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JOHNLOCHER—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Dave Griffiths, le , puts his arm around his wife, Robin Griffiths, as they visit a memorial near the road leading to Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore. ByRikStevens The Associated Press The numbers jump off the page: Nine dead on an Oregon college campus, 12 in a theater in Aurora, Col- orado. Thirteen soldiers and civilians at Fort Hood, Texas; 32 people at Virginia Tech; 13 at a community center in Binghamton, New York. Twenty-six dead — 20 of them young children — at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. Mass killings like the one Thursday at the Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, scraped nerves raw, commanded headlines and prompted an anguished President Barack Obama to take to the air- waves — again — to con- demn gun violence. Here's another number: 8,124. That's the total of ho- micides by gun in 2014, ac- cording to the FBI's Crime in the United States report. That works out to an aver- age of 156 a week, more than 22 people shot to death ev- ery day across the country. Dr. Helen Farrell, a foren- sic psychiatrist who teaches at Harvard Medical School and is on staff at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, said people do have more interest in — and there is certainly more in- tense media coverage of — mass killings because they are relatively uncommon. "That's unfortunate be- cause those single homi- cides are far more prevalent and cause just as much pain and suffering to the people involved," she said. In just the 24 hours sur- rounding Thursday's Or- egon killings, there were at least a dozen shooting deaths. A look at some of them: Cleveland Five-month-old Aavielle Wakefield died Thursday when more than a dozen shots were fired into a car. An angry Police Chief Cal- vin Williams broke down crying while briefing the media on the shooting. It was the third time in a month that Williams' de- partment has investigated the shooting death of a child. Three-year-old Ma- jor Howard was killed in a drive-by shooting, and 5-year-old Ramon "Dink" Burnett was hit and killed by crossfire while playing football in a courtyard be- hind his grandmother's house on Sept. 4. "It's been hard to stom- ach," said Williams. Florida A man in the northern Florida community of Ing- lis shot two people to death, including his estranged wife, and critically injured a third before killing him- self. Police received 911 calls of shots fired Thursday eve- ning and when they arrived at the home about 50 miles from Gainesville, they sur- rounded the home, believ- ing the gunman was inside. Levy County Sheriff's Office spokesman Lt. Scott Tum- mond said officers saw a manappearinasecond-floor window, then vanish from view. Officers then heard a single gunshot. The shoot- ings took the lives of Wal- ter Terhune, 68, Patricia Ty- son, age unknown, and the gunman, 57-year-old Wal- ter Tyson. Police said they believe the Tysons recently split up. It appears that Ter- hune, a Vietnam veteran, heard shots from across the street, noticed there were children nearby and went to intervene when he was shot. "This is a very ... tragic inci- dent for this small commu- nity," Tummond said. Baltimore Three shootings Wednes- day night and Thursday morning left two men dead and another injured, The Baltimore Sun reported. Just before 10 p.m., police found Deyquawn Charvez Cooper, 21, with a single gunshot wound to his upper body. They announced the next day that he had died and a family member was in custody. A 32-year-old found with gunshots in his upper body also died from his in- juries. Maryland Two people died in Cap- itol Heights, a Washington suburb, after a triple shoot- ingWednesdaynight.Ernest Gene Lott, 37, and Garland Johnson, 43, both of Wash- ington, D.C., died about a block away from where a se- curityguardatanapartment complex in Capitol Heights was shot and killed in July. Lott and Johnson were pro- nounced dead outside a three-storyapartmentbuild- ing where they were found around 7:45 p.m. Wednes- day, police said. Detectives are investigating the case as a double homicide but don't believe it was random. Atlanta Police responded to an upscale high-rise in Buck- head about 5 a.m. Thursday and found security guard Emmanuel Nwankwo, 23, shot several times. Another guard, Dexter Harper, was taken into custody and charged with murder. Po- lice said an argument led up to the shooting. 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