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Incidents: 14 | Casualties: 68 (30 killed, 38 wounded) | Mass Killings: 6

In 2025, the commerce location category had the most active shooter attacks (14) across industries like entertainment, manufacturing, retail, and recreation.

This was a substantial increase from 17% of the incidents in 2024 to over 40% in 2025.

These attacks often occurred in spaces open to pedestrian traffic during business hours, such as restaurants, bars, large stores, and casinos, as well as spaces closed to pedestrian traffic such as warehouses and office buildings.

In 2025, shootings at commerce locations were responsible for nearly 60% of all fatalities and 41% of total casualties.

This category also had the highest fatality rate, with an average of 2.1 fatalities per incident, compared to 1.5 fatalities overall in 2025.

Additionally, most mass killings (six) occurred in commerce locations open to the public.

In seven incidents, shooters had a connection to the location and/or a victim.

Three of them were insider threats —shooters who were current employees, and four were either former employees or patrons of the location but not deemed insider threats.

All insider threat attacks occurred at warehouses/plant/trade businesses.

At Southern Hens Inc. in Moselle, Mississippi, a security guard killed the shooter before casualties occurred.

At KDC/One warehouse in New Albany, Ohio, a civilian disarmed the shooter, who then fled and was caught the next day at a different location.

At Mission Landscape Supplies in San Antonio, Texas, an employee shot coworkers and then died by suicide before law enforcement arrived.

Large retail sites also experienced shootings. At Target #95 in Austin, Texas, the shooter fired at people in the parking lot before fleeing in a stolen vehicle and was apprehended at a different location.

Similarly, at Harris Teeter #332 in Crozet, Virginia, the shooter opened fire in the parking lot but was killed by an off-duty federal agent.

Neither shooter had prior ties to their victims or locations.

Connection (50%) 7 No Connection (50%) 7