- A 26-year-old former airman for the US Air Force killed
- Over the last 10 years, men in their mid- to late 20s and early 30s have committed the majority of US terrorist attacks and mass shootings.
- Psychiatrists say the issue could be partly developmental, as brain regions governing risky behavior aren't fully formed until age 25.
- Social forces that build over time could also help explain why men are more likely than women to be suspects or perpetrators.
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The Texas church shooter was 26 — and it shows a disturbing trend about millennial men and mass murder
Since 2007, the majority of US terrorist attacks and mass shootings have come to be committed by men in the mid- to late-20s and early 30s.
On November 5, a 26-year-old killed at least 26 people in a mass shooting that took place in a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. After a brief chase, the shooter was found dead by gunshot wound and later identified as Devin Patrick Kelley, a former airman in the US Air Force.
The events took place less than a week after a man in a Home Depot pickup truck named Sayfullo Saipov veered into a New York City bike lane, killing eight people and injuring a dozen more. It was the city's deadliest terror attack since September 11, 2001.
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