Expanded Homicide Data Table 3
Murder
Race, Ethnicity, and Sex of Victim by Race, Ethnicity, and Sex of Offender, 2016
[Single victim/single offender]
Race of victim | Total | Race of offender | Sex of offender | Ethnicity of offender | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 | |||||||
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 | |||||||
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.