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GUN VIOLENCE ARCHIVE 2023

Evidence Based Research - since 2013 PUBLISHED DATE: September 22, 2023

Total Number of GV Deaths - ALL Causes⁴
31,409
Homicide/Murder/Unintentional/DGU¹
13,919
Suicide³
17,490
Total Number of Injuries¹
27,426
Mass Shootings²
506
Mass Murders²
30
Number of Children (age 0-11)¹
Killed 220
Injured 509
Number of Teens (age 12-17)¹
Killed 1,054
Injured 2,970
Officer Involved Incident¹
Killed 37
Officer Killed or Injured
Injured 272
Officer Involved Incident¹
Killed 1,045
Subject-Suspect Killed or Injured
Injured 592
Defensive Use²
878
Unintentional Shooting²
1,164
Murder/Suicides Incidents²
509

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 20, 2023