List of rampage killers in the Americas

This section of the list of rampage killers contains those cases that occurred in the Americas.

This section does not include school massacres; workplace killings; religious, political or racial crimes; or mass murders that took place primarily in a domestic environment, like familicides, which are covered in their own categories. Cases where the primary motive for the murders was to facilitate or cover up another felony, like robbery, are also excluded.

A rampage killer has been defined as follows:

A rampage involves the (attempted) killing of multiple persons at least partly in public space by a single physically present perpetrator using (potentially) deadly weapons in a single event without any cooling-off period.[1]

This list should contain every case with at least one of the following features:

• Rampage killings with 6 or more dead
• Rampage killings with at least 4 people killed and least ten victims overall (dead plus injured)
• Rampage killings with at least 2 people killed and least 12 victims overall (dead plus injured)
• An incidence of rampage killing shall not be included in this list if it does not include at least two people killed.
• In all cases the perpetrator is not counted among those killed or injured.

List of rampage killers

#	Perpetrator	Date	Year	Location	Country	Killed	Injured	W	Additional Notes	Ref.
1.	Delgado Morales, Campo Elías, 52[n 1]	Dec. 4	1986	Bogotá	Colombia	29	12	FMA	Killed by police or Committed suicide
2.	Wortman, Gabriel, 51	April 18/19	2020	Nova Scotia	Canada	22	3	F A	Killed by police Terminated a pregnancy Also killed two dogs
3.	Ferreira de França, Genildo, 27[n 1]	May 21/22	1997	Santo Antônio dos Barreiros	Brazil	14	1	F	Committed suicide
4.	Lozano Velásquez, Juan de Jesús, 26	June 24	2000	Bogotá	Colombia	11	7	F	Sentenced to 40 years in prison
5.	Caceres, Gregorio, 50	Feb 18	1942	Trujillo	Venezuela	11	4	M	Killed	[2]
6.	Flores, Oscar, 23[n 1]	July 31	2005	San Jerónimo de Juárez	Mexico	11	2	FM	Killed by angry mob or killed by police	[3]
7.	Memado, Raymundo	July	1902	Alcobaça, Bahia	Brazil	10	0	F		[4]
8.	Malagón González, Arnoldo, 22	June 1	1993	Soacha	Colombia	10	?	F	Arrested	[5]
9.	Hyatt, Thaddeus, 26	March 30	1959	Labyrinth	Jamaica	8	14	M	Sentenced to death and executed	[6]
10.	Temu Morente, Tomás 26	Oct 21	1994	San Antonio	Guatemala	8	?	M	Arrested	[7]
11	Modesto Filho, Manoel[n 2]	Oct. 22/23	1939	São Paulo	Brazil	7	12	F	Committed suicide	[8]
12.	Barraga, Jose Alberto, 34	Feb 18	1968	Tello	Colombia	7	4	M	Killed by soldiers	[9]
13.	Klemmensen, Abel, 18[n 1]	Jan 1	1990	Narsaq	Greenland	7	1	F	Sentenced to life imprisonment	[10]
14.	Jan Carlos Hernández, 21 (suspect) Reynaldo Antonio Cuadra, 25 (suspect)	July 17	2020	Gatun Lake	Panama	7	0	F	Both arrested	[11]
15.	Rodríguez, Belarminio Antonio[n 2]	March 25/26	1968	Valverde Province	Dominican Republic	6	9	F	Arrested	[12]
16.	Rolle, Reuben, 30[n 1]	May 20	1964	Nassau	Bahamas	6	6	F	Committed suicide One more died from a heart attack	[13]
