2012

Events

• February 27 - Chardon High School shooting
• July 20 - James Holmes kills 12 people and injures 70 others in a mass shooting at the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.
• September 11 - September 12 - 2012 Benghazi attack: militants from Ansar-Al Sharia attack the US diplomatic compound and CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya, killing four and injuring eleven.
• December 14 – Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

Deaths

Villain deaths

• December 14 - Adam Lanza

Victim deaths

• July 6 - Skylar Neese
• September 11 - J. Christopher Stevens and Sean Smith
• September 12 - Tyrone S. Woods and Glen Doherty
• November 20 - Noah Ponzer