# List of shootings in Texas

This is a list of shootings in Texas resulted in death. 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 traveling 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. |
| Murder of 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. |
| San Antonio parade shooting | San Antonio | April 27, 1979 | 3 | 64-year-old Ira Attebury opened fire on the spectator crowd at the Battle of Flowers parade in San Antonio |
| Daingerfield church shooting | Daingerfield | June 22, 1980 | 5 | Religious hate crime |
| Grand Prairie shooting | Grand Prairie | August 9, 1982 | 6 | Workplace violence |
| 1984 Dallas nightclub shooting | Dallas | June 29, 1984 | 6 | Mass shooting |
| Luby's shooting | Killeen | October 16, 1991 | 24 | Inconclusive (predominant theory is misogyny but others include misanthropy, rejection and isolation) |
| Waco siege | Axtell | February 28, 1993 | 10 | Suspected weapons violations by religious cult, botched police warrant search |
| Murder of Selena | Corpus Christi | March 31, 1995 | 1 | Entertainer murdered by her fan club president |
| Wedgwood Baptist Church shooting | Fort Worth | September 15, 1999 | 8 | Religious hate crime |
| 2007 NASA Johnson Space Center | Houston | April 20, 2007 | 2 | Work Place Violence triggered by unsatisfactory job review. Hostage taking, with eventual suicide by perpetrator |
| 2009 Fort Hood shooting | Fort Hood | November 5, 2009 | 14 | Terrorist attack perpetrated by on-base US Army major |
| 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, when served with a summons to appear in court over unpaid back rent |
| 2014 Fort Hood shootings | 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. |
| 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. |
| 2018 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. 22 others were injured. |
| Midland–Odessa shootings | Odessa and Midland | August 31, 2019 | 8 | Spree shooting at multiple locations in the Midland–Odessa area |
| West Freeway Church of Christ shooting | White Settlement | December 29, 2019 | 3 | Gunman opened fire during Sunday morning church service, killing two, before being killed by an armed member of the congregation. |
| Robb Elementary School shooting | Uvalde | May 24, 2022 | 22 | Gunman shot his grandmother at their home, then drove to an elementary school and opened fire, killing 21 people, before being killed by police. |
| 2023 Cleveland, Texas shooting | Cleveland | April 28, 2023 | 5 | Gunman shot neighbors, killing 5 people, before fleeing into a wooded area. |
| 2023 Allen, Texas outlet mall shooting | Allen | May 6, 2023 | 9 | Gunman shot eight people before being shot by police. |
| 2023 Austin shootings | Austin | December 4-5 2023 | 6 | Gunman killed six people in a spree shooting before being arrested. |