suicide in pretrial detention.
2026 Trenton shooting
2026 Trenton shooting: mass shootings in Trenton, New Jersey, in 2026, chiefly the August 30 Locust Street block party shooting (2 dead, 8 wounded) and the June 9 Centre-Furman shooting (7 wounded); no arrests announced, investigations by Mercer County authorities.
2026 Tumbler Ridge shooting
2026 Tumbler Ridge shooting: February 10, 2026 mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, in which 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar killed eight people, including five children at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, before suicide; 27 wounded; later OpenAI lawsuits and a U.S. conspiracy charge.
Abduction of Chloe Ayling
Chloe Ayling, a British glamour model, was abducted in Milan on 11 July 2017, drugged with ketamine and held captive near Turin for six days by Lukasz Herba, who was later convicted and sentenced.
Acid attack
Acid attack (vitriolage): violent assault throwing acid or corrosives to injure or disfigure. Concentrated in South Asia; UK has highest per capita recorded attacks; laws include UK Offensive Weapons Act 2019 and India BNS 2023 section 124.
Alexis Flores
Alexis Flores, Honduran fugitive also known as Mario Flores and Alex Contreras, was FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive #487, wanted for the 2000 kidnapping and murder of five-year-old Iriana DeJesus in Philadelphia; arrested in Honduras in February 2026 and extradited in 2026.
Alice Crimmins
Alice Crimmins (born 1941) is an American woman from Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, tried twice (1968, 1971) for the 1965 deaths of her children Eddie Jr. and Missy; only a manslaughter conviction survived appeal, and she was paroled in 1977.
Amy Fisher
Amy Fisher (born 1974), the "Long Island Lolita," shot Mary Jo Buttafuoco in Massapequa, New York on May 19, 1992 during an affair with Joey Buttafuoco; she served nearly seven years in prison.
Andre Rand
Andre Rand, born Frank Rostum Rushan in 1944, is a convicted Staten Island kidnapper serving 25-years-to-life terms for the 1987 Jennifer Schweiger and 1981 Holly Ann Hughes kidnappings, suspected in other child disappearances.
Andrew Cunanan
Andrew Phillip Cunanan was an American spree killer who committed five murders during a cross-country rampage in 1997, ending the spree by killing the fashion designer Gianni Versace.
Aqua Tofana
Aqua Tofana, also sold as Manna of St Nicholas, was an arsenic-based poison developed in Sicily around 1630 and sold in Rome and Naples, becoming notorious in a 1659 trial.
Ariel Castro kidnappings
Ariel Castro kidnappings: 2002-2004 abductions of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus in Cleveland; decade-long captivity at 2207 Seymour Avenue; Castro's 937-count guilty plea, life plus 1,000 years, and 2013 prison suicide.
Armin Meiwes
Armin Meiwes, the "Cannibal of Rotenburg" (Kannibale von Rotenburg), killed and ate Bernd Brandes in 2001 after an internet ad; convicted of manslaughter in 2004, then murder with life imprisonment in 2006.
Assassination
Assassination, or political murder of targeted leaders, defined by the CTC, with causes (polarization, restricted competition), motives, perpetrators, weapons, consequences, and modern trends from CTC, ACLED, and Institut Vidocq data.
Assassination of Malcolm X
Assassination of Malcolm X: the February 21, 1965 fatal shooting of Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) at Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom; three men convicted, two exonerated in 2021 after withheld FBI and NYPD evidence surfaced.
Assassination of Olof Palme
Assassination of Olof Palme: the 28 February 1986 fatal shooting of Sweden's prime minister on Sveavägen, Stockholm. Also known as Palmemordet. Unsolved: no conviction ever; Christer Pettersson acquitted 1989; investigation closed 2020 naming Stig Engström, a designation withdrawn in 2025.
Assault
Assault, in tort and criminal law, is an intentional act creating reasonable apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact, or in many criminal codes an attempt or act causing physical injury; distinct from battery, definitions vary by jurisdiction.
Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Florida
Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, allegedly hid with a scoped SKS-style rifle in the tree line of Trump International Golf Club, West Palm Beach, on September 15, 2024; a Secret Service agent spotted the rifle, fired, and Routh fled and was arrested without firing a shot.
Banting murders
The Banting murders, also called the Sosilawati Lawiya murders, killed four people at a Banting, Selangor farm on August 30, 2010; three men retain final Malaysian death sentences, one was acquitted.
Barbara Daly Baekeland
Barbara Daly Baekeland, American socialite and model who married Bakelite heir Brooks Baekeland; murdered November 17, 1972 in her London penthouse by her son Antony, later dramatized in Savage Grace.
Battery (crime)
Battery (crime): intentional harmful or offensive physical contact without consent, an intentional tort and general-intent crime; distinct from assault, merged into assault in 28 US states, six-month summary offense in England and Wales.
Betty Broderick
Betty Broderick (Elisabeth Anne Broderick, born Elisabeth Anne Bisceglia, 1947) was an American convicted of the 1989 San Diego murders of ex-husband Dan Broderick and his wife Linda Kolkena; convicted of second-degree murder in 1991, sentenced to 32 years to life, died in prison 2026.
Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel
Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel (born 1990, Gujarat, India) is an FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive wanted for the April 12, 2015 murder of his wife Palak at a Dunkin' Donuts in Hanover, Maryland; he fled, was last known near Newark, and carries a $1 million reward.
Black Swan manslaughter case
The Black Swan manslaughter case was the Florida prosecution of former ballet dancer Ashley Benefield, convicted in 2024 of fatally shooting her estranged husband Doug in 2020.
Bonny Lee Bakley
Bonny Lee Bakley (1956–2001), also called Bonnie Bakley, was the wife of actor Robert Blake, shot dead outside Vitello's in Studio City; Blake was criminally acquitted in 2005 but found liable for $30 million.
Brett Peter Cowan
Brett Peter Cowan (born 1969) is the Australian man convicted in 2014 of the 2003 abduction, sexual assault and murder of Queensland schoolboy Daniel Morcombe, caught by an undercover police sting, sentenced to life with a 20-year non-parole period.