On April 18, two teenagers were arrested for killing another teenager and injuring three others, including a 3-year-old, in a Garland shooting. That was the most recent mass shooting in North Texas, but not the most recent one in the state.
Two days later, in Houston, four people were injured in a drive-by shooting outside of a nightclub. No one was killed, and a suspect has not been arrested. That April 20 mass shooting brought the total of 2025 mass shootings in Texas to 13 for the year so far.
Texas had 31 mass shootings last year, according to the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), second to California’s 34…