GUN VIOLENCE ARCHIVE 2024

Evidence Based Research - since 2013 PUBLISHED DATE: December 13, 2024

Homicide/Murder/Unintentional/DGU¹
15,858
Total Number of Injuries¹
30,217
Mass Shootings²
482
Mass Murders²
28
Number of Children (age 0-11)¹
Killed 233
Injured 513
Number of Teens (age 12-17)¹
Killed 1,099
Injured 3,070
Officer Involved Incident¹
Killed 68
Officer Killed or Injured
Injured 312
Officer Involved Incident¹
Killed 1,363
Subject-Suspect Killed or Injured
Injured 757
Defensive Use²
1,155
Unintentional Shooting²
1,341
Murder/Suicides Incidents²
636

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 11, 2024