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 | 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. | |
| April 27, 1979 | 3 | 64-year-old Ira Attebury opened fire on the spectator crowd at the Battle of Flowers parade in San Antonio | |||
| June 22, 1980 | 5 | Religious hate crime | |||
| Grand Prairie | August 9, 1982 | 6 | Workplace violence | ||
| Dallas | June 29, 1984 | 6 | Mass shooting | ||
| October 16, 1991 | 24 | Inconclusive (predominant theory is misogyny but others include misanthropy, rejection and isolation) | |||
| February 28, 1993 | 22 | Suspected weapons violations by religious cult, botched police warrant search | |||
| March 31, 1995 | 1 | Entertainer murdered by her fan club president | |||
| 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 | |
| November 5, 2009 | 14 | Terrorist attack perpetrated by on-base US Army major | |||
| University of Texas Library shooting | September 28, 2010 | 1 | A student, Colton Tooley, fired shots from an AK-47 before killing himself in the Perry–Castañeda Library.[1] | ||
| August 13, 2012 | 3 | Shootout with the police, when served with a summons to appear in court over unpaid back rent | |||
| April 2, 2014 | 4 | Workplace violence | |||
| July 9, 2014 | 6 | Domestic violence | |||
| May 3, 2015 | 2 | Two attackers were the only fatalities | |||
| Waco | May 17, 2015 | 9 | Large, confused shootout with Bandidos, Cossacks, and allies | ||
| June 13, 2015 | 1 | Attack on police headquarters, followed by a chase that resulted in the attacker being killed. | |||
| August 8, 2015 | 8 | Domestic violence | |||
| Dallas | July 7, 2016 | 6 | A single attacker ambushed a group of policemen. | ||
| September 10, 2017 | 9 | Domestic violence | |||
| November 5, 2017 | 27 | Deadliest mass shooting in Texas history. Deadliest shooting in an American place of worship in modern history. | |||
| May 18, 2018 | 10 | School shooting | |||
| 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. | |||
| August 31, 2019 | 8 | Spree shooting at multiple locations in the Midland–Odessa area | |||
| December 29, 2019 | 3 | Gunman opened fire during Sunday morning church service, killing two, before being killed by an armed member of the congregation. | |||
| May 24, 2022 | 22 | Gunman shot grandmother at home, then drove to an elementary school and opened fire, killing 21 people, before being killed by police. | |||
| April 28, 2023 | 5 | Gunman shot neighbors, killing 5 people, before fleeing into a wooded area. | |||
| May 6, 2023 | 9 | Gunman shot eight people before being shot by police. | |||
| December 4-5 2023 | 6 | Gunman killed six people in a spree shooting before being arrested. |