GUN VIOLENCE ARCHIVE 2024

Evidence Based Research - since 2013 PUBLISHED DATE: December 07, 2024

Homicide/Murder/Unintentional/DGU¹
15,648
Total Number of Injuries¹
29,844
Mass Shootings²
476
Mass Murders²
27
Number of Children (age 0-11)¹
Killed 228
Injured 510
Number of Teens (age 12-17)¹
Killed 1,085
Injured 3,026
Officer Involved Incident¹
Killed 66
Officer Killed or Injured
Injured 309
Officer Involved Incident¹
Killed 1,348
Subject-Suspect Killed or Injured
Injured 746
Defensive Use²
1,136
Unintentional Shooting²
1,315
Murder/Suicides Incidents²
629

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 05, 2024