List of 2012 murders in the United States:[1]
| Murder
|
Date
|
No. of victims
|
Location
|
Note
|
| 2012 Waller Killings[2]
|
March 20
|
3
|
Waller, Texas
|
Trey Selser murdered his parents in anticipation of committing a shooting at Waller High School though this plan would never be executed.
|
| 2012 Ingleside, San Francisco homicide[3] |
March 23 |
5 |
San Francisco, California |
|
| 2012 Oikos University shooting[4] |
April 2 |
7 |
Oakland, California |
|
| Murder of Ming Qu and Ying Wu |
April 11 |
2 |
University of Southern California |
|
| 2012 Bain murder-kidnappings |
April 27 |
2 |
Whiteville, Tennessee |
|
| Murder of Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie |
May |
1 |
Maryland |
|
| Lil Phat |
June 7 |
1 |
Sandy Springs, Georgia |
|
| Murder of Skylar Neese
|
July 6
|
1
|
Star City, West Virginia
|
|
| 2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting[5] |
July 20 |
12 |
Aurora, Colorado |
|
| Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting |
August 5 |
7 |
Oak Creek, Wisconsin |
|
| 2012 College Station, Texas shooting |
August 13 |
2 |
College Station, Texas |
|
| 2012 Empire State Building shooting |
August 24 |
1 |
New York City |
|
| Faith Hedgepeth homicide |
September 7 |
1 |
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
|
| Minneapolis firm shooting[6] |
September 27 |
6 |
Minneapolis, Minnesota |
|
| Killings of Lucia and Leo Krim |
October 25 |
2 |
New York City |
|
| Byron David Smith killings |
November 22 |
2 |
Little Falls, Minnesota |
Two teens, 17 and 18, invaded the home of Byron David Smith. His actions allegedly went beyond those allowed by castle doctrine.
|
| Clackamas Town Center shooting |
December 11 |
2 |
Happy Valley, Oregon |
|
| Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting[7] |
December 14 |
27 |
Newtown, Connecticut |
|
| 2012 Webster shooting |
December 24 |
3 |
Webster, New York |
|
References
- ^ "Murder". FBI. Retrieved April 14, 2019.
- ^ By Lindsay Wiseand Anita Hassan. "Police: Man held in Waller killings had massacre plan". MySA. Archived from the original on March 21, 2025. Retrieved May 18, 2025.
- ^ "Man found guilty of murder in 2012 quintuple homicide at home in San Francisco's Ingleside". ABC7 San Francisco. December 12, 2017. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
- ^ Lee, Henry K. (September 16, 2014). "Details of Oikos University massacre tell of terror in Oakland". SFGate. Retrieved April 14, 2019.
- ^ Frosch, Dan; Johnson, Kirk (July 20, 2012). "12 Are Killed at Showing of Batman Movie in Colorado". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
- ^ "Several Killed in Workplace Shooting in Minneapolis". The New York Times. Associated Press. September 27, 2012. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
- ^ Barron, James (December 14, 2012). "Gunman Kills 20 Schoolchildren in Connecticut". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 1, 2019.