On February 26, 2015, a gunman shot and killed seven people in several locations across the town of
Tyrone,
Missouri, an unincorporated community about 95 miles east of
Springfield. The gunman, identified as 36-year-old Joseph Jesse Aldridge, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound the next day. It was the worst mass murder in the history of
Texas County, Missouri, which previously had an average of one homicide per year.