List of rampage killers in the Americas

The victims must have been largely the relatives of the perpetrator to be considered a familicide.

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Perpetrator	Date	Year	Location	Country	Killed	Injured	W	Additional Notes	Ref.
Unknown*	February	1928	Sousa	Brazil	14	0	P		[108]
Medana, Jose*	May	1891	Lomas de Zamora	Argentina	13	0			[109]
Ramis de Araujo, Sidnei, 46	Dec 31	2016	Campinas	Brazil	12	3	F	Committed suicide
Torres, Benito, 25*	Sep 20	1938	Palma Soriano	Cuba	10	1	FMA	Committed suicide	[110]
Chahal, Mark Vijay, 30	April 5	1996	Vernon, British Columbia	Canada	9	2	F	Committed suicide	[111]
Alvarez, Antonio*	Dec 1	1923	Puebla	Mexico	9	0	M	Committed suicide	[112]
Silva, Maximiliano*	04.00 April	1943	Alegrete	Brazil	9	0		Committed suicide	[113]
Sovereign, Henry*	Jan 21	1832	Norfolk County, Upper Canada	British North America	8	0	MO	Sentenced to death and executed	[114]
Banks y Keena, Mateo, 49	April 18	1922	Azul	Argentina	8	0	F	Sentenced to life imprisonment	[115]
Day, Andrew, 40*	Dec 16	1929	Trois-Rivières, Quebec	Canada	8	0	M	Found mentally unfit to stand trial	[116]
Lam, Phu, 53*	Dec 29	2014	Edmonton, Alberta	Canada	8	0	F	Committed suicide
Unknown*	March	1961	Cerro Azul	Brazil	7	3	P	Committed suicide	[117]
Herod, Raul, 36*	July 7	1999	Buxton	Guyana	7	1	F A	Committed suicide	[118]
Pinto, Domingos Amorim	Jan 28	2000	São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	7	1	F	Committed suicide	[119]
Laventure, Mathilde, 33*	July 20/21	1862	Saint-Eusèbe-de-Stanfold, Canada East	Canada	7	0	M	Committed suicide	[120]
Lavera, Carmen, 34*	Oct 31	1918	Camagüey	Cuba	7	0		Killed numerous animals	[121]
Loweree, Elfren*	March 15	1926	Chihuahua	Mexico	7	0	M	Committed suicide	[122]
Jose de Souza, Apollinario		1932	Rincão do Ferraz	Brazil	7	0	M	Committed suicide	[123]
Hreczkosy, Thomas, 28*	Jan 29	1932	Elma, Manitoba	Canada	7	0	MA	Sentenced to death, later changed to life imprisonment	[124]
Clark, John Etter, 41	June 3	1956	Erskine, Alberta	Canada	7	0	F	Committed suicide	[125]
Cook, Robert Raymond, 22*	June 25	1959	Stettler, Alberta	Canada	7	0	FM	Sentenced to death and executed
Ramirez Camacho, José Rosario*	June	1962	Las Comitas	Mexico	7	0	M	Sentenced to 37 years in prison	[126]
Sandoval Troncoso, Luis Avelino*, 43	July 15	1963	Rio Bueno	Chile	7	0	MP	Committed suicide	[127]
Hogue, Leonard Raymond, 34[n 3][n 4]	April 20	1965	Coquitlam, British Columbia	Canada	7	0	F	Committed suicide	[128]
de Oliveira, José Valdir, 52*	Oct 30	2000	São Paulo	Brazil	7	0	MA	Committed suicide	[129]
Bilodeau, Jean Rosaire, 45	Oct 25	1934	Quebec City, Quebec	Canada	6	2	F	Sentenced to death and executed	[130]
Macloud, Luis Antonio, 45^	Nov	1991	Panama City	Panama	6	1	F	Committed suicide	[131]
Swift Runner		1878	Near Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta	Canada	6	0	FM	Sentenced to death and executed
McGee, Minnie*	April	1912	Georgetown, Prince Edward Island	Canada	6	0	P	Sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment	[132]
Basora Montejo, Santiago, 38*	April 24	1932	Güines	Cuba	6	0	MA	Committed suicide	[133]
Ingunza, Juan, 46*	Jan 1	1964	Pucallpa	Peru	6	0		Committed suicide	[134]
Kosberg, Thomas Gordon, 17*	Dec 10	1965	Vancouver, British Columbia	Canada	6	0	MP	Found not guilty by reason of insanity	[135]
Emidio da Silva, José*	March 7	1972	Cruzeta	Brazil	6	0	M	Sentenced to 30 years in prison	[136]
Haripaul, Devakaparsaud, 32*	May 29	1980	Leonora	Guyana	6	0	M	Committed suicide	[137]
Blackman, Bruce Alfred, 22*	Jan 18	1983	Coquitlam, British Columbia	Canada	6	0	FM	Found not guilty by reason of insanity	[138]
Ricardo da Costa, Sebastião, 54	Feb 19	2001	Itajuípe	Brazil	6	0	M	Committed suicide	[139]
Bauer, John, 51[n 1]	Sep 18–20	2001	Kirkland and Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montreal, Quebec	Canada	6	0	F A	Committed suicide	[140][141]
Handel, Jay, 45*	March 11	2002	Quatsino, British Columbia	Canada	6	0	FMA	Sentenced to life imprisonment	[142]
da Silva, Edson, 33*	May 2	2014	Coronel Sapucaia	Brazil	6	0	MA	Sentenced to 135 years in prison	[143]
Young, Thomas, 27[n 1]	December 25	1958	Ear Falls, Ontario	Canada	5	0	F M	Sentenced to death and executed	[144]
Rodríguez Llancapán, Juan Desiderio, 29	May 25	2013	Carahue	Chile	5	0	M	Sentenced to life imprisonment	[145]
Huaripata Rosales, Juan [es]*	Dec. 12	2019	El Agustino	Peru	4	1	M	Sentenced to life imprisonment
Barreda, Ricardo Alberto, 56*	Nov 15	1992	La Plata	Argentina	4	0	F	Sentenced to life imprisonment. Paroled in 2011.
Díaz Balbín, Ángel[n 2][n 1][n 3]	Nov 17	1976	Breña	Peru	3	0	M	Sentenced to 15 years in prison. Murdered by psychologist Mario Poggi during interrogation for serial murders in 1986	[146]
Valdés Quiroga, Miguel Ángel	Aug 19	2001	Santiago	Chile	3	0	M	Sentenced to life imprisonment	[147]
Franklin, Wilgo Charles, 53	March 19	2012	Puljhunweg	Suriname	3	0	M	Sentenced to life in prison	[148]
14-year-old boy*	July 1	2025	Itaperuna	Brazil	3	0	F	Arrested	[149]

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* – Marks cases where all the victims were relatives of the perpetrator

W – A basic description of the weapons used in the murders

F – Firearms and other ranged weapons, especially rifles and handguns, but also bows and crossbows, grenade launchers, flamethrowers, or slingshots

M – Melee weapons, like knives, swords, spears, machetes, axes, clubs, rods, stones, or bare hands

O – Any other weapons, such as bombs, hand grenades, Molotov cocktails, poison and poisonous gas, as well as vehicle and arson attacks

A – indicates that an arson attack was the only other weapon used

V – indicates that a vehicle was the only other weapon used

E – indicates that explosives of any sort were the only other weapon used

P – indicates that an anaesthetising or deadly substance of any kind was the only other weapon used (includes poisonous gas)