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GUN VIOLENCE ARCHIVE 2023

Evidence Based Research - since 2013 PUBLISHED DATE: October 01, 2023

Total Number of GV Deaths - ALL Causes⁴
32,425
Homicide/Murder/Unintentional/DGU¹
14,341
Suicide³
18,084
Total Number of Injuries¹
28,203
Mass Shootings²
520
Mass Murders²
30
Number of Children (age 0-11)¹
Killed 230
Injured 518
Number of Teens (age 12-17)¹
Killed 1,088
Injured 3,039
Officer Involved Incident¹
Killed 37
Officer Killed or Injured
Injured 279
Officer Involved Incident¹
Killed 1,078
Subject-Suspect Killed or Injured
Injured 617
Defensive Use²
902
Unintentional Shooting²
1,202
Murder/Suicides Incidents²
519

Gun violence and crime incidents are collected/validated from 7,500 sources daily – Incident Reports and their source data are found at the gunviolencearchive.org website.

Footnotes

Number of source verified deaths and injuries
Number of INCIDENTS reported and verified
Calculation based on CDC Suicide Data
Actual total of all non-suicide deaths plus daily calculated suicide deaths

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

METHODOLOGY & DEFINITIONS AVAILABLE AT:
https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/methodology

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Data Sources Verified: September 29, 2023