FBI — Expanded Homicide Data Table 3

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Murder

Race, Ethnicity, and Sex of Victim by Race, Ethnicity, and Sex of Offender, 2016

[Single victim/single offender]

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Race of victim	Total	Race of offender				Sex of offender			Ethnicity of offender
Race of victim	Total	White	Black or African American	Other¹	Unknown	Male	Female	Unknown	Hispanic or Latino	Not Hispanic or Latino	Unknown
White	3,499	2,854	533	40	72	3,157	335	7	789	1,438	366
Black or African American	2,870	243	2,570	17	40	2,586	270	14	95	1,613	349
Other race¹	221	56	37	123	5	185	35	1	14	132	24
Unknown race	86	43	16	4	23	75	11	0	12	24	17
Sex of victim	Total	Race of offender				Sex of offender			Ethnicity of offender
Sex of victim	Total	White	Black or African American	Other¹	Unknown	Male	Female	Unknown	Hispanic or Latino	Not Hispanic or Latino	Unknown
Male	4,751	2,073	2,455	114	109	4,260	471	20	685	2,264	537
Female	1,913	1,117	696	70	30	1,735	176	2	225	939	217
Unknown sex	12	5	5	1	1	8	4	0	0	4	2
Ethnicity of victim	Total	Race of offender				Sex of offender			Ethnicity of offender
Ethnicity of victim	Total	White	Black or African American	Other¹	Unknown	Male	Female	Unknown	Hispanic or Latino	Not Hispanic or Latino	Unknown
Hispanic or Latino	985	792	142	10	41	907	63	15	661	205	39
Not Hispanic or Latino	4,257	1,728	2,156	122	251	3,629	424	204	229	2,913	134
Unknown	931	372	446	23	90	767	103	61	19	86	581

¹ Includes American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander.
NOTE: This table is based on incidents where some information about the offender is known by law enforcement; therefore, this table excludes data when the offender age, sex, race, and ethnicity are all reported as unknown.