GUN VIOLENCE ARCHIVE 2025

Evidence Based Research - since 2013 PUBLISHED DATE: August 22, 2025

Homicide/Murder/Unintentional/DGU¹
9,605
Total Number of Injuries¹
17,506
Mass Shootings²
278
Mass Murders²
10
Number of Children (age 0-11)¹
Killed 152
Injured 319
Number of Teens (age 12-17)¹
Killed 662
Injured 1,857
Officer Involved Incident¹
Killed 49
Officer Killed or Injured
Injured 218
Officer Involved Incident¹
Killed 939
Subject-Suspect Killed or Injured
Injured 578
Defensive Use²
763
Unintentional Shooting²
889
Murder/Suicides Incidents²
422

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: August 20, 2025