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Active Shooter Sample

Active shooter hazards cover active-shooter and mass-shooting incidents. The sample below is a MASS_SHOOTING — a shooting at a basketball court in New York, USA.

This is the lowest-volume type in the feed, and the shortest-lived: where no end is detected, an active-shooter hazard leaves the feed after 24 hours rather than the 96 hours applied to most types. Because these incidents are time-critical and initial reporting is often thin, they are typically resolved to point precision and carry a small number of contributing articles — three in the sample below.

These hazards are returned by the /osint-hazards-query endpoint, which requires a specific role on your credentials.

Sub-types (hazard_sub_type): MASS_SHOOTING, DRIVEBY, STANDOFF, SNIPER, SHOOTING (default), OTHER

Type-Specific Properties

Incident properties specific to active shooter:

  • deaths — fatalities reported

  • injuries — injuries reported

Quantitative counters (n2h.quantitative):

deaths, injuries.

Active shooter hazards carry the leanest field set of the six types. The standard casualty rollup and location fields are populated as on every OSINT hazard, but there are no type-specific extras beyond the counts above.

Sample Response

{
  "name": [
    {
      "locale": "en",
      "value": "Shooting at King Towers Basketball Court — New York, USA"
    }
  ],
  "description": [
    {
      "locale": "en",
      "value": "A Active Shooter incident was reported in King Towers, USA\non 2026-07-08.\n  Preliminary reports indicate 3 total victims comprised of 1 fatalities and 2 wounded.\n\nEvent Summary*:\n• Active Shooter has been reported in King Towers, USA.\n• Reports indicate that at least 3 people have been affected.\n• Affected areas include: King Towers, USA.\n\nBased on 3 article(s) from: WPIX New York, fakti.bg, WCBS-TV NY."
    }
  ],
  "severity": "WARNING",
  "category": "EVENT",
  "type": "ACTIVESHOOTER",
  "hazard_sub_type": "MASS_SHOOTING",
  "incident": {
    "uuid": "0004242d-09a2-4ffc-9a58-36f12c232cf1",
    "type": "ACTIVESHOOTER",
    "sourceId": 3000,
    "sourceRecordId": "ACTIVESHOOTER-USA-NEW-YORK-2026-07",
    "properties": {
      "Total_Fatalities": 1,
      "Total_Wounded": 2,
      "Civilian_Fatalities": 1,
      "Civilian_Wounded": 2,
      "Police_Military_Fatalities": 0,
      "Police_Military_Wounded": 0,
      "Terrorist_Insurgent_Fatalities": 0,
      "Terrorist_Insurgent_Wounded": 0,
      "type": "ACTUAL",
      "Incident_Type": "Active Shooter",
      "reportDate": "2026-07-11T23:10:13+00:00",
      "action": "NEW_EVENT",
      "Incident_Duration": 4,
      "Created_Time": "2026-07-11T23:10:13+00:00",
      "casualties": "{\"killed\": {\"total\": 1}, \"injured\": {\"total\": 2}}",
      "scopeOfIncident": "Local",
      "name": "Shooting at King Towers Basketball Court — New York, USA",
      "status": "ACTIVE",
      "eventDate": "2026-07-08T00:00:00Z",
      "roles": "PUBLIC",
      "locationDescription": "King Towers, USA",
      "Country_Name": "United States of America",
      "Country_Code": "US",
      "Country_Code_3": "USA",
      "Province_District_Town": "King Towers",
      "Event_Summary": "A former New Jersey basketball player was killed in a shooting at a Harlem basketball tournament, with the gunman still at large.",
      "Source": "WPIX New York",
      "sourceName": "WPIX New York",
      "event": "Active Shooter",
      "featureType": "INCIDENT",
      "bufferSize": 5000,
      "rawMessage": "[news article text truncated for brevity]",
      "Scope_of_Incident": "Local",
      "Incident_Severity": "H",
      "deaths": 1,
      "injuries": 2,
      "..."
    }
  },
  "uuid": "0004242d-09a2-4ffc-9a58-36f12c232cf1",
  "comment": null,
  "createdAt": 1783882018,
  "startedAt": 1783494000,
  "updatedAt": 1783897468,
  "endedAt": 1783882018,
  "latitude": 40.799714,
  "longitude": -73.9492234,
  "version": 2,
  "creator": "News2Hazards (Automated)",
  "relatedHazards": [],
  "locationDetails": {
    "version": 2,
    "country": "United States of America",
    "country_code": "US",
    "country_code_3": "USA",
    "continent": "North America",
    "subregion": "Northern America",
    "state_province": "New York",
    "state_code": "US-NY",
    "county": "New York",
    "fips": "36061",
    "location_type": "land"
  },
  "n2h": {
    "hazard_id": "ACTIVESHOOTER-USA-NEW-YORK-2026-07",
    "hazard_sub_type": "MASS_SHOOTING",
    "summary": "A former New Jersey basketball player was killed in a shooting at a Harlem basketball tournament, with the gunman still at large.",
    "is_ongoing": false,
    "start_date_iso": "2026-07-08",
    "end_date_iso": "2026-07-12",
    "location_level": "point",
    "location_specific": "King Towers",
    "country": "USA",
    "article_count": 3,
    "quantitative": {
      "deaths": 1,
      "injuries": 2
    },
    "sources": [
      {
        "name": "WPIX New York",
        "title": "Harlem mourns loss of basketball mentor in tragic shooting",
        "url": "https://pix11.com/news/harlem-mourns-loss-of-basketball-mentor-in-tragic-shooting/",
        "type": "rss",
        "published_at": "2026-07-11T23:10:13+00:00",
        "body": "[article body truncated for brevity]"
      },
      {
        "name": "fakti.bg",
        "title": "Basketball player fatally shot in New York",
        "url": "https://fakti.bg/en/world/1067055-basketball-player-fatally-shot-in-new-york",
        "type": "kafka_webz",
        "published_at": null,
        "body": "[article body truncated for brevity]"
      },
      "..."
    ],
    "extra": {
      "..."
    }
  },
  "alertGeometry": {
    "type": "FeatureCollection",
    "features": [
      {
        "type": "Feature",
        "geometry": {
          "type": "Polygon",
          "coordinates": [...]
        },
        "properties": null
      }
    ]
  },
  "features": {
    "type": "FeatureCollection",
    "features": [
      {
        "type": "Feature",
        "properties": {
          "severity": "WARNING",
          "featureType": "INCIDENT",
          "name": "Shooting at King Towers Basketball Court — New York, USA",
          "casualties": {
            "killed": {
              "total": 1
            },
            "injured": {
              "total": 2
            }
          },
          "scopeOfIncident": "Local",
          "locationDescription": "King Towers, USA"
        },
        "geometry": {
          "coordinates": [
            -73.9492234,
            40.799714
          ],
          "type": "Point"
        }
      },
      {
        "type": "Feature",
        "properties": {
          "severity": "WARNING",
          "featureType": "SMART_ALERT"
        },
        "geometry": {
          "type": "Polygon",
          "coordinates": [...]
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "exposureAreas": null,
  "exposureAssessment": null,
  "source": {
    "id": 3000,
    "name": "News2Hazards",
    "longName": "News2Hazards Automated Pipeline",
    "description": "Automated hazard detection from news article analysis"
  }
}

Note: Coordinate arrays have been replaced with [...] for brevity. In actual API responses, these properties contain complete GeoJSON coordinate arrays. The n2h.sources array and the incident.properties and features objects have been truncated with "..." to show only key fields, and article text has been elided. The n2h.extra object is reserved for internal use.

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