GUN VIOLENCE ARCHIVE 2024

Evidence Based Research - since 2013 PUBLISHED DATE: December 18, 2024

Homicide/Murder/Unintentional/DGU¹
16,088
Total Number of Injuries¹
30,605
Mass Shootings²
491
Mass Murders²
30
Number of Children (age 0-11)¹
Killed 241
Injured 524
Number of Teens (age 12-17)¹
Killed 1,122
Injured 3,120
Officer Involved Incident¹
Killed 70
Officer Killed or Injured
Injured 315
Officer Involved Incident¹
Killed 1,384
Subject-Suspect Killed or Injured
Injured 774
Defensive Use²
1,174
Unintentional Shooting²
1,367
Murder/Suicides Incidents²
643

Gun violence and crime incidents are collected/validated from 5,000+ sources daily – Incident Reports and their source data are found at the gunviolencearchive.org website.

Suicide estimates from CDC extrapolations have been removed until we can get a more accurate, timely number to properly reflect the serious suicide problem in this country

Footnotes

Number of source verified deaths and injuries
Number of INCIDENTS reported and verified

All numbers are subject to change or incidents recategorized as new evidence is established and verified.

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Data Sources Verified: December 16, 2024