2012

Events

• January 23 - Al-Nusra Front is founded as Al-Qaeda's branch in Syria.
• February 26 - 17-year old Trayvon Martin is killed by George Zimmerman in a highly controversial shooting in Sanford, Florida.
• February 27 - Chardon High School shooting
• March 11 - Staff Sergeant Robert Bales goes on a killing spree while stationed in Afghanistan, killing sixteen civilians and wounding six others in the Panjwayi District of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.
• April 2 - Oikos University shooting
• May 7 - Vladimir Putin is elected President of Russia for the second time.
• May 25 - Luka Magnotta uploads his homemade snuff film 1 Lunactic, 1 Ice Pick to www.bestgore.com. The video depicts Magnotta horrificly and gruesomely mutilating, torturing, and cannibalizing the man, including performing acts of necrophilia. The victim in the video is identified as 33-year-old Jun Lin. This begins an international manhunt for Magnotta.
• June 2 - Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life in prison for ordering the murder of peaceful protesters in February 2011.
• June 4 - Luka Magnotta is captured by Berlin Police at an Internet café in the Neukölln district while reading news stories about himself.
• July 20 - James Holmes kills 12 people and injures 70 others in a mass shooting at the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.
• August 5 - Wade Michael Page kills 7 people and injures 3 others before committing suicide as part of the Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting.
• September 5 - Samuel Little is arrested in connection with three murders committed in the 1980's.
• September 11 to 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 10 - Beginning of the Central African Republic Civil War.
• 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

• January 8 - Edward Muscare
• January 11 - Katherine Dufresne
• August 5 - Wade Michael Page
• October 7 - Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano
• November 21 - Ajmal Kasab
• December 1 - Jovan Belcher
• December 14 - Adam Lanza

Victim Deaths

• February 26 - Trayvon Martin
• May 25 - Jun Lin
• July 6 - Skylar Neese
• September 11 - J. Christopher Stevens and Sean Smith
• September 12 - Tyrone S. Woods and Glen Doherty