Two civilians died and three Minneapolis officers were wounded after a gunman opened fire in a downtown apartment tower on September 2; the shooter, evicted from the building that afternoon, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Washington Park on Chicago's South Side was the scene of a mass shooting late August 30 that left one dead and 14 wounded, the largest mass casualty shooting in Chicago this year, with no suspects identified by the following morning.

A Philippine ninth grader killed one classmate and wounded two others in a body-cam Facebook livestream school attack on August 18, the country's second fatal school shooting in two months, as US schools reopen.

A mass shooting at a private residence in Prospect Hill, North Carolina killed multiple people on August 5, leaving NCSBI investigators working a scene with no confirmed motive and no outstanding public threat.

Three people were killed Saturday at a brand-new In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho, when gunman Chad Williams opened fire before dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound; motive remains unknown.

Three people died and four were wounded, including a toddler, in a gunfight among rival parties at Seattle's Bite of Seattle festival on July 26; one teenager was detained and a second suspect remains at large.