how many mass shootings in america 2025

In 2020, there were 614 mass shootings in the United States as defined by the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), where a mass shooting is an incident in which four or more people, excluding the perpetrator(s), are shot in one location at roughly the same time. This represented an increase of 180 incidents compared to the previous year, with 446 deaths and 2,515 injuries resulting from these shootings.