User:PsychoticInq/List of mass murderers by number of victims

This section of the list of mass murderers and spree killers contains all mass murder-cases, which are defined as incidents that occurred at one rather confined place &mdash; typical examples would be restaurants and bars, trains and ships or places of worship &mdash; or somehow separate places that form some kind of compound, like shopping malls and parking lots. Also included are incidents that happened in the open, where the perpetrator showed very limited movement, which is often the case with sniper attacks. Further all cases with uncertainty about the vastness of the crime scene are added here.

This section does not include school massacres or workplace killings, which form their own categories, or felony related mass murders (like the Wah Mee massacre), which are excluded entirely.

Unknown
Cases where the vastness of the crime scene is not known.

Annotation
W – A basic description of the weapons used in the murders
 * F – Firearms and other ranged weapons, especially rifles and handguns, but also bows and crossbows, grenade launchers, flamethrowers, or slingshots
 * M – Melee weapons, like knives, swords, spears, machetes, axes, clubs, rods, rocks, or bare hands
 * O – Any other weapons, such as bombs, hand grenades, Molotov cocktails, poison and poisonous gas, as well as vehicle and arson attacks
 * A – indicates that an arson attack was the only other weapon used
 * V – indicates that a vehicle was the only other weapon used