A Bureau of Justice Statistics defines a fling killing when "killings at two or more locations with almost no time break between murders." Serial killers come different therein it use at times cooling polish off periods between attacks, when mass manslayer generally stick to of these location.

Spree killers
Howard Unruh (1949) Charles Starkweather (1958) Charles Whitman (1966) James Oliver Huberty (the McDonald's massacre — 1984) Michael Robert Ryan (the Hungerford Massacre — 1987) Julian Knight (the Hoddle Street massacre — 1987) Marc Lépine (the École Polytechnique Massacre — 1989) Julio Gonzalez (the Happyland Fire — 1990) David Gray (the Aramoana massacre — 1990) Valery Fabrikant - (1992) Colin Ferguson (1993) Thomas Hamilton (the Dunblane massacre — 1996) Martin Bryant (the Port Arthur massacre — 1996) Andrew Cunanan (1997) Mark O. Barton (1999) Benjamin Nathaniel Smith (1999) Columbine High School Massacre (1999) Prince Dipendra of Nepal (2001) Nikolay Soltys (2001) Friedrich Leibacher (2001) Jean-Pierre Roux-Durraffourt, streets of Tours, Indre-et-Loire - France (2001) Robert Steinhäuser (the Erfurt massacre — 2002) the Beltway Snipers (2002) the Interstate 270 Sniper (2003) Bart Ross, Chicago, Illinois, (2005) Brian Nichols, courtroom shooting, Atlanta (2005) Terry Ratzmann, churchyard shooting, Wisconsin, (2005) Jeff Weise, school shooting, Red Lake Chippewa Reservation, Minnesota (2005)

Within several countries, a acts of fling killers own been catalysts for the tightening of gun control laws.

A sole recently promulgated learn of fling killers was 'Only Wolf', by Pan Pantziarka & published by Virgin Books (ISBN: 0753506173). This seemed at single shells, including Thomas Hamilton, Michael Ryan, Mark Barton etc. A book likewise discusses a wider social context, psychological factors & political fall-out from either fling killing.