Tara Leigh Tober

May 4, 2023 | thelancet.com | Tristan Bridges |Tara Leigh Tober |Melanie Brazzell

SummaryBackgroundThe United States experiences more mass shootings than any other nation in the world. Various entities have sought to collect data on this phenomenon, but there is no scholarly consensus regarding how best to define mass shootings.

Mar 2, 2023 | journals.sagepub.com | Melanie Brazzell |Tara Leigh Tober |Tristan Bridges

On November 1, 2013, a young White man entered Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) with an AR-15-style semi-automatic weapon and over 500 rounds of ammunition. He harbored radical anti-government sentiments and came with the intention of killing TSA agents. He fatally shot the first agent he identified, Gerardo Hernandez, a father of two who had immigrated from El Salvador at 15. In the chaos that ensued, three more people were shot and others were injured.