House of worship locations

9% - House of Worship (3)

On Sunday, June 22, 2025, at approximately 11:00 a.m., a 31 year old male armed with a rifle began shooting people outside CrossPointe Community Church. Observing the incident unfold, a parishioner struck the shooter with a vehicle before security team members engaged and killed the attacker at the scene. One security team member sustained injuries during the incident.

On Wednesday, August 27, 2025, at approximately 8:27 a.m., a 23 year old male armed with multiple weapons began shooting people inside the Annunciation Roman Catholic Church, killing two and wounding 28.

On Sunday, September 28, 2025, at approximately 10:25 a.m., a 40 year old male armed with a rifle began shooting people at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and started a fire, killing four and wounding eight.

The Annunciation Roman Catholic Church shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota had the highest overall casualties, 30, which left two dead and 28 injured.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints incident in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan had 12 casualties which left four dead and eight wounded.

| HOUSE OF WORSHIP includes various religious sites such as churches, mosques, synagogues, and temples;

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The Annunciation Roman Catholic Church attack was categorized as a house of worship incident because it occurred inside the church.

It should be noted that the majority of victims were school-aged children (pre-K through eighth grade) attending a back-to-school mass during the school day.

Incidents: 3 | Casualties: 43 (6 killed, 37 wounded) | Mass Killings: 1

In 2025, there were three incidents in the house of worship location category, the fewest (9%) among all location categories.

However, house of worship attacks tripled, increasing from one in 2024 to three in 2025.

This category had an average fatality rate of 2.0, which was higher than the overall average of 1.5 per incident in 2025, representing 12% of all fatalities.

These attacks accounted for nearly 26% of total casualties, averaging 14.3 per incident, which was higher than the overall average of 4.9.

One of the incidents was a mass killing.

Both the Annunciation and CrossPointe shooters had ties to the attack locations, as former members or attendees.

This attack had the highest fatalities (4) in the category.

This attack had the highest casualties (30) in 2025.

All three church shootings involved rifles; however, the Annunciation Church shooter also used a handgun and shotgun.

Two of the three incidents involved other weapons and devices.

Two shootings involved intervention prior to law enforcement response.

Law enforcement estimated that from the first shot fired to incident resolution, the Annunciation church attack lasted approximately two minutes, whereas the incident at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints lasted three minutes and 43 seconds.

All shooters in this category died at the scene.

Although shootings at houses of worship made up a small portion of the total incidents in 2025, this category had a disproportionately high number of casualties.

Of the 34 attacks, civilians intervened in 50% at government locations, 67% at houses of worship, and 14% at commerce locations. However, civilian intervention was not reported in education or open space location | House of

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Although the average casualty count per incident was 4.9, the education (8.3), house of worship (7.7), and commerce (5.8) location categories exceeded the average number of casualties per incident during the five-year period.

Public or private facilities used for religiously sponsored activities. This includes commercial properties used as houses of worship at the time of the incident. Examples include churches, temples, synagogues, mosques, and related religious gathering and retreat facilities.