Texas in recent years has been rocked by one mass shooting after another, leaving dozens dead, many others injured and families devastated.
Authorities said late Saturday that the shooting at an El Paso Walmart left at least 20 dead — which put it on track to become among the deadliest mass shooting events in the state’s history.
Here’s a look back at four other major shooting sprees in Texas in the last five years.
2018: Santa Fe
On May 18, 2018, authorities said Dimitrios Pagourtzis walked into his high school in Santa Fe, about 35 miles southwest of downtown Houston, with multiple weapons. Pagourtzis allegedly killed 10 people and injured 13 others. Among the dead were eight students and two teachers.
After police arrested Pagourtzis, they found multiple explosive devices around the Santa Fe High School campus. His arrest attorneys have since said that Pagourtzis faces 11 federal charges, but the case is sealed because he was a minor at the time of the shooting.
2017: Sutherland Springs
The First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs was targeted by an armed shooter on Nov. 5, 2017. Devin Patrick Kelley of New Braunfels entered the Sutherland Springs church armed with a semi-automatic rifle. Kelley killed 25 church patrons and one unborn child. Another 20 people were injured.
Stephen Willeford, a good Samaritan, traded gunfire with Kelley, hitting the gunman twice. Wounded, Kelley fled and later killed himself.
2016: Dallas Ambush
At the end of a peaceful protest against shootings by police in other states on July 7, 2016, a gunman opened fire in downtown Dallas. Four Dallas officers and one Dallas Area Rapid Transit officer were killed. Nine other officers and two civilians sustained injuries.
The shooter, Micah Xavier Johnson, an Army veteran, holed up inside El Centro College, where police killed him using a robot armed with an explosive.
2014: Fort Hood
An April 2, 2014 shooting at Fort Hood left three people dead and another 14 injured.
Ivan Lopez, an Army specialist, was identified as the shooter. Lopez killed himself after the shooting.
The shooting came less than five years after the Nov. 5, 2009, shooting at Fort Hood by Maj. Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist. Hasan killed 13 people, including a pregnant woman, and wounded dozens of others. He was sentenced to death and is awaiting execution.
Previous major mass shootings
In 1991, George Hennard drove a pickup through the front windows of a Luby’s Cafeteria in Killeen. He opened fire, killing 23 people and injuring 27.
Hennard killed himself when police arrived. The massacre, at the time the deadliest in the state’s history, helped lead to the creation of the state's concealed carry law several years later.
And in 1966, a former marine killed 16 people and one unborn child while atop the University of Texas at Austin Tower. Another 31 people were wounded. The shooter, Charles Whitman fired down on the school for 96 minutes before he was killed by police.
Whitman’s spree is regarded as one of the first major mass shooting events in the country.
