List of shootings in Texas

This is a list of shootings in Texas. This list contains notable homicides committed with firearms and alike within the U.S. state of Texas that have a Wikipedia article for the killing, the killer, or a related subject.

Incident	Location	Date	Deaths	Description
Assassination of John F. Kennedy	Dallas	November 22, 1963	2	While travelling in an open car, President John F. Kennedy was killed by a lone sniper, Lee Harvey Oswald, who then murdered J. D. Tippit, a Dallas police officer who had spotted him in a local neighborhood.
Lee Harvey Oswald	Dallas	November 24, 1963	1	As Oswald was being escorted by police through the Dallas Police Headquarters basement to a waiting armored car that was to take him to the county jail, he was fatally shot in the abdomen, at close range, by Dallas nightclub operator Jack Ruby. The shooting was broadcast live on network television.
University of Texas tower shooting	Austin	August 1, 1966	18	A student, sniper, Charles Whitman, barricaded himself atop a campus tower, shooting at the people down below before being shot by Austin police officers.
Daingerfield church shooting	Daingerfield	June 22, 1980	5	Religious hate crime
Grand Prairie shooting	Grand Prairie	August 9, 1982	6	Workplace violence
Luby's shooting	Killeen	October 16, 1991	24	Misogynistic attack
Waco siege	Axtell	February 28, 1993	22	Botched police warrant search
Murder of Selena	Corpus Christi	March 31, 1995	1
Wedgwood Baptist Church shooting	Fort Worth	September 15, 1999	8	Religious hate crime
2009 Fort Hood shooting	Fort Hood	November 5, 2009	14	Terrorist attack
University of Texas Library shooting	Austin	September 28, 2010	1	A student, Colton Tooley, fired shots from an AK-47 before killing himself in the Perry–Castañeda Library.
2012 College Station shooting	College Station	August 13, 2012	3	Shootout with the police
2014 Fort Hood shooting	Fort Hood	April 2, 2014	4	Workplace violence
2014 Harris County shooting	Spring	July 9, 2014	6	Domestic violence
Curtis Culwell Center attack	Garland	May 3, 2015	2	Two attackers were the only fatalities
2015 Waco shootout	Waco	May 17, 2015	9	Large, confused shootout with Bandidos, Cossacks, and allies
2015 attack on Dallas police	Dallas/Hutchins	June 13, 2015	1	Attack on police headquarters, followed by a chase that resulted in the attacker being killed.
2015 Harris County shooting	near Houston	August 8, 2015	8	Domestic violence
2016 shooting of Dallas police officers	Dallas	July 7, 2016	6	A single attacker ambushed a group of policemen.
Seminole Texas shooting		March 4, 2017	2	Shooter opened fire in a restaurant, killing 1, injuring 1, and then shot 2 more victims on the side of the highway. A total of 4 shot, 2 died and 2 were injured.
2017 Plano shooting	Plano	September 10, 2017	9	Domestic violence
Sutherland Springs church shooting	Sutherland Springs	November 5, 2017	27	Deadliest mass shooting in Texas history. Deadliest shooting in an American place of worship in modern history.
Santa Fe High School shooting	Santa Fe	May 18, 2018	10	School shooting
2019 El Paso shooting	El Paso	August 3, 2019	23	Shooting inside a Walmart and its surrounding area. The shooter, 21-year-old Patrick Crusius, was arrested by the police. 23 others were injured.
Midland–Odessa shooting	Odessa and Midland	August 31, 2019	8	Mass shooting at shopping centers and Cinergy movie theater
West Freeway Church of Christ shooting	White Settlement, Texas	December 29, 2019	3	Gunman opened fire during Sunday morning church service, killing two, before being killed by armed members of the congregation.
Robb Elementary School shooting	Uvalde, Texas	May 24, 2022	22	Gunman shot grandmother at home, then drove to an elementary school and opened fire, killing 21 people, before being killed by police.

See also

• Crime in Texas
• List of shootings in California
• List of shootings in Colorado
• List of shootings in Florida
• List of shootings in New York (state)