The 17-year-old boy accused of opening fire in a crowd of people celebrating Halloween in downtown Orlando, killing two and wounding seven others, has been formally indicted by a grand jury, according to the Orange-Osceola State Attorney’s Office.

Digging deeper into the divide of gun control, Americans can’t even settle on what really defines a mass shooting. With multiple definitions of the term, different criteria is required to consider a shooting mass. So let’s break it down. What defines a mass shooting?

A 17-year-old is facing charges for murder and attempted murder after a deadly mass shooting in downtown Orlando, but authorities say his first offense was a grand theft auto case last year.

Officials announce that a 17-year-old accused in a shooting that killed two in downtown Orlando will be prosecuted as an adult.

Tyrek Hill's boss is remembering the 25-year-old after he was killed in a mass shooting in Downtown Orlando last week.

The State Attorney’s Office for the Ninth Judicial Circuit gives an update on the mass shooting in downtown Orlando.

In response to a Halloween shooting that left two people dead and eight others injured, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer has declared a state of emergency, implementing a temporary curfew and restrictions on alcohol sales in downtown Orlando.

Orlando police have confirmed that 25-year-old Tyrek Hill and 19-year-old Timothy Schmidt Jr. were killed in the downtown mass shooting.

The 17-year-old suspect in the downtown Orlando shooting which killed two people and injured several more had his first appearance waived. However, while he did not appear in court, his mother did.

Friday's early morning shooting in Downtown Orlando continues the trend of gun violence in America, and Florida is not immune.

News 6 speaks with former Orlando Police Chief Orlando Rolon about security measures in place for large events like Halloween and more.

Accused gunman Jaylen Dwayne Edgar, 17, is being held in custody on two counts of first degree murder with a firearm and six counts of attempted first degree murder with a firearm, according to police.

Surveillance video shows the moment the suspect opened fire in a crowd of people.

Two people were killed and six wounded, including one law enforcement officer, when a shooter opened fire Friday at a grocery store in Arkansas, police said.

Police say a 14-year-old is now facing a second-degree murder charge in the death of a 20-year-old during a Halloween weekend mass shooting that left two people dead and 16 injured in Tampa’s Ybor City.

Bethune Cookman University’s Director of Campus safety Gary Price said his campus security team is beefing up patrols even more now after tragedy on Saturday near an historically black university in Jacksonville.

A 40-year-old killed one man in a house before fatally shooting four others on the streets of a Philadelphia neighborhood, then surrendering along with a rifle, a pistol, extra magazines, a police scanner and a bulletproof vest, police said.

A jury will soon decide the fate of a Florida sheriff's deputy accused of failing to protect students during the 2018 Parkland school massacre.

The FBI is looking for any photos and videos that could help identify suspects in a Memorial Day shooting at a popular Florida beach promenade in which nine people were wounded, including a 1-year-old child.

Jury selection in the trial of an ex-sheriff's deputy charged with failing to confront the Parkland, Florida, school shooter has gotten off to a speedy start.

It’s been one year since the heartbreaking and tragic mass shooting that happened at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

The eight people killed in a shooting at a mall near Dallas over the weekend represent a multicultural cross-section of the area's increasingly diverse suburbs.

More than 100 people have been killed in mass killings thus far in 2023, an average of one a week.

Police say a 13-year-old who opened fire at his school drew sketches of classrooms and made a list of people he intended to target.

A Florida man has pleaded guilty to randomly shooting four people in a 2017 killing rampage that set a Tampa neighborhood on edge for weeks.

A fraternity chapter president, a science student and a student who wanted to become a pediatrician are among victims of a shooting at Michigan State University.

Police say the 43-year-old gunman who killed three students and wounded five others at Michigan State University had no apparent connection to the campus.

A Northern California district attorney has confirmed that a farmworker charged with killing seven people was enraged by a $100 work-related repair bill.

The 11 people killed in Saturday's shooting at a dance studio in California were remembered Monday by their grieving families.

A joyful kickoff to the first Lunar New Year celebration in Monterey Park since before the pandemic was marred by tragedy after a gunman opened fire inside a dance hall, killing 10 people in the majority Asian city near Los Angeles.

Authorities investigating the fatal shootings of six people at a Walmart said that the shooter bought the gun just hours before and left a note on his phone listing grievances against coworkers.

Hundreds of people have gathered in a Colorado Springs park to honor five people killed and 17 wounded in a weekend shooting at a gay nightclub.

The Orlando LGBTQ+ community and local leaders reacted on Sunday to the shooting inside of a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs that killed five people and 25 injured.

Families of the 17 children and staff members Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz murdered have concluded their first day of confronting him in court.

Police say the 19-year-old gunman who killed a teacher and a 15-year-old girl at a St. Louis high school was armed with an AR-15-style rifle and what appeared to be more than 600 rounds of ammunition.

A former police officer facing a drug charge burst into a day care center in Thailand, killing dozens of preschoolers and teachers and then shooting more people as he fled.

Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz told a prosecution psychiatrist he began contemplating mass murder while in middle school.

Authorities say a gunman has killed 17 people and wounded 24 others in a school in central Russia.

A neuropsychologist says Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz suffered brain damage when his birth mother drank during pregnancy.

Students in Uvalde are going back to school for the first time since a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in a classroom attack that shocked the country.

Four years before Nikolas Cruz murdered 17 people at a Florida high school, therapists at another school wrote a letter to his psychiatrist saying he was fixated on guns and dreamed of killing others and being covered in blood.

The lead attorney for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz told the jury in his penalty trial Monday they have witnessed “things that will haunt them for the rest of their lives,” but they now need to learn what led him to massacre of 17 people four years ago before they can decide whether he is sentenced to death or life without parole.

Jurors in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz are being shown graphic video of him murdering 17 people inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Police say a man who blamed his surgeon for ongoing pain after a recent back surgery bought an AR-style rifle hours before opening fire at a Tulsa medical office, killing the surgeon and three other people before fatally shooting himself.

A week after a gunman stormed into a Texas grade school and opened fire, the first of 21 funerals began Tuesday.

A young survivor of the massacre at a Texas elementary school says she covered herself with a friend’s blood and pretended to be dead while she waited for help to arrive.

Students trapped inside a Texas classroom with a gunman repeatedly called 911 as officers waited more than an hour to confront the shooter.

A fourth grader who survived the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School shares details about how he survived.

Many questions remain to be answered about the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

A Florida judge has refused to close pretrial hearings to the media and public in the case of the man accused of killing 17 people in a 2018 high school mass shooting.

Authorities say a man has died from injuries he suffered during a mass shooting on a crowded downtown Austin street, which left more than a dozen other people injured.

The coroner's office has released the names of the eight people who were fatally shot when a man opened fire at a FedEx plant in Indianapolis.

The attack happened Tuesday morning at an Allina clinic in Buffalo, a community of about 15,000 people roughly 40 miles (64 kilometers) northwest of Minneapolis. Authorities said Gregory Paul Ulrich, of Buffalo, opened fire at the facility and was arrested before noon. AdAs authorities searched the clinic for more victims, they found the suspicious device and evacuated the building, Wright County Sheriff Sean Deringer said. It was not immediately clear whether that device exploded, but TV footage showed several shattered plate-glass windows at the clinic. Hennepin County Medical Center spokeswoman Christine Hill said Tuesday night that a person brought to the hospital after being shot at the Buffalo clinic had died.