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Expanded Homicide Data Table 1

Murder Victims

by Race, Ethnicity, and Sex, 2017

Race Total Sex
Male Female Unknown
Total 15,129 11,862 3,222 45
White 6,579 4,616 1,958 5
Black 7,851 6,789 1,060 2
Other race 456 315 141 0
Unknown race 243 142 63 38
Hispanic or Latino1 2,354 1,899 454 1
Not Hispanic or Latino1 9,761 7,692 2,065 4
Unknown1 2,085 1,550 510 25
  • 1 Not all agencies provide ethnicity data; therefore, the race and ethnicity totals will not equal.