GUN VIOLENCE ARCHIVE 2025

Evidence Based Research - since 2013 PUBLISHED DATE: October 12, 2025

Homicide/Murder/Unintentional/DGU¹
11,642
Total Number of Injuries¹
21,202
Mass Shootings²
336
Mass Murders²
13
Number of Children (age 0-11)¹
Killed 182
Injured 389
Number of Teens (age 12-17)¹
Killed 812
Injured 2,243
Officer Involved Incident¹
Killed 59
Officer Killed or Injured
Injured 257
Officer Involved Incident¹
Killed 1,139
Subject-Suspect Killed or Injured
Injured 688
Defensive Use²
921
Unintentional Shooting²
1,041
Murder/Suicides Incidents²
524

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: October 10, 2025