During a nearly 15-hour Senate filibuster Wednesday, Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy appealed to fellow lawmakers and the nation to address gun violence in the wake of mass shootings.
“What unites all of these shootings, from Littleton to Aurora, to Newtown, to Blacksburg to Orlando, is that the weapon of choice in every case is a gun — often a very powerful gun, an AR-15 or an AR-15-style gun that was designed for the military, for law enforcement to kill as many people as quickly as possible,” Murphy said.
While no vote is expected on restoration of the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004, Murphy said he won GOP agreement to hold votes on two bills. One would ban gun sales to people on the terrorist watch list. The other would expand background checks to gun shows and Internet sales.
Here today are the names of those who lost their lives – victims as well as perpetrators – in mass shootings in the United States involving assault-style weapons, from the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, to the present.
NEWTOWN, CONNECTICUT, Dec. 14, 2012:
Charlotte Bacon,
Daniel Barden,
Olivia Engel,
Josephine Gay,
Ana M. Marquez-Greene,
Dylan Hockley,
Madeleine F. Hsu,
Catherine V. Hubbard,
Chase Kowalski,
Nancy Lanza,
Jesse Lewis,
James Mattioli,
Grace McDonnell,
Emilie Parker,
Jack Pinto,
Noah Pozner,
Caroline Previdi,
Jessica Rekos,
Avielle Richman,
Benjamin Wheeler,
Allison N. Wyatt.
(Adam Lanza, shooter)
SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA, June 7, 2013:
Carlos Navarro Franco,
Marcela Dia Franco,
Margarita Gomez,
Samir Zawahri,
Christopher Zawahri.
(John Zawahri, shooter).
CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, July 16, 2015:
Carson A. Holmquist,
Randall Smith,
Thomas J. Sullivan,
Squire K. “Skip” Wells,
David A. Wyatt.
(Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, shooter).
ROSEBURG, OREGON, Oct. 1, 2015:
Lucero Alcaraz,
Treven Taylor Anspach,
Rebecka Ann Carnes,
Quinn Glen Cooper,
Kim Saltmarsh Dietz,
Lucas Eibel,
Jason Dale Johnson,
Lawrence Levine,
Sarena Dawn Moore.
(Christopher Harper-Mercer, shooter).
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO Oct. 31, 2015:
Christy Gallela,
Andrew Myers,
Jennifer Vasquez.
(Noah Harpham, shooter).
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO, Nov. 27, 2015:
Jennifer Markovsky,
Garrett Swasey,
Ke’Arre Stewart.
(Robert Lewis Dear, shooter).
SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA, Dec. 2, 2015:
Shannon Johnson,
Bennetta Bet-Badal,
Aurora Godoy,
Isaac Amanios,
Larry Kaufman,
Harry Bowman,
Yvette Velasco,
Sierra Clayborn,
Robert Adams,
Nicholas Thalasinos,
Tin Nguyen,
Juan Espinoza,
Damian Meins,
Michael Wetzel.
(Tashfeen Mailk, shooter.
Syed Rizwan Farook, shooter).
HESSTON, KANSAS, Feb. 25, 2016:
Renee Benjamin,
Josh Higbee,
Brian Sadowsky.
(Cedric Ford, shooter).
ORLANDO, FLORIDA, June 12, 2016:
Stanley Almodovar III,
Amanda Alvear,
Oscar A Aracena-Montero,
Rodolfo Ayala-Ayala,
Antonio Davon Brown,
Darryl Roman Burt II,
Angel L. Candelario-Padro,
Juan Chevez-Martinez,
Luis Daniel Conde,
Cory James Connell,
Tevin Eugene Crosby,
Deonka Deidra Drayton,
Simon Adrian Carrillo Fernandez,
Leroy Valentin Fernandez,
Mercedez Marisol Flores,
Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz,
Juan Ramon Guerrero,
Paul Terrell Henry,
Frank Hernandez,
Miguel Angel Honorato,
Javier Jorge-Reyes,
Jason Benjamin Josaphat,
Eddie Jamoldroy Justice,
Anthony Luis Laureanodisla,
Christopher Andrew Leinonen,
Alejandro Barrios Martinez,
Brenda Lee Marquez McCool,
Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez,
Kimberly “KJ” Morris,
Akyra Monet Murray,
Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo,
Geraldo A. Ortiz-Jimenez,
Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera,
Joel Rayon Paniagua,
Jean Carlos Mendez Perez,
Enrique L. Rios Jr.,
Jean C. Nives Rodriguez,
Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado,
Christopher Joseph Sanfeliz,
Yilmary Rodriguez Solivan,
Edward Sotomayor Jr.,
Shane Evan Tomlinson,
Martin Benitez Torres,
Jonathan Antonio Camuy Vega,
Juan P. Rivera Velazquez,
Luis S. Vielma,
Franky Jimmy Dejesus Velazquez,
Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon,
Jerald Arthur Wright.
(Omar Mateen, shooter).