Silent Shooting: According to national statistics, Birmingham’s mass shootings top the grim list

While police are still searching for the killers in the deadly mass shooting outside the Hush Lounge, the Birmingham incident tops a sobering list, according to a nationwide database: the most people killed and injured in a single shooting.

According to the Gun Violence Archive, of the 411 mass shootings in the United States so far this year, the Hush shooting, in which 21 people were killed or injured, is the third-most casualties in a single incident. Roderick Lynn Patterson Jr., 26, Anitra Holloman, 21, Tahj Booker, 27, and Carlos McCain, 27, were killed in the shooting in Five Points on Sept. 21.

“Mass shootings are largely an American phenomenon,” the GVA website says, adding that mass shootings are defined by “at least four victims being shot, either injured or killed, not including the shooter, who may also have been killed.” or injured in the incident.”