New Orleans attack was 10th deadliest mass killing since 2006 [Video]

With 14 confirmed deaths, the New Year’s attack in New Orleans is the 10th deadliest mass killing in the U.S. since tracking began in 2006. A mass killing is defined as an event where four or more people, excluding the perpetrator, are intentionally murdered in a 24 hour period.Of the 613 incidents recorded in the Associated Press/USA Today/Northeastern University mass killing database, analyzed by the Hearst Television Data Team, only 24 resulted in the deaths of 10 or more people. All but two of these involved gun violence, which makes the massacre of the vehicle ramming on New Year’s Day more abnormal. In total, 3,144 people have been killed in 614 mass killings in the U.S. since 2006. The majority of the first deaths in these incidents were the result of mass shootings, and much more rarely involved car attacks.This is the fourth mass killing involving intentional vehicle rammings in …