Every Mass Shooting in Texas in 2025

Texas is among the U.S. leaders in mass shootings. This is where they've happened and how many people were killed in them.

By Kelly Dearmore

April 29, 2025

Only a third of the way through 2025, Texas has had 13 mass shootings. Adobe Stock

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On April 18, two teenagers were arrested for killing another teenager and injuring three others, including a 3-year-old, in a Garland shooting. That was the most recent mass shooting in North Texas, but not the most recent one in the state.

Two days later, in Houston, four people were injured in a drive-by shooting outside of a nightclub. No one was killed, and a suspect has not been arrested. That April 20 mass shooting brought the total of 2025 mass shootings in Texas to 13 for the year so far.

Texas had 31 mass shootings last year, according to the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), second to California’s 34.

There isn’t one definition of “mass shooting” that has been adopted across the board. For example, the FBI defines a mass shooting as a shooting incident in which four or more people are murdered, not just shot. The GVA, a nonprofit research group that collects reports of gun violence events from more than 7,500 law enforcement, media and government sources to provide real-time information on its website, has a different take on how to define a mass shooting than the FBI does.

Mass Shootings are, for the most part, an American phenomenon. While they are generally grouped together as one type of incident they are several different types including public shootings, bar/club incidents, family annihilations, drive-by, workplace and those which defy description but with the established foundation definition being that they have a minimum of four victims shot, either injured or killed, not including any shooter who may also have been killed or injured in the incident.

As for the first four months of 2025, Texas has registered the most mass shootings of any state, with Louisiana and California just slightly behind.

Here are all the mass shootings in Texas in 2025 so far (as of April 28, according to the Gun Violence Archive):

Jan. 1: Dallas, 2900 block of St. George Drive
Victims Killed: 1; Victims Injured: 3

Jan. 14: Houston, 12867 Greens Bayou St.
Victims Killed: 2; Victims Injured: 2

Jan. 22: San Antonio, 18777 Stone Oak Parkway
Victims Killed: 0; Victims Injured: 1; Suspects Killed: 1

Jan. 26: Amarillo, 709 S. Polk St.
Victims Killed: 1; Victims Injured: 8

Feb. 24: Dallas, Canada Drive and Gulden Lane
Victims Killed: 3; Victims Injured: 2

March 2: Houston, 3333 Raleigh St.
Victims Killed: 0; Victims Injured: 5

March 23: Houston, 6419 Hillcroft St.
Victims Killed: 0; Victims Injured: 6

March 30: Austin, 215 E. 6th St.
Victims Killed: 0; Victims Injured: 5

March 31: San Antonio, 10227 Ironside Drive
Victims Killed: 0; Victims Injured: 4; Suspects Killed: 1

April 12: Crosby, 13203 Crosby Lynchburg Rd.
Victims Killed: 1; Victims Injured: 6

April 15: Dallas, 5520 Langdon Rd.
Victims Killed: 0; Victims Injured: 4

April 18: Garland, 3820 W. Walnut St.
Victims Killed: 1; Victims Injured: 3

April 20: Houston, 12929 Nyack Drive
Victims Killed: 0; Victims Injured: 4

Kelly Dearmore is news editor of the Dallas Observer. He’s held the position since November 2022. Since joining the team, Kelly has covered topics such as state and local politics, crime and public safety, education and immigration. A native Texan, Kelly has contributed to other publications including Texas Monthly, Dallas Morning News, Success Magazine and Cowboys & Indians Magazine.

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