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Too often are we forced as a nation to grieve and “band together” after heinous and unthinkable acts of violence. The Charleston Emanuel AME Church shooting and apprehension of Dylan Roof simply tells us we’re still amongst a filthy, plagued society where racial hatred and mental illness continues to be ignored on a grander scale.

While we’ll never forget the victims, take a look at the faces of evil. The men behind a handful of America’s deadliest shootings.

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Jacob Tyler Roberts of the Clackamas Town Center Shooting

Deaths: 3 (including shooter)
Injuries: 1

On December 11, 2012, Roberts gunned down Christmas shoppers for no apparent reason before committing suicide after being cornered by police.


Photo: South Carolina Police Department

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Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold of the Columbine High School Massacre

Deaths: 15 (including shooter)
Injuries: 24

The so-called “Trenchcoat Mafia” killed 12 of their classmates and one teacher before taking the coward’s way out on April 20, 1999.

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Seung-Hui Cho of the Virginia Tech Massacre

Deaths: 33 (including shooter)
Injuries: 23

Cho evaded mental illness isolation to commit the deadliest shooting incident by a single gunman of all-time on April 16, 2007.

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Timothy Hendron of the ABB Plant Shootings

Deaths: 4 (including shooter)
Injuries: 5

Hendron went “postal” on January 7, 2010 at a St. Louis power plant and killed himself before the cops came.

Photo: Texas Department of Public Safety

Ivan Lopez of the 2014 Fort Hood Shooting

Deaths: 4 (including shooter)
Injuries: 14

On April 2, 2014, the 34-year-old Army Specialist opened fire on the military installation in a murder-suicide spree after it was said he was denied from taking leave.

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Nidal Malik Hasan of the 2009 Fort Hood Shooting

Deaths: 13
Injuries: 32

Five years prior on November 5, 2009, the Army major doctor committed an unspeakable act of terror, sealing his fate when he was sentenced to death in August 2013.

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Elliot Rodger of the Isla Vista Killings

Deaths: 7 (including shooter)
Injuries: 14

The spoiled rich kid of a Hunger Games director shot up the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara area, before committing suicide because he had never been kissed.

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Michael McDermott of the Wakefield Massacre

Deaths: 7

The day after Christmas 2000, McDermott killed seven of his co-workers and earned seven life sentences (without the possibility of parole) for his troubles.

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Aaron Alexis of the Washington Navy Yard Shooting

Deaths: 13 (including shooter)
Injuries: 8

Alexis carried out the second-deadliest mass murder on a U.S. military (behind Hasan’s) on September 16, 2013.

Eduardo Sencion of the Carson City IHOP Shooting

Deaths: 5 (including shooter)
Injuries: 7

Sencion killed three National Guard soldiers when he shot up an International House of Pancakes with no real motive on September 6, 2011.

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Adam Lanza of the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Deaths: 28 (including shooter)
Injuries: 2

The 20-year-old Lanza gunned down his own mother, 20 children and 6 adults before turning the gun on himself in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14, 2012. It was the second-deadliest mass shooting by a single person in U.S. history.

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Scott Dekraai of the Seal Beach Shooting

Deaths: 8
Injuries: 1

On October 12, 2011, Dekraai (allegedly) conducted Orange County’s biggest massacre when he went after his ex-wife at the hair salon she worked at.

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Doug Williams of the Lockheed Martin Shooting

Deaths: 7 (including shooter)
Injuries: 8

The Meridian, Mississippi plant became a crime scene when the 48-year-old Williams brought a shotgun to work and killed himself afterwards.

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James Eagan Holmes of the Dark Knight Massacre

Deaths: 12
Injuries: 70

During opening night for The Dark Knight Rises on July 20, 2012, Holmes opened fire in an Aurora, Colorado movie theater without warning. He is currently on trial and miraculously, is now insane.

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Wade Michael Page of the Wisconsin Sikh Temple Shooting

Deaths: 7 (including shooter)
Injuries: 4

Page, a white supremacist, opened fire at a Shikh temple on August 5, 2012 and shot himself after the police got to him.

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