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Expanded Homicide Data Table 1

Murder Victims

by Race, Ethnicity, and Sex, 2016

Race/Ethnicity Total Sex
Male Female Unknown
Total 15,070 11,821 3,208 41
White 6,576 4,665 1,906 5
Black 7,881 6,749 1,126 6
Other race 400 266 133 1
Unknown race 213 141 43 29
Hispanic or Latino1 2,367 1,977 389 1
Not Hispanic or Latino1 9,725 7,600 2,120 5
Unknown1 2,226 1,678 516 32
  • 1 Not all agencies provide ethnicity data; therefore, the ethnicity totals do not equal the total number of victims.