Expanded Homicide Data Table 6
Murder
Race, Ethnicity, and Sex of Victim by Race, Ethnicity, and Sex of Offender, 2015
[Single victim/single offender]
Race/Ethnicity of victim | Total | Race of offender | Sex of offender | Ethnicity of offender | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
White |
Black or African American |
Other1 | Unknown | Male | Female | Unknown |
Hispanic or Latino |
Not Hispanic or Latino |
Unknown | ||
White | 3,167 | 2,574 | 500 | 49 | 44 | 2,817 | 306 | 44 | 633 | 1,086 | 1,448 |
Black or African American | 2,664 | 229 | 2,380 | 13 | 42 | 2,391 | 231 | 42 | 99 | 1,135 | 1,430 |
Other race1 | 222 | 60 | 34 | 126 | 2 | 192 | 28 | 2 | 15 | 108 | 99 |
Unknown race | 84 | 34 | 20 | 6 | 24 | 49 | 11 | 24 | 4 | 19 | 61 |
Sex of victim | Total | Race of offender | Sex of offender | Ethnicity of offender | |||||||
White |
Black or African American |
Other1 | Unknown | Male | Female | Unknown |
Hispanic or Latino |
Not Hispanic or Latino |
Unknown | ||
Male | 4,333 | 1,834 | 2,299 | 126 | 74 | 3,845 | 414 | 74 | 558 | 1,682 | 2,093 |
Female | 1,719 | 1,029 | 614 | 62 | 14 | 1,554 | 151 | 14 | 189 | 647 | 883 |
Unknown sex | 85 | 34 | 21 | 6 | 24 | 50 | 11 | 24 | 4 | 19 | 62 |
Ethnicity of victim | Total | Race of offender | Sex of offender | Ethnicity of offender | |||||||
White |
Black or African American |
Other1 | Unknown | Male | Female | Unknown |
Hispanic or Latino |
Not Hispanic or Latino |
Unknown | ||
Hispanic or Latino | 757 | 600 | 138 | 9 | 10 | 703 | 44 | 10 | 535 | 180 | 42 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 2,360 | 1,000 | 1,249 | 96 | 15 | 2,111 | 234 | 15 | 189 | 2,116 | 55 |
Unknown | 3,020 | 1,297 | 1,547 | 89 | 87 | 2,635 | 298 | 87 | 27 | 52 | 2,941 |
- 1 Includes American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander.
- NOTE: This table is based on incidents where some information about the offender is known by law enforcement; therefore, when the offender age, sex, race, and ethnicity are all reported as unknown, these data are excluded from the table.