17.	Navarrete Gómez, Luis Alonso, 28[n 2]	June 2	2000	El Tablón	El Salvador	6	4	F	Sentenced to 30 years in prison	[14]
18.	Lepine, William Bernard, 27	Aug 28	1972	Kettle Valley	Canada	6	3	F	Found not guilty by reason of insanity	[15]
19.	Headley, Hubert, 33[n 1]	Dec 9	1994	Buxton & Friendship	Guyana	6	3	M	Killed by police Also killed a dog	[16]
20.	Unknown		1935		Brazil	6	2	F	Escaped	[17]
21.	Rivas, Valerio, 47[n 1]	April	1941	Bahía Blanca	Argentina	6	2	M	Killed by police	[18]
22.	Jiménez Rodríguez, Alberto[n 2] Farfán Moore, Yair[n 2]	June 10	2007	Balsillas	Colombia	6	2	F	Both were sentenced to 40 years in prison	[19]
23.	Two unknown men	March	1860	S.S. Anna		6	0		Arrested	[20]
24.	Valle, Essrado, 27	Feb 20	1925	Guaymas	Mexico	6	0	M		[21]
25.	Pino, Fabio Jesús, 25[n 2]	June 28	1962	Mariquita	Colombia	6	0	F	Committed suicide	[22]
26.	Unknown	Feb.	1994	Barragem	Brazil	6	0	FM	Unsolved	[23]
27.	Ferreira Costa, William Roberto, 27	Dec. 21	2016	Jaboticabal	Brazil	6	0	F	Sentenced to 61 years and 3 months in prison	[24]
28.	Unknown[n 1]	Dec 7	1962	Buenos Aires	Argentina	6	?	F		[25]
29.	Cearense, Augusto	May 4	1914	Minas Gerais	Brazil	5–6	?	F	Killed by police	[26]
30.	Martins, Pedro	Jan. 31	1957	Vira Saia	Brazil	5	15	M	Killed	[27]
31.	Rivera, Nicolas Sanchez	Dec. 24/25	1944	Manzanillo	Mexico	5	10	F	Killed by soldiers	[28]
32.	Romero Naupay, Eduardo Glicerio, 32	Feb. 17	2017	Lima	Peru	5	9	F	Killed by police	[29]
33.	Hope, Seon, 35[n 1]	Feb 23	1933	Haggatts	Barbados	5	5	MA	Sentenced to death and executed Also killed a pig and donkey	[30]
34.	Alves da Silva, Manuel, 30	Aug. 25	1973	Sapucaia, Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	4	38	MV		[31]
35.	Peterkin, Eric, 38	May 14	1977	Daniel Town	Jamaica	4	13	F	Killed by police	[32]
36.	Amigó Vergara, Alejandro, 32	April 10	1974	Talca	Chile	4	9	M	Killed by police	[33]
37.	do Nascimento, Benedito Maximo, 40[n 1]	Sep 4	1955	Rio Formoso	Brazil	4	5–8	MA	Arrested	[34]
38.	de Gouveia, João, 37	Dec. 6	2002	Caracas	Venezuela	3	29	F	Sentenced to 29 years and 11 months in prison	[35]
39.	Rosa da Conceição, Pedro	April 22	1904	Rio das Pedras, Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	3	13	M	Arrested Allegedly killed a family of twelve people Killed two people in 1911
40.	Pereira Maurício, Lourenço, 36	Nov. 6	1978	Afogados	Brazil	3	11	M	Arrested	[36]
41.	Hussain, Faisal, 29	July 22	2018	Toronto, Ontario	Canada	2	13	F	Committed suicide	[37]
42.	Feliciano, Manoel José	May 29	1984	Rio Bonito	Brazil	2	12	M	Killed by hospital inmates	[38]
43.	Carada, César	Dec.	1951	Santa Fe	Argentina	2	10	F	Killed by police	[39]

Abbreviations and footnotes

1. At least one of the victims was a relative of the assailant.
2. Assailant was a member of the military, police, or a comparable force at the time of the rampage.

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, stones, 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

E – indicates that explosives of any sort were the only other weapon used

P – indicates that an anaesthetising or deadly substance of any kind was the only other weapon used (includes poisonous gas)

