GUN VIOLENCE ARCHIVE 2024

Evidence Based Research - since 2013 PUBLISHED DATE: October 14, 2024

Homicide/Murder/Unintentional/DGU¹
13,340
Total Number of Injuries¹
25,581
Mass Shootings²
418
Mass Murders²
24
Number of Children (age 0-11)¹
Killed 190
Injured 442
Number of Teens (age 12-17)¹
Killed 909
Injured 2,563
Officer Involved Incident¹
Killed 59
Officer Killed or Injured
Injured 273
Officer Involved Incident¹
Killed 1,151
Subject-Suspect Killed or Injured
Injured 635
Defensive Use²
968
Unintentional Shooting²
1,075
Murder/Suicides Incidents²
535

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 12, 2024