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Expanded Homicide Data Table 1

Murder Victims

by Race, Ethnicity, and Sex, 2015

Race Total Sex
Male Female Unknown
Total 13,455 10,608 2,818 29
White 5,854 4,117 1,734 3
Black 7,039 6,115 923 1
Other race 366 251 115 0
Unknown race 196 125 46 25
Hispanic or Latino1 2,028 1,669 359 0
Not Hispanic or Latino1 7,971 6,192 1,777 2
Unknown1 2,224 1,731 468 25
  • 1 Not all agencies provide ethnicity data; therefore, the race and ethnicity totals will not equal.