FBI — Expanded Homicide Data Table 6

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Murder

Race, Sex, and Ethnicity of Victim by Race, Sex, and Ethnicity of Offender, 2017

[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	3,567	2,861	576	59	71	3,144	352	71	758	1,600	1,209
Black or African American	2,970	264	2,627	17	62	2,598	310	62	104	1,767	1,099
Other race¹	257	72	35	144	6	226	25	6	23	160	74
Unknown race	108	55	25	3	25	78	5	25	4	25	79
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	4,862	2,074	2,523	153	112	4,235	515	112	607	2,567	1,688
Female	1,932	1,123	715	67	27	1,733	172	27	279	960	693
Unknown sex	108	55	25	3	25	78	5	25	3	25	80
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	824	668	126	10	20	748	56	20	583	211	30
Not Hispanic or Latino	2,886	1,103	1,626	118	39	2,560	287	39	211	2,594	81
Unknown	3,192	1,481	1,511	95	105	2,738	349	105	95	747	2,350

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, when the offender age, sex, race, and ethnicity are all reported as unknown, these data are excluded from the table.