The United States is a world leader in mass shootings. In less than 24 hours, two mass shootings by single individuals, have left dozens of people dead, write Steve Hewitt and Christabelle Sethna.

Former US president Barack Obama’s statement following shootings in Ohio and El Paso that left more than 30 people dead, was directed at Americans, but it has far wider relevance.

Dakota Theriot, 21, is being sought hunted by police after the shootings.

A Louisiana police chief has fired the white officer who fatally shot a black man during a struggle outside a store nearly two years ago.

Post-mortem tests which show an unarmed black man was shot in the back by two police officers in Sacramento, California - contrary to an official statement - have sparked widespread anger and calls for criminal charges.

A gunman has killed one person at a California shopping centre before turning the weapon on himself, authorities said.

The sister of convicted church shooter Dylann Roof was arrested yesterday for bringing a knife to her South Carolina school.

The man who killed three women after a day-long siege at a Northern California veterans home had trouble adjusting to regular life after he returned from the Afghanistan war.

The Trump administration is proposing banning bump stocks, which allow guns to mimic fully automatic fire and were used in last year's Las Vegas massacre.

The gunman who killed three people who work for a California programme that treats veterans for post-traumatic stress disorder was kicked out of the therapy, a relative of one victim said.

A 15-year-old student opened fire with a handgun inside a rural Kentucky high school on Tuesday, killing two of his classmates, injuring 17 and sending hundreds fleeing for safety.

Three thousand mourners filled an event centre to capacity for the funeral of eight members of a family who were among the dozens killed in a shooting at a small Texas church.

The wife of a gunman who went on a shooting rampage in a northern California town has been found dead inside their home.

A teenage gunman armed with a rifle has shot and killed a 14-year-old student and injured a teacher before killing himself at an US high school, authorities said.

Barack Obama urged politicians to remember child shooting victims and not weaken in the face of a powerful gun lobby as he reached out to moderate members of his own party before a Senate vote on gun controls expected next month.

Prosecutors say they are not ready to accept the offer of a guilty plea from the Colorado cinema shooting suspect in exchange for avoiding the death penalty.

If there’s anywhere that understands the pain of Newtown, it’s Dunblane, the town whose grief became a catalyst for changes to Britain’s gun laws.

Nine-year-old Nicholas Sabillon was remarkably composed as he recounted how the gunman who killed his schoolmates pounded on the locked door of the room where he was hiding.

Students returned to school in the shattered Connecticut town of Newtown for the first time since a gunman’s rampage killed 26 people in an elementary school, altering the gun control debate in Washington and forcing a retailer to pull guns from shelves.

Gene Rosen was heading from his home to a diner when he saw six children sitting in a semi-circle at the end of his driveway.

The University of Connecticut is creating a scholarship fund for students from Sandy Hook Elementary school in the state, where 20 students and six members of staff were gunned down last week.

A US primary school boy caught with a gun at school told staff he brought the weapon to defend himself in case of an attack similar to the mass shooting in Connecticut.

Just days after the deaths of 26 people, including 20 children, at a school in Connecticut, a second campus in the state is in lockdown.

A shooting outside a restaurant today left four people dead and four wounded, police in the United States said.

An unemployed lorry driver accused of opening fire at a US church, killing two people, left a note suggesting he targeted the congregation out of hatred for its liberal policies, authorities said.

An armed man sprayed a Jewish centre with bullets, killing a woman and injuring at least five others before he was arrested.

A teenager has been arrested in connection with last week’s shootings on a Minnesota Indian reservation, according to a police source.

Gifts of money, e-mails with condolences and offers of counselling services flooded an Indian tribe in Minnesota as it prepared for the funerals of nine victims of a school shooting.

Authorities were today trying to determine what caused a teenager to gun down his grandfather, put on the man’s police-issue belt and bullet-proof vest, and drive his marked squad car to a high school, where he began shooting his classmates at will.

A neo-Nazi teenager who called himself the Angel of Death killed his grandfather and then stole his weapons and police car before embarking on a bloody shooting spree at a United States school, it emerged tonight.

A neo-Nazi teenager who called himself the Angel of Death went on a shooting rampage on a remote US Indian reservation yesterday, killing his grandparents and then seven people at his school, grinning and waving as he fired.

The teenager who went on a shooting rampage on a remote US Indian reservation yesterday, killing his grandparents at their home and then seven people at his school, was a neo-Nazi.

A “grinning and waving” high school pupil went on a shooting rampage on an Indian reservation, killing his grandparents at their home and then seven people at his Minnesota school.

Six people, including four pupils, were killed by a gunman at a US high school, authorities said today. A teacher and a security guard also died.

A man armed with a handgun opened fire during an evangelical church service at a suburban Milwaukee hotel, killing seven people before taking his own life, police said.

Gunfire erupted following a fight in Detroit overnight, leaving three men dead and three other people wounded, police said.

Pupils at an US school were confined to their classrooms today amid fears that a new sniper is on the loose.

A 14-year-old boy said to have been shot in the forehead by a fellow high school pupil has died, Minnesota hospital officials said today.

A gunman on the verge of losing his job opened fire at a Chicago car parts warehouse, killing six people. The attacker was shot dead in a gun battle with police.

An armed worker at a US defence contractor’s plant opened fire on colleagues today, killing five before committing suicide.

A gunman has opened fire at a Lockheed Martin aircraft plant in Mississippi today, hitting several people.

A gunman in camouflage gear who opened fire inside an Ohio university business school, killing at least one person and injuring another, was captured early today after a seven-hour siege.

A heavily armed 14-year-old boy shot and killed his headmaster inside a crowded junior high cafeteria today, then killed himself.

A student shot his head teacher at a school in Pennsylvania early today and then killed himself, officials said.