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2. 11 Killed, 4 Hurt Before Posse Slays Hatchet Man, Chicago Daily Tribune (February 20, 1942)
3. 17 Are Killed in 2 Incidents, Fueling Mexicans' Fears of Violence, The New York Times (August 2, 2005)
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   – Ex militar ebrio y drogado mata a 10 personas y luego lo linchan, La Cronica de Hoy (August 1, 2005)
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   – Kills seven, Winnipeg Free Press (February 21, 1968)
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    – PNC acusado de masacre tenía antecedentes, laprensa.com.sv (June 4, 2000)
    – Familiares de soldados exigen justicia, laprensa.com.sv (June 4, 2000)
    – Mañana audiencia contra agente PNC, laprensa.com.sv (June 6, 2000)
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15. Charged in death of six, Winnipeg Free Press (August 31, 1972)
    – Killer of six insane, The Lethbridge Herald (October 8, 1974)
    – Gunman on rampage kills six people in remote lake area of B.C. interior, The Ottawa Citizen (August 30, 1972)
    – Suspect, 27, charged in B.C. killing spree, The Montreal Gazette (August 31, 1972)
    – Gunman kills six in shooting spree, Ellensburg Daily Record (August 30, 1972)
    – Mental patient charged with B.C. slayings, The Bulletin (August 31, 1972)
16. Cutlass carnage in Buxton, Stabroek News (December 10, 1994)
    – Killer had a history of threatening villagers, Stabroek News (December 11, 1994)
    – Buxton – Where coke is as easily purchased as a cigarette, Stabroek News (September 10, 1995)
    – Man with machete hacks six to death in Guyana, Pacific Stars and Stripes (December 12, 1994)
17. Matou seis homens de uma vez!, A Notícia (SC) (May 16, 1935)
18. Amokläufer tötete 9 Menschen, Luxemburger Wort (April 22, 1941)
    – La furia omicida di un pazzo, La Stampa (April 9, 1941)
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    – Por una cerveza, soldados mataron a seis personas, El Tiempo (June 11, 2007)
    – Por miedo, los niños de Balsillas (Caquetá) trasladaron su escuela a una taberna, El Tiempo (August 11, 2007)
    – Comandante del Ejército, general Mario Montoya, a debate en Cámara por muerte de civiles, El Tiempo (August 27, 2007)
    – Con 1.500 votos en ‘mandato’, niños de Balsillas piden escuela, El Tiempo (November 11, 2008)
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27. Selvagem chacina no Pará, Diario de Noticias (RS) (February 12, 1957)
    – Enlouquecendo, o Presidiário Praticou Terrivel Chacina, Diario da Noite, (February 13, 1957)
    –Um Jovem Matou o Monstro Assassino, O Jornal (RJ) (February 13, 1957)
    – Crazed ex-convict kills 5, wounds 15, St. Joseph Gazette (February 14, 1957)
    – Crazed Dancer Killed After 5 Persons Slain, The Daily Journal (February 14, 1957)
    – Berserk man kills five, Independent Record (February 14, 1957)
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    – Bloody Thursday in Barbados, The Virgin Islands Daily News (March 21, 1933)
    – Seon Hope hanged, The Virgin Islands Daily News (May 15, 1933)
    – Mad man's rage strews ground with dead and wounded, The Gleaner (March 4, 1933)
    – Barbados labourer to stand trial, The Gleaner (March 21, 1933)
    – Murderer hanged, The Gleaner (April 7, 1933)
31. Louco agarra motorista e ônibus mata 4 no Rio, Diario de Noticias (August 26, 1973)
    Débil mental joga ônibus no abismo, Correio da Manhã (1973)
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34. Louco, o pescador queimou 2 casas e matou quatro pessoas, Diario de Pernambuco (September 6, 1955)
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36. Feirante mata três e fere onze, Diario de Pernambuco (November 7, 1978)
    – "Matei três e feri 11 para não zombarem de mim", diz epiléptico, Diario de Pernambuco (November 7, 1978)
37. 10-year-old girl, 18-year-old woman killed in Toronto mass shooting, The Globe and Mail (July 23, 2018)
    – Woman and girl dead, 13 other people injured in Danforth shooting in Toronto, CBC.ca (July 23, 2018)
38. Detento é morto após matar dois, Jornal do Brasil (May 30, 1984)
    – Louco mata dois e morre a pauladas, Ultima Hora (May 31, 1984)
    – Delegado apura causas dos crimes no manicômio, O Fluminense (May 31, 1984)
    – Hospital Colônia pode perder convênio, O Fluminense (June 1, 1984)
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