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Orlando shooting of 2016: Media

mass shooting, Orlando, Florida, United States

Images

Memorial for those killed at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida
In 2016 a gunman fatally shot 49 people at the club; it was the deadliest mass shooting...
© Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Orlando shooting of 2016
A memorial outside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, following a mass shooting...
© Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Interactives

Mass shooting
Graph depicting the number of mass shootings in the United States by year.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Kenny Chmielewski

Podcasts

On This Day: June 12
Kurt Heintz of Encyclopædia Britannica remembers the tragic shooting at Pulse, an...